Sid Salter: McCain can multi-task

Echoing the sentiments of a lot of Mississippians from both sides of the aisle, Sid Salter asks why John McCain can't multi-task in a blog post. As Sid points out, neither Senator McCain nor Senator Obama have been in Washington much at all this year. I will be very interested to see how this story plays out over the remainder of the day. I suspect we will hear from the McCain camp today. They will backtrack from his original statement, and agree to hold the debate as scheduled. If he does not show, this could be an electoral disaster for McCain.

McCain's attempt to dodge the debate at Ole Miss smacks of political desperation. McCain should get as far from this phony $700 billion Wall street bailout as possible. But to suggest that his presence in Washington is necessary is rather strange. He and Obama both seemed to think the Senate could operate without them for most of the last year.

The debate should go forward - and for McCain to do less doesn't make him look presidential, it makes him look weak.

A POW who has survived that McCain has survived ought to be able to multi-task. He'll have to if he's elected president.