McCain Lawyer's Up!

Eric Kleefeld at TPM has the report of the conference call heard round the world!:

"On a conference call with reporters this afternoon, held in response to the Obama campaign's ramped-up attacks on McCain's involvement in the scandal, the campaign brought out attorney John Dowd, who served as McCain's counsel at the time. Dowd declared that he vehemently disagreed with the judgment of the Senate Ethics Committee that McCain had made some serious mistakes. 'That's not something that as his counsel I accepted,' Dowd said."

That's quite a reversal of the story coming from McCain. HAsn't anyone ever told him that involving your lawyer on media calls makes you look like you have something to hide? Am I alone in seeing this as a really bad call? (Pun intended...)