213424 Resource 173251 21 21 1222456970900 1222457231174 Controlled Surprise, Surprise: McCain Will Debate Tonight

The gambit pretty much flopped.

<p>Well, here we are a few hours from the debate with no bailout plan in place.  But, apparently, the pending doom and gloom is under control now so that McCain can resume his campaign.</p><p>Of course, in reality, a bailout plan is further from complete than it was a few days ago, but let's not let reality skew what will, no doubt, be an important talking point tonight... that McCain, in selfless dedication to country, suspended his campaign to avert a crisis.  Nor let it remind us that McCain never actually "suspended" anything (save, perhaps, integrity.)</p> 10 application/xml false Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aseidl 68.40.167.222 213341 false true false false true 173251 blog blogsite/Seidl/moderated