Comments on: I Can’t Campaign! I’m Too Busy Running For President!

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:51:00 +0000

And he has experience debating Obama! Great point!

He certainly wouldn’t sound that much more batshit crazy than McCain/Palin has sounded lately.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:49:31 +0000

Alan Keyes is still running for president. He’s probably available.

By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:07:11 +0000

This is like Walter Mitty

Maybe McCain thinks he’s in the catbird seat.

By: Sdorn

Sdorn — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:45:17 +0000

There are two possibilities that I can imagine here:

1) McCain truly made a completely impromptu decision without thinking things through, which scares me quite a bit. “Oh, there’s no longer a country called Czechoslovakia to invade? Let’s try Brazil instead!” (Incidentally, the infamous press conference with the nonexisting-country reference also had a bit on Freddie and Fannie: http://thepage.time.com/transcript-of-mccains-remarks-to-the-press-in-phoenix/)

2) The stop-campaigning-for-a-few-days gambit is an excuse to pull ads off the airwaves without too much attention, because there’s something seriously screwy with the campaign’s finances and they’re saving the dough for a final-weekend blitz.

By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:30:26 +0000

As dana pointed out, it's a little "The cat ate my homework." Maybe he could send Palin, instead? Biden'd be happy to stand in for Obama, I'm sure.....