Last night’s presidential debate went poorly John McCain, due to the visible stress that Obama’s rhetorical upper edge caused him.

This stress was already getting to John McCain when, in an apparent moment of fervor, he sloppily referred to Barack Obama as “that one”. The debate continued to spiral downward for John McCain when, in discussing health care coverage, he carelessly referred to his potential need for a hair transplant. The Fox News camera focused on the top of his head gave voters visual confirmation of his elderly age.

After invoking Theodore Roosevelt’s “Speak softly and carry a big stick” foreign policy and suggesting that Barack Obama speeks loudly, Barack Obama humiliated John McCain by reminding America how bad of an example of “speaking softly” his bombastic “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, BombBomb Iran” Beach Boys rendition was.

Visibly shaken, John McCain was forced to publicly admit that he was “joking with an old veteran friend”. Again, another inconvenient age reference.

At the end of the debate, John McCain’s refused to shake Barack Obama’s hand, a gesture that even the CNN commentators called out as a sign of John McCain’s debate-long disdain.

Click Here for the video of the above-mentioned “handshake”

All this leaves Americans asking the question, “If John McCain can’t remain calm and civil during a presidential debate, how can we expect him to handle the stresses of international diplomacy?”

Yes, you read that correctly… against INNOCENT… MUSLIM… CHILDREN.

According to an article in Ohio’s Dayton Daily News, a Mosque was the target of a non-lethal poison gas attack during that took place during a evening prayer services. This gas was sprayed into the room where the babies and children were being kept while their mothers were praying, according to one eyewitness account available at Dailykos.com. No suspects have been arrested and Dayton Police are declining to comment because of an ongoing investigation.

This chemical attack comes at the same time as the The Clarion Fund and has been has been using the mail and paying newspapers to distribute DVDs of Obsession, a fear-mongering, anti-muslim “documentary” to voters in swing states. The Clarion Fund, as reported by NPR, is a New York-based 501(c)(3) charity of dubious financing that has strong ties to Radical Zionism.

It is interesting to point out that one of the dvd’s promoters is Joe Wierzbicki, an active member of two anti-Obama Public Action Committee.

Here are the Newspapers that are being bribed into distributing this hate speech:

Colorado – Boulder Daily Camera, Centennial Citizen, Colorado Springs Gazette, Denver Post, Fort Collins Coloradoan, Greeley Tribune

Iowa – Daily Nonpareil, Des Moines Register, Iowa City Press Citizen, Quad City Times, Sioux City Journal

Indiana – South Bend Tribune

Florida – Daily Commercial, Florida Times-Union, Ft. Lauderdale El Sentinel, Ft. Myers News Press, Miami Herald, Ocala Star Banner, Orlando Sun Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, Tampa Tribune, Tallahassee Democrat, St. Petersburg Times, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Michigan – Detroit Free-Press, Flint Journal, Grand Rapids Press, Lansing State Journal

Missouri – Springfield News-Leader

Nevada – Las Vegas Review-Journal/Sun, Nevada Appeal, Reno Gazette-Journal

New Hampshire – Portsmouth Herald News, Union Leader

New Mexico – Clovis News Journal, Hobbs News-Sun, Rio Rancho Observer

Ohio – Canton Repository, Columbus Dispatch, Dayton Daily News, Hamilton JournalNews, Middletown Journal, Morning Journal, Springfield News-Sun, Toledo Blade, Youngstown Vindicator

North Carolina – Charlotte Observer, Raleigh News & Observer

Pennsylvania – Bucks Co. Courier Times, Erie Times-News, Morning Call, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Reading Eagle, The Patriot-News

Virginia – Sun-Gazette, Virginian-Pilot

Wisconsin – Green Bay Press-Gazette, Janesville Gazette, Journal Times, La Crosse Tribune, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Evidently, the prospect of either himself or Sarah Palin having to participate in a serious debate with the Democratic Candidates scares John McCain to death.

Yesterday, we found out that John McCain used the excuse of Obama’s proposed bi-partisan effort to address the Wall Street Crisis to delay Friday’s upcoming Presidential Debate.

Now we learn that John McCain also wants to indefinitely postpone Sarah Palin’s upcoming Vice-Presidential debate against Joe Biden. This, after the McCain campaign begged the Commission on Presidential Debates (who is sponsoring the Vice Presidential debate) to grant Sarah Palin a de facto handicap.

Specifically, the McCain campaign pleaded that the candidates be restricted to a short, question-and-answer style debate with few opportunities for the candidates to directly respond to each other. This debate style helps Sarah Palin by sheltering her from the dangers presented by  having to stray from pre-scripted talking points.

I’m sure that Sarah Palin’s fear of an open debate with Joe Biden has nothing to do with her request to have her financial records suppressed until the day after the Vice-Presidential Debate.

John McCain and Sarah Palin fear having a free and open debate with the Democrats because they know that such a debate would expose them as the poor option that they are. There