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McCain Suspends Campaign to Help With Bailout - America’s Election HQ
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John McCain announced that he will suspend his presidential campaign on Thursday to return to Washington to help with bailout negotiations. He urged his opponent Barack Obama to do the same. The Arizona senator also asked the Presidential Debate Commission to postpone Friday’s scheduled debate ...

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Breaking: McCain suspends campaign to deal with economy, calls for debate to be postponed
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Country first. 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. He’s trying to siphon off some of Obama’s strength with voters on the economy, obviously, but er … at the expense of a debate on foreign policy that would have played to his own strength? ...

Matt Lewis: Breaking: McCain Wants Debate Postponed
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — John McCain wants to postpone the debate and focus on the economy. From Fox: "John McCain announced that he will suspend his presidential campaign on Thursday to return to Washington to help with bailout negotiations. He urged his opponent Barack Obama to do the same. The Arizona senator also asked the Presidential Debate Commission to postpone Friday’s scheduled debate with Obama so that he can work on the financial crisis bailout plan now on Capitol Hill. “America this week faces an historic crisis in our financial system. We must pass legislation to address this crisis. If ...

McCain Suspends Campaign To Help With Bailout, Calls On Barry Insane To Do Same - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — ... of the economic crisis. The latest FOX News/Opinion Dynamics poll shows Obama has taken a 45-39 percent lead over McCain, in large part because of independents. A Washington Post poll also showed that most voters think Obama has a better approach to dealing with the economy than McCain. McCain aides said that he did not think the Bush administration’s $700 billion bailout plan, being shepherded by Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, adequately addresses the crisis at hand. (Fox)

McCain To Suspend Campaign To Focus on Bailout, Urges Obama To Join Him
The Moderate Voice — ... In a story just breaking over the wires Senator John McCain has announced he is suspending his campaign in order to return to Washington to focus on the bailout legislation. He has also called for ...

Breaking news: Mc asks Obama to suspend Friday debate
Sister Toldjah — ... He’s suspended his campaign as well. The rationale being that he thinks they both should be putting their energies towards resolving the economic issues that have blown up the last couple of weeks. Team Barry has said “no” … so far. ...

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McCain Suspends Campaign
PoliGazette — ... Senator John McCain has announced that he suspended his campaign his campaign on Wednesday so he can go back to Washington to help come up with a plan - or approve the plan proposed by the White House, or change some aspects of it - to prevent America’s economy from collapsing. ...

McCain Suspending Campaign to Work on Economic Crisis
Tammy Bruce — ... This broke just before Tammy Radio ended. McCain also wants the debate on Friday postponed until this situation is solved. This puts Obama between a rock and a hard place--if he agrees with McCain he looks like he's allowing the senior statesman to direct the agenda. Obama would be a follower, not a leader. Which is, of course, the truth of the situation. If he disagrees, and will not go to Washington, he's putting politics above what's best for the country. McCain Suspends Campaign to Help With Bailout John McCain announced ...

Country First? McCain Suspends Campaign to Deal With Economy
Stop The ACLU — ... He has also called for Friday’s debate to be postponed….wow! 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. ...

On bad movies & bad moods
GayPatriot — ... And I have a number of topics on my list of “potential blogs” and while there’s lots in the news worthy of conversation, notably McCain’s suspension of his campaign to focus on the bailout (about which I have mixed feelings).  ...

Postpone the debate? Dumb idea.
The Anchoress — ... Many on the right of the blogosphere seem impressed with Sen. McCain for him suspending his campaign, pulling ads and trying to postpone this Friday’s debate on Foreign policy. ...

John McCain Came to the Party First
The Wide Awake Cafe — ... I was following the news accounts on my radio today during school breaks and heard the news that John McCain announced that he was suspending his campaign in order to do his duty as a Senator and citizen and help to solve the financial crisis in Washington D.C. ...

On McCain’s Campaign Suspension
GayPatriot — ... , I mentioned both thoughts I had for potential posts as well as my mixed feelings of John McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign to focus on the Wall Street bailout. ...

McCain's Debate Decision
A Blog For All — ... to figure out how to deal with this toxic paper mess. McCain was weighing the following possible outcomes that Obama would choose from: 1) accept the idea to postpone the debate to work on the fiscal mess together and he looks Presidential in the process while Obama gets bipartisanship in the process; 2) Obama rejects the deal, and McCain looks presidential while Obama looks partisan; and 3) Obama lets others answer for him. I don't particularly think it was a good idea for McCain to suspend his campaign to work on the fiscal crisis no matter how well intentioned. If ...

McPresidential
Jules Crittenden — ... much from pol involvement to date. However, one of these guys will inherit this situation and both of them are likely to weild more influence as Senators who are their party’s candidates than they would otherwise. They should be directly involved. It was a brilliant political move, but a risky one, as he now owns the result. The initiative has been seized just as Obama thought he was gaining something from our nation’s pending disaster. Now Obama is in the unfortunate position of insisting business as usual is good enough . Insisting on debating the debate when there is more ...

McCain Acts Presidential; Obama Offers a Great One-liner
GayPatriot — ... In the morning, Barack Obama contacted his Republican rival’s campaign and proposed the two candidates issue a “joint statement outlining their shared principles and conditions for the Treasury proposal.”  John McCain responded by saying they should also both suspend their campaigns return to Washington and get something done. ...

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