"McCain distances himself from the president."

"McCain, meanwhile, ticked off economic plans he has detailed over the past two weeks and told an audience in Virginia that the country could not bear up under four more years like the past eight, implicitly criticizing fellow Republican President George W. Bush, whose unpopularity has been a huge drag on the veteran Arizona senator's campaign.

"We cannot spend the next four years as we have spent much of the last eight: waiting for our luck to change. The hour is late; our troubles are getting worse; our enemies watch. We have to act immediately. We have to change direction now. We have to fight," he said at the rally in Virginia, a normally reliably Republican state that he's been forced to defend this year as the economic crisis deepens."

As his ship seems to be sinking it looks as if he'd jumped into Obama's.

I'd be curious about this question at the next debate: "Senator McCain, I'm noting your statement. It seems to be saying that all of the policies of the last eight years which you've supported have failed, and that you want to change and lead the country in a different direction. Now does that mean you'd be most effective because you could just turn 180 degrees and we'd be on the right path?"

Arf