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In what I am now calling the best political response ever to an attempted curve ball, I get a great F*#K Yeah moment.
Let me set this up, if you’re not paying attention. McCain announced today that he is suspending his campaign to head back to Washington to help negotiate a deal in the Wall Street crash. He urges Obama to follow and to agree to postpone Friday’s debate. As a result, Obama faces the problem of going to Washington and looking like he is following McCain’s lead, or not going and looking like he is putting politics above country.
Which did he choose? Well, he’s not going, but he has set up a smack down of his own. It’s not about politics. It’s about talking to the people. Now is the time.
“With respect to the debates, it’s my belief that this is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from the person who, in approximately 40 days, will be responsible for dealing with this mess. And I think that it is going to be part of the president’s job to deal with more than one thing at once,” Obama said. A hint of a smile crossed his face after he delivered that line. He then added, “I think there’s no reason why we can’t be constructive in helping to solve this problem and also tell the American people what we believe and where we stand … So in my mind, actually, it’s more important than ever that we present ourselves to the American people and try to describe where we want to take the country and where we want to take the economy.” – Senator Obama
And to make it worse, Senator Reid does not want them. Why should McCain and Obama now head back to Washington to look like we’re huddling around the President that helped get us in this mess. Keep your distance. Weigh in from the road. Huddling around the president does not make you look presidential.
Now is the time for Obama and McCain to speak directly to the largest possible audience about what they want to do and how they are going to do it. If they want to change anything, change the focus of Friday’s debate from Foreign Policy to the economy.
Maybe McCain should suspend his campaign for another reason. Neither he nor Palin are ready to answer any questions.
I couldn’t agree more. Mccain is afraid to debate Obama, so he’s hoping to delay, and then cancel the Biden-Palin debate. I think they are running scared! And I can’t believe we are privating the profits and socializing the losses on Wall Street!