McCain vs. Obama: Whose fault is it?

The Washington Post's David Broder interviews both candidates on the tone of the campaign, gets them both to profess disappointment and gets them both to blame the other for going down this slippery slope. “‘I'm very sorry about it," McCain said in a Saturday interview at his Arlington headquarters. ‘I think we could have avoided at least some of this if we had agreed to do the town hall meetings’ together, as he had suggested, during the summer months.” More: “I asked Obama if he had any regrets about turning down McCain's early June invitation to start the joint appearances back then. He said, ‘I think the notion that somehow as a consequence of not having joint appearances, Senator McCain felt obliged to suggest that I'd rather lose a war to win a campaign doesn't automatically follow. I think we each have control over ourselves and our campaigns, and we have to take responsibility for that.’” “ A CBS News survey released yesterday, showing Obama with a 45 percent to 39 percent national ... (link)