McCain Made a Wise Move

Checkmate. McCain made the first move and it is a brilliant move. He just decided to cancel campaigning to return to Washington and deal with the rescue plan. The financial well-being of this country has been his weak point, and the numbers over the past week have been moving strongly in Obama’s direction. McCain is not only telling Obama that he should suspend his campaigning, but he is also suggesting that they postpone their foreign policy debate this Friday night. Foreign policy is McCain’s strong suit. A very tactical and brilliant move on McCain’s part to redirect the attention back on him.

This is precisely what I talked about in my blog last night. One candidate had to take ownership of this story and make it clear that he was taking credit for helping get the rescue plan accomplished. McCain made that move.

As I said in my blog post, the pending recess and the risk to one of the candidates if a deal were not done by Friday’s debate were important things to consider. One of two things can happen from here: either a deal gets done by week end or one of these candidates bare the brunt of the blame. McCain said he reached out to the Obama camp and used comparisons to 9/11. He said this national crisis is too big and too important not to address it on a bipartisan level. This is the man that said “he would rather lose a campaign then lose a war.” Anxious to see what the Obama camp says in return. This is still Obama’s opportunity to capitalize on the weakness of this economy.

What will happen next?