The Current State of the Election

As I watch the news on TV I can't help but feel disgusted with John McCain. If you had asked me about John McCain when he was running against George Bush in 2000, I would have said that I don't think he was that bad of a guy.

But then he got bombarded with negative attack ads in South Carolina, and it's like it completely destroyed the John McCain that used to be. Now it seems that John McCain has become exactly what he used to rail against, he has now turned to the very same schemes and tactics that was used against him.

As it has been said before, the Straight Talk Express lost a wheel.

I can understand to a certain extent that some political campaigns could be considered to be negative, when they are trying to draw differences in policy between two candidates. And when an ad is relating to a specific issue, then I really don't have a problem with it.

However when you had ad being put out by John McCain trying to connect Barack Obama to William Ares, who was active when Obama was just a child, and despite that it has already been reported in the media that there is no connection, just seems fundementaly wrong to me.

McCain seems to be trying to breed feer among the populous by implying that Baracak Obama is a terrorist, or some sort of terrorist sympathiser. While I don't think that John McCain actually thinks Barack Obama is a terrorist, I think that what McCain is doing is reprehensible. If you want to run against someone in a fair campaign that is one thing, but implying that someone is a terrorist is obscene.

Today McCain held a rally, and when he started talking about Obama, people in the audience started shouting "TERRORIST!" Now I know that if you were to ask John McCain why didn't he stop them, he would just reply that he has no control over what other people say. However common human decency would dictate that he at least try to stop them, or condem someone who is ignorant enough to call Barack Obama a terrorist.

But then again I am sure that John McCain wants people to worry that Barack Obama may be some sort of terrorist, because the more people he gets to beleive his fabrications, the closer he may inch towards etching out some sort of victory come November.

I just think that it is ironic that John McCain has become exactly what he considered so distasteful 8 years a go. I think that what makes it worse is that John McCain sold out on whatever values he may have had, and became a shill for the GOP after he lost to George W. Bush. I think it's extremely sad that someone devalue themselves so much just to win an election.