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Delaying the debate

By Jack M. Balkin

So Mr. Plain Talk, who has held no genuine news conference in over a month, now wants to reschedule the Friday debate because of the economic crisis. Instead, he is seemingly callingn for a national summit of leaders, including himself and Obama, to meet in Washington and put their collective minds to the task of rescuing the US economy. One wonders exactly why holding a debate and meeting in Washington are mutually exclusive. But I have a further question: Would Senator McCain, committed to "putting country first," also suggest that the deliberations at his proposed summit would be enhanced by the insights of Gov. Sarah Palin? Or should she be present, ex officio, because, after all, she could find herself unexpectedly succeeding the 72-year-old McCain as president and the summit might begin her process of education, similar, no doubt to her briefing session with the octagenarian Henry Kissinger yesterday in New York? (The real question is whether John McCain, whom I once admired greatly, has any remaining sense of honor or shame.)

Full post as published by Balkinization on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).