McCain stages photo op with pregnant teen's unwed boyfriend

As Josh Marshall notes, it's now clear that the McCain campaign WANTS all of America talking about this story. The McCain campaign leaked the story to Reuters. The McCain campaign clearly must have approved, if not cajoled, the 18 year old father to come to the convention. And the McCain campaign staged today's photo op with John McCain touching the boy's shoulder. They want the media to talk about Sarah Palin's unwed daughter's pregnancy. Why? Because it's clearly hurting them with their base, and they're in damage control. And what's a few teenage kids and a baby when the Republicans have an election to win. McCain now feels that he needs to show religious right Republicans (are there any other nowadays?) that the two kids are "nice" kids, and that they shouldn't blame McCain or Palin for the unwed pregnancy. Talk about hypocritical. Dragging the young man in front of millions of Americans in order to serve John McCain's political ambitions. Talk about reckless. I'm hoping the media is going to ask why the McCain campaign spent the past 24 hours berating the media for covering this story (a story the McCain campaign leaked in the first place), and now the McCain campaign is further the "private" story with public photo ops.