Unleashed

It's so much better seeing Obama go after John McCain than seeing him go after Hillary Clinton:

(h/t to Joe Sudbay at AMERICAblog)

Even this mild rebuke by Obama--mild in comparison to McCain's suggestion that Obama is militant Islam's candidate for President--drew feigned outrage from the GOP:

To: Interested Parties

From: Mark Salter, Senior Advisor

Date: May 8, 2008

Re: Senator Obama’s Attack Today

First, let us be clear about the nature of Senator Obama’s attack today: He used the words ‘losing his bearings’ intentionally, a not particularly clever way of raising John McCain’s age as an issue. This is typical of the Obama style of campaigning.

Let me say this about that: huh?  Age?  Since when is losing one's bearings code for geriatric senility?  Methinks McCain is being a little touchy.  Maybe he forgot to take his Geritol this morning.