Maybe I Spoke Too Soon...

This from the New York Times:

LAKEVILLE, Minn. — After a week of trying to portray Senator Barack Obama as a friend of terrorists who would drive the country into bankruptcy, Senator John McCain abruptly changed his tone on Friday and told voters at a town-hall-style meeting that Mr. Obama was “a decent person” and a “family man” and suggested that he would be an acceptable president should he win the White House.

But moments later, Mr. McCain, the Republican nominee, renewed his attacks on Mr. Obama for his association with the 1960s radical William Ayers and told the crowd, “Mr. Obama’s political career was launched in Mr. Ayers’ living room.”

The dizzying statements came on a confused day when Mr. McCain’s campaign pounded Mr. Obama as a “liar” in an incendiary television commercial about Mr. Ayers....

The article in its entirety is posted here. So what's it going to be for the McCain campaign? High road or low road? It seems to me you can't travel both simultaneously, because attempting to have it both ways smacks of hypocrisy. So perhaps I was too quick to offer praise for Senator McCain's change of heart. Interesting analysis of McCain is offered at Talking Points Memo by blog founder Josh Marshall. Definitely worth a read.

-EB