McCain admits Country has no current President
Informed Comment — McCain says he will suspend his political campaign on Thursday morning and is calling for a cancellation of the debate. Joe Barton (R-Texas) just came on CNN and said there are not 50 votes in the House for the Paulson plan. In otherwords,the financial markets are flying on one engine for a while, with no guarantee of swift government intervention. Isn't McCain's desperate move an admission that there is currently no president? I mean, why does everything hang on a senator from Arizona? Shouldn't it be Bush who is handling this? We've long known that the ...

Palin: We need a bailout, although we might not need this bailout
Hot Air » Top Picks — Palin: We need a bailout, although we might not need this bailout posted at 3:42 pm on September 24, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly Where does the Paulson plan stand now? An unnamed McCain advisor says it’s dead , Paulson himself says it’s looking good , and Politico says it’s likely to be scaled back with $150 billion up front and a promise of more funds to come if the plan works. The latest poll has the publicly roughly evenly split , but watch for that to jump tomorrow after Bush puts the fear of God into ...

What's Obama's Play Here?
Talking Points Memo — Early reports are that Obama wants the debate Friday to go forward as scheduled.

The Debate is On...Maybe
Hoffmania! — ... ABC News: ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos and Rick Klein report: Sen. John McCain on Wednesday said he would “suspend” his presidential campaign to come to Washington to help negotiate a financial bailout bill, a dramatic move designed to seize a powerful issue. However a senior Obama campaign official said Obama "intends to debate." "The debate is on," a senior Obama campaign official told ABC News. ...

McCain Putting Country Before Power
Flopping Aces — ... power, instead of the good of this country. I’m betting he continues to campaign. UPDATE Via Ace of Spades HQ: Coming in through the comments: Obama is claiming it was his idea to suspend campaigning, but also that he’s not suspending campaigning. I guess he was for the idea before he was against it. Why does this not surprise me? UPDATE And my bet was right on: However a senior Obama campaign official said Obama “intends ...

Breaking - Obama Camp: ‘The Debate is On’
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — Tell me again … Which candidate has the American people in mind? Just the perfect debate forum for Hussein, though. All by himself. Still … a chance he’ll lose it. McCain remarks By Jake Tapper (ABC) ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos and Rick Klein report: Sen. John McCain on Wednesday said he would “suspend” his presidential campaign to come to Washington to help negotiate a financial bailout bill, a dramatic move designed to seize a powerful issue. However a senior Obama ...

The Economy: Did McCain trump Obama?
Roger L. Simon — ... As most of you know, John McCain has suspended his campaign to work on the economy and has proposed a delay of the Friday debate as well.  Obama quickly demurred.  McCain looked presidential in his statement.  He may have trumped Obama here, though the MSM will do anything in its power to make it seem otherwise.  My guess is that they don’t believe in Obama anymore, but they are too embarrassed to say so, too entrenched in their own system.  Admitting you were wrong is very hard to do. ...

Can McCain Multitask?
Comments from Left Field — ... and delaying the upcoming debate originally scheduled for Friday.  He’s running to be president of the United States of America; does he expect that the two wars we are fighting will just stop because the US is on the verge of an economic melt down?  Does he think that our enemies will stop and say, “Oh, wait, oops, my bad, didn’t know you guys were having a domestic crisis.  We’ll come back and try and bomb you when you’re ready for it.” As for Obama, from Rahm Emmanuel, “we can handle both.” ...

The Drama Queen Strikes Again
The Anonymous Liberal — Good grief. More theatrics from the McCain campaign. Just what America needs. I really hope the media treats this latest gimmick for what it is, a desperate attempt to capture headlines. Apparently the Obama campaign reached out privately to the McCain campaign this morning to see if they were interested in issuing a joint statement on the bailout proposal. McCain and his advisers--who were likely prepping for the debate at that point and panicking about the latest poll numbers--decided that they wanted to outdo Obama, and so they hatched this idea. They ...

McCain Suspends Campaign
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — ... Burton: At 8:30 this morning, Senator Obama called Senator McCain to ask him if he would join in issuing a joint statement outlining their shared principles and conditions for the Treasury proposal and urging Congress and the White House to act in a bipartisan manner to pass such a proposal. At 2:30 this afternoon, Senator McCain returned Senator Obama's call and agreed to join him in issuing such a statement. The two campaigns are currently working together on the details. UPDATE: ABC News reports: However a senior Obama campaign official said Obama "intends to debate." ...

Country First? McCain Suspends Campaign to Deal With Economy
Stop The ACLU — ... John McCain asked the Presidential Debate Commission on Wednesday to postpone Friday’s scheduled debate with Barack Obama so that he can work on the financial crisis bailout plan now on Capitol Hill. The Arizona Republican senator said he will suspend his presidential campaign on Thursday to return to Washington to help with bailout negotiations. He urged Obama to do the same. Country first, though the other side is surely going to call it a political stunt. Obama says no to delaying the debate however. “I have spoken to Senator Obama and informed him of my decision and have ...

How About a Sub?
Confederate Yankee — ... tomorrow in order to return to Washington to work on the economy, and wants to postpone Friday's scheduled debate with Barack Obama. The Obama campaign, however, wants the debate to continue . What to do? My friend ...

Obama Campaign: "The Debate Is On"
Daily Kos — The Obama campaign's reaction to John McCain's call to delay Friday's debate: "The debate is on," a senior Obama campaign official told ABC News. Now let's see if John McCain can walk and chew gum at the same time. ...

Obama's Response
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Wednesday, September 24, 2008 [image] Obama’s Response [ Yuval Levin ] The debate is on says the Obama campaign. 09/24 04:01 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us This page loaded in 0.005669 seconds. ...

McCain did WHAT? Is he out of his mind?!?!
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — ... Obama should so totally not fall for this bluffing. This is Obama's opportunity to show the world what a great multitasker, calm and focus leader he is. ...

If at first you don't succeed....
Political Animal — ... there's already a process in place to continue negotiations, and it "would not be helpful at this time to have them come back during these negotiations and risk injecting presidential politics into this process or distract important talks about the future of our nation's economy. If that changes, we will call upon them. We need leadership; not a campaign photo op." And ABC News is reporting that as far as the Obama campaign is concerned, the debate is still on .— ...

Obama: The Debate Must Go On; McCain: Let’s Solve This Crisis
California Conservative — ... to delay Friday night’s debate until we have taken action to address this crisis. I am confident that before the markets open on Monday we can achieve consensus on legislation that will stabilize our financial markets, protect taxpayers and homeowners, and earn the confidence of the American people. All we must do to achieve this is temporarily set politics aside, and I am committed to doing so. In response, the Obama campaign said that Friday’s debate is still on: However a senior Obama campaign official ...

Classic McCain
Weekly Standard Blog — ... But Obama, feeling he is on a roll no doubt, is saying the debate is on: "We can walk and chew gum at the same time, John," is the message. ...

America’s Most Famous Community Organizer Unwilling to Organize His Senate Community
The Sundries Shack — ... Senate is debating whether or not to dump over 700 billion of our dollars into a financial bailout plan. Obama’s campaign counterpart, John McCain is already heading back to Washington and has suspended his Presidential Campaign to work on the problem even though the Harry Reid, who apparently forgot that US Senators don’t give commands, ordered him to stay away. So what’s Barack Obama, community organizer par excellence, planning to do? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Preparing for the debate in Florida, ...

Leadership
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — This is entirely the right thing to do: ABC News' George Stephanopoulos and Rick Klein report: Sen. John McCain on Wednesday said he would "suspend" his presidential campaign to come to Washington to help negotiate a financial bailout bill, a dramatic move designed to seize a powerful issue. McCain called on the Commission on Presidential Debates to postpone the debate scheduled for Friday in Mississippi, to ensure quick congressional action. "I have spoken to Senator Obama and informed him of my decision and have asked him to join me," McCain said. "I am calling on the ...

Leadership
RedState: Conservative News and Community — This is entirely the right thing to do: ABC News' George Stephanopoulos and Rick Klein report: Sen. John McCain on Wednesday said he would "suspend" his presidential campaign to come to Washington to help negotiate a financial bailout bill, a dramatic move designed to seize a powerful issue. McCain called on the Commission on Presidential Debates to postpone the debate scheduled for Friday in Mississippi, to ensure quick congressional action. "I have spoken to Senator Obama and informed him of my decision and have asked him to ...

Debate Drama: How About if Nader & McKinney Stand in for McCain?
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... So McCain says the debate is off. Obama says the debate is on. Ole Miss says they’ve already spent millions and ...

Should the Presidential Debates Go Forward as Scheduled on 27 September? No, I don't think so.
All articles at Blogcritics — The present Congress is not exemplary. Neither is the present executive branch. However, they are the only ones we have, and they are the ones which can deal now with the current economic difficulties; they are the only bodies with the legal ability to do so. The Presidential debate scheduled for 27 September is important. Should Senators McCain and Obama agree to delay it briefly so they can go do their jobs as U.S. Senators? Senator McCain has proposed a delay , Senator Obama has rejected it. Senator McCain has called for an hiatus on political ads, Senator Obama has ...

Whatever You Say, Obama
Right Wing Nation — ... with the leadership from both houses of Congress, including Senator Obama and myself. It is time for both parties to come together to solve this problem. We must meet as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans, and we must meet until this crisis is resolved. I am directing my campaign to work with the Obama campaign and the commission on presidential debates to delay Friday night’s debate until we have taken action to address this crisis. So what’s Obama doing? Preparing for the debate in Florida, ...

First Obama-McCain Presidential Debate In Mississippi: Video, Highlights, Analysis
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... that the debate be postponed until a deal is struck in Washington on a financial bailout plan. Sen. Barack Obama rejected the idea, saying the crisis made the debate more useful and timely. Janet Brown, executive director of the commission, flew from Washington to Oxford late Thursday. SEPT 24: McCain has called for the first presidential debate to be delayed because of the financial crisis. Obama's campaign has responded: Sen. John McCain on Wednesday said he would "suspend" his presidential ...

McCain Accused of Using Economic Crisis for Political Gain
Pajamas Media — ... ” Reid in the lead — it’s what’s going to happen in some fashion. To the surprise of some and the disgruntlement of others, John McCain suspended his campaign to head back to Washington to do his part in dealing with the crisis, asking that the first presidential debate scheduled for Friday the 26th be rescheduled. Obama’s initial response? No way, Jose . And Harry Reid made his ...