Delay the debate ... sort of

John McCain is right. The first presidential debate planned for Friday night in Oxford, Miss., should be delayed because of the financial meltdown oozing through Wall Street.

But Barack Obama is right too. He says the debate should go on because voters deserve to hear from their next president how he would fix this mess -- and avoid the next one.

I know; you’re saying that both of them can’t be right, and you are right.

The solution? Delay the debate … for one day.

As my previous blog noted, on a Friday night in the fall, millions of Americans are not going to be at home. They are going to be at their local high school football field — or that of a rival.

With a one-day delay, the televised debate will be seen by far more people, and voters can decide which candidate is the better economist — or blame-shifter.

Any maybe one of them can explain why cigar-smokin'/helicopter-flyin' CEOs deserve “bailouts” that aren’t available to real people who work for a living and find themselves in dire straits.