McCain, Drama Queen for President

McCain McCan't do two things at once.

I honestly think we’re starting to see Senator McCain's campaign fall apart, crumbling under the pressure. He screwed himself with this “postponing the campaign” stunt. I agree with you McCain, stop campaigning, pull your ads, call of the debates--go home.

Now he appears a guy who can’t do two things at once, who appears to be running away from the first major debate when he’s the one who’s been calling for more debates all along. Obama's reaction I think was perfect. Not only is now absolutely the time we need to see how these two stack up, but when you're President you can't exactly just put everything else on hold to deal with one thing at a time. How much interference could a two-hour debate be anyway?

Now, there's no way out for McCain.

Ultimately, he will show up, he has to, but in wanting to call it off with all this drama, and then going through with it after all, he’ll look like he overreacted--a drama queen stunt--and isn’t sure what he’s doing or supposed to be doing. A chicken without a head who can't multitask. Perfect choice for President.

If McCain did skip it and Obama showed up solo? The campaign is simply over. Even if it was postponed, then McCain would be responsible and betray his call for more debates, and look like he’s running from it. Either way I think Obama, who has been consistent all along and clearly confident he can both debate and discuss the economy, comes out looking more composed, more "Presidential."

The timing of this stunt, with his pole numbers suddenly slipping, days away from the first debate that we know is going to be about the economy anyway even though it's supposed to be about national security--not McCain's strong suit--makes this so transparent. McCain is scared and he's running back to Washington to cling to Bush's leg. Nice photo-op with the two together a month away from the election, though.

When interviewing Palin, ask three times to make sure she gets the question.

And then there was the Palin interview with Katie Couric last night. Precious. Couric asks her about McCain's record on Wall Street reform. Palin goes straight into her now-familiar stump talking points going on about how McCain will reform Wall Street, he's a reformer after all. Couric then pushes deeper, pointing out that McCain's record shows anything but reform for Wall Street, in fact his voting record supports less regulation. She asks Palin for examples of McCain supporting regulation. Palin, in a desperate attempt at diversion, points out that McCain is a Maverick and is bipartisan--don't forget to use the "maverick" word! It's magic! (?). So Couric pushes again, "I'm just going to ask you one more time, not to belabor the point," and asks for specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation.

Never laughed so hard at an interview. Palin: "I'll try to find ya some, and I'll bring them to ya."

There are no examples! All Palin has is the talking-points the campaign gives her. Go off from that and she'll have to run back and have them whisper more lies into her ear. Can't wait for the debate.

Don't piss off Letterman. Comedians are dangerous because they can make great points in one funny line.

McCain stands up Letterman because he has to drop his campaign and run to Washington. Instead, he shows up on CBS for an interview with Katie Couric, at the same time he was supposed to be on Letterman! Oops! Letterman showed live footage of McCain getting ready for Couric on his show.

If you can't do two things at once, at least decide on which it's going to be: Tell a lie, or tell the truth.