Cheap Shot Of The Day?

Updated -- Ostensibly, this goes to the Obama campaign, for pointing out that Sen. John McCain is taking along his campaign's chief economic policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, to the White House.

DHE, as they call him inside the McCain campaign, knows as much about the economy as anyone on McCain's Senate staff.

He happens to get a paycheck from the campaign, as McCain has been running for president recently. The campaign is "suspended," although we know it's a partial suspension of some activities designed to look like a full-scale suspension -- should DHE stay home and surf Facebook?

So there's wrong about his accompanying McCain to the White House?  McCain's bringing his best policy guy to a meeting, and he gets knocked for it?  Only in the sense that McCain's suspension was really never a true suspension...but then again, we kind of knew it wasn't.

It's kind of irrelevant.

Update: the Obama campaign says that they were told NOT to bring campaign staff to the White House.

So -- there's a double standard here.

I guess it's not a cheap shot.  Just irrelevant.

Just as, it turns, the White House meeting might be, since Congressional leaders and the
White House have already reached an agreement on principles, and neither Barack Obama nor John McCain had anything to do with it.