Not only is McCain trying to get the VP Debate postponed, apparently he's now calling for this Friday's presidential debate to be canceled. Why? The economy. McCain is suspending his campaign and flying back to Washington in order to work on legislation to deal with the major financial crisis that we've been dealing with for the last two weeks. His claim is that we need to go "beyond partisan politics" on this issue and work on fixing it rather than debating it.
I can't believe what I'm hearing with this guy. Who does he think he is, after all of these hateful ads that he's been running, suddenly saying that we need to go beyond partisan politics on our economy crisis? If there's any time when we need a debate with the front-runners of both parties on our country's policies, it's right now. John McCain and Barack Obama are running for president because they want to lead the country, and at a time like this, a leader should not be going back to his private offices in Washington to hide and meditate over the fact that saying that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong" was a mistake. I doubt his claims that he's there to work on legislation to deal with the economy crisis; after almost six months of campaigning as the presumptive (and now the official) Republican nominee, why would he suddenly stop his campaign now, in the final six weeks, to deal with legislation, which has barely done at all during this whole time?
I really don't know what is going through John McCain's head right now, but I think that if he wants to have any chance of being successful in this election, he had better be at that debate on Friday. To be honest, I really feel as if people (and certainly, the media) know that something in the chemical balance of the political universe is off here, and if John McCain doesn't even give the media and the voters the light of day to debate on the issues that matter to us, he is doomed.
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It's kinda funny to watch the McCain campaign crash and burn. You would think that with Sarah Palin being sheltered from the press that McCain would make more of an effort to regain any positive media coverage he can. His efforts to make the people believe that he is actually sincere in fixing the economy blew up when OBAMA asked him to help create a bipartisan proposal to help the economy.
But if McCain actually goes through with his plan of not going to the debate on Friday it could turn out to be interesting, especially if Ralph Nader becomes McCain's stand-in. I would skip the dance to see Obama and Nader debate on the economy when Nader thinks that the rescue plan is fascism. He said "Look at the dictatorial demand by Bush and Paulson for total authority, total immunity, and zero judicial review. This is fascism — to bail out Wall Street.” Yikes! I sure hope we will get to see some of the other canidates in the debates Douglas!
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