Overwhelmed McCain calls “time out”

News yesterday that John McCain would suspend his campaign, along with his desire to postpone the debates, is being seen by most as a desperation move.

McCain wants the American people to believe that he puts country ahead of “partisan politics”.

But, we are 40 days from the election of a new president.  One that is of perhaps the most significance in the last 2 – 3 decades …

On November 4th, 2008, the election of the next President of the United States will still take place.  Those candidates running for the office should be seeking the office in order to steer the Country in the right direction.

The problem for McCain is that he cannot see that this campaign and election is about bringing a solution to Washington on this crisis, and others.  He seems to lack the necessary vision to see that both his and Obama’s campaigns were supposed to be about providing a problem to the solutions that Washington created and allowed.

At least, Obama’s campaign is.  Apparently, McCain’s isn’t.

By McCain’s words, he has given Americans a better understanding of his reasons for running — and they are purely political; purely partisan; and purely self-indulgent.

This is backed up by a quote from his book, Worth the Fighting For:

“I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. . . In truth, I’d had the ambition for a long time.”

Telling.

And that has been evident in how McCain has run his campaign … with a “win at all costs” attitude.

This all is further evidence that Barack Obama is ready to be President of the United States.  He has plans, ideas and solutions for the crises that we find ourselves in because of the failed policies of the past … policies that McCain helped shape.

That is going to be most crucial to this country.

Fortunately, Obama knows that.  McCain doesn’t.

Barack Obama is right on target when he says that the President of the United States must be able to handle more than one thing at a time.

He can’t call a “time out” and put everything else on hold while he calls bunches of meetings to figure out a course of action.