Last night, Barack Obama, Harry Reid and others complained that John McCain was playing politics with this crisis as negotiations broke down last night.  That’s apparently not true according to four independent sources.

Though Sen. Chris Dodd implied that Sen. McCain sandbagged the rest of the negotiators by bringing up alternative proposals, McCain himself did not bring up those proposals, according to four independent sources briefed by four different principals inside the meeting, including two Republicans and two Democrats.

“McCain has not attacked the Paulson deal,” said a third Republican who was briefed by McCain direclty. “Unlike the [Democrats] in the [White House] meeting, he didn’t raise his voice or cause a ruckus. He is urging all sides to come together.“

Sounds once again like John McCain is being a leader and trying to form a consensus while the Democrats and Barack Obama are just worried about themselves.