How suprising...

My points exactly. I was actually pleasantly suprised that it even made headlines, but it's not like McCain -- er, Saint McCain - was treated with even the same ways that Obama was. Not that they should be identically treated...but actually, it's more of a story that a seasoned politician and war veteran would make this statement...and yet, the media forgave him much, much quicker.

clipped from www.talkingpointsmemo.com

By contrast, when Obama committed this error, he was greeted with a fusillade of stand-alone stories, many of them hammering him for his political screw-up. "His first stumble," said the Chicago Sun Times. "Stumbling out of the gate," said political wise man Ron Fournier in a piece carried by MSNBC. Matt Lauer of NBC wondered: "How big a fallout will there be over this?" There was plenty of other babbling about it on cable, too.

And on McCain? Nutin'. As of yet, anyway. Again, it's early days. Maybe we'll see a bunch of stand-alone stories on this tomorrow. Maybe we'll hear lots of similar denunciations of McCain's blunder in the next 12 to 24 hours. Or maybe not. Maybe instead we'll be reminded yet again of the media's default setting: On military matters, Dems are presumed to be politically vulnerable, while Republicans -- particularly McCain -- are presumed to be politically infallible.