Reality is different. Even if the media want to distort things in their Obama campaign.

McCain and his staff are doing the same thing to Obama and they don't like it. When Obama says something they turn it into a joke. This is infuriating Obama's base and yet it is precisely what they have been doing to their opponents for years now.

Its brilliant. Not going to get much done in government but its brilliant.

I would talk more about the energy problem but whats the use. Ill say drill. The rest of the gang will show up and say it wont work. We will argue about it today. Then a day or two later someone will post on energy. Ill say drill, they will say no, we will rehash the same arguments and then wait for the next post.

Of course, keeping your tires properly inflated and your car properly tuned doesn't obviate domestic drilling. They are not either/or choices. But to ridicule the former while championing the latter is just silly. And it's especially silly if you want to make a difference in how much you pay to drive RIGHT NOW.

Perhaps in response to the tire gauge gimmick Obama should pass out savings bonds with a face value of 2 cents, payable in 15 years, because according the the EIA, that's about how much opening up all of the OCS will impact gasoline prices per gallon sometime in the 2020s.

It does not matter if the joke is a joke. It does not matter if “keep your tires inflated” is not the whole of Obama's energy plan. It does not matter if McCain has no serious counter-proposal. All that matters is fooling voters into thinking that Obama isn't serious. That is all McCain has to do.

And just treating this stunt as nothing more than a stunt is playing right into the game.

They are mocking Obama. Obama needs to mock them back. He needs to hold up one of these tire gauges as PROOF that McCain has no serious proposal for solving our energy problems. That McCain would rather waste the voters time making jokes.

We need to mock them back. We need to hammer them on this.