What I would have liked: “Katie, lookie here… I’ve spent the last x years managing Alaska… if you want to know what McCain has done, ask him. Your viewers don’t care if I’ve done a crash course on his x years in Congress… he can take care of himself. If you want to get to know me better, then ask questions about me and my opinions… but stop wasting my time with these silly little gotcha questions.”

This isn’t change, this is more of the same… liberal media.

Or am I wrong? Is McCain right not to say ‘I warned of this two years ago’? Is McCain right not to say ‘the Republican administration warned of this two years ago’? Is Palin right to parrot McCain’s ‘Wall Street greed is the problem’? Is McCain right not to say that this is all the fault of misguided directives from the Dems via the CRA?

Am I crazy or is the conversation completely fictitious? How can we fix a financial crisis that was caused by socialistic governmental mandates and perpetuated by the Democrat party’s ideologically inspired indifference to the impeding calamity without mentioning the actual causes?

Or is McCain just doing what he has to do to win, and then he’ll show he’s a conservative true believer?

Somebody help me here.

And by pulling his little stunt, that will also delay Cruella De Vil’s debate and will give her more time to figure out what the VP does and how to do it before she has to debate Biden in front of millions of people! Laughable!

Seems as though McCain is doing his campaign in here.

No she is not, and if she said hey Katie, thats a “gocha question”, that is irrelevant to my being ready to be VP it would have been better than the none-answer she gave.

YYZ on September 25, 2008 at 3:21 AM

Actually I am saying that the priorities of this countries economy is more important than a debate. To treat it as something your staff can handle is typical Washington insider crap.

People like Obama who think this a political ploy are simply unprepared to lead and project their cynicism on others. Obama CANNOT comprehend the feelings of duty to country that John feels and are motivating his actions right now. The ONLY WAY Obama would EVER put country before self would be, first and foremost, to get some political gain from it.

John McCain is the quintessential embodiment of the value that our venerable citizens have to this country. While Obama is mocking his age with his despicable ad criticizing his ability to email etc, John exhibits the qualities that a half century of unselfish service to this country teaches.

Obama is an empty suited disrespectful punk and John McCain is the elder statesman leading the way in this time of national crisis.

Irrespective of the outcome of this election, those are the facts. Hopefully, the youth of this country who really care will see the stark difference between the acts of a selfish public servant and that of a dedicated public servant and make the choice to serve a cause greater than themselves.

This is what John McCain was talking about when he sat in the “service to country” forum on 9/11. He leads by example through his actions. Obama pontificated on the subject, but when the call to duty came, he voted “present”.

Thank the Lord for servants like John McCain. We thought they were all dead.

Letterman reminds me of the Liberal media heads when Nixon won the election in a landslide “how could he have won that big, I don’t know one single person that voted for him.” These people live in a Liberal bubble.

She could have hit it out of the park by noting that what seemed like small details in regulations created the current problem, and repeating that John McCain proposed the answer in time. Too bad the “other party” opposed common sense regulation to use taxpayer money (as guarantees) in ordEr to buy votes.

Or it could be that John feels this crisis is sufficiently important that it requires his full attention.

csdeven on September 25, 2008 at 12:22 AM

But the Senate probably won’t need him on Friday evening. What you’re saying is that he won’t have a chance to adequately prepare for the debate, which though probably true, isn’t our problem.

What an extraordinary demonstration of the differences between these two nominees.

Keemo on September 25, 2008 at 12:12 AM

you nailed it

Gee,with questions like that, our Sarah did very well indeed.

Letterman just savaged McCain and Palin for the entire length of his show for cancelling.

OneEyedJack on September 25, 2008 at 12:48 AM

Letterman wouldn’t know the difference between a one-eyed-jack and a suicide king.

McCain postponed the debate. That’s not a cancellation.

What a dolt!

it sure sounds as though Governor Palin came off as sincere, and Katie Couric made Charles Gibson look genuine and positive. Is that about the case?

capitalist piglet on September 25, 2008 at 12:06 AM

Nyah – not really. As a few others and I have noted, we’ve got some nervous Nellies here. Gibson was much more insufferable – so much more that in a way he did Sarah! a bit of a favor, being so obvious about it.

Nice point whoever it was about why Palin might not have been setting out to make antagonistic headlines with comments on regulation that might have seemed like genius to the rightroots but would have created unneeded complications when the ticket is focused on Country First.

Don’t get me wrong: Katie was trying to gotcha Sarah, but the worst thing she did was actually the “Great Depression” set-up noted earlier – and it was deployed against McCain to minimal effect. Overall, the whole CBS news show worked out closer to an extended campaign commercial for McCain-Palin, whatever the intentions, than a hit job. Still, I think Sarah! is probably getting used by now to just what slimy dishonest two-headed lizards we have in our national media.

To be fair or at least balanced to the perky one, she was pretty rough and tough with the A/O on the Summer trip.