My memory is a little fuzzy, but didn't W suggest postponing the 04 ELECTION because of whatever crisis we were in then? Maybe those using "McSame" have it right.

Obama's campaign should jump on this, and demand the debate go on as scheduled precisely because of the economic crisis. Americans need to hear straight from the candidates on this issue, and what better way to do it than a public debate?

McSame is a coward. He knows he's going to get pounded on Friday and is grasping any possible way to escape.

WTF? This is like not being able to walk and chew gum at the same time. If McMaverick is so overwhelmed, he can send in Palin!

What, precisely, does a guy who has admitted that he's not the sharpest tack in the box concerning the economy have to add to this decision?

Sometimes a true leader knows when to get out of the way. It reminds me of him going down to the gulf to muck up the locals trying to prepare for a storm.Instead, they have to babysit McCain and deal with his entourage. What the heck is this idiot thinking!? He's just a fargin' narcissist!

Good Grief!

Why delay the debate? This is a PERFECT time to take for Obama and McCain to take the gloves off and have a good, old-fashioned debate! This financial crisis is the kind of backdrop that will show what they are made of!

Kind of like a pilot in the middle of a thunderstorm wanting to pull off the road! Sorry Charlie, time waits for no man but 5 minutes for Palin.

It's genius. He can hide Mooselini for a few more weeks and wait for the polls to improve.

Here is the moment that Obama and millions of us have prayed for. It is a pivotal moment.

If Obama seizes this opportunity to insist on going forward with the debates and to insist that this moment of crisis means it is more important than ever to communicate our policies and positions to the American people then the momentum and the high ground will be Obama's and the chance McCain could ever recapture it is almost zero. No contest really.

If Obama is foolish enough to agree to any sort of suspension or postponement of the debate then he will have missed the golden moment and one that neither he nor the Democratic Party or our people can afford to pass up. Now is the time to strike! Now is the time to highlight McCain's incompetence, his horrendous decisionmaking ability, his second rate intellect, cowardice and political opportunism. Now is the time to show no mercy at all to the opposition. Now is the time to demonstrate to the people what a real leader is and does in a moment of crisis and it isn't run to Washington and hide in the capitol with all your lobbyist buddies.

If Obama does this he will have reversed the damage he did to himself during the past four months of typical congressional Democratic wimpiness, wishy washy calculation and flip flops on things like FISA, etc... He can demonstrate to people that he is the clear choice to lead the nation and perhaps more importantly that it is far too risky to allow McCain and his idiot sidekick to do so. The people now need to see a leader who is smart, clear-headed, decisive, strong and unafraid. And all those qualities need to be juxtaposed with McCain's palpable fear in the face of crisis as so neatly and well packaged by his attempt to run away from the debate later in the week. McCain is terrified. If he's afraid to debate, how can he lead the nation through the most difficult time since the 1930's? He can't. McCain is terrified of what current polls portend, he is terrified he might have to take responsibility for all the rotten policies he has supported for 20 some odd years and are now bearing such rotten fruit, and he is terrified that Obama will make him look like the incompetent, doddering old fool that he is. So clearly Obama should press the issue and put this one away right now instead of allowing more indecision and doubt to linger about himself and to put an end to his own oft-repeated "respect" for McCain's service a lifetime ago.

The battle of Gettysburg was won by the United States Army in significant part because the first US officer who encountered the rebel troops immediately and decisvely decided to hold the high ground position he found himself in and not to let it go or fallback regardless of the cost. The rest of the three day battle developed around this initial decision and the encounter that resulted. That officer's ability to capture and hold the high ground prevented the rebel army from positioning itself advantageously for the remainder of the engagement.

In that scenario lies a lesson for Obama. For this year's Presidential contest we are now at a similar, decisive juncture. I pray Obama has the good sense to recognize it, seize the advantageous position he finds himself in and marshals his forces in preparation for delivering the decisive blow of the campaign. If, however, he chooses to continue with the namby pamby "above it all", "new politics" routine and this moment is lost, it will be a bitter regret later for him and for us all.

McBush he is, using another in a long line of Bush administration fiascoes for personal political purposes. The candidate who thought the economy was strong last week is now puffs imself up as the indispensable savior of capitalism.

This from the guy who had a birthday party with
George W. while 1,500 Americans were dying in a flooded New Orleans after Katrina.

The Republicans are doing everything they can to incite a financial panic and somebody ought to call them on it.

If we don't resolve this financial crisis my penny stocks will be worthless.

If McCain and Palin aren't ready to debate, how can they ever be ready to lead a nation?

Seriously, hasn't Ms. Palin memorized her talking points by now?
She's surely had plenty of time to come up with at least a few planned "Spontaneous" remarks knocking Joe Biden.

I thought McCain was an experienced debater. Can't he do a few hours of debate and get back to DC? It doesn't seem that hard, especially for someone who wants to be the leader of the free world.

Should we elect candidates who won't talk to the press? Who won't debate the issues until they are good and ready to do so?

I never thought that John McCain would adopt Jimmy Carter's Rose Garden Strategy.

Sadly, for America, McCain and Palin are running, not walking, to the nearest exit.

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Poor McCain...his campaign isn't going well, his VP pick has about the same qualifications as your average PTA president, and he knows he's going to get chewed up in the debates.

Maybe I'll buy that bottle of champagne after all.

Candidates for office usually "suspend" their moribund campaigns shortly before admitting that they've no more money in the bank and/or not enough political support to continue. For illustrative examples, see the former campaigns of John Edwards and You-Know-Her (along with about six other challengers to Barack Obama) in the recently concluded Democratic Party primary.

Barack Obama needs to publicly ask Panama-John McBush to clarify whether or not the putative Republican Party standard-bearer wants to officially declare his campaign over. McBush obviously finds campaigning and breathing at the same time too difficult to manage. If the over-matched and fading McBush can accept reality with sufficient grace and alacrity, the Republican Party can still perhaps find a viable candidate -- perhaps even one born in the United States -- in time to have the various state ballots printed up with the requisite viable names for voters to choose from. Otherwise, the Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama can just run for president unopposed -- which increasingly looks like the case in any event.

Apparently, according to this tidbit, Obama can really help himself in Mississippi by not cancelling the debate on Friday.