Crisis Solved?

I'm thinking of sending this in to my local newspaper, and comments/revisions for me?

I just can’t understand why everybody is worried about the economy. Not only did John McCain, who is renowned for his honesty and integrity, state quite clearly that the fundamentals of the economy are strong—he also promised to “suspend [his] campaign and return to Washington” and “meet until this crisis is resolved." Two days later he attended the debate and resumed his campaign, so I guess that means the crisis is resolved— what do you think?
If it doesn’t seem solved to you, maybe McCain’s economic advisor Phil Gramm was correct back in July, maybe this is really just a “mental recession”. Maybe McCain’s economic advisor was right when he said “we’ve sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about our loss of competitiveness”. Maybe he was right.
Or maybe, to put it in McCain’s own words, he still needs to be “educated” about the economy. It’s too bad, as McCain has reminded us, that “we’re in a time in our history where you can’t afford any on-the- job training.”