I don't even think this requires a response. Anyone who says this wasn't politics pretty much is lying to themselves and can't be taken serious in this election conversation.

Rick get a life...

EMPTY SUITE!!!!!!!!

I really wish ABC could be more objective about things this trivial. This article is a petty 'nyah nyah' piece like the writer is 12 years old.

Mc Cain is going to the debate because he has already talked to his people in Washington and there is nothing for him to do in the 4 hours he is taking off to Mississippi to go to the debate then come back again.

Its not because he is 'giving up'. He can be more use of those 4hrs addressing the american people.

Yeah, the falling Repub numbers are going to support the Mcain Palin Ticket. Right, so they can follow the loser. Is she still considered legitimate?

After this past week I have no doubts Obama will win.
Obama/Biden 08

a little premature ya think?

The Washington Post reported Friday that the campaign was running an online ad featuring the headline: "McCain Wins Debate!" and a photo of a smiling McCain and an American flag background. Another featured a quote from McCain campaign manager Rick Davis: "McCain won the debate — hands down."

pompous elite arrs

Instead of asking about a 3:00 AM wake-up call, they should be asking if McCain would be awake for a 3:00 PM call. From the sounds of things, it looks as if McCain was asleep at the wheel most of the week.

As the store goes, "I want to die like my Dad did, in his sleep. Not awake like the screaming passengers in his car."

McCain may be acting as if he is asleep but the rest of us are screaming about the economy. HELP HELP HELP

I will also add that there was no 'deal'. The liberal spin machine quicky put out propoganda saying 'there was a deal' real fast just before Mc Cain got there so they could claim Mc Cain himself somehow 'wrecked' it.

And Mr Klein here couldnt be happier to go along with this lie.

McCain was just manuevering for a photo op with his brand of popcorn politics. You know the kind...a snack with no real substance. His posturing and erratic behavior is not that of a maverick, but more of a loose canon. Go Obama.

Just pulled this off another site that was giving McCains schedule. LOLOLOL

12:00 PM: McCain heads to Mississippi with Rudy Giuliani and others in tow. A pool report says the atmosphere is "utter confusion."

Who would have thought different. McCain..."Drama Maker 2008".

anyone notice Mccain doesnt take questions at all? Same with Palin? Never. Obama and the Dems hold press conferences and take questions everyday.

Hmmmmmm

Another point I will add. The democratic congress has been in power 2 years and we are far worse off economically than we were 2 years ago and they have a worse approval rating than the president.

The corrupt liberal media, including Mr Klein here, wont mention that fact.

Its also important to note that the democrats control both houses so they could have passed this bill with or without Mc Cain or the republicans in the houses approval.

Its ridiculous political posturing at its finest. I cant even imagine 4 more years of this nonsense with an democratic president to boot.

Gweeze Rickie boy....how is that the reset of us know that it was O'bama who dropped the ball at the White House Meeting, and as a result the DEMO jawboning has been off the scale.

Well these idiot democrats obviouslty can't count...they have majority...so pass it.. Quit voting present..in the media..put your freeking money where your moth is..pass the damn thing and shut the heck up!

Isn't that what BO said when McCain announced his desire to suspend the debates? That it was more important to speak directly to the American People and not inject presidential politics into the Congressional negotiations?

JM blew up the existing deal that helped and protected taxpayers for an extreme right wing ploy to put a CAPITAL GAINS TAX CUT for the wealthiest corporations into the bill. Yeah real American hero.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Germany, circa World War II

I have noticed Obama and Biden take questions. You mean spoon fed softball questions from their corrupt liberal media . Yes, we have noticed. And they give the same stupid answers.

........We need change. We will simply always gripe about everything but never point to anything we have actually ever done about it..........

Its simple. McCain has no credibility and therefore certainly NOT fit for the presidency

McCain is a joke! He's like a chicken with it's head cut off scrambling about the place not knowing what to really do about this economic mess so he just does everything and still managing not accomplishing anything at the same time... and now he still has to the debate - then sending out an ad that he won the debate??? What? What's going on with this guy? He didn't even read the documents on the bail out plans yet he wants it to seem as if he's going to save the day? And Washington still have not come up with a plan... and here he is now in Mississippi for the debate? And what's the deal with Plain???

OMG... how much in the tank are you? Why not just say it... the media has made their vote and Obama wins. Let's skip the general election.

McCain has simply travelled the full circle. We are back to "the fundamentals of our economy are strong."
Therefore we can debate.

You have got that right UNE. I tell you, after this fruitless McCain stunt, and seeing Katie's interview of Sarah Palin, the GOP must be out of it's God Loving mind to think that this ticket had a chance in Holy Hell. It is a disaster of epic proportions. They should open their Bibles to Matthew 15:14 "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." Amen.

softball? this is the presidential campaign, TAKE ANY QUESTIONS! Have a SET OF BALLS and take a stand!

How about Rick Davis Taking money from Fannie even up until last month?

JM- I had no idea about that.

REALLY?

Chicken Sh

President PALIN, what is your position on Korea?

ILL HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU, BECAUSE I DONT KNOW A FN THING ABOUT ANYTHING, BUt MOOSEHUNtING, and WITCHCRAFT.

OK

McCain has brilliantly succeeded in making his own temperament and judgment the central issue of the campaign. Unfortunately for him, he will lose on it!

Infoseeking...please don't venture into the "spoon fed" questions venue, where Sarah Palin is not spoon but "bottle fed" questions, with hideous burp responses that follow. This woman couldn't answer a question if they had teleprompters built in to those Tina Fey glasses of hers! She is an embarassment to women who have spent years educating themselves to play hardball. They are treating her as the infant novice that she is, and she may be nice, but has no business being VP, let alone being a tic-tac away from the presidency. Wake Up America