McCain Went With Public Financing Leaving Obama in the Driver's Seat

One of McCain's brilliant errors was apparently assuming that the purportedly sincere liberal reformer Obama would stick with public financing for the Presidential campaign. By pledging to not seek private funds and limiting himself to public financing McCain was left outspent by Obama's money machine. McCain screwed up again. Bless him for it.

Of course there may have been more necessity than choice to McCain's decision to seek public financing. If he had the choice however, it was neither a sign of tactical nor strategic brilliance. He tried to lecture Obama about who knew what the term strategic meant in one of the so called "debates". Obama is the strategic genius of the two and this is just one part of that intellectual grasp that McCain just doesn't have, period.