His zig-zagging on slandering Obama is just one more example of his increasingly erratic behavior and poor judgment, and yet more proof that he has completely lost his moral center–the result of selling his soul to the Karl Rove faction of the Republican party. He is retracting some of his slanders, not because he has repented of them, but because he sees that they have backfired by alienating the undecided voters that he needs if he is to have any hope of winning.

McCain’s claim to be a ‘maverick’ are absurd-he has voted with Bush 90% of the time, has over 80 lobbyists on his staff, and has elected to veer to the far right in his campaign, to the point of taking advice from Karl Rove. A better description would indeed be erratic, as he claims Obama would raise taxes more than he would one moment, and then the next moment comes up his very own $300,000,000 pork-barrel give-away program to people who borrowed money they couldn’t possibly pay back.

If you are enjoying the meltdown of the banking system and the Dow at 9000, you’ll love a McCain Presidency–McCain was right there with Bush deregulating the banks and freeing them from the constraints that previously prevented this kind of greed-driven disaster.

They’d like nothing better than a tighter race.

Don’t you know it. They hate a blowout, just like Monday Night Football hates a blowout. It’s bad for the ratings.

Perhaps the rest of the rollout is later today.

Interestingly, and not surprisingly, the media has shown a lot of interest in the new quote. They’d like nothing better than a tighter race.