[Gondring]

The way the media was disppointed over him NOT attacking Obama made the whole thing almost seem like a set up. I tink the media was all ready for wall to wall criticism of McCain for attacking Obama, and when he did not, they almost seemd as if they did not know what to say or talk about.

And I think that Sen. McCain's campaign is trying to keep the Obama camp (the MSM and his campaign) off-guard.

[grey_whiskers]

DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!

He's trying to goad them into leading with their chin again.

He certainly defused anyone waiting with bated breath tuning in to catch him being a bitter old vengeful racist.

So now that he has credibility and gravitas, he can go on the attack again.

Obambi was only prepared (at most) for one or two of McCain's speeches--the health care insurance comes to mind; and McCain leveled him with the follow-up by quoting the numbers back, 95% of you will do even better under my plan.

Cheers!