A Subtle New Strategy?

It's the final week of campaigning and the candidates are making their closing arguments to the American people. McCain is presently on his "Joe the Plumber" tour, trying to draw attention to Obama's "socialist" leanings. Obama has bought up 30 minutes of advertising time on two major broadcasting channels (at $1 million a piece) to outline his plan for the next four years. As a preemptive strike, the McCain camp put out this ad about tonight's inf-"O"-merical...



Did you catch that? "The fact is, Barack Obama's not ready...yet." What's that "yet" in there for? The way that it was spoken, and displayed on the screen, doesn't the statement seem to indicate that he will be ready in the not-too-distant future? Perhaps this is a subtle (a much-lacking descripter of the McCain campaign) attempt to sway on-the-fence Democrats and Independents to vote McCain now and Obama later, once he's got a bit more experience under his belt.

It's not quite committing to serving only one term, but it is an interesting tactic. Still, as with much of McCain's tactics over the last few weeks, it's likely too little too late.