Talking Points

Who and what is driving the Straight Talk Express? Politico asks the question of professionals on both sides of the aisle: "Is the McCain campaign's decision to "suspend" campaigning and the Friday debate smart or not smart?"

With the polls shifting in Obama's favor and the economy now the number one issue in the campaign, McCain needed a game changer. The Daily Kos inadvertently received a copy of the campaign's internal talking points memo. Has the campaign really been suspended, or is the suspension part of the campaign? McCain has built a career out of being a different kind of politician; is this an unselfish act of leadership or McCain as Don Quixote?

I've been wondering when the Keating Five story was going to start to make its way into the news.

There is no question that our ecomomy is in crisis, but the "suspension" of McCain's campaign, the suggestion that tomorrow night's debate be postponed, the new proposal to postpone the vice-presidential debate (to give SP more time to prepare?) has given me my first Lewis Black moment of the campaign!