The reality is that the bill will be amended and deemed passable by Thursday night (U.S) as, regardless of the issues each side has, everyone agrees that it has to get through. They can’t delay it for another week. In any event, all Obama has to do is to offer to turn it into a televised Town Hall event and the McCain camp will come running.

Letterman may only have an audience equal to about 5% of the US population but the cuts from his show make it onto all the national news programs and Americans are influenced by these things more than by the debates.

I guess Obama needs to keep focusing on the fact that Republicans can’t multitask. Bush spent the last 7 plus years focussing on the war and ignoring the economy, oil, housing, health insurance etc. McCain is now demonstrating the same blinkered abilities.

That’s also un-Australian Dave. … But, I’ll be watching the debate all the same.

Greg, I have to admit that I’m following this election a lot more closely than any US election before. Although I was disappointed when Gore and Kerry lost, I think that there’s a lot more riding on this year’s election. I genuinely think that Obama can bring monumental change to the USA and, by extension, the rest of the world. I find it hard to articulate exactly what I’m looking for in this race, but I fear that if McCain wins the election he and his cronies will do even more damage than Bush has.

On that matter (last year), the Channel 10 signal failed for the Ovens Valley in 2007 so we just went out and worked and watched the Austar replay at about 6pm. Just as well, what a boring game it was.