High stakes poker

That's John Harwood's take on what McCain has been playing with the 'suspension' of his campaign --which didn't keep his surrogates from going from network to network attacking Obama, or his running mate, for that matter. Since McCain has now announced he'll debate tonight -- without an agreement having been reached, so far -- that could blow up in his face. Here's Harwood's more detailed assessment:



Also, Matt Welch, editor of the libertarian magazine Reason, has an op-ed here in the LA Times that notes that McCain's first run for president got a huge boost from a similar campaign suspension, that time about Kosovo.