Let's meet in San Diego, McCain says

John McCain, continuing to press his case for town hall meetings, offered to get together with Barack Obama next month at a Hispanic group's conference both plan to attend.

The presumptive major party presidential nominees both have RSVP'd for the convention of the National Council of La Raza, a leading Latino civil rights and advocacy group, in San Diego July 12-15. While they're there, they should hold a joint event to answer voters' questions, McCain told reporters at his campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va.,

The two campaigns are at a standoff on town hall meetings. McCain is setting aside Thursdays for the next nine weeks for town halls. Obama counteroffered to have a town hall on the economy in July and one on foreign policy in August.

The two are already committed for three official debates in September and October.

The Republican National Committee, which already has a running clock tracking how long it has been since Obama has visited Iraq (nearly 900 days and counting), now has one on how long it has been since Obama was challenged to the town halls (12 days and counting.)