As far as I can tell, the main events in Barack Obama's day today were upicking the picker he picked to pick a candidate for Vice-President, and playing Gotcha! with John McCain.
Jim Johnson resigned as picker-in-chief, and since Obama is having so much trouble even picking a picker to pick a Vice-President, wouldn't it be lucky if 19,000,000 Democratic voters had already picked one for him?
In other news, the NYTimes reports that when McCain was asked whether he now had a better idea when U.S. troops could return home from Iraq, he replied, "No, but that's not too important."
His comments did not vary much from what he has said before - that troop presence in a pacified country was not problematic - though he no longer suggests that Americans might be in Iraq for 100 years.
But the campaign team of Senator Barack Obama - in part of an instant-response approach notable for its speed, volume and intensity - quickly set up a conference call with reporters in which Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts and two foreign policy specialists, both veterans of the administration of President Bill Clinton, attempted to skewer McCain for his comment.
But long long ago, in a galaxy far far away, in Raleigh, North Carolina...
A debate Wednesday night that focused on Sen. Barack Obama's potential vulnerabilities was an example of outmoded political "gotcha" games, Obama told a Raleigh audience today.
Somehow all this reminds me of another campaign, even longer and longer ago in a galaxy even farther and farther away, in 2004, when an awkward ex-soldier faced a ruthless campaign machine...
But Obama is up in the polls, and as Vince Lombardi used to say... "Winning isn't the main thing, it's the only thing."
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