Ayers is on the table, without the racist accusation.
McCain has disarmed the racism charge, by confronting John Lewis. And by pointing out that he has chided everyone on his side, every time. Then bringing up obliquely the "Palin is a C***T" T-shirts, and hinting at the wave of obscene, visceral hate-filled attacks on Palin from the time she was first announced.
By mentioning Obama wants government to be the answer for health care (Canada and England), and the "slip" of Sen. Government.
By linking Obama to Acorn; by calling Obama on lies about campaign finance, by linking Obama to the press cover-up of Ayers.
By linking Obama's policies "Tax and Protection" to Herbert Hoover; by calling Obama on being against Colombia but willing to meet with Chavez of Venezuela.
Knocking Biden's foreign policy expertise by calling him out on "3 Iraqs". Slam dunk.
Not the Palin style, but this is a game changer, he did not act like a defeated, wimpy old man who is about to be vanquished.
Obama lied like Joe Isuzu from the commercials.
Cheers!
david Gergen is such an A**hole.
Seriously - what is wrong with these people??
I agree with your analysis. The one “problem” is the things that McCain rightly exposed about Obama require following up. And I don’t blame Mac for that, he has to leave that up to the voters to check on what they said in the debate and see Obama lied his teeth off. But the media analysts just look for poise and smoothness dutring the debate and Obama looks fine in that regard. I don’t know why they would expect his head to spin around or something...