Seems like only yesterday the McCain was explaining to us, no, lecturing us on how Rick Davis has completely severed his ties from his lobbying firm that was taking $15,000 a month from Freddie Mac until August.

Guess that didn’t pan out. Turns out he’s still a director and treasurer of the firm.

Wow, he even lied to Letterman.

Read the content free joint statement from the Obama and McCain campaigns.

“A few moments ago, President Bush called Senator Obama and asked him to attend a meeting in Washington tomorrow, which he agreed to do. Senator Obama has been working all week with leaders in Congress, Secretary Paulsen, and Chairman Bernanke to improve this proposal, and he has said that he will continue to work in a bipartisan spirit and do whatever is necessary to come up with a final solution. He strongly believes the debate should go forward on Friday so that the American people can hear from their next President about how he will lead America forward at this defining moment for our country,” said Obama-Biden spokesman Bill Burton.

These guys are just digging into such depths of nonsense and desperation that pretty soon they’re going to pop out in China, which will be helpful since they can ask the Chinese for the trillion dollars it’ll take to bail out McCain’s pals on Wall Street for the mess his economics advisor Phil Gramm made possible. Here’s the latest attempt to exploit the financial market crisis for political ends (from CNN)…

McCain supporter Sen. Lindsey Graham tells CNN the McCain campaign is proposing to the Presidential Debate Commission and the Obama camp that if there’s no bailout deal by Friday, the first presidential debate should take the place of the VP debate, currently scheduled for next Thursday, October 2 in St. Louis.

So we need to put the country first and cancel the vice presidential debate.

It seems that today during the time Barack Obama was waiting to hear back from Sen. McCain about their planned joint statement — and while McCain says he was meeting with key advisors and becoming increasingly concerned about the financial crisis facing the country — he was actually holding a special meeting with Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, the expat international financier who once supported Hillary Clinton but now is supporting McCain because she thinks Obama is “elitist”.

TPMmuckraker has obtained a copy of a draft bailout plan that was circulating on the Hill this afternoon.

SurveyUSA has just completed a snap poll on response to John McCain’s request to cancel or postpone the presidential debate.

Several questions. But two key ones.

What to do about debates?

Hold as Scheduled 50%
Hold with Econ Focus 36%
Postpone 10%

Suspend Campaigns?

Suspend 14%
Continue 31%
Refocus on Fin. Crisis 48%

Would canceling the debates be good for America? 14% say yes.