In all honesty, this isn't the great depression either, with unemployment of 30% etc, etc, etc, but I keep hearing the comparisons. Even now at 6.1% most countries - even European countries - would love to have our unemployment rate.

I still don't get it. But that's OK. I don't have to. And you don't have to understand me.

McCain skipped Letterman. Letterman calls him on it.

Watch the whole thing. Don't skip the beginning, because Letterman says very nice things about him....and later on, at about 7 min, he shows that McCain isn't racing to DC.

Thanks, but no thanks, says Harry Reid about McCain's return to help inject presidential politics into a vitally important situation. Um, we can handle it without that kind of showboating, Reid says (in a nutshell).


McCain is a douche.

Of course Reid would say that....he's the democrat senate majority leader.

McCain may still be a douche, but Reid is politically motivated in what he said.

Oh absolutely. And trying to judge it dispassionately, I see more truth in Reid's statement than in McCain's objectives.

McCain may be a senator, but he can't escape being a presidential candidate six weeks away from a tight and increasingly competitive election. He is just getting in the way of the serious business he purports to be so concerned with so as to "suspend his campaign."


And Dave Letterman was right. What's with suspending your campaign when you have the only running mate who's not a senator?


Shenanigans.

He's gone and done it now. A close election, 41 days to go, the presidency within his reach... and then McCain has to upset the one interest group you can't risk upsetting if you seek national office in this country.

Beet farmers.

Ugh, I heard at least one genius lauding him for his selfless decision to, "quit the race" while he deals with this. :rolleyes:

Wow. Dave was on fire and right on the money, imho. McCain needs to check the seat of his pants for grill marks.

And yes, there is already polling out on McCain's decision, from SurveyUSA.

The upshot: only 10% of those surveyed believe the debate should be postponed, and 14% believe that the campaigns should be suspended.

...And 56% of Republicans want the debate to go on to. Hehehe....