"McCain Lauds and Attacks Obama in Same Day" is the headline for Elisabeth Bumiller's piece, that seems to carry an overriding theme of bipolarity.
LAKEVILLE, Minn. — After a week of trying to portray Senator Barack Obama as a friend of terrorists who would drive the country into bankruptcy, Senator John McCain abruptly changed his tone on Friday and told voters at a town-hall-style meeting that Mr. Obama was “a decent person” and a “family man” and suggested that he would be an acceptable president should he win the White House.
But moments later, Mr. McCain, the Republican nominee, renewed his attacks on Mr. Obama for his association with the 1960s radical William Ayers and told the crowd, “Mr. Obama’s political career was launched in Mr. Ayers’ living room.”
http://www.nytimes.com/...
While McCain's defense of/attack on Obama seemed to play well with the Lakeville crowd, it seems nutty when reported in the national media