John McCain has missed more than 63% of all votes cast in the 110th US Congress. He believes that the economy is strong. Exactly what would be the effect of this completely irrelevant Senator with no knowledge of the economy taking a break from the campaign to focus his attention on the economy? I doubt he will be present for any votes on the matter and I know he won’t be sponsoring any legislation. His extra devotion to the economic crisis will probably have about as much of an economic impact as what I decide to have for dinner.

Men that want to be president need to be able to address many complex issues at once. I think that by withdrawing from the debate McCain is showing that he may not be able to do that.

Is it just me or is anyone else tired of this whole process? For 2 years we have had to deal with this endless campaign. November can’t come soon enough for me.

Obama doesn’t need to be there, he’ll probably just vote present if he were, and McCain has been in the Senate forever and hasn’t addressed any of this crap.

In a country of 300 million these are the two best clowns we could come up with for President? This country is in worse shape than we think if that is the case.

McCain said this about himself not too long ago, “I and not an expert on the economy.” What difference does it make if McCain goes back to Washington to help with the bail-out package? He doesn’t know what the hell he is talking about by his own admission. And now his input is so necessary or essential that he feels that the presidential campaign needs to be suspended? Give me a break.

The party of Reagan got us in this mess; this bail-out is the end game of the trickledown economics era as the financial big wigs bail-out and cash out at the same time. Financially, a bail-out is necessary. But it should not be a trickle down bail-out, is should be a trickle up bail-out. Every tax payer gets a bail-out stock or voucher worth 6000.00 or so that matures in 4 years. Don’t give 700 billion to banks for gambling with our money and then losing. Let’s loan it to them and have the financial industry pay the people back with interest.

McCain is remaining true to the office for which he was elected to serve. He is putting his country first, which he has done his entire life. I think it is genuine and sincere. Obama, on the other hand, has put promoting himself politically above serving as a senator since the day he was elected. I am thankful for a candidate who sticks to his values and puts his country first at the sake of his own political opportunities.

I know it is late September, but does this count as our October suprise???!!!

Even if you set aside the fact that everything has to be viewed as political, what can Sens. McCain and Obama impact by skipping one debate?
Besides, doesn’t the package currently proposed by President Bush have to pass throught the House first anyway?

The real question boils down to what both of these guys are supposed to be doing to earn the 6 figure salary that us poor middle class folk work hard to pay our taxes to support. Given the impact that this situation will have on any future administration as well as the common taxpayer for years to come, both of them should get to Washington and work! Earn that salary and show us some real “change”! I personally can’t think of a better opportunity for either of them to show what they are made of. Words and rhetoric are worthless. Actions bring “change”.

I find it hard to support someone who in one speech claims he is the best person that can make a difference for the economy and in another that “If I can be helpful, then I’m prepared to be anywhere, any time.”.

“If I can be helpful”? If he himself isn’t sure that he can be helpful making one of the more critical decisions regarding the economy now, then how can I be sure he can do any of the other things he claims if he becomes president?

Yes a president needs to be able to handle many issues at the same time. That is why a president has a team of advisors. But McCain and Obama are still senators and should be doing their current job before asking for a promotion to a better one.

However, presidents also need to know how to set their priorities. Good intentions or not, which candidate has chosen the right priority here?

McCain is proving that his campaigm theme “country first” has meaning. It sure beats the hell out of Hope and Change, Hope for Change, Change for Hope, Hope that I can change the country, I’ll Change the country where there is no hope by Obama

First Tom is way off. We need someone in office who has the ability to respond to multiple issues at once. John McCain must be able to multi-task. The debates are too important to postpone - let the voters see your position on the issues John!

Senator McCain has held a failed policy supporting banking deregulation since at least 1993 and now wants to try to ‘fix’ it? I don’t think so. I think he still wants to protect the banks and not the people. He was and is part of the problem and hiding in Washington won’t do us any good. I’d rather have him exposed to Senator Obama in debate so everyone can be reminded that he is one of the people that got the country into this mess by deregulating banks.