I love it. Actually laughed out loud.

Makes me remember the one good thing about the new Star Wars movies — the scene where Yoda is fighting Count Duku and leaping all around attacking Duku from every angle while Duku just stands there.

Since no one else has mentioned it: OODA.

Welcome to Maneuver Warfare meets American politics.

With half a million or more veterans of the new kind of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, I suspect this is the shape of politics to come.

He readily claims they’re one of those homeowners who bought too much house in the 90s, have borrowed too much to fill the house they couldn’t afford, the wife has lost & found 4 different professional jobs in the last 15 yrs and they ache in Michigan’s dismal economy –while still wishing they could go to Europe for the summer or walk in the clouds of Machu Picchu, get a more powerful ski boat for the lake, get the kids new $200 Nike soccer shoes and, until last night, he and she regularly complained about WMDs and Iraq in the strongest, angered terms.

I asked him last night about his earlier concern about WMDs/Iraq. His words: “None of that matters now; our financial future is at stake.” I’d peg them as classic Consumers Americanus. And John McCain’s concern about THEIR future and his appearance of leadership brought them to a new point in political allegiance.

When I heard McCain was suspending his campaign to “fix Washington and solve the $700b problem” I too was concerned his gambit was ill-conceived; asking BarryO to suspend campaign ads? How amateurish and naive. By the time the kids were in bed and the side fence conversation was had, I too understood that “McCain gets it” and, more importantly, “knows how to market it to voters”.

The wiley coyote caught another roadrunner… and all that’s left are feathers on the desert floor. For me, too, “McCain gets it” but it’s from the vantage of cold, harsh calculating politics.

And that’s why McCain has a chance to really win big.

Harry Reid is desperate not to be responsible for the bailout — and McCain would be delighted to take the “responsibility” off his hands. For ‘gotcha’ politicians, responsibility is toxic. For statesmen, it’s mother’s milk.

The Media will hammer McCain over the esoteric details that they think won’t play well with independent voters — but every article, every snide comment, will just remind undecideds that McCain was the adult in the Senate.

Of course, it could play out entirely differently…. but McCain is fighting in a battlefield that he know quite well, and he’s in prime fighting form this month. I wouldn’t put to much faith in Harry Reid to grow a spine in the next twenty-four hours.

And no, torrentprime, I don’t judge the whole gambit by what a few CNN anchors said. Their facial expressions merely reinforced my reaction that McCain scored a political coup.

Remember, torrent, it was McCain not Obama who suggested they go to Washington.

Losing so badly? Hardly. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll which leans left had Obama up by one-point. Doesn’t sound like losing badly to me.

Well, what if it’s not? What if this crisis resists a short-term solution? Grant that McCain is the man and Obama the mouse, thus far, but what if everyone’s best laid plans go astray?

In the car, he me his from the blackberry

Someone set up us the bomb.