Game Over

Y'know...I'm sure it'll pass...but for the past day or so I've actually been feeling kind of sorry for John McCain. I think he's gonna get creamed, and I want him to, but...man, he's just getting worked like Tina Fey's publicist.

He actively seeks the endorsement of two "controversial" pastors, then, when their comments become too hot, distances himself from them. So he's alienated people who were offended by those comments, but most of them weren't going to vote for him anyway.

He can't even claim, as Obama could, to have tried to stand by a man in bad times as well as in good out of friendship and respect.

But McCain's also alienated the very people whose votes he was courting by seeking the endorsements in the first place.

Plus of course, he's a republican at a time when gay child molesters in Tennessee are more popular than republicans (should John Hajduk be looking in, I'm being comic).

But it's not just that. Everyone, including McCain himself, makes jokes about him being old. But there's more to it than jokes. I don't know if he really gets (or cares) that everything he's said or done is now fair game--and can be brought to the masses.

Could he have imagined even eight years ago, the last time he ran, that some schlep in Seattle would be sitting there pitying him?

If anything, Obama may have to work at least a little hard to avoid the appearance of picking on an old man.