huffingtonpost.com - 9/24/2008
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Why does John McCain suddenly want to suspend his presidential campaign and postpone Friday's debate? His campaign surrogates are saying it's a typical "maverick" move, that McCain is simply "putting country first." Let's look at the evidence:
1) As Ben Smith notes, McCain's move "is a mark, ...
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Flipping Out in Times of Crisis
democracyarsenal.org —
... and after struggling on the economy for the past week, John McCain has decided to suspend his
campaign and return to Washington - despite him not having voted for a
bill in Washington since April. One thing is clear from McCain's latest campaign stunt, when
confronted with bad news McCain's first instinct is to ...
McJerk's political stunt
WTF Is It Now?!? —
... McCain stole Obama's idea for a bipartisan statement about the economic crisis and then went public without informing the Obama campaign. The HuffPo: ...
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