How about that? The guy who has been holding back, staying positive instead of attacking fellow Dems doesn't mind attacking Republicans. Relentlessly. Perhaps Senator Clinton isn't the only aggressive Democratic candidate left after all.

This is a strong position from Obama. And, frankly, he can make this sort of case much more strongly than Hillary can, as she has been far less willing to admit making a mistake, either in her voting record, or in her campaign management.

This is getting brutal

I don't think to many people will have sympathy for someone trying to appear so tough.

I'm loving this. Mcain is going to need to be on teleprompter 24 - 7 if he wants to survive this election. If he makes the Sunni/Shia mix up just one more time now that Obama has trained his focus on the old man and Mcain will see what shock and aw really means.

I am not sure why people are surprised that Obama has blistered McCain each time they've tangled.

Remember there is no signficant policy difference between Obama and Clnton. Thus any attack would have had to have been just the sort of personal irrelevant smear that Obama promised to end. This was his big Fall Dilemma if you'll recall. As Clinton's attacks mounted, some dems and not a few Obama supporters worried that his campaign's principles would prevent an effective response and indeed they tempered it.

Not so with John McCain. There are huge policy differences between Democrats and Republicans and Obama's shown that he intends to aggressively exploit our advantages every chance he gets

I am not surprised
I am looking forward to the Fall Election

so I lost my butt when the Nasdaq crashed. And I kindof told my wife that we have made up the losses. Now, if my wife calls me on it (truth maybe nowhere close to even, and won't be for a while, if ever) all I have to do is review McCain's defense here. Certainly he, and his many smart advisers can lead me through it. I hope we come up with something more than 'verb tense' though.

My dad has early onset dementia... he's only 69. Well before we realized what was going on he began making a ton of errors about stuff that he should've known but also seemed like he could've just had a senior moment over (though I don't want a President who suffers from those either!).

We began to get worried when it was obvious that he knew that he screwed up, but would argue and make excuses over it anyway, either out of personal fear that he knew his mind wasn't working like it used to, or that he didn't want us to think it. It would just get worse whenever he was tired or troubled about something else. I don't see how in the heck McCain is going to handle this campaign when it really gets hot. He actually might end up getting a lot of sympathy/covering up from the press. It'll be interesting and a little sad to see this play out.

The most effective attacks are the ones that undermine your opponent's strengths, not ones that exploit their weaknesses. Obama has definitely been following this strategy, first by using one of Hillary's biggest advantages---her involvement in Bill's administration---and used it to define her as a purveyor of the same old destructive, divisive politics.

Now he's doing the same damn thing with McCain. He's simultaneously dismantling his reputation as a straight talker and as an expert on national security. Nobody would care if Hillary's campaign raised this "verb tense" defense, because it's exactly the sort of self-serving legalistic parsing that we already associate with the Clintons.

What baffles me is how blatantly McCain is stumbling into this stuff. Clinton, for all her faults as a campaigner, put up a real fight to avoid being metaphorically consigned to the dustbin of history.

Obama's taking McSame to the cleaners -- over and over again.

My man-crush on Obama continues to grow...

His comments on McCain's troop level inaninty were perfect.

Keep it going!

More to the point, it's important to have someone who can not only admit a mistake, but also learn from it and do better afterwards.

Not learning from experience is a truly bad sign.

This is the correct thing for Obama to be doing. John McCain, who presumes to be President and Commander-in-Chief, continues to make one uninformed gaffe after another about issues he, with his vast experience, should know something about. considering the mealy-mouthed dolt that currently runs the country (Bush), for us Americans we should expect, hope, nay demand, that the next President be clear and forthright and say EXACTLY what he means the FIRST time he states it. not have some fool Senator from Connecticut (Lieberman) whisper into our ear what the truth actually is. for an alleged 'straight-talker', McCain doesn't seem to be coming across as that. more like a 'second-talker', clarifying his position that he should've had to begin with. this will not do at all after Bush. Obama is real 'straight-talker' and speaks with forthrightness and intellect. i'll take his 'rhetoric' and the potential that offers over McCain's senility and 'experience' any day. oh, and thank you for service, Sen McCain.

Rock on Barack! I am looking forward, gleefully, to the general election.
W00F!