... it'd be quite a bit like McBush.

My gosh. John McCain and Barack Obama know how to be negative in the presidential campaign. That especially goes for McCain. He's a dirty rotten lying scoundrel. The guy who really started the mud-slinging. Obama has retaliated. With stretching the truth of his own against McCain. But I think Obama did it as sort of a reflexive action. When you're slapped in the face, you turn the other cheek only so often. And finally you slap back with gusto. Unfortunately, that's the way politics is played. Downright dirty. In the gutter. As I see it, McCain asked for it. Probably because he has no other way to win. He has to paint Obama as a bad guy. And he may be coyly trying to remind rednecks and bigots that Obama is black. Yes, the racists are part of McCain's base. And they could make a difference in a very close election. Anyway, this election seems to be coming down to who's most likely to bring real change to national politics and to the economy. That gives Obama the edge. But American voters are a peculiar lot. They elected George Bush twice. And if they elected McCain -- well, it'd be quite a bit like McBush. --Jim Broede