I’m still stuck on John McCain saying Barack Obama supports ‘comprehensive sex education’ for kindergartners.

If McCain is telling the truth he’s convinced me – 100% – Obama does not have the judgment to be president.

But if, on the other hand, it’s not true, he’s landed me in a conundrum. Because that’s a pretty serious smear. One that’s hard to overlook as, say, just politics as usual.

I also do not understand why – if the charge is false – Obama is not jumping up and down and screaming bloody murder. Smears like that have backfired and sunk candidates with a lot bigger leads than McCain. Why hasn’t Obama done his own ad? It would have been simple. All he’d need is himself, a chair, and a television set. He’d sit in the chair, turn on the TV, play McCain’s ad, then look into the camera and say, Senator McCain, you misled the American people. Apologize.

Obama could have changed the direction of the presidential campaign. Instead of defending his liberalism he’d be debating McCain’s honesty.

If he’d done that McCain’s next ad – saying Barack Obama compared Sarah Palin to a pig – would have been manna from heaven. McCain put the ad on. Ran it. Stood by it. Then, a week later, turned around and told the press, personally, he didn’t think Obama had compared Palin to a pig at all.

So this time Obama didn’t even have to prove he’d been smeared. All he needed to do was run McCain’s statement that McCain’s own ad wasn’t true. In politics it doesn’t get any easier than that. Then, rather than swatting at the ten incoming missiles McCain’s firing at him every day, Obama could just destroy them all in one fell swoop by proving McCain doesn’t believe his own ads.

John McCain’s political strategy is puzzling. But Barack Obama’s is a mystery.

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