Mr. Obama goes to Washington
Sen. Barack Obama's campaign just announced that the Democratic presidential nominee, at the behest of President Bush, will head to Washington tomorrow morning to discuss the massive proposed bailout of finance firms.
Per campaign spokesman Bill Burton:
A few moments ago, President Bush called Senator Obama and asked him to attend a meeting in Washington tomorrow, which he agreed to do. Senator Obama has been working all week with leaders in Congress, Secretary Paulson, and Chairman Bernanke to improve this proposal, and he has said that he will continue to work in a bipartisan spirit and do whatever is necessary to come up with a final solution.
This news comes hours after GOP rival Sen. John McCain announced he would suspend his campaign to head to the nation's capital to work on the bailout legislation, called on Obama to join him and urged the postponement of Friday's presidential debate.
While Obama may be joining McCain in DC, he's not wavering from his stance that the debate must go on.
Obama "strongly believes the debate should go forward on Friday so that the American people can hear from their next president about how he will lead America forward at this defining moment for our country," Burton said.
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There would be little point in canceling the first presidential debate, especially this late in the season...and even if both candidates suspended their political affairs to attend to the $700 billion bailout in Washington, their presence there would only heighten the polarization and political climate. It was reported earlier today that Obama's campaign had proposed a joint statement be made on the crisis, by him and McCain. Then McCain's campaigned tried to one-up the black guy from Chicago by then suggesting McCain should be the 'white knight' to SAVE America from itself.
If they cancel the Presidential debates, can we also cancel the V.P. Debates so Gov Sarah Barracuda Moose Palin can cram study a few more talking points from McCain's campaign........... cancel this year's election if the votes are so close it makes '2000' look legit by comparison…
Posted by: 08vote | September 24, 2008 at 06:37 PM
Obame sure is true to himself....first are speeches....and
second is the nation's business. All the bobbing head has
to show is a 2004 speech at the dem's looser's convention.Verbal diahrea does not compensate for
vaccuousness of thought.Imposters and con-artists have
no place in a presidential,regardless of how adept they
may be at setting greek style columns and other
distracting subterfuge.
Posted by: Prioritys in alphabetical order | September 24, 2008 at 06:38 PM