The outrageous disgrace that is the McCain campaign for the presidency is reaching new lows. Anyone who pays attention to the media these days knows that McCain campain rallies are turning into hate rallies, as the candidate is often formally introduced by a guy who refers to "Barack Hussein Obama," and the audience shouts out physical threats to Obama and calls him a terrorist. McCain had to calm down some supporters last week when someone in the audience called Obama an Arab and someone else said he was afraid to bring his unborn child into Obama's America.

In 2000, McCain ran against George W. Bush in the Republican primaries. Bush won the critical South Carolina primary after anonymous allegations surfaced that McCain had fathered a black child out of wedlock. In fact, McCain had adopted a girl from Africa. Many thought this racist campain tactic bore the fingerprints of Bush campain wizard Karl Rove. McCain was probably ready to strangle Bush for this nonsense, and the word on the street was that McCain had little use for Bush after the 2000 election and contemplated joining the Democratic Party.

That was the old McCain. The new McCain is a disgrace. To himself and to his country. He nominated an imbecile for his Vice President, a woman who knows very little about policy and is nothing more than a cheerleader on the campaign trail, thoughtlessly making outrageous claims about Obama hanging around terrorists and claiming that Obama basically hates our way of life. She does not know what she is doing. No matter. The Republican rank and file loves her. God help us if the 72 year old cancer survivor McCain dies in office, and a dimwit even dumber than George W. Bush is sitting in the Oval Office. The rank and file that supports McCain and screams out threats at McCain rallies does not see this.

It is this rank and file that must lose this election. McCain, too, but really the rank and file. The campain and its supporters. An Obama victory would bring us into a new era. Many people thought this over the summer, but we did not what kind of hate the Obama candidacy would unleash. Now we are looking at a different consequence flowing from an Obama victory. It would not only bury the Bush legacy by punishing the Republican Party and its heir to Bush's throne, McCain, but also the forces of unbridled hate and ignorance that characterize the McCain campaign, top to bottom. I hold no fantasies that Obama would change the world. But he would symbolize a giant step forward from the ignorant views of his opponents. And that is good enough for me.