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McCain Camp: Let's Push Back Biden-Palin Match-Up, Too
September 24, 2008 7:04 PM
ABC News' Teddy Davis and Rigel Anderson Report:
The McCain campaign told ABC News on Wednesday that John McCain wants to postpone Friday's presidential debate until Thursday, Oct. 2.
The Arizona senator would like the vice presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden, which is currently scheduled to take place on Thursday, Oct. 2 in St. Louis, Missouri, to be scheduled for a later unspecified date.
The details about what McCain is seeking, which were provided by a McCain aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity, came a few hours after the Republican presidential candidate announced that he was suspending campaigning so he could return to Washington, D.C., to try to forge a consensus on a financial bailout package.
McCain's public call for a debate delay was rebuffed by Barack Obama who joined fellow Democrats in arguing that a president needs to be able to multi-task.
"I believe that we should continue to have the debate," Obama said in Clearwater Florida. "It's my belief that this is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from the person who, in approximately 40 days, will be responsible for dealing with this mess."
September 24, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (694)
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Can we just postpone the election too? Without debates, I will not have enough information to vote!
Posted by: Betty | Sep 24, 2008 7:09:37 PM
THROW IN THE TOWEL, JOHN.
Posted by: Ed from MA | Sep 24, 2008 7:11:15 PM
Give me a break!
If McCain and Palin havent had enough coaching to debate by now, they shouldnt even be running for office.
Stop pretending Friday's debate (on or off) will affect the economic bail out. John McCain is the last person who will be sought for advice about fixing the economy.
Posted by: Mike Denhof | Sep 24, 2008 7:12:31 PM
Either it's April Fools Day or McCain needs to can the boneheaded advisor who either proposed all of this in the first place or who didn't talk him out of the idea if it was his own.
Posted by: Moderate Goddess | Sep 24, 2008 7:13:15 PM
McCAIN HAS A BAIL-OUT PLAN, ALRIGHT!!!
BAIL-OUT OF THE DEBATES.
JOHN: DONCHA KNOW?
YA CAN'T WIN IF YA DON'T PLAY!!!
Posted by: Ed from MA | Sep 24, 2008 7:13:46 PM
McCAIN/PALIN:
NOT READY.
Posted by: Ed from MA | Sep 24, 2008 7:15:39 PM
So this is the real reason why McCain is going to all this trouble. Failin' isn't ready and he wants to cancel the VP debate.
Posted by: wow | Sep 24, 2008 7:17:42 PM
What a chickens!!! They are totally lost. They can't face the American people without talking/offering solutions for our biggest problem, THE ECONOMY STUPID!!!! Are these the same people who are "applying" for the highest office in the land? What a joke :-)
Posted by: carl29 | Sep 24, 2008 7:17:55 PM
for the first time this dem is embarrassed of being a dem, and for the first time am so polarized that i have started to distrust and dislike all blacks
Posted by: ron | Sep 24, 2008 7:20:16 PM
for the first time this dem is embarrassed of being a dem, and for the first time am so polarized that i have started to distrust and dislike all blacks
Posted by: ron | Sep 24, 2008 7:21:08 PM
no. there is no need to postpone the debates just so Palin/McCain can get more cramming in for their final exams - they never attended class, anyway, so it wouldn't do a lot of good now.
Posted by: bajacalla | Sep 24, 2008 7:21:38 PM
Let's just change the election day, too. And how about Christmas? Wouldn't it be nicer in January when we have the after Christmas sales?
keep trying McCain...Palin's gonna have to face Biden someday, and you're gonna have to face Barack.
Coward McCain and flailing Palin: a match made in a Disney movie.
Posted by: Independant American Woman | Sep 24, 2008 7:22:02 PM
obama's arrogance has turned me into a black hater
Posted by: ron | Sep 24, 2008 7:22:21 PM
ron, somehow I doubt that you're either a democrat in the first place or ever trusted blacks in the second.
Posted by: bajacalla | Sep 24, 2008 7:22:28 PM
This is such a horrible political stunt.
All of a sudden John McCain is so sensitive that he would postone the Presidential debate until Oct 2....Oh wait! The day unnprepared Sarah Palin is to debate Joe Biden? How thoughtful of John McCain...remember the slogan,"Country First" (especially when it's time to dodge any questions)
When will Ms. Palin have her debate? How about Nov.5
Posted by: outraged | Sep 24, 2008 7:22:50 PM
I hope that Senator Obama goes to MS as planned and has a great nationally televised interview with Jim Lehrer- on the economy, and shows the country who has the guts to speak and act like a leader rather than a wimp like McCain. Onwards and forwards, leave ole 'say some crazy crap every day' McCain behind. McCain is unstable, and everyone knows it.
Posted by: Jill | Sep 24, 2008 7:23:45 PM
I can't believe this! All the time and money people spent in Mississippi to put on this debate. Not to mention the locals that prepared for this and then they are discounted. The economy in Mississippi is really awful. If McCain really cared for the people, he would do the debate and look presidential. By not doing the debate, he looks weak and confused. He wants to politicize the debates and he's having his VP doing the same. All Washington needs is his vote. What is he going to do there but sit around and talk about this. He wants free TV time if its televised. He is so transparent. People aren't that dumb we see through this.
Posted by: LF | Sep 24, 2008 7:24:25 PM
Can Ed McMahon be contracted to go to Oxford and yell "Where's Johnny" if McCain doesn't show. They are trying to give Palin more time now too. Maybe she can go back and speak to the investigators in Alaska.
Posted by: bhciapol | Sep 24, 2008 7:25:08 PM
WE THE PEOPLE!!!! The American people deserve to know what their government is going to do with their money. It is time for our "leaders" to grow a "pair" and face us, our fury, and take the heat for the mess they have done. Don't hide cowards. Don't treat me like a child. This reminds me of my husband and I telling our kids to put their shoes on and come with us, without telling them where we're going. I am not a little girl and the government is NOT my father. It is: WE THE PEOPLE. We are the "bosses," no the other way around.
McCain/Palin: Not ready to face the American people, but ready to lead?
Posted by: carl29 | Sep 24, 2008 7:25:09 PM
hey ron,
You're no democrat, you're a racist - why don't you f_u_c_k off back to whatever red rock you crawled out from, and take your yellow candidates with you.
Posted by: Jazk | Sep 24, 2008 7:25:12 PM
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