A Ray of Hope

Sounds like Obama's getting tired of the Death-by-a-Thousand-Cuts. Notice how the audience bursts into applause as soon as he talks about "lies, and outrage, and phony Swiftboat politics," as soon as he hits back hard.

Now he needs to get this into an ad, stat. And he must stop talking about "the debate I intend to have." He must communicate the urgency of the fact that this is a debate that's on now, and it's a debate in which McCain is hiding under the podium and behind smokescreens.