Please,oh please,oh please,oh please.

If you want this message to get through, then you must click recommend, and you must email the Obama campaign to push for it. Thanks.

A fine idea.

I had the same thought:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/if-mccain-bails-move-up-bidenp.php

I tried to post this blog last night, but TPM blogging was down for upgrades.

Here is something that I just posted, that exposes McCain's excuse for canceling the debate to be completly absurd, and without any merit.

Read and click it up, so poor old addled John gets the good news about how he will have no reason to miss the debate. Thanks.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/attn-senator-windsock-mccain-t.php

When is McCain going to go on Letterman with Palin - I would like to see Keith Olbermann decide to show up that night - crash the party.

Palin's destroying herself. No need to call her out.

From:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-and-bushs-kabuki-theatre-mccain.html

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Credit Where Credit Isn't Due: McCain and Bush's Kabuki Theatre

Now we know why McCain hired the Bush contingent.

It emerged in the White House briefing today that McCain called Bush and asked him to initiate a meeting today at 4 pm at the White House, putatively for him to "deal with" the crisis.

That is, McCain asked Bush to help him create an trifecta: To try to lend some credence to McCain's desperate assertion that a suspension of his campaign is necessary, in effect either avoiding a debate in which he would face critical questions about his stance on the economy or marching in claiming "victory"; attempting to co opt the financial crisis thereby trying to put an end to his plummeting in the polls created by his flailing positions on the economy--perhaps best reflected by his statement days ago that the "fundamentals of the economy are strong"; and perhaps buying more time for Sarah Palin after her embarrassing photo op at the UN yesterday, by moving her debate forward as well.

Here's how it happened, according to Q and A at the WHB:

McCain emailed Bush asking for today's meeting. Now, one reasonably might ask, why is today such a necessity for McCain, if his interest is solely the national good?

Because it is before the debate. McCain hopes to stage a meeting at the White House, thereby, with Bush's cooperation, lending plausibility to his claim to need to suspend his campaign. Then, if Republicans, in their own electoral interest, can be persuaded to come to agreement, before the debate, he would claim--in an act of utter stage management--to have "resolved" the crisis. Thereby hoping to take the heat off on his past careening stances and sliding polls and staunch the bleeding on the polls--before the debate.

This is Kabuki Theatre masquerading as substance--no different than what we saw at the U.N. yesterday.

It is utterly stage managed, utterly cynical, and utterly unrelated to the substantive deliberation necessary to actually resolve these matters on the merits and for our nation's future, rather than for short-term and desperate political advantage.

These occurrences are equally important for what they indicate about McCain's governing style as they are for their impact upon democratic process: impulsive acts that rely on drama and theatrical posture rather than substantive reasoning and long-term deliberation; a strong willingness to sacrifice substantive reasoning, deliberative process, and even prior structures and agreements to immediate political need; an attempt to reach outcomes through last minute stage management rather than substantive argument.

These should create deep concern for anyone who wishes for a change in governmental process from the past eight years.

We have an economy, rather than a campaign, to rescue. Putting nation before politics means putting all attempts to resolve it before political attempts to co opt it--and to move towards one's commitments, rather than towards a more immediate and short-term salvation.

Cite:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/09/mccain-and-bushs-kabuki-theatre-mccain.html

Palin will need to rush back to Alaska and ride her moose to the Russian front. There she will stand guard with her assault rifle lest Pootin take advantage of us in our crisis.

Luckily for all of us, Obama never takes advice from morons like "liam."

Writing the whole post in boldface is an especially lame-o touch, even for one of the dumbest commenters on TPMCafe.

"Let's have the VP debate right now, in one minute, because unlike Senator McCain, who is racing around Washington trying to save the nation, Senator Biden is just sitting around with his thumb up his ass, looking for some way to pass the time."

Harharharhar!!!

Obamabots! They're only a problem for the rest of us, because none of them ever gets within ten miles of Obama.

Here is my newest blog.

How McCain Photo Opt himself in the foot, yesterday.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/peewee-mccains-big-misadventur.php