Is John McCain really interested in putting an end to partisanship for the sake of the credit crisis?

If so, why didn't he respond to Obama in private, when Obama contacted him with the request to file a joint statement? Instead he puts a press conference together and tries to gain political points with a grandstanding manuever.


I guess McCain would rather win an election than solve a credit crisis.|||He thought he was going to steal Obama's idea and beat him to the punch. But based on all of the shows that I've watched since his announcement it backfired in his face.








Sorry McCain, no one actually believes that you are doing this for the good of the country.





Obama '08|||what kind of joint statement could they make?





McCain said he was going back to washington and suspending his campaign. obama said he would wait for a call saying washington needed him and he was going to the debate.





I don't see anything they could jointly announce, do you?





and I hardly see suspending a campaign this close to election day as being more interested in winning an election than solving a credit crisis. Do you?





Seems to me Obama is all about himself and his ambitions.....not his current job of senator and what he owes the people who voted him into office.|||You have your facts wrong. McCain CONTACTED Obama first and Obama waited half the day to respond and offer a joint statement. McCain actually wants TO DO something. He wants to go back to Washington and do a job he was hired to do. Obama should be doing the same thing instead of going on TV and talking. I've heard enough talking. There needs to be some action. NOW!!! Obama is the one that won't take a stand. He'd probably just vote "present" anyway!|||And he used it as an opening to try an cancel the debate. What a coward! Forget the university that just spent $5.5 million preparing for it - I guess it's such a small money in McCain's mind (is he willing to cover the bill out of his own packet for a change?).|||You just proved the point that Obama is all talk and McCain is action! Obama wants to make statements and McCain wants to act! Thanks for clearing that up!