And Murphy hasn’t made his possible entry into the campaign smoother by telling a New York Times reporter the other day that “the depressingly self-absorbed McCain campaign machine needs to get out of the way” of its candidate. Robert Gibbs, communications director for the Obama campaign, appeared on today’s Morning Joe and ended up having to take questions on that whole Obama Iraq Withdrawal Flip Flop That Hasn’t Happened Yet But That We’ll Report It Ahead Of Time Because Why Not Report Tomorrow’s Conventional Wisdom Today. Krauthammer, of course, is sort of an extra-special case, because he’s written that he’s “predicted that by Election Day Obama will have erased all meaningful differences with McCain on withdrawal from Iraq,” and that he will eventually “[obliterate] all differences with McCain on national security and social issues. However, Republican Ted Stevens — better known to locals as “Uncle Ted” — has nevertheless allowed some stray evidence of his legal spending to enter the public record in the period after the FBI and IRS raided his Girdwood, Alaska, home last summer. Minutes later, Obama spokeswoman Linda Douglass came to the back of the plane to inform reporters of a “minor little problem with the airplane” and said the plane would make a precautionary landing in St. read more