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McCain's Last Stand

By TChris

Remember when the McCain campaign told us that the candidate didn't speak for the campaign? Does he ever?

The campaign zigs, McCain zags. The campaign initiates a full throttle attack on Obama's association with Bill Ayers, and McCain ignores Ayers in two dull debates. Then, taking note of polls showing that the negative campaigning has backfired, the campaign gropes for a change of strategy by trying to find a way to make McCain look credible on the economy. And so McCain decides that the last debate is the perfect time to talk about Ayers.

Why would McCain attack Obama in front of a national audience when he knows it will drive away voters? [more ...]

Ayers may well come up at the third debate, McCain told the Mark Reardon Show of St. Louis radio station KMOX. "I was astonished to hear him (Obama) say that he was surprised that I didn't have the guts to do that," McCain said. "I think he's probably assured that it's going to come up this time."

Bait taken? As Marc Ambinder writes:

Suddenly dumping on Obama's character and associations in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the great depression smells cheap and desperate.

Cheap and desperate and maybe, if we're lucky, a bit angry.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on October 15, 2008 (boomark / email).