Seriously, awesome headline: On Economy, Obama Offers Ideas, McCain Blames Rival.

With talks moving at a rapid pace in Washington, Obama met in Coral Gables, Fla., with his economic advisers and then strongly endorsed the work of Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Obama said he supported giving the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve the broad authority they need to shore up the system.

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McCain, campaigning in Wisconsin and Minnesota, did not react specifically to the emerging plan in Washington. Instead, he expanded on his idea for a Treasury entity that would identify and rescue ailing financial institutions before they failed.

But while he, too, said both parties must work together to solve the crisis, he mostly spent the day going after Obama in highly personal terms, saying the senator from Illinois had been “gaming” the system rather than trying to reform it.

We’ve already been over the fact that McCain has, quite literally, no ideas. Tucker Bounds has taken us down that road over and over again by responding to criticism with nothing but attacks on Obama.

What’s really frying my noodle is that, once again, McCain is trying to have it both ways. They’re attacking him as having no substantial experience, but also as being an insider who was “gaming” the system. McCain and Palin have tons of experience but they’re the fresh faced reformers.

One of the reasons Bush’s campaign worked so well is that he picked a narrative and ran with it, no breaking character. Bush was the courageous man of God, Kerry was a weak flip-flopper. They never betrayed that line and every statement centered around this. McCain has no solid narrative, he just throws a line of attack at Obama based on whatever situation arises.