When the YouTube comes out, watch the person who just may be Obama's best media surrogate out there just lay the lumber on the woman who obviously also didn't do her job in the VP search, Carly Fiorina.
On Steffie, McCaskill -- without ever losing her smile -- made Carly Fiorina her ... okay, I won't be politically incorrect and finish that sentence, but you can.
It's clear that McCain will only lie, lie, and lie some more -- and counter each and every revelation of fact with a Vegas casino full of victim cards. Fiorina said the NYT reports on life in Alaska with the Tundra Strongwoman (TM) were "disrespectful to the extreme," that any suggestion of McCain being old is "ageism", and of course just lying through her golden parachute about Palin not taking earmarks when she did just this year.
And there was McCaskill jumping on every point, bashing them and bashing McCain and bashing Fiorina for their lies -- and, most importantly, talking about "honor" and how honor is earned. McCaskill even got Steffie to call out Fiorina on the fact that Palin kept the Bridge to Nowhere money.
By the end of this "interview" (if by "interview" you mean "you can tell which side was the punching bag by the end of it") Fiorina literally couldn't look at either Steffie or McCaskill in the face. She knew she got pounded and she could do nothing but lamely take it -- and that's going to be a big issue in the weeks to come.
You can only lie for a long time if you lie well. Bush and Cheney and the people surrounding them lied with gusto and joy - and Palin is cut from their cloth. But McCain really isn't that good a liar, and neither are his surrogates.
So folks like McCaskill are going to be critical for Obama in the weeks to come, not just to expose the lies but to make the liars squirm. THAT, more than anything else, will show both reporters and a few voters that the liars know they're lying and to plant those seeds of doubt that are critical in the weeks to come.
Just follow McCaskill's lead - and get her on the camera as much as Obama can!