Assuming John McCain doesn't suspend his campaign again in the next fifteen minutes, he and Barack Obama are about to debate. Everyone seems to think they're going to take a debate that was supposed to be about foreign affairs and turn it into a discussion of what we laughingly call our national economy. I have no particular predictions other than that each side is going to insist their guy "hit it out of the park." The McCain forces seem to have jumped the gun and begun papering the web with banner ads that say he won the debate that has yet to take place.
The one thing I can't help but think about is that this debate is taking place at The University of Mississippi. I'm not that old but at the time I was born, they wouldn't have let a guy who looked like Obama attend school there, let alone compete to maybe become the next President of the United States. That's no reflection on the current population down there…just a marker of how far we've come.