BREAKING: McCain Suspends Campaign to Attend Senate Hearings on Bailout
Terry Trippany on Sep 24 2008 at 2:07 pm | Filed under: Election 2008
Minutes ago the McCain camp announced that is temporarily suspending their campaign so that Senator McCain can attend the crucial Senate hearings on the congressional bailout plan.
John McCain wants to postpone the debate to work on the crisis and asks the Obama campaign to do the same.
From the AP:
NEW YORK (AP) — Republican John McCain says he’s directing his staff to work with Barack Obama’s campaign and the debate commission to delay Friday’s debate because of the economic crisis.
In a statement, McCain says he will stop campaigning after addressing former President Bill Clinton’s Global Initiative session on Thursday and return to Washington to focus on the nation’s financial problems.
McCain also said he wants President Bush to convene a leadership meeting in Washington. Both he and Obama would attend the session.
Statement by McCain:
“America this week faces an historic crisis in our financial system. We must pass legislation to address this crisis. If we do not, credit will dry up, with devastating consequences for our economy. People will no longer be able to buy homes and their life savings will be at stake. Businesses will not have enough money to pay their employees. If we do not act, ever corner of our country will be impacted. We cannot allow this to happen.”
Obama, showing his “me, me, me” side is thinking about showing up for the debate anyway.
NEW YORK - Barack Obama’s campaign says he is inclined to go ahead with Friday’s presidential debate, even though rival John McCain is calling for a delay. McCain said Wednesday that he wants to stop all campaigning tomorrow and postpone the debate so they can work together on the financial crisis.
This is the difference between John McCain and Barack Obama. On the one side we have the McCain campaign living up to his country first slogan and on the other we have Barack Obama continuing with his view that the world revolves around him.
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