That's Interesting. And Begs for a Response.

Let's recap the last few days. McCain's idiot handlers announce that they are going to "take the gloves off" and hammer Obama for knowing some supposedly shady people. Obama responds with a 13-minute online video that details McCain's culpability in the Keating S&L scandal in the 1980s. McCain's handlers go apeshit, but somehow instead of pulling a George W. Bush and just refusing to talk about the past, or stand pat on the fact that McCain apologized for his mistakes and built his entire reputation on having learned to be a "maverick" from those mistakes, the McCain people decide to call the whole Senate investigation into the Keating affair a "Democratic smear job" on McCain! Unbelievable!

This all but guarantees that this story will get bigger and stay in view longer.

Rather than waiting to see if the public would become interested in McCain's scandalous past (and, if not, this story would have died quickly), his own campaign staff have decided to have WWIII right now, on this issue.

If I were a Rovian-conspiracy nut, I'd say this was an attempt to distract from some even bigger problem for McCain, but I can't think of anything. We're now so far past that point...