Ichabod and Chad,
I think there is a different reason that McCain did not bring up Obama's connection to Islam.
I believe his attention was to do so, but his handlers jumped on him and had him not do so because they were afraid it would not be politically correct and viewed as racist as well.
Inturn, giving Obama, his supporters, and the liberal media something to jump on and painting a very different picture of McCain. The Obama campaign would have flipped over and focused on how racist McCain was and entirely avoid any real issues.
When I saw McCain on the campaign trail, I saw a very different man than I had come to know when I lived in AZ.. He seemed to me holding back and holding his tongue. He did not look comfortable to me, as if he wanted to unleash himself and expose things about Obama, but was being held back.
And this is exactly what Obama and his campaign were waiting for. Any opportunity to play the race or religion card. Obama used it on Bill Clinton during the campaign.
Let us not forget about what happened to Sarah Palin, when she spoke about "hanging around with Bill Ayers" or "sitting in the pews of Trinity Church listening to Rev. Wright for twenty plus years and having daughters baptized there"; Obama and his cronies did everything to discredit her. They even sent investigation teams to dig up dirt on her and her family in Alaska.
I believe that is why we did not see the real John McCain.
His handlers didn't want to risk outcries of racism and/or risk not looking politically correct.
Do I think this was the right thing to do? No, I don't.
My opinion would be to heck with it all, and I would 24 hours a day any chance I got, non stop bring up anytime/anywhere, Trinity, Ayers, Wright, Black Theology, Acorn, Obama's birth/school records, and I would do it non stop, never even bringing up my policies or politics.
I would be like a broken record, but that is me.