McCain Tried to Steal Barack's Idea (Again)

UPDATED DUE TO BRIDGET'S INPUT:
As I've been reading on the Tubes, this was a brazen attempt on McCain's part to gain political points. Let's take a look at the chronology of today's craziness, as it became public:

2:50 p.m. -- After agreeing behind-the-scenes to make a joint statement with Barack on the crisis, McCain announces to the press he's suspending campaign to focus on the economic crisis and invites Barack to join him. He does not mention the behind-the-scenes deal.

around 3:00 p.m. -- Obama campaign says, "Actually, we called McCain at 8:30 this morning to discuss a joint statement about the economic crisis, which they said they'd mull over."

sometime after 4:00 p.m. -- McCain campaign says, "Well, yeah, Obama's campaign called us this morning, but we never really talked and then at 2:30 we had this great idea to suspend the campaign to focus on the economy. Weird how that's exactly what Obama wanted to talk about this morning."

around 5:00 p.m. -- Barack calls McCain out on his bullshit and makes McCain look like an idiot by saying that he can do his job as a senator while campaigning for president.

No one's really disputing the order of events. McCain chose take Obama's offer to work behind the scenes in a truly bipartisan manner as his own and to run to the press with it. Pitiful.

UPDATE II: Ezra Klein says it better than I did.