Spin Cycle

Somewhere, people are doing serious things tonight, like trying to rescue the country from a financial crisis, trying to stay alive in Iraq, etc. But not in Campaign Land, where the big news is supposedly that Biden, on Katie Couric, says he didn't like the ad his campaign ran about McCain not knowing how to use the Internet:

The McCain campaign says that proves Obama is bringing "the sleazy gutter politics of Chicago to our national stage," not because it does any such thing, but because that's the message of their campaign today and they'd say it if Obama attended an opera:

"While the New York Times and other media outlets were silent in the face of Barack Obama's shameless and dishonorable attack on John McCain, even Obama's own running mate has now condemned the ad as 'terrible,' admitting he never would have approved it. Barack Obama has brought the sleazy gutter politics of Chicago to our national stage, exposing his call for a ‘new politics’ as a lie and embarrassing even his own running-mate with the low road campaign he's running.”

Then Biden, sounding like a puppie slapped on the snout, tries to dial it back in a statement issued by the Obama campaign -- pathetically asserting that he had never actually seen the ad he condemned. And he's supposedly the on-the-ball v-p candidate:

“I was asked about an ad I’d never seen, reacting merely to press reports. As I said right then, I knew there was nothing intentionally personal in the criticism of Senator McCain’s views which look backwards not forwards and are out of touch with the new economic challenges we face today. Having now reviewed the ad, it is even more clear to me that given the disgraceful tenor of Senator McCain’s ads and their persistent falsehoods, his campaign is in no position to criticize, especially when they continue to distort Barack’s votes on an issue as personal as keeping kids safe from sexual predators."

And from this, we have learned what about who should be the next president?

The ad in question, which seemed to us to be an ineffective ad with a fairly light touch, is after the jump.