Catching Up

Haven't posted in a few days and that's okay (what, with all the Comments made and all).

I would have posted on McCain-Obama debate number one, but it wasn't exciting enough to bother.

I found it initially foolish, then after watching the media reaction, rather shrewd of Senator McCain to suspend his campaigning to try and broker a deal on the credit crunch bailout. I also find it telling that Senator Obama, as a faux member of the Senate Banking Committee, wasn't even planning on returning to the Senate to vote on a bailout bill until Senator McCain announced his own return to Washington, D.C.

Then there is the piecemeal interview with the ratings-sagging Katie Couric. Why won't CBS just show the whole interview, or at least one strung-together edited interview? At least ABC news tends to string together their very edited interviews to make it look like one continuous interview (since that's actually what it was)!

Now we have the third Gubernatorial debate set for tonight in Yakima. I'm sure there will be more Rossi-is-Bush attacks by Christine Gregoire, and more Change! slogans by Dino Rossi.

Then there's the whole VP debate & noise over Gwen Ifill moderating the debate, but there's plenty of time tomorrow to pradle on about that....

Tonight I will be enjoying a nice dinner & discussion as the Washington Policy Center Annual Dinner where Czech President Vaclav Klaus, philanthropist Phil Smart, Sr, and political commentator Fred Barnes will be speaking. I have to thank KTTH's give-away of these tickets or I would not be getting near this event. :)