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Marked in Pgh on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:23:01 PM
At least McCain has acknowledged the ugly mess in Congress and is willing to do his job as a senator. Suspending his campaign and delaying the first debate on foreign policy may be overdoing it; by letting Obama skate away from a potential bloodbath. Strangely enough, Obama wants the the debate he tried to avoid to go on as planned.
Now that his rival will not be there, perhaps the lawyer Obama thinks he has a chance to win the non-debate. What will he do in such a one sided event, debate his own ego, or his alter ego? MaCain's move may also give Obama the excuse to later say McCain had the chance to debate him and canceled out, rather than simply asking for a delay. What did Barnum used to say? "Never give a sucker an even break." McCain just did that with Obama.
The other part of his gutsy move is far more dangerous, but presents him with the chance to gain a great advantage, by not acting as a regular politician and boldly going into the maelstrom of a disaster he forsaw back in 2005. Now Obama can do nothing but play catch up with McCain. The old POW is taking the same chance he does every time he crosses the aisle to the other side. That is, getting his hands cut off to bloody stumps by the Democrat partisans in the Senate, and now the House of Representatives. He has done it so often, I'm amazed he isn't known as Stumpy, while he is also cut off at the knees. He may escape the knives of the partisans this time, but I doubt it. In any event, he should remember who is at fault for the problem and be emphatic, along with President Bush, in holding the Democrats to blame for the scandal. For all his injuries, McCain seems to personify what Obama only talks about; the audacity of hope.