McCain's Debate Suspension Widely Mocked On Twitter

John McCain's decision to suspend his campaign in order to focus on the ongoing debate and negotiations over the Paulson bailout package is -- like all things -- getting roundly mocked on Twitter, maybe because just a few days ago, the fundamentals of our economy had tweeted McCain, saying they were strong. Here are some highlights:

agolis: #suspending all meetings. Srsly. The economy is hurting people!

poopaltar: #suspending hunt for Osama to concentrate on hunt for ponies

downwithtyranny: Is McCain #suspending Rick Davis for punching him in the eye???

netZoo: I am #suspending my campaign because i want to be more like Mitt Romney, whose 29 sons can bail out the economy with their bare hands.

levjoy: I'm #suspending my wife's pregnancy. The crib isn't ready.

leelefever: I am hereby #suspending my lunch. The pastrami wasn't favoring me, so I'm taking a break until it looks more favorable.

arielleholland: #suspending life bc the polls are looking really bad and i need to save a few million by not doing events or running ads for a few days

mayjah: Had to postpone my campaign against this school zone. Cop doesn't like me, is #suspending my license.

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jackholt: #Suspending my diet to deal with a pizza crisis tonight.

laurenm: #suspending my birthday this year to focus on the economy. Didn't really need to turn a year older anyway.

huffpost: For a guy #suspending his campaign, John McCain's surrogates were out quickly on the cable news nets. Just sayin ... -ttagaris

ddayen: I am #suspending wearing suspenders until we give $700 billion dollars to Wall Street.

pjwcaruso: #suspending the rest of NFL season on behalf of the patriots - Tom Brady's knee is a much much bigger crisis than the credit market

cruelsommer: I'd like to announce that I'm suspending my work as a blogger to focus on the serious downturn in the number of naps I get to take.

jackholt: #Suspending my disbelief of this campaign, and the last eight years, while working on my ellipses... ...

mayjah: What will happen? How will it turn out? The #suspending is killing me, gah!

Feel free to follow along, or add your own, here.

Comments

[Mayoyo]

I am suspending my mortgage payments so I can buy food.

[Diogenis]

What's food?

[pinqqe2]

ditto!

[frankly fair]

Is this a southwest inspired joke by mc DOM, pls people see this dummy for who he is

[TheLar]

I'm suspending my anger. Palin-McCain deserve to be laughed at, even if they steal the election and launch the nukes to start the rapture early.

[Diogenis]

You will have to process your anger at some point. And..if Palin/McCain steal the election...then SHAME OF US!

[Daly]

Who has that commercial, "Wanna get away" Bet Mc was watching that when he came up with this brilliant NOT idea.

Sad part is he believes his own hype.

[rwt1138]

"My friends, due to a largely and unforeseen negative reaction to my recent announcement to suspend my campaign, I have decided to suspend any decision on suspending the campaign until I can evaluate all of the facts and come to a conclusion. I am advising all of my staff to suspend any suspending in which they were engaged, and to suspend discussion of suspending the campaign until such point as the decision to suspend is no longer suspended. I apologize for any suspense this may cause. Thank you."

--John McCain

[ebanks84]

That just goes to show you how this man was raised. He never had any discipline to speak of because he is NOT disciplined now. He got away with a lot of crap in his life and never had to make amends because that's exactly what he is doing now.

[germboy300]

following David Blaine who was suspended upside down for 60 hours... If McCain makes it that long he will miss the debate.

[Academic]

Right in one sentence pal.
Prof. Dr. Stanley Collymore
London, England.

[poeticsinger]

I can't wait to read about this 10 years from now, John McCain will go down as the worst campaigner in history. His campaign will be studied......when you've got no message, blame everything on the other guy..when you've got no solutions, make up lies about the other guy...when the lies get called out, blame the media....when there's a crisis...act like it doesn't exist until it gives you an out to skip out of a debate you don't want to have.....wow...just wow.

[BethDem08]

It's a toss up for worst campaign ever.
Hillary Clinton's campaign (remember inevitable) may just be more of a loser.
The reason? McCain was not expected to win absolutely. It was a universally accepted "fact" that Hillary would be the nominee.
That Barack Obama , the skinny guy with the funny name, could not only take on, but beat the Clinton "machine" was the biggest upset since Dewey and Truman.

[deliriousgod]

I've suspended my disbelief

[deliriousgod]

Washington; hold your breath until John McCain fixes the World in six days; First: end Greed; Second: destroy Evil; Third: combat Plaque and Gingivitis; Fourth: Destroy NATO alliance; Fifth: Make Health Insurance Identical to Financial Industry; on the Sixth Day, fight own reflection in mirror until Wall Street is reformed. On the Seventh Day, Sarah Palin rises again to judge the living and make some ded.

[CoulterIsASuccubus]

I am suspending my use of a laxative because I see sh*t everywhere.

[BetterDays]

LOL

[RoloTomassi]

Jeez, what a screen name!

Hmpft! U can let her suc your bus, but she's not gonna suc my bus....

[Diogenis]

No reason to remain constipated. Remember... "sh it makes things grow!"

[BryantG]

I've just suspended my entire class of 9th graders!

[BillORights1776]

So John McCain is suspending his campaign. Whew. I'd hate to think someone who was running for President could do more than 1 thing at a time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46afFz063B0

If McCain will lie to David Letterman...what makes you think he'll tell you the truth?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr9S0DaTjvw

[NevadaDem]

McCain wants to suspend the Debate because he doesn't feel ready to face Obama on the issues. Plan and simple.