Mr. Mccain did the exactly right thing. To continue on with the depressing campaign means nothing when we have real problems to attend to.. IIf you haven't made up your mind by this time after this seemingly endless campaign I suspect you are brain dead. I realize there are some Americans who say they are still undecided. Those people need to read my previous sentence. Debates have become meaningless and done just because we had Nixon-Kennedy debate back in 1960. I don't really care who the best debater is,I want A president who will drop everything secondary and attend to the most important thing,right now, that being our economy. The President is an executive position and we need a person of reasoned action rather than a theoretician. Obama beats McCain hands down if we were voting for who makes a better professor, however we need a person who is decisiveas President not somone who is to cautious to act until he has all the data necessary to make a decicion. Debaters belong in the senate not in the Presidency.

This is one of the stupidest posts I have ever read on Slate.

"I want A president who will drop everything secondary and attend to the most important thing,right now, that being our economy."

Wow, what kind of schizo executive would behave that way. OMG we have an education crisis! Drop everything!

OMG a bridge collapsed! Forget education!

OMG our troops got shot at by Pakistani soldiers! Forget bridges!

OMG a hurricane hit Florida! Forget the wars!

OMG our students can't find Iraq on a map! Forget the climate!

Hmmm, I guess McCain would be the guy for you.

Presidents have to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. If John McCain can only deal with one problem at a time, he should stay in the Senate. And judging by recent poll numbers, that's going to happen. <link>

"we need a person who is decisiveas President not somone who is to cautious to act until he has all the data necessary to make a decicion."

This is just too precious for words.

"we need a person who is decisiveas President not somone who is to cautious to act until he has all the data necessary to make a decicion."

Where has thinking ever gotten anyone?
Clearly the OP has gotten along fine without needing to.