The Other Fellow Just Blinked

John McCain will be coming to Oxford, Mississippi tonight to debate Barack Obama after all. What a shock.

It seems that, after suspending his campaign to pretend to be a working Senator for the first time in two years, McCain realized that he wasn't helping the negotiations (and was probably getting in the way) while at the same time he risked giving Obama an hour and a half of free air time on all the networks and the cable stations to talk to the American people without anyone there to respond to him.

Now, you gotta admit, that shows great judgment on McCain's part. The same kind of judgment that caused him to blow off Letterman -- and we know what that got him.

So after thinking it over (and, I would guess, having half his campaign staff scream at him to get on the damn plane), McCain caved and will be at the debate. Who knows what the fuck is going to happen with the bailout. A lot of smart people are saying that it really doesn't matter -- that the economy's screwed no matter what happens, and that we're in for another Great Depression.

I wouldn't go that far -- not yet, anyway. But it seems pretty clear that things are going to get worse before they get better, and that it's going to take someone of great prudence and great levelheadedness to run this country for the next four years.

Does anyone really think that John McCain is still that man?

That's all for now. More after the debate tonight.