9/24/08 McCain is chickening out on the debate

McCain is chickening out on the debate. Plain and simple. He is unprepared and afraid. First it was Palin being cosseted and now he's running away from facing the public too. I was really looking forward to these debates - pretty much our only chance to see them unscripted before the election. No doubt there will be an "emergency" in Alaska (perhaps a bridge falling somewhere) that will tear Palin away from her debate too. I'm just disgusted with what the Republicans are calling democracy these days. Day after day more lies are exposed and now they've decided that they'd rather be elected on sleazy ads and canned scripts alone and hope never to face the public they're hoping will vote for them? NOT A CHANCE.

McCain has said he’d rather lose the election than lose the war. Now it seems he’d rather lose his integrity than lose the election. So children, what have we learnt about this man? Here’s what he cares about the most in order: the war > the election > his integrity. And somewhere down there, the American public who have to decide between these candidates in 40 days and are desperate to see them addressing their issues. McCain is not so needed in the Senate that he can't spare 90 minutes for a debate that Americans have been looking forward to for weeks. This man hasn't voted in the Senate since April, and 2 days before his biggest show, he gets a crisis of conscience and decides he'll go to work? The Congress doesn't need you now, McCain , but millions of Americans do. Don't be a chicken, show yourself.

BTW, here's what Obama said: “This is exactly the time when people need to hear from the candidates,” he said.

He added: “Part of the president’s job is to deal with more than one thing at once. In my mind it’s more important than ever.”