Obama is a master thinker, I must say. In the midst of all of the panic and despair, Obama has kept his game plan secret better than any politician I've ever seen. (Wow, I just saw a really good ad featuring a guy who was a POW with McCain coming out AGAINST him, but I digress). Obama has allowed McCain and the GOP to toss out every lie imaginable, at times not even offering a hint of anger in return. However...
Obama mentioned with Keith Olberman that we would have to "wait until the debates." We all know that every moderator wants one thing above all else-to look like a tough hitter. McCain and Palin have provided every moderator more than ample opportunity to fire at them with one lie after another. Hell, they can play the commercials, play the tapes, cite fact check, cite newspapers, site editors, the options are endless. Obama won't have to make McCain blow a gasket. The moderators will have that floor to themselves. Obama will sit back and be above it all, while the entire country, the biggest audience before the election, will watch McCain and Palin be stripped bare for all to see.
Once the first debate is over, there will be a little over a month until the election. McCain will be out of options. It will be too late to replace his running mate, and everything he does to try and dispel the disaster that will hit him during the first debate will fall on deaf ears. By then, he will have lost his most lethal weapon-the public's trust. He has used his POW status as an excuse to go the way of gutter politics. He will be exposed for the fraud he is, and instead of getting more honorable, he will get worse. Look for him to explode at the last debate, after watching his numbers plummet.
I remember hearing Obama say that he predicted that the numbers would even out about now, so we KNOW that Obama is not impulsive. McCain's game of choice is a game of chance, a crap shot. Obama, my friends, is the Bobby Fisher of politics.
CHECKMATE...