McCain now says Obama is a wolf out to destroy Palin, his prey

McCain has a new ad. It paints Obama as a dark nasty wolf out to eat poor Sarah Palin. Which got me thinking:

1. Obama doesn't want to cut McCain's or Palin's heads off because it would be mean, and he doesn't do mean - but also because if Obama does fight back hard, then he might be accused of flip-flopping on his message of "change."

2. In his latest personal attack ad, John McCain is now accusing Obama of doing just that, knocking Palin's head off, AND flip-flopping on his message of change - even though Obama hasn't and isn't.

3. So, Obama's strategy of playing nice, and not giving the Republicans cause to accuse him of flip-flopping on the "nice" thing, has led Obama to give McCain a free pass AND McCain is still accusing Obama of flip-flopping on the "nice" thing.

4. Finally, I've heard chatter that Obama may think he has to be careful not to come off as the "stereotypical angry black man." That this is one reason he's playing nice. Well, they just painted you as a black wolf preying on a white woman. How's that going for you?

So, in a nutshell, we played nice and the Republicans played mean. We held back because we didn't want to give the Republicans ammo, and they fired anyway. Gee, no one could have predicted that. Oh wait, we all did. Anybody else starting to wonder if our next president is going to be named Palin?