McCain’s time-out

Is putting his campaign and the debate on hold a good idea?

John McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign and try to push back Friday’s debate, to focus on the economic crisis, is either a desperate “stunt” or a tactically “smart move,” said Andy Barr in Politico. Republicans say it shows leadership; Democrats call it a political “Hail Mary” to reverse McCain’s slide in the polls. The “final verdict,” though, lies with the voters, about three-fourths of whom, according to a poll, think the debate should go on as planned.

Not only is this “an example of great leadership” by McCain, said Hugh Hewitt in Townhall, it is Barack Obama’s “Katrina moment.” In pushing for the debate to go on, Obama showed he doesn’t get “the seriousness of the moment.” The contrast is “telling.”

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