"If you must, suspend your campaign. In true Presidential stride, I will continue to multitask. I'm sorry you chose to RSVP "no" to the voters re the debate. Can you spare Ms. Palin to debate with my running mate, as she seems a fast study and can be brought up to speed on your plans for the economy on Friday?
Just askin', 'Bama"
At 04:39 PM 9/24/2008, B. wrote:
>[Wow, what the... -B.]
>
>McCain suspending campaign over Wall Street plan
>Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:26pm EDT
>
>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on
>Wednesday he will break off from campaigning to help on a Wall Street
>rescue plan and asked that a Friday night debate with Democratic rival
>Barack Obama be postponed.
>
>McCain, in a statement to reporters, said he would suspend his campaign on
>Thursday to return to Washington and called on Obama to join him, saying
>he had spoken to the Democrat about doing so.
>
>He said he did not believe a current $700 billion banking rescue plan
>proposed by the Bush administration would pass the U.S. Congress in its
>current form. He urged President George W. Bush to call for a bipartisan
>meeting of congressional leaders, including him and Obama, to try to find
>an agreement.
>
>"It's time for both parties to come together to solve this problem," the
>Arizona senator said. "We must meet as Americans, not as Democrats or
>Republicans, and we must meet until this crisis is resolved."
>
>He added: "I am directing my campaign to work with the Obama campaign and
>the Commission on Presidential Debates to delay Friday night's debate
>until we have taken action to address this crisis."
>
>McCain and Obama, an Illinois senator, face off in the presidential
>election on November 4.
>
>McCain said it was essential to pass legislation to deal with what he
>called a "historic 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," he said.
>
>The Bush administration is pressing Congress to approve the rescue plan,
>saying it is needed to avert serious consequences for the financial
>industry and the wider economy.
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