He could video conference in. That would probably be best. Sort of a “I will debate you, but I will also do my duty as a public servant.” Since Obama isn’t doing that as well, it would make him look bad.
Sen Shelby (AL-R) is on Fox now saying that the plan of Paulson pretty much sucks and brought up the petition of the economists that say it is a bad plan. No agreement yet.
I don’t know. In 2000 when McCain and Bush debated in the primaries, in one of the debates McCain (for a reason I can’t recall) wasn’t able to appear and instead was on video and it didn’t play well. McCain had to stand there all stiff for the camera and Bush was able to move around and came off much better. Under the circumstances, it might work better this time for McCain, but I still remember that as a blunder for Mac in 2000.