Originally Posted by Serenity

You heard it here first: Serenity's prediction:

McCain will show. IT will be at the last possible minute that he arrives but he'll be on stage.

As the debate goes on, Obama will get a question on some thing in Iraq. He'll talk for about 4 minutes and spout all kinds of statisitcs and numbers and figures and come off like he spent all last week mastering the numbers of war.

Then McCain will smile, chuckle and say "look, I don't have a bunch of frilly numbers memorized to make my case. I was busy in Washington saving the economy with the rest of the Senate while my opponent here was reviewing his notes. But here's what I don't need to study: We need to......"

And then he'll sound like a guy that fires from the hip, does what he needs to do first, and what he wants to do second and so on.

I expect there'll be a few jabs about how much he 'would have liked to stay on the campiagn trail' but that it's always been 'country first'. Or maybe even a "as much as I want to be president, I'm not going to sacrifice my duty to the People as a Senator just to make some campaign stops."

Assuming of course that some kind of bill is passed with his name on it within the next 24 hours.

Oh, and it's not like the news outlets aren't going to be talking about WHERE McCain is if he's not at the debates. He'll get a message out one way or another.

Serenity