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

Sow, this piece of news just hit the wire: according to an article in Time Magazine, Barack Obama called the McCain camp at 8:30 am to propose that they “issue a joint statement in support of a package to help fix the economy as soon as possible”.

The McCain camp used the six hours between the Barack Obama’s offer and their response to it to write a public statement in which they claimed responsibility for the idea. This public statement was, of course, issued immediately after this bi-partisan agreement was finalized.

In a lecherously transparent gesture of false humility, John McCain even went so far as to offer to “delay” Friday’s upcoming debate. How noble of John McCain to put off a debate which would his comparative political weakness.

According to an article in the Huffington Post, Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has said that this is the Worst Economy he had ever seen.

How incredibly convenient of him to say that. While Bush and his disastrous policies may have had a strong hand in pile-driving this economy into the ground, it’s awfully convenient for him not to mention the impact that his chairmanship of the Federal Reserve had in the economy.

This is one situation where another blogger can articulate things better than I can. Thanks, Tom Tomorrow: