Urgent Advice for McCain and Obama: What You Can Do Instead of Suspending Your Campaigns

There is a way Senators McCain and Obama can continue this crucial and close campaign with so few days left and so much new movement in the polls. The American people are about to cast the most important vote of their lives and they should not be cheated of opportunities to hear and judge the candidates. Of course McCain and Obama are also needed in Washington. It's a dilemma: but there's a solution. The party nominees can continue the campaign, including their much-anticipated debate Friday night, and at the same time stay intimately involved with efforts in Washington to resolve the economic crisis.

How?

The vice-presidential nominees can suspend their campaigns instead. Biden and Palin, those best, carefully-chosen surrogates, presidents-in-waiting, can stand in for them. Biden and Pain can rush back to Washington, plunge deeply into the bailout talks, put their experience and judment to good use, all the while staying in close communication with their candidates. Biden and Palin can represent the interests and points-of-view of Obama and McCain in the high-level discussions, and also let them know the minute they are truly needed in the capital, at which point the leaders can immediately suspend their presidential campaigns and fly back to Washington to save the nation.

Really, doesn't this solve everything?