Depends on your defintion of suspend

Trust Biden. He always has his facts straight. He would never misspeak or just flat out forget what he's talking about or who he's talking to. He would never fabric or augment a story for no apparent reason. No he's far too intelligent to do those kind of things. His mind is like a steel trap.

God love ya Joe.

I have a very serious question....Does anyone think that maybe, this will be considered or maybe isis a DIS to the Minorities in the Great State of MS? Could McCain not want to debate there because he feels the audience would strongly favor Obama? I think he would be wrong on that personally, but it does beg to question...A one day delay maybe, but anything more seems cowardly. He should be up on the issues by now...and planes allow for same day travel. Plus, isn't the failure to hold this debate going to cost someone a great deal of expense? I know the speculation is the someone get Palin out of the debate with Biden, and agian protect her from public scrutiny, but I am sure she has other factors that would make her the favorite. So, thoughts anyone?

Tactics. McCain at his best. Taking advantage of a situation.
McCain is not prepared and is using the economy and this financial mess as an excuse. (A) If he had suspended his campaign then all his offices and campaign activity would be ceased. In reality it has not, his surrogates are out their campaigning , his ads are still running. All he is doing is running away from the debate. (B) How exactly is McCain assisting in resolving this mess - at the bailout talks yesterday, he was silent. He gave no input so he might as well not be there. When his party, the Republicans opposed the bailout plan, he had nothing to say. Both him and Obama actually left the talks early because discussions had become a brawl and nothing was being achieved. (C). The debate is at night. He has a private plane. He can jump on his plane, be in Mississippi in time for the debate and leave right after the debate to be back in Washington for tomorrow morning's bailout talks. This is exactly what Obama is doing. He is in Washington with McCain.

The real reason however , is that McCain is not prepared for the debate. And we must remember that McCain doesn't do anything without first thinking about it. What he hopes is that the debate doesn't take place tonight, he can then ask that the VP debate be cancelled, ensuring that Palin does not debate Biden - thus getting rid of the Palin problem. You gotta admit the man's a genius at manipulating situations.

You all know that McCain's contribution to resolving the financial crisis is below Zero and he is doing nothing in Washington, besides showing his face. But he does know that there are plenty of americans, like himself who are clueless about the crisis and how it can be rectified, but who think that just seeing thier candidate in Washington means he is actually contributing. Both the candidates are there to find out what is happening, what measures and plans are being taken, what their financial advisors think should be done, talk to the relevant people, liase with thier own parties and then get their parties Senators and Advisors in Washington to take this forward while they sit and listen in.

There is no reason why, McCain cannot participate in the debate, nor is there a reason to suspend the Presidential campaign. The campaign has no connection with the financial crisis nor is the election date going to be changed. The elections will still go on with or without McCain. McCain is playing for sympathy votes. He is trying to take on the role of the underdog, who suspended his campaign to resolve the financial crisis and hence get voters to sympathise with him and cast their votes on that basis. Are we that gullible and stupid?