Paul Begala actually said...

This has been a terrible campaign run in a really difficult time. And McCain was dealt a terrible hand by President Bush and he's played it ...

McCain needs to listen to David Gergen. His only hope is to go big, to be about the economy, to be big and affirming and heroic.

Campaigns that are the most adaptive are the ones that win. And I think McCain is adapting the wrong way.

Both candidates are not being equally angry or equally negative or equally dirty. Obama has been a model of cool, calm.