Republican presidential candidate John McCain is asking the Obama campaign and the debate commission to delay Friday night’s first presidential debate, reports the AP. He has announced he is suspending his campaign to focus on the economic bailout package currently before Congress.
WTF? You can’t just stop the presidential campaign — what does that even mean?
We’re guessing it means McCain is getting hammered in recent polls on whether voters think he or Obama is best suited to address the economic crisis.
We had already been planning what sort of debate-themed cocktails to serve on Friday night. Think it’s possible Obama could just go ahead and show up, and get all that airtime to himself? Or will we all be forced to stick to C-SPAN to watch a floor vote on the economic package that night?
UPDATE 4:45 p.m.: An Obama aide has said Obama is inclined to go forward with the debate as planned on Friday.
UPDATE 5:40 p.m. Obama has rejected McCain’s proposal to delay Friday’s debate.
