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September 26, 2008

McCain Resumes Campaign, Debate On
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Statement from Republican presidential candidate's campaign says there
has been progress but that he will return to Washington after debate to
work on final agreement 
John Mc Cain leaves meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, 26 Sep
2008U.S. Republican presidential candidate John Mc Cain has resumed his
campaign and will take part in Friday night's presidential debate. Mc
Cain had said he would not attend the debate if a plan to bailout the
troubled U.S. financial sector was not in place. A statement by Mc
Cain's campaign Friday said there has been progress, but that Mc Cain
would return to Washington after the debate to work on a final
agreement. Talks at the White House with U.S. President George Bush, Mc
Cain, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and other leading
lawmakers fell apart late Thursday. Afterwards, Obama told CNN
television he worried that injecting presidential politics into
negotiations will do more harm than good. Democratic lawmakers have
accused Mc Cain of hurting the process and using the financial crisis to
boost his campaign. In turn, the Mc Cain campaign accused Obama of
turning the critical White House meeting into a political shouting
match. Sen. Barack Obama Obama had said he would attend the debate in
the city of Oxford, in the southern state of Mississippi even if a deal
was not in place. Mc Cain and Obama are scheduled to debate foreign
policy at tonight's event at the University of Mississippi. Mc Cain
announced Wednesday he was putting his campaign on hiatus to take part
in the negotiations in Washington on the Bush administration's financial
rescue plan. Obama said Thursday that with the election just 40 days
away, the U.S. economy in crisis and the nation fighting two wars
abroad, the American people deserve to hear directly from the two
candidates on how they intend to lead the country.

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