Looking at the schedules for the candidates on Wednesday, we find less activity than usual, but that’s mostly because debate preparations have both Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin out of the public eye today. In addition, Celebrity TV/Movie Cameo Aficionado and Maverick Financial Crisis Theater Star John McCain is holding no private events, and is instead attending a fundraiser in Los Angeles (at post time, it is not known whether he is considering this a CountryFirst Brand Campaign Suspension (TM)). Side question: does the fact that McCain was in “Wedding Crashers” and “24” mean that he’s a member of the Screen Actors Guild? Is John McCain really a card-carrying union member? If it makes a difference (and I think it does), he does have a line in “Wedding Crashers.” But ManufactureThis, as is its wont, digresses. Today, Barack Obama is in LaCrosse, WI, and Michelle Obama is in Boulder, CO (she'll also be in Missouri today, but we'll talk about Missouri, location of the VP debate, tomorrow). According to AAM’s handy database of Manufacturing In Your State, we see that those two states have lost 144,500 manufacturing jobs from 2001 to 2007, and almost 100,000 jobs due to trade with China alone. ManufactureThis is still very disappointed in the fact that China was largely ignored during last Friday’s presidential debate (but will discuss this more tomorrow), and particularly in these troubling economic times America is looking for leadership that can rebuild our economy on more solid footing than the one that’s collapsing. And that, Barack and Michelle, is American manufacturing. So, let’s hear it. You have the field to yourself today…