It's going to be interesting, six months after the election when we start getting the behind-the-scenes books, to find out what was up with this whole "McCain suspending his campaign" business. No one, including the most rabid of McCain partisans, seems more than about 25% confident of their theories. Nor can they say what it means to suspend one's campaign except that you bail on David Letterman and lose a bluff about postponing a debate. It's fascinating how much the Thursday agenda of McCain, who was ostensibly not campaigning, resembled the agenda of Obama, who was.
We're all going to watch the debate tonight, of course. I'm going to wait for the first time McCain gives some vague, insufficient answer and then Obama says, "Gee, I think the Senator has suspended his campaign again…"