More Timetable Endorsements from Baghdad

It’s show-time in Baghdad. After meeting Obama, the Iraqi PM-beat goes on.

Now the official spokesman for Prime Minister al-Maliki, Ali al-Dabbagh, is saying, (and not in German either), exactly what he claimed the Prime Minister was misquoted as offering to Der Spiegel about endorsing Barack Obama’s timetable for withdrawal of American troops by 2010.

One can only imagine what’s going on at the White House and at McCain headquarters. I guess one McCain consultant's frank quote to Marc Ambinder the other day may be the party line by this evening.

Was there another issue McCain was hoping might break his way?