Get Off My Lawn Variety Hour 3

Folks, I've got something a little odd going on tonight. I'm sitting in a room with several other, mostly conservative bloggers being filmed by a documentary crew. So y'all will be the dubious beneficiaries of the outraged squawks I'd normally be vocalizing.

McCain is going so close to the audience that the camera has to shoot him from an awkwardly close, high angle. So far, Obama is positioning himself better with respect to the cameras -- don't know how it looks/feels in the hall.

Ha! McCain thinks he's going to spin his "suspension" as a good thing? He hasn't learned that lesson?

Though he ups the chutzpah quotient by trying to tie Obama to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, his own massive lobbyist ties notwithstanding. That, my friends, is some mavericky misdirection going on. And his CNN focus group lines are in the toilet during this section.

Obama: "I've got to correct a little of Senator McCain's history -- not surprisingly." Nice elegant little hit there. Point to McCain's SOP. Obama does a nice job showing he can get into the details then pulling out before people's eyes glaze over too badly.