SG's Thoughts on The Last Debate

Check it out for tonight's last debate. Thank God McCain will be seated so we don't have to worry about his wandering around.

The GOP is Desperately Seeking Gwen

In another sick, sad and gruesome attempt to somehow postpone or cancel tomorrow night's VP debate, the GOP has decided to stick it to the one person they haven't tried yet--the moderator, Gwen Ifill.

I have grown up watching debates with Gwen Ifill and, let me tell you, there ain't no one more impartial then Gwen Ifill. She takes her job seriously and doesn't let her personal views get in the way.

So imagine my surprise today when I get some news that there is "controversy" around Ifill because (God forbid!) she's writing a book about race and politics...a book that is more historical than opinion and just happens to feature Barack Obama because, well, he's the first Black presidential candidate from a major party.

Since I have time because I can't leave work yet, I decided to pull up Gwen's bio. There is nothing so much as a hint of the so-called "liberal bias" that GOPs like to spew when backed into a corner. Of course, aside from the fact that she's BLACK.

Then I meandered over to the other moderators' bios.

Jim Leher is a BUS ENTHUSIAST. Therefore, he must favor public transportation. As such, he must be liberal because he wants to preserve a socialized form of transportation. I guess we should go back in time and cancel that debate.

Tom Brokaw, who is hosting the next Presidential Debate is on the SCHOOL OF COMMUNICATIONS BOARD OF VISITORS AT THE HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY!!! Naturally, he must be biased to Obama.

Clearly, the only qualified candidate they got to moderate was Bob Schieffer--who happens to be an old pal of George H.W. Bush and went to a Christian college (and not one of those fancy Black colleges either). Now there's a solid guy.

Let's just cancel everything but that last debate. Obviously the debate commission is biased.

Well, Well, Mr. McCain

Looks like someone is going to show up for the debates.

I know I'm shocked.

And for the record, I am sick of hearing about how John McCain is a 'true American hero'. He may have been. But his behavior this week is nothing short of ridiculous. So let's just let that go. Do we bring up the fact that Obama was an honor roll student every time we talk about him? No. So let it go.

Rant completed.

And we have our reason...

With all the gaffes Sarah Palin has been making on the campaign trail (Great Depression, anyone? How about 'Stump the Candidate'?), it's no wonder that the McCain campaign wants to shut her up. So when yesterday's great announcement about a campaign suspension came about, it was discovered very quickly what the motive may have truly been:

McCain supporter Sen. Lindsey Graham tells CNN the McCain campaign is proposing to the Presidential Debate Commission and the Obama camp that if there's no bailout deal by Friday, the first presidential debate should take the place of the VP debate, currently scheduled for next Thursday, October 2 in St. Louis.

There you have it folks. Instead of finding a qualified candidate who can actually talk about the issues, McCain has decided to find something in a skirt to appease still-angry Clinton supporters without actually making a true difference to women. (The women who fall for this should have their vagina cards revoked, by the way.)

How convenient.