Consider this: The Obama camp has abandoned (forfeited?) its race between Obama and McCain, and is now trying to regain some traction by framing its race as being between Obama and Palin (losing from the gitgo!). No one seems to know what part, if any, Biden is supposed to be playing. Yup, team obama has been prepping for weeks to take on McCain and either Pawlenty or Romney. They were completely caught off gaurd with Palin and her success with all the targeted groups. obama's over-reaction and heavy-handedness against her is quite telling: They have no idea what they're doing.
CNN just now - Gergen claiming there is actually two vetting processes, one by the candidate, and one by the media.
The media are way too full of themselves.