About those debates

[pecunium]

Let's see.... McCain is too busy saving the nations financiers from themselves (in the interests of The Free Market), to take part in the debates scheduled for tomorrow. He was so busy he had to skip a Letterman appearance to go to on with Katie Couric, before he flew to New York to give a speech..

So the plan, we are told, is to move the Obama/McCain Debate back, to the date scheduled for the Biden/Palin Debate.

Well... why not just swap them? The folks who set the Obama Palin Debate have spent a lot of money, all the needed stuff is set up and the candidates ought to be ready?

Biden's been in the senate a long time, and is a veteran of campaigns. Palin, we have been told, it the candidate (of all four of them) with the most executive experience. So it ought to be a no-brainer. No, Biden and Palin aren't completely prepped, but hey, they are both being moved up a week, so the handicap ought to be balanced out for the two of them.

Comments

[kouredios.livejournal.com]

If this post is correct, then either Obama will go ahead and just have a town hall meeting without McCain, if in fact he doesn't show up--which it's looking like he will. I'd say that "maverick move" backfired on him.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. You (like several of my favorite blogs) are evil. Given the effort McCain has put into seeing that Palin is never left alone with the press, or even permitted to respond to their questions, my guess is the last thing he wants is to move her debate forward. If I had to guess, I'd say he's angling to get to the "oh, heck, it's getting late and what do we need VP debates for, anyway?" stage.

Last I heard, tomorrow's debate is still on. I hope so. I've got a date with a friend, his television set and a bottle of 18-year-old single malt scotch.

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

Oh, lordy. Do you have a drinking game planned?

[kightp.livejournal.com]

We're thinking about it, but I hate to waste really good scotch on just getting shit-faced.

Maybe we'll do it in sips. (-:

Every time McCain mentions being a POW ... sip
Every time he talks about his leadership in the financial bailout ... roll your eyes and sip. ...

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

That sounds like shit-faced = about ten minutes, by sips.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

OT: so hoping to add my state back into that icon.

A debate drinking game would be fun though, even if I can't play along.

DV

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

Letterman had a field day with McCain's non-appearance. He even managed to snag Keith Olbermann to sit in.

Comedy gold! And Letterman was pissed- which made it even better!

[bodandra.livejournal.com]

It was a great thing to see.
Not only did Letterman and Olbermann had things to snark about McCain for, so did Paul!

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I've heard the theory that McCain suspended his campaign to take attention away from the disastrous Palin interview. If so, it worked.

K.

[sethg]

..."worked" in the "they're no longer looking at this malignant tumor on my arm, because I just chopped off my leg with a chainsaw" sense, of course...

[yuripup.livejournal.com]

After seeing bits of Palin's interview with Couric I can see why McCain took time out of his busy non-campaign to talk to Couric himself.

[benet.livejournal.com]

This artistic interpretation made me snarf.