Via David Broder‘s latest column:
“I’m very sorry about it,” McCain said in a Saturday interview at his Arlington headquarters. “I think we could have avoided at least some of this if we had agreed to do the town hall meetings” together, as he had suggested, during the summer months.
This is the kind of blackmail that you usually see from spoiled children in department stores around Christmas time. Unfortunately, McCain hasn’t been a child since the first issue of Sports Illustrated was published.
Fortunately Obama has a pretty sweet response.
“I think the notion that somehow as a consequence of not having joint appearances, Senator McCain felt obliged to suggest that I’d rather lose a war to win a campaign doesn’t automatically follow.”
Zing!
— A. Serwer
