Worst campaign spokesman ever?

In an AP article chronicling Obama's assertion that McCain offers 'willful ignorance', the response of the McCain campaign to the charges is reported as follows:

The McCain campaign shot back that Obama's stimulus plan, which includes sending billions to state and local governments to keep projects and health spending afloat, isn't the right recipe.

'When Americans are hurting, Barack Obama's plan to take more and more money from pocketbooks and hand it over to mismanaged government budgets is not the solution - it's the problem,' said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds. 'Barack Obama is simply offering more of the same.'

I realize that Bounds can't know exactly how reporters will frame his statements, but given that the centerpiece of Obama's stimulus proposal is a call for getting funds to underfunded state and local governments to pay for infrastructure and heath coverage, did he really want to make a statement that suggests that all state and local governments mismanage money? And does he think most voters place more faith in the federal government? Because the proposal is to send federal money to state and local governments, not to institute a new tax. I wonder how Republican mayors and governors, who have been feeling the crunch as much as Democratic ones, will react to this suggestion that they'd have enough money to pay for improvements and health care if they only learned to manage their money properly.

Not for the first time, I wonder where McCain found Tucker Bounds.