When I heard that McCain was postponing his campaign to go back to Washington to help negotiate a deal on the credit fiasco, I immediately thought it was a publicity stunt.  But after I thought about it, I really think McCain did this because he truly cares.  Because he puts the country first.

As you know, McCain suspended his campaign and said he would go back to work for a couple of days at his current job in order to help find a solution to a national crisis.  Of course when W summoned Obama to Washington to help out as well, after he first refused to go, The One basically said he wasn’t really needed:

McCain called for his Democratic rival to agree to a postponement until Congress agrees on a $700 billion government plan to rescue banks from enormous debt, saying, “We are running out of time.”

Obama rebuffed his GOP rival, saying the next president needs to “deal with more than one thing at once.”

Both were heading back to Washington on Thursday, summoned by President Bush to attend a White House meeting with congressional leaders in hopes of securing the legislation to rescue the fragile economy.

So with all of Obama’s grandstanding, huffing and puffing, demanding to go on with the debate by threatening to do a townhall type format (ironically a format he adamantly opposed each time McCain proposed it), how did it all pan out??  Well, McCain wound up with both of them in Washington, and managed to embarrass Obama in the process.  Obama held a press conference to explain why he thought it was a waste of time for him to return to the Senate, you know to do his job:

“As I said before, I think that one of the things we have to determine is how we can be most helpful.  It’s my sense that the most helpful thing we can do right now is, uh, to let everyone know this is a sufficiently important problem.  I can be helpful, and I am prepared to be anywhere, anytime.  So, uh, I think the message is, if I can be helpful, I am prepared to be there at any point.”

Obama’s nickname should be blister.  Just like a blister, showing up after the hard work is done.

Now he wants to let everyone know that this is a “sufficiently important problem”.  I guess “sufficiently important” is holding a press conference, but not“sufficiently important” to do his job for a few days.  Let’s see, Congress is addressing a $700 billion bailout that Obama has already stated will severely restrict his policy options.  Doesn’t he have a “sufficiently important” interest in that?  It seems at a moment when his country needs leadership, he doesn’t believe fulfilling his current responsibilities are needed.

Indeed, McCain believed the next leader of the nation had to put himself in a position of leadership in this time of crisis.  He took the initiative, while Obama had to come back kicking and screaming.

Slinging that is.  It seems that the Hopenchange motorcade has picked up another passenger in Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, and she wasted no time paying her fare.

Today in Iowa, she grabbed Obama’s “Republicans are racist” baton and called Republicans, well, racists:

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius accused Republicans on Tuesday of injecting race into the presidential campaign, arguing that they are using “code language” to convince Midwesterners that Democrat Barack Obama is different from them.

“Have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American?” Sebelius asked with sarcasm. “(Republicans) are not going to go lightly into the darkness.”

Sebelius was responding to a question from the audience at the Iowa City Public Library about the tenacity of Democrats and whether they would fight for victory as hard as Republicans in the closing weeks of the election.

She did not elaborate on her comment.

Jackass.

Of course she didn’t elaborate, she had or has no evidence.  But as we learned from the Anita Hill fiasco, it isn’t about the facts it is the “seriousness of the charge.”  But what I find funny, or even ironic, is the democrats are the ones constantly complaining about race.