Injecting Race

The McCain campaign doesn't seem to have noticed that when Barack made his comments again yesterday injecting race into the campaign (again), he was again talking like he was already president.

Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face.
So what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, `he's not
patriotic enough, he's got a funny name,' you know, `he doesn't look like all
those other presidents on the dollar bills.'

Was Barack intending to inject race? David Axelrod says no, but then admits that the statement does refer to Barack being "African American." Try to make sense out of this!

Mitchell/Davis Spat

Andrea Mitchell and McCain campaign honcho Rick Davis had quite a spat on MSNBC yesterday! It is an awkward thing to interview someone over the phone when you're on TV, especially when your attempts to interrupt them go unnoticed, but she was particularly bad here - throwing out dumb questions then having no reaction to Davis' answers.


While Davis may have had trouble explaining things to Andrea, Senator Lindsey Graham has no problem making the point clear:

But this is a hysteria around a personality that's attractive, but when you look under the hood, there's not a whole lot there. So fame without portfolio is, sort of, fashionable. But leadership without experience is dangerous.