McCain Camp: We’re Moving On
TOM BEVAN

The McCain campaign just blasted out the following email:

All: Sen. McCain today said that the Obama campaign retracted Sen. Obama’s comments in Missouri. They clearly walked away from his statements and we are moving on.

As the Politico reported yesterday:

Obama’s campaign quickly put out a statement Thursday retracting the candidate’s suggestion that McCain had improperly used race, and, while on a conference call with reporters, campaign manager David Plouffe declined repeatedly to revisit any aspect of the question of race.

One pulls the race card, the other pulls the celebrity card. As the race for the Whitehouse becomes a messy fight the candidates will again end up campaign in the same place today–campaigning for themselves and attacking each other.

Yet this debate makes Sen. Barack Obama put some chips on the table too. Sen. John McCain’s team is not executing perfectly, but it has managed to dominate the discussion for a sustained period of time — possibly for the first time in the general election.

(And how much is it helped by a Congress that’s leaving town without an energy bill — and with Obama lacking a pat answer on the subject.)

Yes, the race has devolved into a he-started-it playground fight that diminishes both candidates. Yes, the McCain brand shrinks when he makes the campaign about Obama.

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