And look! Ol’ Bill agrees with me!

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A political move? Sure. It has to be at this point. (If McCain made an a-political move at this point, he would be accused of being too stupid to be president.)

I think what this move is saying is this: “This is a serious situation. I can multi-task, but a campaign that costs millions is not as important *at this moment* as me being at the center of the crisis, doing what I can. (He’d be accused of dereliction of duty if the economy went totally bust, and he’d been out happily campaigning. Can’t win.)

Bush kind of diffused the impact, regardless. He asked Barack to meet with him, and what was Barack to do, say no to the sitting president during a crisis? That wouldn’t look good…

So, McCain AND Obama can go to Washington – issue a joint statement, look good… (and by the time they get there the bailout is almost already approved and they didn’t really have to do anything.)

Still, all in all – point goes to MCain for being willing to sacrifice his campaign for the good of America. I think that wins over Obama’s multi-tasking comment.

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Let me frank, I think this was a good impulse that went too far. It would have been the right thing for him to say, “I’m a Senator, and I need to cancel my speaking engagements and go to Washington until this crisis is averted.” I think then his campaign decided to up the ante and cancel the commercials and the debate to make a splash.

There’s no reason that he couldn’t keep running his commercials, and Friday was supposed to be Foreign Policy, so that should have been okay as well.

But, for the record, if there’s a crisis– like Katrina, or a nuclear bomb, or even financial– you can bet I want my President focused on the big problem and pushing the fix to completion rather than spending his days prepping for a debate and attempting to run a campaign. Let your staff do that.

To me, this isn’t the kind of thing that should halt the campaign, but it does deserve the complete focus of those that would lead us.

And I think you have your talking points wrong, Musicguy. You’re supposed to be setting low expectations for your guy in a debate on Foreign Policy (Sen. McCain’s perceived strength) so that even if he just appears adequate he wins. If you set him up as eviscerating and he does anything but, he loses.

McCain has just proven that he can’t handle the demands and multiple fronts the POTUS will inevitably encounter.

I think he also knew Obama would eviscerate him in the first debate. Interesting way to fend off that attack!

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Someone had better do something soon or this country is going down the toilet.

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