[JennysCool]

I’m sure McCain was trying to calm down a rowdy bunch before someone said something that the media would pick up and use as a video/soundbite for at least the next two days.

Remember, the media meme that McCain rallies are some sort of Klanbake had already begun. All it would have taken is an Obama plant or some yay-hoo shouting something offensive for the drive-bys to grab it and run with it.

[roses of sharon]

The claims that Mr Obama is already planning his administration come as a friend of Mr McCain revealed that the Republican candidate is concerned that the ugly rhetoric of the last week will damage his reputation as an honest patriot if he loses on November 4.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3179575/Barack-Obama-would-offer-John-McCain-a-job-is-he-wins-the-US-election.htmlay, October

No, he was lecturing and chastizing in public, HIS own supporters, who came there to SEE HIM. He is doing it to get back in the good graces of the MSM, for his return to the Senate. See above article from today.

[Madame Dufarge]

All it would have taken is an Obama plant or some yay-hoo shouting something offensive for the drive-bys to grab it and run with it.

As so often happens, you've hit the nail on the head.