If you’re going to argue that your opponent is “loose” at a time when a steady hand is needed, at least don’t look like a jackass two minutes later by being unable to pronounce his name. It doesn’t really help your argument that you’re the “steady” guy.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday that Republican rival John McCain is “getting a little loose” at a time when the nation needs a steady hand…

“What worries me most is the McCain campaign seems to have gotten a little loose,” Biden said. “John’s getting a little loose. He doesn’t have much of a steady hand these days. Now’s the time we most need a steady hand.”

This from the guy that just warned that America’s enemies would test us if Obama gets elected. He’s not going to lecture us on having a tightly-woven campaign.

“John McClain. John McClain. Excuse me, John McCain. John McCain – I don’t recognize him anymore,” Biden said to laughter from several hundred supporters in attendance.

Yeah, real funny. Now watch as the Associated Press whitewashes Obama’s association with William Ayers…again.

Obama has condemned Ayers’ radical activities, which occurred when Obama was a child. He met Ayers a quarter century later when Ayers was an education professor at the University of Illinois and a Chicago neighbor. They worked on the boards of two nonprofit charitable groups from the mid-1990s to 2002, and Ayers held a meet-the-candidate event for Obama when he first ran for the Illinois senate, but the two are not close.

I suppose that everything’s okay if the guy you’re hanging with only tried to kill people when you were a child. I guess a 19-year-old can associate with Osama Bin Laden because 9/11 occurred when the teen was just 12. As for not being close, of course not. Obama only provided quotes for Ayers’ book, called Ayers respectable and “mainstream”, launched his career in the terrorist’s living room, served for years with him on boards, and apparently stayed in contact until 2005 when Obama took office as Senator. Not close at all.