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This reminds me of when I'm really behind on a project, and I need to make up some excuse, really any excuse (the dog ate my project), as to why the deadline should be extended.
McCain calling for a debate to be delayed = he is not prepared to debate Obama
Think about it. As long as the economic "meltdown" story is in the headlines, the polls will see Obama rise, and McCain fall with a snowball effect. This will happen for a couple of reasons:
1) Americans already think that Obama is stronger on the economy. Therefore any additional news of an economic "crisis" will keep bolstering his cred.
2) McCain keeps showing us he is clueless on the economy (strong fundamentals, calling for the firing of the SEC chairman, calling the SEC the FEC, etc.)
So what can McCain do? He needs some distracting element to stop the snowball.
Here is an article discussing how this is purely a tactical decision. We'll see if it works.
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Friday's debate is on foreign policy, not the economy. While I agree that McCain does not want to debate because he's looking for a way to stop his poll numbers from dropping like a rock, I think more than anything he wants to show everyone that he can handle the economy as well as Obama and by doing the "noble" thing and suspending his campaign he is more dedicated to finding a solution. Obama's remark that the President will have to be able to handle more than one thing at a time is a great response, especially because it looks like McCain made this announcement without being 100% transparent to Obama about his intentions. This latest ploy by McCain will backfire, and we can all watch the rest of his campaign go down in flames.
Agreed. I also think it is pretty reckless to make this rushed decision to delay the debate without agreement from both campaigns. Why put Obama and everyone else who was anticipating the debate in a position to judge what is the right decision? Why not decide together, and then announce?
Exactly. It's clearly a rushed decision made by a campaign that will do anything to stop hemmoraghing poll numbers. If he really cared about not injecting partisan politics into the bailout debate he would have talked with the Obama campaign about what he was doing before he rushed out and made his announcement. Things are getting desperate over there....
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