“You Knew I Was a Snake before You Let Me In”

Before we go canceling Friday's presidential debate — in the name of “meet(ing) as Americans” as Sen. John McCain suggests, to bail out the financial markets — let's get some questions answered. Because the more we learn about McCain's debate shutdown idea, the more this is starting to smell like a steaming pile of LHC suggested by a dude who's dropping in the latest polls. Like the poll that gives Sen. Barack Obama a double-digit lead in, uh, trustworthiness.

To review: Obama called McCain first to suggest they issue a bi-partisan statement in support of a package to patch up the economy. McCain called back several hours later, agreed, and said he'd like to also suspend the debate and hold meetings in Washington. Obama said let's just issue the statement first and take it from there.

“When I got back to the hotel, he had gone on television to announce what he was going to do,” Obama said.


See? That's the problem with everyone saying how honorable John McCain is before pointing out he's a political buffoon. At some point, you begin to believe it. And you shouldn't. He isn't.

Obama should have never treated McCain as if he were. Lesson learned.

Of course, if he hadn't, we would have never been privy to Barney Frank's wit, which he quickly displayed after being told of McCain's proposal: “It's the longest Hail Mary pass in the history of either football or Marys.”

If I were the man-blowing type, I would be blowing that man (and wearing the cutest little beret).