McCain Suspends Campaign, Shocks Republicans

Obama, taken by surprise by McCain's announcement, says the debate should go on

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Rogers was among those questioning what McCain can actually do when he heads back to the nation's capital. "The sentiment on the Hill is that by 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, a package is going to pass," he said. "It's going to be unpopular but probably necessary. And I don't know what McCain is going to do when he comes back here--he really doesn't have any jurisdictional authority over this matter."

Obama said that he and McCain "agreed that this is a critical time to come together. The risk of doing nothing is economic catastrophe." The principles Obama said he'll insist on include an independent oversight board, no money to CEOs of failed institutions, and help for Americans "struggling to stay in their homes."

The Commission on Presidential Debates has notified the University of Mississippi, the location of the debate, that for now the debate will proceed as scheduled.

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hello,everyone,how are you.My name is xie from china,I am wanting to know the e-mail address of mccain campaign office,if someone know the e-mail then sent it to my mailaddress pls,thanks.

xie 2:43AM October 10, 2008

i think evgeny kissin should be a candidate and Peter molyneux should be his vice-candidate. Wow, the perfect team!

Thomas of MD 5:45AM October 06, 2008

to: the world outside the us

from: democrats stuck in this bush-made mess

please help us do WHATEVER IT TAKES to help barack obama get into office. a huge portion of us (51% apparently) never voted for bush EITHER time he got into office - and as politics here have surpassed the scandalous level...about 8 years ago - WE'RE IN A STATE OF SHOCK AND DISBELIEF, and seemingly powerless. i have faith (the non-organized religion type) that those 51% are growing, and that the election will set it right - FINALLY.

BUT, if not...THEN we 51% will GO COMPLETELY MAD, and BEG THE UN, and the ENTIRE FREE WORLD to PLEASE HELP US by declaring the republican ticket unable to serve for reasons of insanity (x2) as well as the inability to multitask (x2) combined with the fact that THEY HAVE NO ECONOMIC PLAN...NONE, firmly removing them from office, point out the severely problematic voting system, and kindly situate mr. obama and mr. biden into the oval office so they can GET SOME WORK DONE! they have a HUGE task in front of them, and they're "playing it" (as is necessary in us politics) the best way they can ...problem being some voters have their heads up their backsides/consider the war in iraq more important than the US-World economic crisis/consider drilling anywhere and everywhere for oil the answer to said economic crisis/have surprisingly and very suddenly "opened" their "family values" to include pre-marital pregnancy and adultery/are worried about getting away from our "let the free market take care of everything" economic policy...worried apparently that they will be mired in expensive social programs that (god forbid) HELP PEOPLE here in the US (they refrain from worrying about any expenzive war activities...PLEASE TELL ME WHY ??) - and seemingly have NO IDEA there is a global environmental crisis going on (even if, god forbid, widespread famine begins these people will still deny any environmental crisis and maintain it's a natural earth cycle - they don't like science, these people... think scientists are making it up for profit. let me restate: PLEASE HELP US!)

Ruth of CO 12:08AM September 30, 2008

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