John McCain has decided to suspend his campaign Thursday in order to help negotiate a Wall Street bailout in Washington. McCain said he will leave the campaign trail after delivering an address to former President Clinton’s Global Initiative on Thursday morning. He canceled a Wednesday afternoon taping of The Late Show With David Letterman and a Thursday interview with FOX News. His campaign said he will suspend airing all ads and fundraising until Congress passes bailout legislation. He also asked that the debate scheduled for this Friday be postponed.
“America this week faces an historic crisis in our financial system,” McCain said in mid-afternoon remarks to reporters in New York. “We must pass legislation to address this crisis. If we do not, credit will dry up, with devastating consequences for our economy. People will no longer be able to buy homes and their life savings will be at stake. Businesses will not have enough money to pay their employees. If we do not act, every corner of our country will be impacted. We cannot allow this to happen.”
Obama disagrees with McCain, citing that President's will have to deal with more than one issue at a time and cannot put everything on hold in order to shore up one issue. Some political analysts state that McCain is making this move in order to stem his recent drop in the polls - which some credit this towards the economy.
I feel that this is the right thing to do in this situation, because of the fact that the economy of our country is much more important than campaigning or having a debate this Friday as opposed to next week. This example shows the selflessness of McCain, an important quality for any candidate in my opinion. The most important thing not only for our country, but the entire world right now, is to take care of our economy. If our economy collapses, the entire world economy will more than likely follow suit.
It's also nice to see that someone can put their self-interests aside in service to our country.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Selflessness is when there is no agenda behind someone’s actions. You just admitted that there is a good possibility that McCain is doing this to fix his recent drop in the polls due to the economy issue. The office of the president cannot be focused on one issue all the time, so why should the possible future president? Also, McCain is not the president yet so he should not be dropping everything he is doing to act like it.
Post a Comment