I fail to see why McCain owes jack-squat to Rev. Graham. If the schedule doesn’t work, too bad. McCain is running to be President, not pastor. This pandering to the Religious Right is offensive to both Religion and the Right.
Who said he “owed” him?
In the past when politicians met with Billy Graham I never thought it was because they felt they “owed” it to him. I thought both the politician and Graham had their own reasons for it and neither them nor Graham felt forced or coerced into doing it.
So now, if McCain and Graham were to meet, the idea that it was because anybody owed anybody wouldn’t have arisen.
“I fail to see why McCain owes jack-squat to Rev. Graham.”
That’s why neither you nor I are running for POTUS. If JSMcCain really wants the job, he MUST show public respect to BG - as I’ve said, he has a lot to overcome and accomplish in order to defeat the silver-tongued devil, not the least of which is to win over the evangelicals (25% or more of all voters - a major (sometimes decisive) constituency.) This is/was a golden opportunity to not further p**s off conservatives in general, whom he sorely needs.
If he really wants to be elected, he NEEDS to win over, and not further alienate, such large voting blocs.
Just the way it is.