How will camp Obama explain the Johnson fiasco ? Turns out is wasn’t a “game” and turns out he should have vetted the vetter. And yes, Johnson is not the man Obama knew. But we were told, remember, that Obama’s smooth running campaign was evidence of his brilliant executive skills. Hmmm. Well, for now they have stopped the bleeding and will mumble some excuse about the media feeding frenzy and how smart he was to cut his losses. But really is this not disturbing to the Obama-can-do-no-wrong club?

And McCain’s team and the RNC are not letting go, the latter putting out this statement:

“If Barack Obama is concerned his campaign’s ties to special interests are distracting from his VP search and message, why is Eric Holder still on his search committee? Why is registered federal lobbyist Steve Farber leading the convention for Obama’s supposedly ‘lobbyist-free’ campaign? Obama’s hypocritical attacks show he can’t stand up to his own standard – and that he just isn’t ready to make change.”

More on Holder is here. Johnson offered a clean target and it is not clear that other targets will keep the media’s attention, but it won’t be for lack of trying by the McCain camp.