By BaxterWhy do we think John McCain looked at this morning's Washington Post-ABC News national poll and decided he desperately needed another game-changer?
It seems like every time Senator Obama gets some sort of upper hand — in this case, a clear lead of nine percentage points — McCain tries to change the conversation. Today, he's pretending that he really, really cares about the economy more than his opponent does.
We cats think that instead, Senator McCain knew he was falling perhaps irretrievably behind, and that a potentially not-great performance on Friday night could have ended it all.
Senator Obama says that this morning, he discussed issuing a joint statement with Senator McCain on the Wall Street crisis, and that in the course of their conversation McCain proposed delaying their first debate — but that there was no decision. And then, McCain turned around and made his announcement.
We cats HISS at that. Senator Obama is right: The American people — or at least, all 100 million of them who are expected to tune in — deserve to hear from the two people who are fighting to inherit this terrible national problem.
We think it is despicable of Senator McCain to not only play politics with this issue, but to take a chance that the drama of his announcement could affect the markets.
"Country first"? Like hell.
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