Joe & Bill

Greetings fellow pundits,

What a difference a day makes and it seems like once again the McCain campaign is using Jimmy Breslin's "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight" as their play book.

First, we have Joe The Plumber, who as it turns out in reality is not the McCain poster child they thought he would be.
Didn't anyone vet him? Did they really think that they could mention someone repeatedly in a national forum the media wouldn't be all over it like a cheap suit?

It's probably too late but John McCain needs to fire his entire staff and replace them with people that can think beyond City Council style political strategy. Yes it's clear, the entire staff must go, that is except those who wrote McCains material for the Bill Smith Dinner. Who ever these people are McCain needs more of that! Perhaps it was because he was reading his lines or that policies & recent events were veiled in humor but he seemed like less of a grumpy old man.

Obama on the other hand... well let's just say that we won't be calling him Shekky anytime soon and he won't be touring Vegas. His humor hit a little too close to home as was evident by the sparse applause and nervous laughter.
What Obama did do was break with tradition and end with non-humorous stirring remarks which brought the room to their feet.

And so the McCain campaign once again is left looking at what happened through the rear view mirror. All because they forgot three of the irrefutable laws of the world, two of which were brought to us by the author William Goldman:
- Never enter into a land war in Asia
- Never gamble with a Sicilian when death is on the line
and the newest, most relevant,
-Never let Obama have the last word in front of a crowd.