John McCain said he wants to postpone Friday's presidential debate in light of the financial crisis. Obama says: no.
Lots of political commentators are saying lots of things about this, and it's outside my bailiwick, so I won't add much except to say: it's telling that McCain thinks electoral politics is something silly and distracting, a grubby sideshow to be cast aside when it's time to put "country first." If I was running a campaign as petty and dishonest as McCain's, I guess I'd think so too.
UPDATE: McCain will, however, make time to address the Clinton Global Initiative tomorrow. After that it's straight back to D.C. to politicize help solve this whole financial thing!
UPDATE: Now McCain's camp wants to postpone the VP debate as well. For two weeks. Country first!
UPDATE: Reading more closely now, I see that they actually want to "reschedule" the VP debate for an unspecified future date. Awesome. Oh yeah, and if they cancel that first debate it's going to cost Ole Miss $5 million. But hey, anything to have McCain -- who has no expertise on the economy or jurisdiction over the relevant entities -- in D.C. while they try to figure this thing out. Country first!
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Spence Posted 9:05 am
24 Sep 2008
I kid you not.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/A_nonemergenc ...
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Bob Wallace Posted 10:15 am
24 Sep 2008
This guy has been pocketing $15,000 per month, around $2,000,000 since it became probable that McCain would run for President back in 2006.
Freddie Mack bought themselves future access to President McCain on a lay-away plan.
And only a few days before McCain denied that Davis had any link to Freddie Mack since 2005.
Today Davis canceled scheduled meetings and "went on the road".
My guess is that a lot of the suspension stuff is a flailing attempt to regroup and distract.
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Pangolin Posted 12:52 pm
24 Sep 2008
The left side of his face is substantially showing what appears to be stroke impairment and his right eye is unnaturally open. This is a guy who isn't getting all the players on the field.
If they try to run Palin the GOP is done. It they put McCain in front of cameras for an hour of close ups the GOP is done.
Interesting times.
Put the Carbon Back
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LGT Posted 10:28 pm
24 Sep 2008
http://feww.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/gore-the-revolutiona ...
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Bob Wallace Posted 2:24 am
25 Sep 2008
This looks like an attempt to scuttle the VP debates. Palin has done a very poor job with recent interviews. Even after several days of 'candidate college' she can't even repeat the party talking points.
McCain had to stiff Letterman and do an interview with Couric in an attempt to dilute Palin's crummy performance.
So, cancel Friday, reschedule for the time/place the VP debate was scheduled, and have significant problems working out the details for a new VP debate.
Intentional grounding followed by a hail Mary.
Sounds like the coach's last desperate plan to pull one out of the crapper.
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