All I am saying is that since Obama had the MSM to lick his boots in the 2008 campaign, it would be logical for Mccain to agree to not persue any deep probing inquiries on the Obama NBC issue as the media would be set on him with
“...but you were born in Panama, shut up you hypocrite..."
The way around that is to have your surrogates raise the issue, ask the questions and make the attacks while the candidate himself stays above the fray and never comments on the issue directly.