Here are a few articles from CNN.com’s political ticker.  I believe that McCain thinks that the state of Mississippi is expendable and he really doesn’t care about this state at all.  Like I’ve said before, everything that McCain is doing is purely political.  He doesn’t care about the American people.  Well, I should say he doesn’t care for the poor and middle class.  The middle class is what holds this country together.  All he cares about is his rich friends in Washington & New York.  When will people realize that Republicans only care about special interests, lobbyist, and their rich cronies across this wonderful nation.  I believe with a McCain presidency, we will be in a larger mess than we are now with President Bush.  By the way, I thought President Bush done a good job last night.  I do agree with the bailout, but the CEOs and other executives must not be paid and after everything stabilizes that money MUST be paid back, no matter what!!  This is a serious time in our country and I feel like that we are on the verge of a very bad recession or worse a DEPRESSION.  Pray that the Lord God above will help this wonderful country of ours during this dark time.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Greene: Mississippi reaction

Posted: 09:20 AM ET

ABOARD THE ELECTION EXPRESS

BATESVILLE, Mississippi (CNN)– Whatever the McCain campaign may have anticipated about national reaction to the suggestion that tomorrow night’s debate be postponed, people around here, who have been looking forward to the event for many months, are taking it rather personally.

“The debate should go on,” said Patricia Houston, a bartender at a local restaurant that was opened this year and that was counting on heavy business over the debate weekend. “Why does he have to be up in Washington to discuss the economy? Does he not know that we have Internet access down here in Mississippi? He can keep in touch from down here just fine.”

Houston said she is a strong political supporter of John McCain, and that “I love Sarah Palin.” She is deeply disappointed that McCain, in her opinion, is treating her state as expendable.

“We’re used to it,” she said. “We grow up assuming that a lot of the country has a ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ view of us. They don’t think about us much, and when they do think about us, it’s not in the best of ways.”

Whether or not her assessment is accurate, she thinks the McCain campaign’s request to delay the debate is just one more indignity directed at the citizens of Mississippi.

“They say they just want to cancel it for Friday night, but that they’ll come back,” she said. “You know that, if they cancel it, they probably won’t come back.”

She thinks that the people of Mississippi, regardless of their political affiliation, will regard the request to postpone the debate as an insult: “An insult to Mississippi, and an insult to the South,” she said. “It‘s not like it’s hard to get quick communication from here to Washington, D.C. It’s not 1867 down here; he can reach anyone he needs to.”

She stressed that she will almost certainly still vote for the McCain-Palin ticket. “But I don’t know about other people,” she said. “The South is supposed to be important to McCain. This doesn’t seem like it.”

She said that she understands the nation is in a financial crisis, “but it’s not like we’re not part of the United States. All the country wants the candidates to do is stand up and say, ‘This is what I think we should do about the economy.’ Why can’t he stand up and say it here?”

I heard about this on Kidd Kraddick this morning.  Like I said this morning, something is terribly wrong with McCain and I believe everyone is seeing it right now

Letterman skewers McCain for cancelling appearance

Posted: 11:00 AM ET

From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

 

(CNN) — David Letterman was not amused Wednesday night John McCain hastily canceled his scheduled appearance on the show.

“This doesn’t smell right,” Letterman said during a routine that only half appeared to be a joke. “This is not the way a tested hero behaves. Somebody’s putting something in his Metamucil.”

Shortly before he was slated to be on Letterman’s show Wednesday, McCain announced he was suspending his presidential campaign to head back Washington to help ensure Congress passes a version of the economic bailout bill.

But Letterman didn’t appear to buy the Arizona senator’s explanation, and after praising McCain’s record as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, said, “This is not the John McCain I know, by God.”

“It makes me believe something is going haywire with the campaign,” he said. “Something’s gotten to him.”

Letterman also took a dig at Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin.

“Here’s what you do if you are running a campaign in the middle of an economic crisis and it’s about to crater,” Letterman continued. “You go back to Washington, you handle what you need to handle. Don’t suspend your campaign. You let your campaign go on shouldered by your vice presidential nominee…or is that really a good thing to do? See what I am saying?”

Speaking on NBC’s Today Show Thursday morning, McCain spokeswoman Nicole Wallace said, “We deeply regret offending Mr. Letterman, but our candidate’s priority at this moment is to focus on this crisis,” she said.

I’m not a big Haley Barbour supporter at all, but it is good that he has come out with a press release about this.  We, in Mississippi, have been looking forward to this for a long time now and now that we have a chance to show the country and the world how we have changed and improved ourselves.  Mississippi is not the “closed-society” that it once was.  We are very proud of our heritage, but we also realize that we must grow as a state to achieve what we want to do. 

Mississippi Gov. says debate plans going forward

Posted: 12:30 PM ET

 

(CNN) — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told reporters Thursday preparations for Friday’s debate are going forward as planned.

“I expect there to be a debate tomorrow night and I look forward to it,” he said.

John McCain has suggested pushing back the debate if an agreement on the economic bailout has not been reached by Friday morning. Barack Obama has said the debate should occur regardless of whether the bill is passed by that time.