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Protecting Palin
McCain’s proposal to postpone Friday’s debate, on the grounds that he and Obama should set politics aside and return to Washington to work on the Wall Street bailout, is absurd, a transparent campaign gimmick. I’m convinced that part of the reason he has proposed a postponement is in order to give Sarah Palin more time to cram for her vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden. McCain suggested a specific date for the postponed presidential debate: next Thursday, October 2, the date of the VP debate — which would then require the VP debate to be postponed as well. Palin clearly has a lot of studying to do and I bet that factored into McCain’s thinking.
Incidentally, McCain’s proposal certainly is not winning him any friends in Oxford, Mississippi, where the University of Mississippi has spent 5.5 million dollars on debate preparations and has inconvenienced the student body and citizens of the town with schedule changes and extensive security measures such as closing off major roads days in advance. University spokesman Andy Mullins stated that the school would probably be unable to accommodate a last-minute schedule change.