http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/02/mccain-says-obama-lead-growing-b...
"(CNN) — Sen. John McCain said Thursday that Sen. Barack Obama’s poll numbers are rising as the economy seems to sink “because life isn’t fair.”
“He certainly did nothing for the first few days,” McCain said Thursday on Fox News. “I suspended my campaign, took our ads down, came back to Washington, met with the House folks and got on the phone, and also had face-to-face meetings.”
New CNN/Time/Opinion Research Corp. polls of several key battleground states, released Wednesday, found Obama has made gains across the board — either taking statistically significant leads or erasing McCain advantages — over the past few weeks. And since the financial crisis began in mid-September, Obama has taken and held a lead over McCain in the national CNN poll of polls.
Obama joined McCain in Washington for a meeting with congressional leaders convened by the president. He said afterward was concerned “that when you start interjecting presidential politics into delicate negotiations, you could actually create more problems than less.”
I guess life is now "in the tank" for Obama too. 
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1"I guess life is now "in the tank" for Obama too."
2Oh boo hoo. Obama is up because you lost a huge political gamble when you suspended you campaign and charged into Washington to fix the bail out. Deal with it.
3What a cry baby.
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5yes where was Obama those first few days? that is a very good question. Care to share? I happen to know and it wasn't addressing the issues at hand like McCain was...
6yes and I would say it isn't fair if someone who did nothing got credit for doing something either, especially when I'm busting my #ss and someone else is trying to share in the credit
7You mean especially if i had engaged in a risky political stunt and didn't gain from it.
8kastarte2, answer the question, where was he? it makes all the difference to look at that fact, doesn't it?
as for the rest of your comment, i'm not sure what stunt your referring to, enlighten me? Because as far as I know he was meeting with the president and working on a new plan. A meeting that Obama was invited to as well, yet failed to show up at.Nor did he send a reason why or request a raincheck.
9for real??? wtfh? seriously.
10Actually Justanerd, you might want to check your sources. Obama did attend that meeting with W and John McCain. And here are some sources to back me up.
http://www.nysun.com/national/bush-mccain-obama-huddle-on-bailout-deal/8...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-09-25-bush-candidates-bailo...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/25/campaign.wrap/index.html
To answer your question, Obama was continuing with his campaign because he didn't want to turn the disaster into presidential politics. Also because when you are president, you have to be able to handle more than one thing at a time. McCain made a risky move when he "suspended" his campaign to go back to Washington. It was a stunt to try to prove his leadership capabilities. He took a national disaster and made it a stage on which to prove himself as the best guy for the job. It was supposed to be seen as gallant and "putting country first" but, in my opinion, it was a stunt to make sure he got noticed because he started dropping in the polls.
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