If there are any questions about whether or not Barack Obama will attend the presidential debate at the University of Mississippi tomorrow night, an e-mail blast to supporters might have provided the answer:
Barack is moving ahead with plans for Friday's debate.
The election is less than 40 days away, and the American people deserve to hear directly from the candidates about how they intend to lead our country.
If you're interested, look up to find a debate watch party in your area.
I never thought I would have the chance to lump John McCain in with the likes of Joe Robach and Caesar Trunzo, but tomorrow might be the night. If this debate were to be canceled, the university stands to lose $5.5 million.
So how would the people of Mississippi feel if McCain doesn't show up? Apparently, they won't be too happy.
"I tell you what, if John McCain doesn't show up, there's going to be a lot of people in this town that will be mad as hell," said Leslie, a 42-year-old Oxford native who drives one of the shuttles commissioned specifically for the debate.
I asked some of my fellow bus travelers to help me come up with a comparison that represents how John McCain is undercutting Mississippi's good ole Southern hospitality.
"It's like going on a blind date and finding out she's ugly," John, a mustachiod man from California who is a student. "As far as I see it, if you're Mississippi, you still go on that date because it's the right thing do."
That's why so many Mississippians are so mad. John McCain is trying to stand them up, and the locals don't take too kindly to that kind of rudeness.
Would that anger be enough to toss it Obama's way? Probably not. McCain has a double digit lead in Mississippi, but if he doesn't show it certainly will make a lot of people angry and will make a whole university very angry, I'm sure. |
