John McCain sold his soul, reputation, image out to play the ugliest, nastiest, racist campaign for the next 56 days. It is all he has left to do. It is up to us, not to get caught up in bullshit but keep our eyes on the prize. Let McCain/Palin become caricatures, because that is what is happening. And let us, the supporters remember to focus on Obama and not the Drama. <icebergslim>
A soundbite from Obama speaking to a group today has him referring to the McCain Rovian smears and smear attempts as (paraphrasing) " ... it's a game they play. It's a sport."
Well it's more than merely a sport, as i'm quite sure Obama knows: it's a culture, it's professional in every sense of the term, meaning as well that it is not uncommon to be criminal, untruthful and inevitably disastrous to those upon whom said sport/culture preys: the non-Us, (Us being vast majority of whom have no problem with their so-called "capital gains" being taxed at an income rate less than the rate I am charged for my exclusively labor income. If capitalism is so good for me as for those who profit from capitalists' investments they should not have my labor income subsidize their capital income.