If John McCain mentions Bill Ayers tomorrow night, I'd like to hear Obama say something in the spirit of,

"John McCain wants more details on Bill Ayers, who served on the board of a Conservative Anneneberg Foundation sponsored education council.  Despite the fact that this Mr Ayers did some very bad things a long time ago, I served on that board with him because making sure children have the opportunity to learn and stay out of trouble is important to me.

If we're going to play this "gotchya, you once talked to a bad guy" game, we'd have ask about people like William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team - we'd have to ask why John McCain is employing the same lobbyist that Saddam Hussein to ease sanctions on Iraq.

But that would be a waste of time, because for all I know Mr Timmons is a great manager who happened to have a good reason to work on some causes I disagreed with.

 

We really need to be talking about right now is how we can best move forward on the economy, and how we can move forward to secure our *best* interests in Iraq, and in Afghanistan, and right here at home. 

And it's right here at home, with good jobs that we pay our bills now and in the future will create the 21rst century new-energy economy. A new energy economy that could one day free us from dependency on import