Indeed :)

I think your examples are not so much about “meanness” as they are about McCain just having a really skewed idea of how the world actually works.

Kind of like the entire flap today with Obama turning down public funding for his campaign. I have no idea why McCain decided to make an issue of that as if Obama was somehow betraying the voters by not taking their tax dollars to fund his campaign…but yet he’s out there flinging rocks about how Obama’s decision is a violation of peoples’ “trust” or whatever. If I were one of Obama’s spin doctors I know that one of my first remarks to the press would be something along the lines of “I’m sorry that the Senator’s offended by the fact that we’re able to stick to a budget and run our campaign without needing the government to prop us up. Perhaps Senator McCain should reexamine why his organization is so dysfunctional that it needs to redirect our tax dollars to keep it afloat. Especially since he’s campaigning for a job that requires an ability to identify bad spending habits.”

Of course, I doubt Obama’s campaign would use a line like that since they seem intent on avoiding snark whenever possible. :)