“You actin’ like a little _____ right now” – O-Dog (Menace II Society)
Posted in News, Politics, Sports, Videos on September 24th, 2008 by HyphenIn case you haven’t heard, in light of the recent economic crisis, John McCain has decided to suspend his campaign to try to help solve the problem. Sane people will look at this maneuver and realize it’s a fairly desperate attempt to avoid pwnage in Friday’s debate, but McCain clearly hopes that his campaign can spin it positively. Expect to hear a million surrogates talking up the idea that “McCain is showing he’ll put his country ahead of his campaign.” That sounds nice, but unfortunately, it’s patently false.
McCain’s inability to get any sort of grasp on economic issues (remember: this man has admitted multiple times that he doesn’t understand how the economy works) has lead to an awful performance on the campaign trail the past 2 weeks. With the Palin bounce fading quickly, and even beginning to negatively affect the ticket, they were increasingly desperate. The idea that if McCain returns to Washington to sit in on some meetings and provide his voice, this $700 billion bailout will be hammered through is absolutely laughable. Whether it happens or not, it will not be because of John McCain.
So why did he insist upon suspending the campaign and ducking the first debate on Friday? Simple: he’s getting hammered on the economy. As I’ve blogged about before, anytime an actual important issue or policy is talked about, the Republicans lose. That’s why they want you to worry about flag pin lapels or pigs with lipstick. Once the economy became the main focus, McCain’s campaign went down quicker than his plane dur– no…wait…I’m better than that. Anyway, he’s losing ground all over the place and in order to stop the hemmorraging, he pulled this stunt. It’s akin to calling a timeout when the other team is racking up points, only in this case, you were already out of timeouts. Shouldn’t this be a technical foul? Where’s Chris Webber?
This is not a legitimate reason to suspend your campaign and try to postpone the beatdown you’re going to receive at the first debate. Now, Barack handled this as professionally and stately as possible. He knows exactly what McCain is doing and his remarks above could not have been better. Thankfully, I’m not running for office, so I’ll say it:
For a “war hero,” where is your vaunted courage Senator McCain? Take your beating like a man and go to the first debate on Friday. You’re running scared, but it’s understandable. Barack has Ali-like swag right now, and you’re about to be on the receiving end.