Obama will have the debate on Friday – with or without John McCain
Hooraaah!
The lead story right now on HuffPo:
“Barack Obama is committed to hosting a public, televised event Friday night in Mississippi even if John McCain does not show up, an official close to the Obama campaign tells the Huffington Post.
In McCain’s absence, the Senator is willing to make the scheduled debate a townhall meeting, a one-on-one interview with NewsHour’s Jim Lehrer, or the combination of the two, the official said.
Such a course of action could make life incredibly difficult for McCain, who has called for the suspension of the debate in light of the current economic crisis. Should he stay in Washington D.C. – if a bailout is not completed by then – and let Obama alone reach tens of millions of television viewers?
A lot, of course, depends upon what the debate commission decides to do. At this point in time, there is no indication that they are going to postpone the affair, as the McCain campaign has asked.”
McCain could, of course, send his vice presidential candidate to debate in his place. No, wait: she’s not ready, is she? Although she is, apparently, ready to be the Vice President. In fact, I do believe she has confidence in that readiness. Just like Julie Andrews in The Sound Of Music.
*Update* John McCain will attend the debate. Probably. Nicely handled, Barack. You stuck to your guns, you expressed equal concern about what’s good for the country – can’t let McCain have the upper hand on that one, now, can we? – and you’ve come out of this smelling of roses. That’s our boy. Not that we expected any less of you, of course… 
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