Holy Moly! As Josh Marshall has noted, AP is not stopping a moment to reflect on events, pushing across their own version of the Obama speech:
Barack Obama, whose campaign theme is "change we can believe in," promised Thursday to "spell out exactly what that change would mean."
But instead of dwelling on specifics, he laced the crowning speech of his long campaign with the type of rhetorical flourishes that Republicans mock and the attacks on John McCain that Democrats cheer. The country saw a candidate confident in his existing campaign formula: tie McCain tightly to President Bush, and remind voters why they are unhappy with the incumbent.
And Keith was unsparing in his criticism, calling it and the AP's decision to send it to hundreds of newspapers a "failure of that news organization." {more below}