Politics as Usual

Well John McCain is suspending his campaign to fix things in Washington. He is not going to run ads (we'll see). He thinks the debate should be postponed. Is he doing this to put the country's well being over his campaign? Of course not. It is simply politics as usual. McCain needs to do something, anything to try and get back some momentum in his campaign. The spike from the Palin stunt (lets be honest that's all it was) has worn off. It's time for a new stunt. Obama has said that he plans to go back to Washington, but he will not suspend his campaign. Senator McCain is obviously not worried about missing votes, since he leads the Senate in missed votes this year with 412. Senator Obama was third with 295. I don't blame Senator McCain, he has do to something to make people forget that he sponsored the deregulation of wall street in the Senate. I guess maybe from his perspective, that since he helped create this mess, he should clean it up. The problem is that he is not on the committee for this legislation. It must clear the House before the Senate can even vote on it. Let's be honest about the debates. John McCain doesn't want to debate Obama right now. He is currently down by about 5 points and losing most battle ground states. After the bump Obama could get from the debates could make the race seem not close. Remember what happened in 1996 when a few weeks before the election, and Bob Dole was losing by a significant amount. The republican base didn't show up to the polls, and he was destroyed. McCain is simply trying to pull some politics to try to keep it close.

As a side note if you saw Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin today, she looked like she didn't know what was going on again. She constantly says things like according to my understanding. She has to have dozens of people trying to brief her on things. If she can't get the talking points down, how could she run the country? With Bush you thought well maybe he just can't speak well. But I'm pretty sure I'm smarter than Sara Palin, and that's kind of scary.