Not only does he assert that John McCain acted in good faith by suspending his campaign to work on the financial crisis, but he reminds us not once but twice that McCain wanted more debates. It’s not going to be so easy for the left to claim that McCain is scared of debating if he can’t make it tomorrow.

“We know he didn’t do it because he’s afraid because Sen. McCain wanted more debates,” Clinton said, adding that he was “encouraged” by the joint statement from McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.

“You can put it off a few days the problem is it’s hard to reschedule those things,” Clinton said, “I presume he did that in good faith since I know he wanted — I remember he asked for more debates to go all around the country and so I don’t think we ought to overly parse that.”

If the debate moves forward as planned for Friday night, Clinton says “they should be able to talk about this some of the debate because it is a security issue.”

But wait! There’s more! A compliment for Bush is coming down the Bubba pipeline:

The former president thought Bush’s address Wednesday night on the economic crisis had a “positive reaction”.

“I thought it was the clearest statement of why we’re in the fix we’re in, at least what the nature of it is and why some national action is needed,” Clinton said.

Video at ABC News.