McCain will go to debate... I hope our legislators don't drag this out. Now that would be political suicide & both sides balming eachother.


Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ended three days of suspense on Friday morning and announced that he will leave bailout negotiations in Washington and fly to Oxford, Miss., for the opening presidential debate.

McCain had said he would suspend his campaign until an agreement was reached on the administration's $700 billion mortgage proposal.

The text of the statement:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) announces: "The McCain campaign is resuming all activities and the senator will travel to the debate this afternoon. Following the debate, he will return to Washington to ensure that all voices and interests are represented in the final agreement, especially those of taxpayers and homeowners.

The text of a statement from his campaign at about 11:20 a.m. Eastern:

John McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign was made in the hopes that politics could be set aside to address our economic crisis.

In response, Americans saw a familiar spectacle in Washington. At a moment of crisis that threatened the economic security of American families, Washington played the blame game rather than work together to find a solution that would avert a collapse of financial markets without squandering hundreds of billions of taxpayers’ money to bailout bankers and brokers who bet their fortunes on unsafe lending practices.

Both parties in both houses of Congress and the administration needed to come together to find a solution that would deserve the trust of the American people. And while there were attempts to do that, much of yesterday was spent fighting over who would get the credit for a deal and who would get the blame for failure. There was no deal or offer yesterday that had a majority of support in Congress. There was no deal yesterday that included adequate protections for the taxpayers. It is not enough to cut deals behind closed doors and then try to force it on the rest of Congress — especially when it amounts to thousands of dollars for every American family.

The difference between Barack Obama and John McCain was apparent during the White House meeting yesterday, where Barack Obama’s priority was political posturing in his opening monologue defending the package as it stands. John McCain listened to all sides so he could help focus the debate on finding a bipartisan resolution that is in the interest of taxpayers and homeowners. The Democratic interests stood together in opposition to an agreement that would accommodate additional taxpayer protections.

Senator McCain has spent the morning talking to members of the administration, members of the Senate, and members of the House. He is optimistic that there has been significant progress toward a bipartisan agreement now that there is a framework for all parties to be represented in negotiations, including Representative Blunt as a designated negotiator for House Republicans. The McCain campaign is resuming all activities and the senator will travel to the debate this afternoon. Following the debate, he will return to Washington to ensure that all voices and interests are represented in the final agreement, especially those of taxpayers and homeowners.



http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13970.html

Grandstanding effort to resuscitate his campaign. He added nothing but distraction.

The debate should be very interesting.

He made himself look like a fool, by lying to Letterman.

i have to watch it on my computer...
my dish receiver is down and they haven't sent me a new one yet

So now we get to watch as the debate is turned into political posturing and they did, I did, we did, you did.

I do not want to here what they did last year.

I want to see what they are doing now.

Last year has passed us by.

Who cares which party left the gate open.

Lets just round up the cows and get the varmits out of the corn.

But i think Letterman had a really good show when McCain didn't show up. I laughed more than i have in a long time =D

McCain is going to attend the debate?

Sounds like another FLIP FLOP!

I just hope McCain brings along his green screen. Its fun what the people of the internet can do with that =D

how come no one is dogging obama for lying to SNL

It wasn't nearly as funny as Letterman busting McCain talking to Couric... on the same station Letterman is on.

We know they both lie, but McCain made himself look like an absolute fool besides a liar in front of how many million people?

Oh, the horror... Conservatives disgusted and the clowns released an ad claiming "Lyin' John" won the debate!

Ex-Adviser: McCain "Blinked," Campaign "Governed By Tactics, Not Ideology"

"After days of saying that John McCain would not attend Friday's presidential debate unless an agreement on a bailout package for the markets was "locked-down," the McCain campaign has gone back on its word.

On Friday, it announced that the Senator would head down to Mississippi even though, as they readily admit, much work remained needed on the bailout agreement.

The whole episode left even conservatives admitting that the McCain campaign looked erratic and a bit foolish with no apparent direction or guiding principle.

"It just proves his campaign is governed by tactics and not ideology," said Republican consultant Craig Shirley, who advised McCain earlier in this cycle. "In the end, he blinked and Obama did not. The 'steady hand in a storm' argument looks now to more favor Obama, not McCain."

Shirley added, "My guess is that plasma units are rushing to the McCain campaign as we speak to replace the blood flowing there from the fights among the staff."

Adding to the rocky perception was a McCain campaign web ad released this morning declaring "McCain Wins Debate!" -- put out even before the candidate had announced he was planning to debate."

Terribly so!!

Recently you were arguing staunchly that McCain was doing the right thing for the country by addressing the crisis and not going to the debate.

Now he's decided to go to the debate despite the fact that no solution is in place.

So are you now supportive of him going to the debate? And if so, what's changed?

I'm not gonna watch it

I don't do infomercials

Has anyone else seen the weird video of Sarah Palin getting a "witch-blessing" done at her church?

well i think he should stay and work on the crisis and so should all of congress

but obviously not many realize that

so he is caving to public pressure

or they have decided not to hold any meetings about it in the time frame of the debate requirements

who loses ----- the people of the united states


and just to make a point clear i do not support mccain nor osama for president but it is obvious after this week that mCCAIIN IS MORE FOR DOING WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THE COUNTRY THAN ABAMA

Really?

where is the link

hey..thats funny...

Commie Bear...