Can you believe this?!? I'm sorry. I've got to write a quick diary before heading off to work, but I thought I'd share another nugget from the good folks at TPM.
Here's what McCain said to Charlie Gibson regarding his failure to mention Bill Ayers in the last debate:
McCain: I have every right to insist that he be candid with the American people ... and he needs to be asked about it, and he needs to be forthcoming.
Gibson: ... but you didn't raise that argument at the debate the other night. I asked Senator Obama about that yesterday and he said he was suprised that 'John didn't say that to my face'.
McCain: ... again, two things I've never been accused of lacking, one's passion and the other's courage. ... I can accept alot of the other criticisms, look ... it didn't come up in the flow of the conversation.
More below:
Well, McCain's right on one score. It's hard to be accused of lacking virtues that you don't have. Here's the video.
This man is gutless.
First, he says 'the fundamentals of the economy are strong' on the day the Dow plunges 777 points and renders the ultimate verdict on his failed deregulation policies.
Then he 'suspends' his campaign to broker a bailout deal and calls for the presidential debate to be cancelled.
Then he posts an advertisment declaring himself the winner of a debate he had proposed to have cancelled.
Then he 'unsuspends' his campaign before said deal is brokered.
Then he doesn't look at his opponent during the first presidential debate.
Then the deal he tried to broker fell through.
Then his running mate suggests Obama is a terrorist from inside the giant glass house of her association with the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party.
Then he shows up at the second presidential debate without the guts to repeat the charge to Obama's face.
And then, after railing against pork barrel spending, and after saying that government 'shouldn't get in the way' (of people's choice of health insurance, for example), he proposes spending trillions of taxpayer dollars to buy up bad mortgages?!? That has to be the most desperate pander in the history of the modern presidential campaign, even more desperate than the selection of Sarah Palin.
And now, he's desperately trying to link Obama to Ayers despite the fact that Ayers was a radical when Obama was 8 years old, and the board on which both men later served was headed by a McCain supporter.
And finally, he says he could not confront a man he believes has terrorist connections because it didn't come up in the flow of the conversation.
His cowardice is boundless.
Update: Hat tip to Eloy for posting this video downthread. I thought this video ably demonstrates why Obama's performing so strongly. It certainly demonstrates why I'm voting for him.