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WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama will go to the nation’s capital Thursday after being asked by President Bush to attend a meeting on a solution to the turmoil in America’s financial markets.
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It comes just hours after Republican presidential nominee John McCain asked Bush to call a meeting of congressional leaders, as well as the presidential nominees, to reach some sort of bipartisan solution to the impasse over a $700-billion bailout plan for Wall Street.
McCain also wants Friday’s debate with Obama -- the first in a series of three -- to be postponed, though Obama’s campaign said he still “strongly believes the debate should go forward this Friday so that the American people can hear from their next president about how he will lead America forward.”
In the meantime, Obama’s campaign spokesman, Bill Burton, said the nominee “will continue to work in a bipartisan spirit and do whatever is necessary to come up with a final solution.”
It was not immediately clear who else would be at the meeting, but Bush could address that when he speaks to the nation tonight.
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Bush trying to have McCain look good by calling Obama to the Whitehouse in order to come to a "bipartisan solution" to these economic problems.
WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama will go to the nation’s capital Thursday after being asked by President Bush to attend a meeting on a solution to the turmoil in America’s financial markets.
Advertisement
It comes just hours after Republican presidential nominee John McCain asked Bush to call a meeting of congressional leaders, as well as the presidential nominees, to reach some sort of bipartisan solution to the impasse over a $700-billion bailout plan for Wall Street.
McCain also wants Friday’s debate with Obama -- the first in a series of three -- to be postponed, though Obama’s campaign said he still “strongly believes the debate should go forward this Friday so that the American people can hear from their next president about how he will lead America forward.”
In the meantime, Obama’s campaign spokesman, Bill Burton, said the nominee “will continue to work in a bipartisan spirit and do whatever is necessary to come up with a final solution.”
It was not immediately clear who else would be at the meeting, but Bush could address that when he speaks to the nation tonight.
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Bush trying to have McCain look good by calling Obama to the Whitehouse in order to come to a "bipartisan solution" to these economic problems.
