McCain snoozes and almost loses

John McCain is fun. He can be counted upon to do the one thing that will surely get him bollixed up.

He suspended his campaign in order to play John Wayne and save America from its financial crisis including a request to defer the debate on Friday. After Obama’s reply that President’s can do more than one thing at a time, the Libertarian candidate, Bob Barr, leaped into the breach left by McCain and offered to take McCain’s place at the Friday night debate.

 The Bob Barr campaign sent letters to both the Commission on Presidential Debates and the Obama campaign requesting inclusion in Friday night’s debate in Mississippi after John McCain said he would not attend due to the importance of “fixing” the economic problems we face.

You can read a Libertarian comment here:

Most of you have probably heard that Sen. John McCain is temporarily suspending his campaign and calling for a postponement of Friday night’s presidential debate so that he and Sen. Barack Obama can go to Washington and cast a vote to spend $1 trillion of your money bailing out Wall Street.

Ouch! A little prickly isn’t it? Yet it is true.