Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for Friday, September 26th.

I'm John Dickerson here with Emily Bazelano and David Plotz.

We're all in the same room.

We couldn't be happier.

Today we're going to talk about...

That is not true.

I'm in a really ferociously matter.

I mean, just the fact that we're with each other makes...

No, that's true.

It's the one right to body. It does. Why don't you explain why you're in such a bad mood? That was going to be my cocktail chatter. All right, well, we'll save it to the end. People can get the misanthropy at the end. But, you can't be stricken for the whole in between. and you have to write

No, no, I'm going to

I'm a rally

I'm rally

He's a jittery

ball of sunshine

Like John McCain

We're going to talk about three things today. One is John McCain's gambit. He's suspended his campaign in order to focus like a laser on the economic woes of our country. Then from that, we'll talk about the economic woes of our country and our world. And then finally, we're going to end by talking about the vice presidents, Joe Biden and Sarah Palin in their exciting weeks that they've had.

And so I'll start with you, David.

John McCain suspended his campaign.

What do you make of it?

Well, we should note for our listeners, we're talking on Thursday because you've got you've got to get down to Memphis or Oxford, Mississippi, whatever, on Friday. So we're taping this little early. So by the time you're listening to this, maybe John McCain has unsuspended his campaign. And as far as I can tell, he hasn't suspended anything because his ads are still running. His surrogates are still on TV and he's still giving speeches.

I don't understand what he's doing in New York. I thought this was all about how he was going to go to Washington and there was going to be some bipartisan alternative. And he's giving a speech at the Clinton Global Initiative. I don't get it. Right. Well, this is part of the unsuspended, suspended, unsuspendent campaign. and he also did an interview with Katie Couric last night, but he

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