McCain just announced that he is postponing his campaign, most importantly, including the presidential debate slated for Friday, in order to go back to Washington and do what he can to help find a solution to the major financial crisis.  He says that he would rather lose an election than not do what he can for the country.  He just might indeed lose the election in my opinion. 

What about all the people who have been planning and investing in the debate that is now hosed due to this sudden change in plans?  This debate was agreed on back in November of 2007.  The money lost to the organizers not to mention the network time is going to be huge!  If he thinks he's the right person to lead our country, wouldn't doing everything he can to win the election be putting our country first?

He did manage to put Obama in a bind.  He invited Obama to put politics aside and join him in Washington.  This little maneuver will make Obama have to 1) agree to the proposal and look like he's following McCain's lead or 2) decline and make it look like he doesn't care as much about the crisis and cares more about his own political agenda.

I don't know what he and his camp are thinking.  Doesn't this make him look like a hypocrite after coming down on Obama for not doing town hall meetings with him?  It sure isn't going to look good in my opinion.  I'm sure it seems the noble, right thing to do in his mind but is it really going to translate that way to the voters?

What do you think?