Eschewing his announced discussion on the economy, McCain decided to just hammer on Obama some more. Excerpt from the speech:

“The national media has written us off.,” McCain says in excerpts released by the campaign. “Sen. Obama is measuring the drapes and planning with Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Reid to raise taxes, increase spending, take away your right to vote by secret ballot in labor elections and concede defeat in Iraq. But they forgot to let you decide. My friends, we’ve got them just where we want them.”

Sound familiar? Well here’s Dubya in October of 2006:

“The Democrats have made a lot of predictions. Matter of fact, I think they may be measuring the drapes,” Bush said yesterday to laughs at a Sarasota, Fla., fund-raiser for GOP House hopeful Vern Buchanan.

I’ll tell ya, I just can’t imagine why people keep insisting that there’s any similarity between these two guys…

Oh and what the hell does “we’ve got them just where we want them” mean in this context? McCain is behind in every national tracker and the electoral college is shaping up to be a 1984-style landslide. Does he actually think anyone will believe that he purposefully fell this far behind for some reason? Talk about going into panic mode.