A blog written by Manchester College students studying the 2008 presidential campaign.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Debate or Not?

In the beginning the question was, was there going to be a debate last night? That was decided 10 hours before the debate. John McCain decided to go to the University of Mississippi, but then return to Washington to work with the financial crisis that is occurring. Obama questioned why McCain couldn't take care of two things at once.

Before McCain announced that he was going to be at the debate, Obama told reporters that on Friday morning he was on the phone with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and congressional leaders and believed that there was progress being made on the bailout deal.

I do believe that a bailout deal needs to be created and created soon. I also feel that the debate should still occur. There was only going to be a few hour breaking point that wasn't going to be spent on the bailout deal, and its not as if Congress works on this deal every single hour of the day anyways.

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