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摘要：
McCain宣佈將暫停競選行程，建議推遲第一場針對外交議題的辯論，然後他與Obama
都回到華盛頓去處理Bail out法案。
FOX的新消息是Obama已經拒絕停止辯論的建議。
本文：
McCain Suspends Campaign to Help With Bailout
John McCain will suspend his presidential campaign Thursday and has asked to
postpone his debate Friday with Barack Obama so the two senators can return
to Washington to help negotiate a Wall Street bailout, an approach that Obama
promptly rejected.
“America this week faces an historic crisis in our financial system,” Sen.
McCain said in mid-afternoon remarks to reporters in New York. “If we do not
act, every corner of our country will be impacted. We cannot allow this to
happen.”
The Republican presidential candidate asked the Presidential Debate
Commission to postpone his first debate with Obama, which is scheduled to
take place Friday night at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
Obama responded by saying that such disruptive measures were unnecessary.
“Presidents are going to have to deal with more than one thing at a time,”
Sen. Obama said. “It’s not necessary for us to think that we can only do
one thing and suspend everything else.” He said that he and McCain have
large campaign planes that can get them out of Mississippi and back to
Washington quickly.
The debate commission released a statement saying it was moving forward with
plans to hold the debate Friday.
Obama said he spoke earlier in the day with McCain, who suggested that they
suspend the event.
“I thought this was something that he was mulling over. Apparently this was
something he was more decisive about in his own mind,” Obama said in a press
conference in Florida, where he has been preparing for the debate.
Obama said the scrutiny of the bailout plan is nonpartisan and he would not
allow it to become welfare for Wall Street executives or an opportunity for
political ploys.
“There are times for politics and there are times to rise above them, do
what is right for the country. This is one of those times,” he said.
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.
“We must pass legislation to address this crisis,” he said. “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.”
McCain will participate in Friday night’s debate if a bill is passed by
Friday morning, his adviser Mark Salter said.
By stepping away from the first debate, McCain he is giving up an opportunity
to show off his foreign policy credentials. He had negotiated strongly to
make foreign policy, his strong suit, the topic of the first of the three
debates. On the other hand, McCain has been criticized for being weak on the
issue of economy
But McCain has fallen in recent polls — largely attributable to the economic
crisis — and rival political analysts suggested McCain’s move was
opportunistic and a chance to stem the free-fall.
On Wednesday, the FOX News/Opinion Dynamics poll showed Obama had taken a
45-39 percent lead over McCain, in large part because of independent voters.
A Washington Post poll also showed that most voters think Obama has a better
approach to dealing with the economy than McCain.
The Obama campaign initially responded to the news that McCain was suspending
his campaign by saying Obama earlier had suggested issuing a joint statement
on the financial crisis.
“At 8:30 this morning, Senator Obama called Senator McCain to ask him if he
would join in issuing a joint statement outlining their shared principles and
conditions for the Treasury proposal and urging Congress and the White House
to act in a bipartisan manner to pass such a proposal,” spokesman Bill
Burton said.
“At 2:30 this afternoon, Senator McCain returned Senator Obama’s call and
agreed to join him in issuing such a statement. The two campaigns are
currently working together on the details,” Burton continued.
But McCain’s camp said Obama never reached McCain in the morning call
because McCain was meeting with economic advisers and talking to leaders in
Congress. Afterward, McCain phoned Obama and expressed deep concern that the
plan on the table would not pass as it currently stands. He asked Obama to
join him in returning to Washington to lead a bipartisan effort to solve this
problem.
Obama said the two still plan to issue a joint statement.
“I made the suggestion to him, he agreed to that suggestion and made the
suggestion in addition that we need to have a meeting in Washington with
congressional leaders and the president,” Obama said, noting that by time he
got back to his hotel McCain had made his announcement.
McCain adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer said McCain is just following his belief in
putting the country first. She noted that he suspended the Republican
National Convention when Hurricane Gustav hit the Gulf Coast and supported
the unpopular troop surge in Iraq by saying he would rather win a war than
win an election.
“We all watched the [Senate] hearings yesterday. … The bottom line is he
did not think we would reach a conclusion and it’s absolutely imperative
that we do so. This is vintage John McCain. He is going to put the country
first and suspend the campaign,” Pfotenhauer told FOX News.
In his remarks to reporters, McCain said he did not think the Bush
administration’s $700 billion bailout plan, being shepherded by Treasury
Secretary Hank Paulson, adequately addresses the crisis at hand.
“It has become clear that no consensus has developed to support the
administration’s proposal. I do not believe that the plan on the table will
pass as it currently stands, and we are running out of time,” he said.
Neither McCain nor Obama has spent much time on Capitol Hill in recent
months. The last vote McCain took was in April. Obama last voted in July.
In announcing McCain’s expected return, Senate Minority Leader Mitch
McConnell applauded his decision and said Republicans want to see included in
the president’s bill limits on executive compensation, debt reduction,
congressional oversight and taxpayer protections.
Obama’s closest confidant in the Senate, Majority Whip Dick Durbin of
Illinois, took to the floor to say that Obama e-mailed him Tuesday night with
the idea of talking to McCain about issuing a joint statement. Durbin said
McCain and the bright lights and cameras of the campaign aren’t needed on
Capitol Hill and will inject partisanship when it’s not needed. Durbin
agreed all the debates should go forward, suggesting McCain was just reacting
to poll numbers.
Other leading Democrats had harsh words for McCain. House Majority Leader
Steny Hoyer said McCain was “injecting presidential politics” into the
financial crisis.
“This notion of rushing to Washington and grandstanding — it’s silly, it’
s impulsive, it’s erratic,” said Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the
Democrats’ 2004 nominee.
McCain announced his decision shortly after the White House said President
Bush will deliver an address to the nation Wednesday night. McCain called on
Bush to convene a meeting of congressional leadership, in both chambers and
parties, including him and Obama.
“It is time for both parties to come together to solve this problem,” he
said.
“I am confident that before the markets open on Monday we can achieve
consensus on legislation that will stabilize our financial markets, protect
taxpayers and homeowners, and earn the confidence of the American people. All
we must do to achieve this is temporarily set politics aside, and I am
committed to doing so.”
“Obviously we appreciate the seriousness Senator McCain and other leaders —
Senator Obama as well — are taking to this issue,” said deputy White House
spokesman Tony Fratto said of McCain’s move.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/24/
mccain-suspends-campaign-to-help-with-bailout/
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