WTF Next?

[toysdream]

You know, I try not to talk politics on this journal (although obviously I'm not always successful). But now that John McCain's not only effectively stopped talking to the press, but is actually trying to cancel this week's scheduled debate, I'm starting to wonder if we might be about to see the biggest meltdown in U.S. presidential politics since

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[herself_nyc]

I dunno what the hell he thinks he's trying to do, it's scary! If Obama doesn't agree to “postpone” the debate, he's being pushy, and if the does, then we don't have the damn debate. What does postponing actually do except let McCain off the hook?

Wanting to postpone makes McCain look like a coward but I fear only to me.

[toysdream]

What does postponing actually do except let McCain off the hook?

Oho, maybe we just found out. According to CNN:

McCain supporter Sen. Lindsey Graham tells CNN the McCain campaign is proposing to the Presidential Debate Commission and the Obama camp that if there's no bailout deal by Friday, the first presidential debate should take the place of the VP debate, currently scheduled for next Thursday, October 2 in St. Louis.

Man, Palin's debate prep is really going that well, is it?

[herself_nyc]

Ah, so this whole thing is in order to get Sarah off the hook? Yeaaaaaah.

[asta77]

Interesting. I just assumed he was trying to get it postponed long enough that it would run into the second scheduled debate and then they'd half to cancel one.

I'm hoping McCain's a no show. It would be hysterical if he just handed Obama an hour and a half of national TV coverage to lay out his plans for the next four years.

[jwaneeta]

Isn't this madness? What the hell is going to happen next?

The sheer brass of it. "Oh, hey, I can't focus on two things at once, so I'm cancelling the debate! And by the way, I want to be President -- a job which, as you know, never requires awareness of more than one thing at a time."

*jawsag*

[toysdream]

Well, I can relate. Watching this epic trainwreck is making it hard for me to concentrate on my schoolwork. :-\

[jwaneeta]

God send that it will be the trainwreck it's certainly shaping to be.

Last update is that Obama is holding fast: he's showing up to the debate, and McCain can either sit at home looking like an utter fool, or cave in and go, after announcing the suspension of his candicay to all media outlets... and look like an utter fool.

I'd rofl, but I don't want to jinx this.

[greboguru]

I just can't believe any of this. I cannot believe it. I can't imagine what is in store for the future. If Obama gets in (God please!) he's inheriting the biggest mess -- hell, biggest messES -- I can imagine; if McCain gets in, we're just sunk. I must confess I am genuinely scared.

[jwaneeta]

Me too. Despite all my efforts to shake it off, I'm so scared I feel sick.

[jwaneeta]

PS: and grebo? Don't look now but the mouth fell off your icon. ;)