A Series Of Unfortunate Events

The McCain campaign and the White House did not see eye to eye over last week's "appeasement" exchanges. McCain advisers contend that the heads up that a senior White House official e gave to the McCain campaign was not very detailed, and that the campaign was caught without really thinking through the response. Some McCain advisers concede that the appeasement controversy stepped on what they wanted people to hear as a very important speech about McCain's governing principle. McCain's not blame free -- he came up with the implied comparison of Obama to Neville Chamberlain. And it's not that the argument itself is one that the McCain campaign doesn't want -- of course they do -- they just don't want George W. Bush to drive it.