Obama Should Stand Up...

because his chair muffling the words coming out of his behind.

So McCain wants to postpone the debate to go back to Washington (and he invited Obama to do the same) and help shore up the bailout crisis. Obama's response:

Preparing for the debate in Florida, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama held a previously unscheduled news conference, arguing the debate should go on.

"I believe that we should continue to have the debate," Obama said. "It's my belief that this is exact time when the American people need to hear form the person who in approximately 40 days will be responsibly for dealing with this mess and I think that it is going to be part of the President’s job to deal with more than one thing at once."

Obama said that unlike McCain, he will not suspend ads, or campaign events scheduled between now and Friday's debate.

"I think it's very important that the American people see the people who potentially could be in charge of this problem within the next couple of months and so my attitude is that we need to be focused on solving the problems, as I have been," Obama said. "It's also important that we communicate where we need to go in getting us out of the situation."

I don't think he's focusing on anything other than his grab at the brass ring. Financial Crisis be damned, Barack wants his moment in the sun.

That's not leadership, that's vanity.