"Cone of Silence"-gate
I have to say I find this issue borderline silly. In no particular order, my points are:

1) If I had been McCain or Obama I would have suggested whoever wins the coin toss allow the other to watch from the front row if he wanted to. The idea of a cone of silence was great on Get Smart (where it never worked, by the way), but for politics it's silly.

2) I've read that Rick Warren has said that the McCain was with the Secret Service the whole time and that's evidence he didn't listen in. Imagine for a moment that McCain WAS watching/listening - can you imagine some secret service man saying "Bad candidate! No cookie!"?? I don't think so.

3) In an email about another subject, MECS said: "there is so much wrong with McCain that this is one of the more minor things if he lied about it." I agree, and I can't imagine even absolute proof of his "cheating the cone" changing any votes. What kind of a person would say "Well I like him on national security, but I'm mad at him about immigration and now this cheating at Saddleback is just the straw that broke the camel's back"? Please.

4) Warren On CNN's Larry King Live: "There was a rumor going around that he watched the program on a monitor in the Green Room that we had him in. Well, there's only one problem with it. My staff ... disconnected that thing two days before it happened. So if they had happened to turn it on, it would have been all just static". Yeah, and everybody knows that McCain wouldn't be capable of reattaching a cable. I'm pretty sure my 82 year old mother would have been able debug that, and she doesn't have a campaign staff to assist her.

To quote my 3rd favorite fictional President (Andrew Shepherd): "We've got serious problems, and we need serious people." Come on people, let's stay out of the weeds and on the trail.

What's next? (to quote my favorite fictional president :)