“John, I was busy preparing to be president while you were standing outside the door where the negotiations were taking place because no one in there wanted you there because you– a man who has repeatedly said you don’t understand this economy stuff–have nothing to offer.

“When and if a vote needs to occur, I could get back there in plenty of time.

“Since neither I nor you are involved in these discussions as members of the administration or the various committees charged with hammering out a deal, and since it is clear to anyone who is paying attention that our presence was a distraction and may have actually impeded the process, it was wise and presidential to stand back rather than political grandstanding like you were attempting to do.

“Oh, by the way, did you ever get around to reading the whole three page proposal that you admitted you hadn’t read Tuesday night–you know, so you could have had at least had a small understanding of what the discussions were based on?”

That would be his answer, and only a blind partisan would disagree with any of it.

– Sen. John McCain will participate in tonight’s presidential debate.

kranky kritter: Do you think Obama has been in Oxford all week or something?

Keep drinking the Koolaid, kranky…

Agnostick
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By all accounts, McCain has done nothing but hinder any progress made. There are 433 senators and representatives who can work on this. If McCain can’t take a few hours to debate and head back, maybe he can’t handle the presidency.
If Lincoln could debate during the Civil War …
If FDR could debate during WWII …
Why can’t McCain debate during a crisis he, just 10 days ago, denied even existed?

Watch though. This stunt is designed to give the McCain campaign a reason to cancel the VP debate. There’s only one. It’s next week. They’ve already suggested scrapping it. Wonder if that has anything to do with the disastrous Couric interview Palin just had?

He apologizes for being tired and a bit unprepared, and says he didn’t want to stand Obama up on their date. And then he looks right at Obama and says “we missed you in the Senate, where were you?”

What’s Obama’s answer that doesn’t make him look like a weasel?

Meanwhile, Barack Obama shows up by himself for a foreign policy debate instead of working in the senate. And you think he DOESN’T look like a complete douche-bag? OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-kay!

This is leadership HOW exactly?

IMO, Obama is misplaying this very badly from the PoV of what actions a responsible leader would take. But maybe I just think that because I care way more about stabilizing the economy than a foreign policy debate.

Of course, he probably gets away with it. I think at this point it’s safe to presume that Wall Street’s collapse hurts the party that is far more well known for being cozy with it, the GOP. By staying out, Obama gets to blame those involved for all the flaws, and that’ll play well given the massive quantity of sustained popular anger we’re going to see over the next decade at least.

I’ve been seeing ads for a movie called Blindness in which something causes everyone to go blind and now you say that…