On last night

A very interesting piece from hilzoy's crew at Obsidian Wings:

I think that — deep inside — McCain thinks of himself as a deeply substantive “great man.” In his heart, he views himself as above all this Ayers-ACORN-infant nonsense. His closest supporters tend to share this view — Kristol, for instance, has complained that the campaign isn’t commensurate with “the man.”

And so tonight, the great man — having run a small and misguided campaign — was forced to scrape the absolute bottom. Tonight, the great man not only brought up the Ayers nonsense (see Pajamas Media point above), but he actually accused Obama and Ayers of being part of some grand conspiracy to subsidize ACORN. I would call it jumping the shark, but the Fonzie-derived phrase doesn’t do justice to the sheer tragic magnitude of the farce we saw tonight.

The truth is that the great man has nothing to say. It was a campaign constructed upon his own perceived greatness. The issues he noted — earmarks, the surge — had less to do with helping the American people than about illustrating his own morality and greatness.

Well said.

And fuck Joe the Plumber.