The McCain camp held another in their series of calls with bloggers this morning, this one announcing McCain’s “Service to America” tour, which will kick off next week. Ed Morrissey has a pretty comprehensive write-up of the call over at Hot Air, but the comments about Gen. McPeak (and indirectly Rev. Wright) are certainly worth putting up here. In response to my question about whether the McCain campaign had any concerns about the company Obama keeps (you’ll remember Obama made the comment that McCain has “made some bad choices about the company he keeps“), senior adviser Steve Schmidt said:
So, it looks like the McCain folks are no more eager to engage on this issue than Hillary was when the story of Rev. Wright first broke. Of course, at this point Howard Wolfson would probably give a pretty colorful answer if he was asked the same question. It may be that the McCain folks won’t make hay out all this until they, too, have their backs up against the wall, at which point, like Hillary, it may already be too late–notwithstanding the encouraging words Schmidt offers her here.
