The latest lame excuse/story/rationalization out of the McCain campaign, on why McCain’s campaign has been so negative:

“I’m very sorry about it,” McCain said in a Saturday interview at his Arlington headquarters. “I think we could have avoided at least some of this if we had agreed to do the town hall meetings” together, as he had suggested, during the summer months.

Wow. So, McCain is saying that because Obama did not agree to McCain’s idea that they debate in McCain’s territory on McCain’s terms, because Obama did not accept a challenge that McCain knew Obama would turn down, because Obama did not respond to McCain’s grandstanding–because of that, McCain was forced to release a series of heavily negative attack ads filled with lies, distortions, and racial & sexual innuendo.

Wow.

Obama’s response sums it up perfectly:

I think the notion that somehow as a consequence of not having joint appearances, Senator McCain felt obliged to suggest that I’d rather lose a war to win a campaign doesn’t automatically follow. I think we each have control over ourselves and our campaigns, and we have to take responsibility for that.

McCain: “It was all his fault.” Obama: “We have to take responsibility for our own campaigns.”

So, who is the more reasonable candidate?