John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in an interview Wednesday that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own.
"I think — I'll have my staff get to you,"
August 21st: Obama hits McCain on the housing gaffe with an ad called "Seven"
Mark Halperin: My hunch is this is going to end up being one of the worst moments in the entire campaign for one of the candidates but it’s Barack Obama. […] I believe that this opened the door to not just Tony Rezko in that ad, but to bring up Reverend Wright, to bring up his relationship with Bill Ayers.
August 17th/18th:
Stanley Kurtz writes about Ayers in National Review, and a 3rd-party swift boat group promotes the article
The American Issues Project today announced the debut of a new television advertising campaign examining the relationship between Sen. Barack Obama and unrepentant 1960's domestic terrorist, William Ayers...
Supported by over one hundred pages of back-up documentation and historical accounts
It might be good if Mark Halperin could explain on next Sunday's show how this group went backwards through space-time to attack Obama on Ayers days before the housing gaffe (and the National Review article makes it clear Kurtz has been spending quite some time investigating the Ayers connection), and then did a same-day turnaround from Obama's "Seven" ad to assembling a hundred-page dossier and their own ad
