John McCain has mocked Democrat Barack Obama all week as so cocky that he is already “measuring the drapes” in the White House Oval Office. The Republican's audience usually boos on cue.

On Saturday, McCain found new ammunition (see video by clicking on the Read more line below) in a newspaper story on White House transition planning that every presidential campaign begins by now (inlcuding the Republican's).

Campaigns, however, are usually careful to keep such planning behind-the-scenes to avoid inconvenient accusations of being presumptuous or over-confident.

Today's erroneous New York Times story said that part of Obama's transition team, John Podesta, who was President Bill Clinton's fourth chief of staff and now is an Obama advisor, already has drafted a sample inaugural address for the Democrat .

Obama aides quickly pointed out that Podesta wrote the speech even more prematurely -- when he was still working for rival Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign -- and published his offering in a book last summer.

A statement posted on the website of Podesta's think-tank....