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Obama Will Make Debate A Townhall If
McCain Doesn't Show: McCain’s U-Trun |
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September 25, 2008 Barack Obama is committed
to hosting a public, televised event Friday
night in Mississippi even if John McCain does
not show up, an official close to the Obama
campaign tells the Huffington Post.
In McCain's absence, the Senator is willing
to make the scheduled debate a townhall
meeting, a one-on-one interview with
NewsHour's Jim Lehrer, or the combination of
the two, the official said.
Such a course of action could make life
incredibly difficult for McCain, who has
called for the suspension of the debate in
light of the current economic crisis. Should
he stay in Washington D.C. -- if a bailout is
not completed by then -- and let Obama alone
reach tens of millions of television viewers?
A lot, of course, depends upon what the
debate commission decides to do. At this point
in time, there is no indication that they are
going to postpone the affair, as the McCain
campaign has asked.
Separately, on Thursday, Obama himself said
he was intending to go to Oxford, Miss for the
scheduled debate and called on McCain to be
there with him.
"The American people deserve to hear
directly from myself and Sen. McCain about how
we intend to lead our country," Obama said.
"The times are too serious to put our campaign
on hold, or to ignore the full range of issues
that the next president will face."
Meanwhile, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour
said on Thursday that he expected the debate
to go forward as planned.
UPDATE: An adviser Barack
Obama says he expects John McCain to attend:
"I actually think he's going to come to
the debate," the adviser, Robert Gibbs, told
reporters in Washington on Thursday.
And echoing a talking point that Senator
Obama used in his press conference on
Thursday, Mr. Gibbs added: "I think he will
decide that a president is capable of doing
more than one thing at a time."
UPDATE II:: More from the
AP:
John McCain's campaign expressed cautious
optimism Thursday as congressional
Republicans and Democrats agreed in
principle on a $700 billion bailout of the
financial industry hours before the two
presidential candidates were to meet with
President Bush on the crisis.
Even so, the action didn't appear to be
strong enough to convince McCain to attend
Friday's scheduled presidential debate. His
campaign has said he wouldn't participate
unless there was consensus between Congress
and the administration, and a spokesman said
the afternoon developments had not changed
his plans.
McCain Aide Claims Credit For Deal, Says
"We're Going Into A Debate"
Shortly before 2pm ET, McCain spokesman
Tucker Bounds said on MSNBC that his boss
deserves credit for the bipartisan bailout
deal.
Bounds then apparently went way off
message, indicating that McCain would attend
tomorrow's debate. "We're going into a
debate," Bounds said, adding "I think we're
going there strong."
Here's a transcript of his conversation
with Andrea Mitchell:
Before John McCain suspended his campaign
yesterday, the situation that we're looking
at today looked very different then. After
he showed leadership and called for
bipartisanship, for us to partisanship aside
and tackle this solution head on, here we
are. And we're going into a debate, I think
we're going there strong.
This is unlikely to represent an official
change in position for the campaign. Earlier
in the interview Bounds was more on message,
saying that the McCain campaign was "hoping to
go into" the debate. |
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