Downhill On The Road To Denver

Maybe Barack Obama should thank John McCain. McCain hands him this beautiful gift of an out-of-touch rich guy statement right when he's about to pivot to the economy, Obama gets to mock it all day long today, he baits McCain into unleashing some of the most negative ads he's likely to put out there, THEN announces his vice presidential friend.

Then  he has a four day national commercial in which everyone close to a camera talks about the seven houses gaffe. 

THEN gives a (we all presume) barn-burner of a speech presenting his economic plan. One assumes. Barns don't burn as easily as they used to.
 
McCain has changed messages.

His new ad is all about how obama isn't a naive self-important celebrity anymore; instead, he's a scheming back-room corrupt pol, didn't you know?  

Obama's aides think that these ads go a bit too far. Not light and demeaning.... but mean and cold. We will see.