HE MAY NOT SHOW UP - AT 9:32 P.M. ET:  We may have real history in the making.  Take note - this is what you'll tell your children or grandchildren about.  "Why, I remember the time..."  They'll come closer to you, wanting to hear every word.

There is news that Barack Obama may not show up at an international conference in a place where he's loved.  This has not happened.  Read, please:

President Obama will probably not attend the U.N. conference on climate change in December because it is not a "head of state" event, but may use his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize as a platform to address climate change issues.

Oh, come on.  Everyone knows he was scheduled to go.  This guy would show up at a cemetery if he could hear the applause.  The reason he's not going is that he has nothing to show for his "climate change" efforts here in imperialist, pollution-puffing Amerika, where the forces of darkness are stopping his saving of the world at every turn.

President Obama is "leaning toward not going" to the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December, a senior administration official told Fox News.

The current thinking in the administration is that since the conference is not a "head of state" event, Obama will not attend. Obama will be accepting the Nobel Prize in Oslo on the second day of the Copenhagen conference and may use that platform to address climate change issues.

He's got to go to that one.  And they'll clap.  And now the truth:

One big reason the Copenhagen conference is not a "head of state" event is because of the slow progress of climate change legislation in the U.S. Senate. Absent Senate passage of a climate change bill mandating a cap-and-trade system, Obama will have nothing to bring to Copenhagen as part of a U.S.-led effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a factor likely to undermine global efforts to curb those emissions.

COMMENT:  What does Obama say?  What excuse does he give?  Does a new Ed McMahon go to the conference and announce, "Barack can't make it tonight, but sitting in for him is David Letterman."  (Cue music.)

Or maybe the president can get a note from Nancy Pelosi saying he's needed at home.  Could work.

October 24, 2009