Here's the lede from the AP's latest McCain fluffer, this time from Nedra Pickler ...

Barack Obama says John McCain's plan to balance the budget doesn't add up. Easy for him to say: It's not a goal he's even trying to reach.

Well, easy for McCain too, since he doesn't either.

Pickler doesn't mention that McCain doesn't even say how he'll do it; he just says he'll do it. No numbers -- No nothing. Every sentient being who's looked at his spending and tax cut proposals knows he won't come close to balancing the budget in four years. And within a few hours of making the claim his own economic advisor decided that he was actually going to do it in eight years not four.