McCain suspends campaign, calls for Obama to do same

Quick Hit: McCain suspends campaign, calls for Obama to do the same
Feministing — Due to the looming financial crisis and recently proposed bailout plan, McCain just announced he will be suspending his campaign. Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced Wednesday that he is suspending his campaign to return to Washington and focus on the "historic" crisis facing the U.S. economy. McCain said it was time for both parties to come together to solve economic crisis. The Arizona senator called on his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, to do the same.The Obama campaign announced that Obama would make a statement shortly.He ...

I Call (Red) Bull!
The Poor Man Institute — ... Shorter John McCain: Slow Down!!! Grandpa needs a timeout young fellar (leans over, with hands clutching arthritic knees, panting and sweating like prom night in a sauna) Kevin Drum is shrillesque: Spare me. Let me guess: the debate should be postponed until October 2, which, sadly, will mean eliminating the vice presidential debate entirely. What a bummer, eh? And the guy whose campaign is funded by federal funds thinks all fundraising should be suspended. Imagine that. And the senator who hasn’t ...

McCain Suspends Presidential Campaign To Focus On The Financial Crisis -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — I know McCain feels it's time to help Every American in every state. Translation: "I'll do anything that I can To postpone the next debate." (If this McCain move seems familiar & You're feeling a bit of déjà vu Hurricane Gustav caused GOP panic & Convention postponements, too.) VERSE CASE SCENARIO ...

McCain Suspends Campaign and Heads to Washington
All articles at Blogcritics — In the most dramatic event of the Presidential campaign, Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has officially suspended his campaign and canceled public appearances so that he can return to Washington and be fully involved in efforts to put together legislation to meet President Bush's call for government support for the unstable mortgage and securities markets. McCain called for Senator Obama to follow his lead and called "on the president to convene a meeting with the leadership from both houses of Congress, including Senator Obama and myself" to find a bipartisan ...

McCain suspends campaign, Obama plans to continue
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... Wednesday that he is suspending his campaign to return to Washington and focus on the "historic" crisis facing the U.S. economy. Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama said at a news conference later Wednesday that he and McCain had spoken by phone and had agreed to issue a joint statement about shared principles in the approach to resolving the economic crisis. But he disagreed with McCain's call for postponing Friday's first presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi. Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/campaign.wrap/in... That's it, I'm convinced he's either ...

The Latest Spin
Balloon Juice — ... On CNN I just heard Dana Bash suggest that McCain wants to cancel the debate on Friday if there is no deal for the crisis: ...

Bluff called; hail mary ruled incomplete
the talking dog — ... An amazing day of political posturing by Team McCain, which, ahead of collapsing poll numbers (both broad-based and in key swing states) and Friday night's first debate in Oxford, MS, to be hosted by the-not-brazenly-biased-like-Bob-George-W.-Bush's-Best-Friend-Forever-Shieffer-and-the-other-MSM-whores Jim Lehrer, attempted to cast himself as the savior of the nation by McCain's magnanimously insisting that he would "suspend his campaign" to return to Washington to concentrate on the Wall Street fat-cat-bailout... ...

Obama Chides McCain For Not Being Able To Do More Than One Thing At A Time -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... McCain is old, McCain is tired, So it's no insult he Is unable to do any tasks that Happen to be multi- VERSE CASE SCENARIO Tony Peyser provides daily poems and weekly cartoons for BuzzFlash and also writes the BuzzFlash column, " ...

Jesse Lee: 40 Days Out: From the Fundamentals are Strong to a Great Depression in Less Than Two Weeks
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... September 24: McCain calls for debate to be canceled, says he's suspending campaign to return to Washington. [CNN.com. 9/24/08] ...

David (Frum) Sleeps with Goliath
Pajamas Media — ... their money back, neutering bureaucracies, and encouraging citizens to take control of their lives are the core conservative principles. They also have the luxury of resonating across demographic groups. We would do well to celebrate our beliefs and doing so would be a great first step to recapturing the hearts of the electorate. Conversely, John McCain’s responses to the credit and ...