Where's the Happy Little Tire Swing?

Courtesy of TPM, Time magazine's Mark Halperine defends McCain taking a no-holds-barred approach now that the number of his houses (which McCain could not recall) has been brought up. Cokie Roberts apparently didn't get an invitation to McCain's estate cook-out and a ride on the estate tire swing, because she points out that Halperine's argument is a stretch since McCain was going to get belligerent eventually anyway and since his houses are a metaphor for the economy apart from Obama's past associations.

Now to the video tape: