I guess suspending your campaign doesn’t including taking your talking head surrogates off the cable nets.

We’ll have video soon of top McCain surrogate Nancy Pfotenhauer who was just on Fox attacking Obama.

Late Update: Doesn’t preclude Pfotenhauer from doing live chat right now with Washington Times either.

Later Update: Latest McCain camp line, in response to question of whether debate will go on Friday with an empty podium: Obama can always debate Joe Biden instead.

Lemme see, two of McCain’s press spokespeople on TV attacking Obama; McCain attack ads up on TV across the country. This is the suspension? What did I miss?

The guy is literally out of control. At what point do his friends need to start discussing an intervention?

When we look back at the 2008 campaign, whoever wins, what will your top Manic McCain Act Out moments from the campaign be?

For me, the economy ate my debate homework has to be in the top three. But there must be at least half a dozen others.

Did someone say suspension?

Here’s Nancy Pfotenhauer’s appearance on Fox a little while ago, laying into Obama for taking credit he doesn’t deserve:

This just goes to show the absurdity of “suspending” the campaign in the first place.

McCain admits that, as of Tuesday at least, he hadn’t had a chance to look at the Paulson plan yet.

Is he kidding? The Paulson plan is like three pages long.

TPM Reader JB gets it …

The current stunt is certainly at the top of the list, but I think there is another aspect of his rash decision to suspend the Republican National Convention that has not been commented on enough. It wasn’t just that he truncated the convention. It was that his campaign leaked that he might give his acceptance speech by live feed from the disaster zone. As if he, John S. McCain III, somehow had to be there……doing what? Commandeering FEMA? This idea that McCain had to be there in the disaster zone instead of addressing his party in St. Paul is in some ways even more ridiculous than the notion that only he could save the Wall Street bailout and that the only way to do that is to “suspend” his campaign. (Although as you and John Aravosis point out, he has a funny way of suspending his campaign given that he’s doing everything he was planning on doing anyway, except debating Obama.)

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin finally faced more than one reporter today and was asked about her support for the reelection of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Rep. Don Young (R-AK):

POLITICO: Do you support the reelection bids of embattled Alaska Republicans, Rep. Don Young and Sen. Ted Stevens?

A: Ted Stevens trial started a couple days ago. We’ll see where that goes.

POLITICO: Are you gong to vote for them?

[no answer.]

Late Update: Watch:

TPM Reader RN wants to know: “Do you think McCain will still find time for his pre-debate nap on Friday in the midst of this financial crisis?”

Presidential spokesperson Dana Perino on this afternoon’s high-profile White House meeting among Bush, McCain and Obama: “Sen. McCain is the one who called for the meeting, and we thought it was a good idea.”

Practically speaking, it’ll be the end of the day today before most of McCain’s TV ads are off the air across the country, an expert who tracks media ad buys tells TPM Election Central.

It’s just another measure of the personal courage and unyielding principle McCain demonstrated by “suspending” his campaign.