No article yet, but I'm sure there will be. This was under Breaking News on CNN.com. I'm posting it here because I think this has more to do with campaigning than anything else.

I think this is a great move by McCain. It gives people the message that he cares more about our country than winning the race to the white house. While I believe this is just a political move this will probably win him a few votes.

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I bet Obama says no.

The American people are more important and McCain steps up to try and help.

Obama on the other hand its more important for him to become President than the American people.

It is the right move.

If Obama doesn't suspend his campaign, he's fucked.

This now being reported: an "Obama Campaign Source" says that there's no reason to suspend the campaign or reschedule the debate. That was on the ticker on CNN.

If that's how they decide to go, Obama's going to have a hard time not being painted in a very negative light. He's going to come cross, and rightly so, as being far more concerned with getting elected President than with actually going to work in Washington and addressing this issue.

McCain, on the other hand, is in a no-lose situation. He announces he's suspecnding his campaign to go back to Washington. He's viewed as putting the issues above politics. If Obama agrees to do the same, McCain comes across as the guy who led the way. If Obama doesn't agree to do the same, he's viewed as the guy who sees politics as secondary to the good of the country...

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It's a bold move, but I'm not sure how it's going to play out.

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Andy
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Let's see here....

Someone who admits he knows nothing about the economy suspends his campaign to help out with...... something he knows nothing about, to say nothing of the fact that his campaign is crashing and burning in the polls.

Someone who, until three days ago was a 26 year deregulator, and is now a 72 hour regulator, suspends his campaign to help with what amounts to....... regulation.

The desperation and the load in contards pants is like the (pardon the pun) elephant in the room, which is to say it stinks, it makes them cry and their wittle hides will get chafed.

Thanks as always for the chuckles.

It's just silly pandering, let's make sure that an old man who admits he doesn't understand economic is there for the critical debate.
I think this is in response to the latest poll that has Obama 52 McCain 43, McCain is desperate to change the focus from the economy, so he can make the focus whether the campaign should continue in the face of this huge disaster that his 26 years of experience never saw coming.
Because since the focus has gone from the runner up in the Miss Alaska contest to the economy McCain has gone from up 2 to down 9.
So he's got to do something to shake up the flow of news.

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McCains statement:
Obama's initial response:
Obama's response, via Bill Burton, looks like he's talking about something else. They're probably scrambling to figure out what's going on, which is what they usually do. Obama's initial response to everything is usually wrong.

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Whether I agree with the guy or not - his press conference last night....he looked as Presidential as they come.

Regardless of how you paint McKain, he's making the right choice by going back to Washington to do the job he was elected by the people of Arizona to do. If Obama refuses to follow suit, then he's telling the people of Illinois that he don't give a rat's ass about them.

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I agree. I don't believe McCain can do anything to influence the economy and I don't think he was intending to actually help. I agree, but I think it was a great move nonetheless.

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Just curious - do you think this juvenile tone helps strengthen your arguments?

Matt

On the whole, I think it is a good call by McCain. This is a serious issue, and McCain and Obama are both still supposed to be doing the people's work in the Senate.

Matt

I don't think do.

Here's a guy, a senator, who for 26 years has been part of the problem like clockwork, suddenly, out of a desperate fit of self-righteous picque, goes back to help 'solve' this problem? With the same body he's been a part of?

Every PR move he's tried has ended up firmly embedded in his fundament, so to speak. I see no reason why this one won't either, and it REEKS of desperation.

Smart move. Makes him look good to Joe Public and throws Obaaaama back onto the back foot - again!

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