Published 8/22/2008
at WSJ.com: Washington Wire
Wow, rapid response in todays politics really does mean rapid. Kate Linthicum of LATimes.com makes the point by looking just how fast Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain reacted to the new McCain gaffe over houses. She notes on Thursday, just hours after John McCain told a Politico.com reporter that he wasn’t quite sure how many houses he owned, Barack Obama pounced.
The Illinois senator scoffed at McCain’s blunder in a speech
and the campaign released a cable television commercial that attacked the Republican as out of touch with Americans who are struggling economically. But the reaction to the reaction came just as fast. The McCain camp, in plenty of time for the evening news on the East Coast , produced an ad that mentions Obama’s million-dollar mansion and questions the Democrat’s dealings with Chicago political fundraiser — and convicted felon — Antoin “Tony” Rezko . Linthicum concludes: Obama’s camp isn’t likely ...
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