Yes - that's what McCain is now, if it wasn't always this way . . . I don't know about you, Fair, if you are seeing the same political ads we see here in Michigan (I know we're a swing state - not so sure about Virginia - I think it is too). There's the ad that states Obama is single-handedly responsible for high gas prices. Ironically, the ad's imagery uses a very old fashioned gas pump that only McCain would be able to remember using. Another ad I've only seen on a Sunday morning news show - it says, on his overseas trip, Obama had time to shoot hoops, but NOT to visit wounded soldiers in Ramstuhl, Germany! Senator Hagel ruled this ad inappropriate on Face the Nation this morning. The truth is that Obama, with Hagel and Senator Reed, visited the troups, wounded and not, at Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq bases. But when Obama began the European leg of his trip it became a political trip and it was Ramstuhl that said, he couldn't come in - BEFORE the Pentagon made out like he wasn't denied at all. It's a no-win situation for Obama - I just wish the press would call the McCain campaign about it.
And a developing/on-going story - the press and the McCain campaign keep trying to get Obama to say, the "surge" has worked and Obama should say he made a mistake in voting against the surge. There's just no way to make even a slightly subtle argument - it was wrong to go to Iraq in the first place, the surge was only one element among three that contributed toward improved conditions in Iraq today (the Sunni Sheiks rising up against Al-queda, Al-Sadr having his ceasefires, being the other two).
McCain just gives his creepy, clenched-teeth smile and says, Obama should just say the surge worked. Again - simple wins with the American people as a whole. I hope Obama can pull this out - if Democrats can't beat that angry old man, who can we beat?
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