McCain seeks to delay debate – MSNBC (9/24/08):

Republican John McCain said Wednesday he is directing his staff to work with Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign and the presidential debate commission to delay Friday’s debate because of the economic crisis.

In a statement, McCain said he will stop campaigning after addressing former President Clinton’s Global Initiative session on Thursday and return to Washington to focus on the nation’s financial problems.

This is a stunt, and a transparent one at that. The idea of a man who openly admits he doesn’t know anything about economics riding to the rescue is obviously absurd. But this is trouble for Congressional Dems. They can’t be seen as giving money to Wall Street if McCain and a majority of Republicans oppose it. People are telling me I have this wrong, and that’s possible. We’ll see in a few days.

Update: I just figured out what McCain is doing. It’s like his view of how to win in Iraq:

“One of the things I would do if I were President would be to sit the Shiites and the Sunnis down and say, ‘Stop the bullshit.’”

He’s going to the Senate to do the same to his colleagues.