Can anything save the McCain candidacy now? While I am stuck in Arizona for the next two days, there is little on the television in the hotel room but talking head TV. The interesting part is how television keeps on pounding into people, the same thing every 15 minutes. What was hot on TV yesterday was the town hall meetings that McCain was at where finally, McCain took on the audience, the xenophobia, and in some ways the racism that has mired this election into one of the most negative elections that I can remember.

The negative ad campaigns, the idea of making Obama an outsider, not like us, doesn’t get it, has fired the “republican base” into believing some of the most negative myopic information that I have ever heard on TV. If this was regular prime time TV, the show would be shut down, yet we are allowing this, encouraging it in a campaign for president.

Yesterday McCain put a much needed tone down to hate campaign that McCain has been running. We do not need a president that won the election based on fear, hate, racism, and xenophobia. We are a nation of immigrants, legal or illegal. What has been going on in the McCain election campaign will turn off people who have any amount of self-respect, and can see through the fear.

The fear exhibited in the video above will continue to haunt the campaign, and make things more difficult in the longer run for the McCain campaign to garner the respect and votes from people who see through the sham. Fear is part of what is happening on the market right now, fear in the campaign, we are a fearful country right now. The campaign that McCain has been running is morally bankrupt, and while I do admire him for trying to pull out, we need to hear the issues, economy, wall street, jobs, not pandering to the “republican base”. The “republican base” does not reflect the opinion of many other Americans. Much like the “we are sorry” images that showed up on the internet after Bush was elected for a second term, there has to be a better approach to the campaign than what is being run now.

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