Reply #45: There is an important point ...

[RoyGBiv]

...until McCain started talking and the media types started weighing in. Only then did the nervous ones start to freak out.

As I've said before, for all the gnashing of teeth we do around here about the damnable lies spread by the MSM, a great number of us sure are led by our nose as though it were hooked with the latest and greatest lure and barb.

Obama was doing great ... until someone else told us he wasn't. So that makes his attempt a mistake. What some people refuse to realize is that certain media types are going to contextualize *everything* he does in such a way that it comes off as a mistake.