I understand why John McCain's campaign is desperately looking for negatives in Obama's overseas trip. But why have so many in the media internalized the McCain campaign's claptrap?
Straight Talk talking points (and leaving logic and rational thinking in a pile on the studio floor):
— who, in McCain World, are like an insecure girlfriend, panicked by just the thought of someone else finding their guy attractive?

By Colin Benedict & Jenny Price All campaigns have them--recognizable people who are supposed to influence our vote simply because they're a fan of John

NEW YORK (AP) - Barack Obama has packed his overseas trip with presidential images: a helicopter ride over Iraq with the U.S. military commander; a visit to a Holocaust memorial; a meeting at Afghan President Hamid Karzai's palace.
He even found time to sink a three-point basketball shot before cheering U.S. soldiers.
s). MSNBC and Fox News Channel briefly showed pictures of McCain's meeting but didn't stay to hear what he had to say, and covered Obama in full.

By Josh Rogers on Wednesday, July 23, 2008. McCain rips Obama on foreign policy as Illinois Demcract travels overseas. The attacks come as UNH poll finds

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ring his trip overseas. The polls might indicate that these two are in a close contest, but I have to wonder if this premonition about a possible story isn't just a reality check by the McCain camp.

I heard a quote on TV yesterday from John McCain that really got under my skin. Here's the text, from the FoxNews website:
"I had the courage and the judgment to say that I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war," McCain said at his town hall meeting Tuesday, referring to his support for the troop surge. "It seems to me that Senator Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign."
rt as objectionable

After touching off hot speculation that John McCain was going to rain on Barack Obama’s parade of favorable news coverage by disclosing his VP choice this week, conservative columnist Robert Novak now says he may have gotten snookered.
"I got a suggestion from a very senior McCain aide late yesterday afternoon that he was going to announce it this week,'' Novak told Fox News Tuesday. "They didn't want it to come out the way it was going to come out, and they suggested I put it out.
in and Phil Gramm had patched up their differences after the former Texas senator caused a dust-up by calling America a "nation of whiners." Novak wrote that Gramm was returning to the McCain campaign but, amid the controversy that followed the disclosure, Gramm quit as a campaign co-chair.

(CNN) – Sources in John McCain's campaign confirm to Dana Bash and Gloria Borger that there have been recent discussions high in the campaign about the