Well, looky here, Dennis was right when he said McCain's campaign would respond to the house-counting game by throwing together a quickie YouTube ad starring Barack Obama's ex-wife, felonious real estate developer Tony Rezko…

Impressive. Reporters have spilled buckets of ink limning* the relationship between Obama and Rezko, but McCain gets it down to 30 seconds: Rezko gave Obama the keys to a million-dollar a house, so Obama handed him a sack containing $14 million of taxpayers' money.

All right, John McCain. You've convinced me this time. But only because I know those scary shutter-clicking sounds mean something is shockingly, terribly true.

*What an elitist arugula-eating word that is! I should be ashamed of myself.**

**I am ashamed of myself.