Anyone who follows politics now knows about John McCain’s 12-hour political stunt, where yesterday evening he announced that he was “suspending his campaign” because the economy was in such crisis. He called for the postponement of the first debate, which really was a ploy to cancel Sarah Palin’s vice presidential debate, which they are undoubtedly nervous about. Of course, they said it would all go away if congress signed Bush’s $700 Billion bailout bill — which they are, today, with no thanks to John McCain.
And now we’re getting to know all the juicy details of the McCain stunt, not the least significant of which is that he never actually suspended his campaign, and he never will. Andrew Sullivan notes that all the McCain ads are still up all over the country, and David Letterman was miffed last night to learn that McCain cancelled his appearance on the show because he had to “rush back to Washington,” when, really, he was in New York City giving an interview to Katie Couric instead of Letterman.
So while McCain is happy to call press conference after press conference talking about how eager he is to put his country first (even if he can’t seem to deal with more than one issue in that country at a time), his surrogates are still doing smear interviews, his ad team is still buying ads, and he himself is still not in the senate.
The final joke, of course, was that instead of being in the Senate this morning, helping to get the damn deal done, which was allegedly what the whole purpose of this “suspension” was, McCain was speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative. Way to crack that whip over Congress, senator.
And check out this bonus video, where McCain says he’s never actually read the bill that he fictionally suspended his campaign over because it’s so important to pass:
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