McCain seeks to delay debate to focus on David Blaine Crisis

                        

P.E. Newswire

Republican John McCain said Wednesday he is directing his staff to work with Democrat Barack Obama's campaign and the presidential debate commission to delay Friday's debate because of the David Blaine Crisis.

Blaine, a daredevil magician has suspended himself upside down above Central Park's Wollman ice skating rink on Monday and plans to stay there for 60 hours, according to the news report.

In a statement, McCain said he will stop campaigning after addressing former President Clinton's Global Initiative session on Thursday and return to Washington to focus on getting Blaine down before too much blood rushes to his head.

McCain said he wants President Bush to convene a leadership meeting in Washington that would include him and Obama.

"It has become clear that no consensus has developed to support the administration's proposal to get David down," McCain said. "I do not believe that the plan on the table will pass as it currently stands, and we are running out of time. That man will have a massive headache after 60 hours. "

McCain said if Congress does not pass legislation to address the crisis, Blaine could pass out, people will no longer be able to watch magic shows, reputations will be at stake and businesses will not have enough money to fund future magic shows.

"If we do not act, ever corner of our country will be impacted," McCain said. "We cannot allow this to happen."

McCain said he has spoken to Obama about his plans and asked the Democratic presidential nominee to join him.

The Obama campaign said Obama had called McCain around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday to propose that they issue a joint statement in support of a package to help get the magician down as soon as possible. McCain called back six hours later and agreed to the idea of the statement, the Obama campaign said. McCain's statement was issued to the media a few minutes later.

"We must meet as Americans, not as Democrats or Republicans, and we must meet until this crisis is resolved," McCain said. "I am confident that before David wakes up tomorrow we can achieve consensus on legislation that will bring him down safely and earn the confidence of the American people. All we must do to achieve this is temporarily set politics aside, and I am committed to doing so."

Comments

[Saji]

Even with all of Mc Cain's efforts to delay the debate to focus on Blaine, the dude (Blaine) was still booed by the crowd in NY at his final ceremony - for allowing himself a couple sit ups from time to time. Mc Cain needn't have worried so much!