Well, well, well. It seems that presidential candidates feel no shame in letting their friends down. What would an ordinary guy pick between having coffee with a male friend and dinner with a woman (friend or not)? He would always strive to find that bothering hunger somewhere in his stomach so as to cancel the meeting he arranged with his pal and grab a bite with the lady in question.

Okay, this is not something out of the ordinary. However, when the guy is Republican presidential candidate John McCain, his male friend is David Letterman and the coffee shop is the “Late Show,” he can’t just cancel the meeting. Or can he?

John McCain really gave up his appearance Wednesday on Letterman’s show, citing an important trip he had to make to Washington in order to handle a terrible economic crisis.

That is understandable. Nevertheless, everything becomes foggy and perplexing if we take into account the fact that John McCain was not at all in a rush to the airport, as he found enough time to give an interview to CBS News anchor Katie Couric.

In addition to this, David Letterman’s reaction did not make things better by any means.

During the taping of the “Late Show,” the host told the audience that John McCain had expressed his apologies for not being able to attend the show, as he was in a hurry to the airport. Letterman kept on saying that you can’t just suspend your campaign for an economic crisis or is it “because the poll numbers are sliding?”

However, while interviewing MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, David Letterman found out the real reason why the Republican presidential candidate had canceled his 13^th appearance on the show, and, thus, he played a live video which portrayed John McCain getting freshened up by a makeup artist just before the interview with Katie Couric started.

Who knows? Maybe the economic crisis McCain was talking about was somehow related to Couric? Or should we call it an audience crisis? You call it as you wish. I call it bad behavior.