Wow. This may be the douchiest thing in the history of presidential politics (which is saying a lot). After McCain turned into a drama queen on Wednesday and declared that he was going to suspend his campaign (which he didn’t) in order to rush back to Washington (which he didn’t) and save the economy (which he didn’t), he suddenly decided that even though negotiations on a potential bailout are worse now than they were 24 hours ago, enough had been done for him to shout “Time In!” and travel to tonight’s debates with his tail between his legs. Yet with his new stance revealing that his previous act of faux-bravery was just a political charade, McCain still found a way to one-up himself by declaring victory in a debate he hadn’t even agreed to attend :
