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I can't quantify this observation, but it seems to me that the McCain campaign and its surrogates have, within roughly the last week, softly introduced a co-element to their principal thrust of attack against Barack Obama.

Perhaps I'm just imagining this -- it's true, commentariat dementia is coincident to the candidates' as these things drag on -- but I could swear that when the week began, the solitary drums-thumping from the McCain camp was that Obama is indeed a marvelous human being, a real beaut of a man, but wholly, even pathetically unprepared to lead the nation as president. He just isn't ready.

As the days of the week accumulated, however, I began to sense that increasingly coupled with this message was the additional charge, usually expressed