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The WSJ, in Best of the Web has an excellent description of events that went on today.
It seems that Obama did call the McCain campaign and ask for a joint statement on the bail out. McCain did not respond for several hours.
It seems that Obama and Reid were told by Paulson that McCain would eventually support the bail out bill and Reid made statements to that affect. They planned to marginalize McCain as agreeing with Bush, while they used McCain to take cover for the bill. McCain said that he didn’t agree with the bail out and had never made any statements that would lead them to believe this. That is when McCain decided to cancel his campaigning and go to Washinton to work out a solution.
Obama has no choice, but to follow.