At the Democratic Convention in Denver, Barack Obama said, “If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that’s a debate I’m ready to have. We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past.”
Newsflash!! John McCain wants no part of a debate. Maybe it’s because he is an increasingly doddering old man with clear signs of mental decline. Maybe it is because he wants to delay tonight’s debate and cancel the vice-presidential debate. I don’t know. But John McCain would rather pay retail for his Depends than debate Barack Obama about foreign policy tonight in Jackson, Mississippi.
Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is prepared:
In advance of the first presidential debate tonight, senior military leaders, veterans and military family members supporting Barack Obama will deploy to 27 cities across America to discuss the Obama-Biden plan to turn the page on the failed foreign policy decisions of the past and bring the change we need…
…Today’s policy roundtables and debate parties will take place in battleground states with prominent veterans including Command Sergeant Major Michelle Jones in Denver, Colorado; Medal of Honor recipient Paul Bucha and Iraq veteran John McCary in Charlotte, NC; and retired Major General Lambert with Medal of Honor recipient Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Ray in Tampa, Florida.
Additionally, the wife of a soldier serving his 2nd tour in Iraq, New Mexico resident Shannon Kendall, will travel to Oxford, Mississippi, to attend the first presidential debate tonight as the guest of Michelle Obama. Earlier this month, Mrs. Obama and Mrs. Kendall met at a roundtable discussion with military families in Santa Fe.
Obama is the grandson of a soldier who marched in Patton’s Army. As a member of the Foreign Relations and Veterans Affairs Committees in the Senate, Obama has a strong record of supporting policies that strengthen our national security and support our troops and veterans.
More than 14,000 military personnel and veterans have donated to the Obama campaign during this election cycle – equivalent to an Army division. A recent study by the non-partisan Center for Responsive Politics found that deployed military personnel donated 6 times more to the Obama campaign than to the McCain campaign. These statistics illustrate the broad support for Barack Obama among servicemembers and military families, and reflect a broader shift (as identified by recent Military Times polling) by military voters away from the Republican Party.
C’mon Little Johnny! Meet us in Jackson, mano y mano. What are you afraid of? This ain’t no prison camp.
Just heard that Johnny is on his way to Mississippi for the debate.
I sure hope Obama can get in a dig about this particular little flip flop.
What an embarrassment this guy is – not to mention his soulmate, Caribou Barbie. Just when you think it can’t get more farcical, it does!
I hope he brings his binkie.
LINK
via Laura Rozen who suggest we read John Judis’ piece at TNR,
“Putting Country Last.”
Laura’s colleague notes – “John is among the most restrained and sober political journalists around and he never engages in the kind of gratuitous name-calling of so much opinion journalism/blogging that is less deeply reported or observed.”
Quite. Amen.
open letter to John McCain:
At the rate he and Sarah are deteriorating, he will probably not take it out of his mouth when he talks.
Hmmmm – now that I think about it that would be an improvement.
Gotta love this Sarah is just itching to debate and insiders are getting suicidal at the thought.
All hail the power of Boo.
personally, I think while a little dangerous, it would serve Obama very well to hit McCain on his Honor and Honesty issues until he loses it. There’s nothing better to show this lying hothead is unfit to serve.
–btw, it’s ‘mano a mano’…hand to hand, as compared to hand and hand (mano y mano). 😉
In these tough economic times do we want Johnny and multi-million dollar wife looking out for the American People?
http://www.newsone.com/elections/article/whos-the-real-elitist-now-cindy-mccains-outfit-cost-300000-
dollars
I prefer someone who is in touch with everyday working class people.
“I prefer someone who is in touch with everyday working class people.“
You prefer Sarah Palin?!!!!!!
no because ordinary people don’t have a tanning bed in their house..
So many lies to choose from so little time to get them in order. He’s going to have to wear a suit 2x just to get all the promters under cover.
McCain Knuckles Under… Surprise! Surprise!
Apparently the old man discovered that his game wasn’t working: the press, most of Congress, many of the folks calling in to C-Span didn’t buy it. So John McCain is getting on a plane for Oxford, Mississippi and the debate is on… and without a closed deal on the Hill which he said was his requirement.
This really makes it clear that he was playing a little game with us! Oooooh, that McCain. Such a kidder!
Under The LobsterScope
It won’t go well for him if he shows or not.
I wish I had your confidence. I can see a scenario where trying to postpone the debate and the rest of the screwy shit was a calculated plan to lower expectations to the Palin level. Then tonight he pulls out the prisoner violin and babbles about “patriotism” and how he saved the economy, and the media all tells us he came roaring back as the presumptive prez.
Not usually my style to get paranoid about this stuff, but something’s making me nervous. I guess I can’t believe he can REALLY be this stupid, so there must be a design to it all. Well, luckily we don’t have to wait long for the answer.
Do you blame him? Look who he’s up against!