Andrew Romano makes an important point about the economic crisis:
Now that the press and the public are finally paying attention, Obama can’t just say that McCain is out of touch and call it a day. He has to explain what he would do differently–and better. He has to sell his plan for righting an economy still reeling from the real estate and mortgage crises–something he shied away from doing today, preferring instead to rely on the "same vague… pitc[h] he has sounded over the past few months for fixing what ails the country.”
My advice: give a speech offering concrete solutions followed by a press conference. I think Obama and Biden should be giving many more press conferences. It is bizarre, to my mind, that one vice-presidential candidate has never given a national one – and we have only six weeks to go. More than bizarre: outrageous.
The Dish 