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Dana Milbank reports in today’s Washington Post that Senators John McCain and Barack Obama addressed the National Association of Newspaper Editors and receieved quite different responses.

Milbank described Obama as peevish and flat when questioned by the assemblage.
“Bitter, are we?’, Milbank mused. When the Senator from Illinois was done, he received polite applause from the newspaper moguls.

According to Milbank, Senator McCain, who appeared two hours earlier, was relaxed, confident and open to questions. He was presented with a box of donuts by the group; his favorite offering to them on the famous “McCain Express” bus.

When queried about the age factor, McCain pretended to doze off, and then invited the journalists to come watch him campaign. At the conclusion of his remarks, McCain received a standing ovation.

Could it be that we are seeing the unravelling of Obama under the pressure of the primaries?

http://www.washingtonpost.com 15 April 2008