Clearing through my inbox, I found this message from McCain Campaign Manager/Fannie Mae Lobbyist Extraordinaire Rick Davis dating back a week or so:

The First Debate

Team,

Last week, John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin gave two electrifying speeches at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota - the most watched convention speeches in history! Thousands of you attended McCain Nation convention-watching parties all across the country in support of our ticket and we thank you for your support.

We’re in the midst of a busy fall season with just over 50 days left until Election Day. The first presidential debate will be held Friday, September 26th, at the University of Mississippi. And after months of running away from John McCain’s joint town hall meeting invitations, Senator Obama will finally have to face John McCain one-on-one.

So Obama will have to face John McCain mano-a-mano at last!

Unless, of course, McCain decides he’s not ready and succeeds in weaseling out of the debate.

Johnny Mac is going to fight! fight! fight! on the attack against Obama:

Senator John McCain intensified his political attacks against Senator Barack Obama late today as he charged that his Democratic rival was frozen in the face of the financial turmoil gripping the country.

“The truth is, we don’t have time to wait for Senator Obama to recover from his paralysis in the face of this crisis,’’ Mr. McCain told a roaring crowd at a rally outside the flag-draped Delaware County Courthouse here. Mr. McCain added, shouting, that “one week after this crisis began, Senator Obama has still not offered a plan of any kind’’ and that “Senator Obama has been M.I.A., my friends. That means missing in action.’’

This is rich, coming from the guy who announced that the “the fundamentals of our economy are strong,” on the very day that Lehman Brothers went under, sending markets into a panicked tailspin, and then said he wanted to “form a commission” to study Wall Streets ills, when he finally noticed something was wrong, days later!

Is he trying to obfuscate the fact that he didn’t even notice the economy failing until someone woke him from his nap and screamed in his ear?

Clinton and number one PUMA Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild endorses McCain — because Obama is “an elitist.”

“This is a hard decision for me personally because frankly I don’t like him,” she said of Obama in an interview with CNN’s Joe Johns. “I feel like he is an elitist. I feel like he has not given me reason to trust him.”

Forester is the CEO of EL Rothschild, a holding company with businesses around the world. She is married to international banker Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. Forester is a member of the DNC’s Democrats Abroad chapter and splits her time living in London and New York.

Next up: Vern Troyer to endorse Obama because McCain is “too short.”