http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/09/03/obama-booked-oreilly-mccain-aide-trashes-medias-palin-frenzy

Obama has agreed to appear on The O'Reilly Factor on the night that McCain accepts the Republican nomination.

Firstly: After McCain went all soft during Obama's big day, what does Obama hope to achieve by trying to steal McCain's?

Secondly: Is Obama out of his mind? O'Reilly may be a hot-headed interrogator, but he's not that big of an idiot. Obama has proven time and time again that he may be charismatic, but when thinking on his feet he has about the oratory skills of a particularly dim boxer with concussion (sweety) (above my pay-grade). Given the many agendas which would absolutely destroy Obama if they were heavily debated in the media, such as abortion and his foreign-policy (which seems to be completely undefined when you read what he says in interviews carefully), what does he think he has to win?

Well, thirdly: Maybe he thinks it's all coming away beneath his feet. He has already tried to play the nice-guy while letting his attack-dogs in the liberal media smear-campaign against Sarah Palin. But rather than looking like a nice guy, while smearing her credentials, it isn't working. Sure, liberals are jumping on this in a frenzy, but do independents think the aggressive dismissal of a woman's credentials because she's A ) a mother, B ) got a daughter who is pregnant out of wedlock,C ) only had mayoral experience in a small town (still more mayoral experience than Obama) will make it more likely they won't vote for her? I sincerely doubt it. The way I see it going in the blogs and amateur media is people are seeing the dark-side of the liberals while seeing Sarah Palin as the plucky underdog.

Is this move sheer desperation from Obama, or political genius? I think the former.