Perhaps that is because there is SUPPOSED to be a debate tonight. Apparently McCain doesn’t feel he can multitask. The good news is that Obama plans to attend either way and if Old Man Caruthers still is feeling squeemish, there will be a town hall session for Obama.

This seems like a terrible move on McCain’s part, especially when Palin is running around giving national news interviews and sounding like a total idiot.

Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?

Palin: We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.

You can’t make this stuff up, people. Read the transcript and view the interview.

And finally, remember when Matt Damon said, “It’s like a really bad Disney movie. The hockey mom from Alaska… is the president. She’s facing down Vladmir Putin using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It’s absurd.”

Now we can see what that movie might actually be like. I’m not a big Matt Damon fan and I’m not sure why he was being asked to speak about this at all, but his interview was truly what everyone has been thinking since she was picked to be the Republican nom. for VP. Well maybe not everyone, but I’m the only one who counts, right?

Man, I love Tina Fey. I haven’t watched SNL in maybe 3 years but this hilarious. Hopefully SNL will let us keep it up on YouTube as a piece of important political commentary.

First presidential debate
Friday, September 26
The University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.
Jim Lehrer
Executive Editor and Anchor, The NewsHour, PBS

Vice presidential debate
Thursday, October 2
Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.
Gwen Ifill
Senior Correspondent, The NewsHour, and Moderator and Managing Editor, Washington Week, PBS

Second presidential debate (town meeting)
Tuesday, October 7
Belmont University, Nashville, Tenn.
Tom Brokaw
Special Correspondent, NBC News

Third presidential debate
Wednesday, October 15
Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y.
Bob Schieffer
CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent, and Host, Face the Nation

Each debate will begin at 9:00 p.m. EDT.