And it's fairly transparent that this is precisely the goal (again). It's pushing midnight here, and I'm nursing a nasty cold that should have sent me to bed hours ago.
But if there's one thing that makes me even more sick than the sore throat and congestion I'm currently battling, it's the notion that we may spend the rest of the week talking about whether the debates should happen and whether McCain demonstrated true leadership or a political ploy in calling for a postponement — all of this, instead of discussing the precipice at which we're standing right now, peering over a sharp drop-off into economic catastrophe.
Let's clarify one thing right now: The debates must go on as planned. If McCain is resistant to the idea of handling more than one serious challenge at a time, this alone should call into question his capacity to handle the daunting tasks that will be faced by the next commander-in-chief. And perhaps now more than ever, Americans need to know where the candidates stand.
For his part, Barack Obama issued an appropriate response, making the aforementioned points and insisting that they stick with the original debate schedule. It will be interesting to see whether McCain follows through with his threat of not showing up if the congressional bailout package is not agreed upon by Friday night. Does he really expect that such a move will make him look like a hero?
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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It would seem to me that McCain is the one focused on the economic catastrophe, rather than the distractions of political nonsense. Actions speak much louder than the posturing of a structured debate.
Well, I certainly wouldn't call a presidential debate "political nonsense" or "posturing" so much as a crucial component of the American electoral process that goes back generations. If this bailout package does not pass and McCain follows through on his threat of boycotting the debate, it'll be hard to view that as anything other than political grandstanding. What exactly does he expect that will accomplish (aside from distracting voters from the issue at hand)?
On a related note, if McCain really were concerned about getting this package pushed through, perhaps at the expense of the agreed-upon schedule, he could have said so more than two days in advance of a debate whose time and place he's known about all along.
I wasn't referring to the debates as political nonsense, I was referring to talk about grandstanding.
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