Alternative Title: John McCain: You, Sir, Are an Idiot
So, about a week ago it seemed obvious that a clear tactic of the Obama campaign was to deliberately and openly taunt John McCain on the fact that he didn't bring up Bill Ayers in the second debate. The Obama people, as well as the McCain people, know that the Ayers kerfluffle is nothing but a campaign stunt, and so the Obama campaign, and television surrogates, went to the airwaves and called him out on it.
Even Biden got in on it, essentially taking a Dirty Harry approach and saying, in more words or less: "Hey punk. You got something to say to Barack, then say it to his face."
Frankly, this is a brilliant tactical move, and I'm surprised to see that John McCain has so stupidly, and blindly, fallen into the trap. As Halperin notes, McCain is now saying that is probably assured to be a topic at the debate on Wednesday, and then goes on to say that it's because of Obama's call out - in McCain's words: "I was astonished to hear him say that he was surprised I didn’t have the guts."
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