His unpreparedness for when this sh*t hit the fan is the disappointment here, not the stale 40 year old rhetoric. Much of the criticism, minus the radical language, is true, most Americans, bot bigoted and not, bot ones who want to grow past that nonsense and those that want to feed and feast off the racism, would admit it even if some would never do so publicly.

I am sure this will kill his candidacy or at least his electability. That McCain is useless, a warmonger who will have us in wars on every continent and that the only thing he knows domestically is how to bleed banks dry, this seems unimportant, that McCain is backed by countless racists and anti-semites counts far less than Obama's one preacher; not for how long he knew him but simply because he is black and the rhetoric is scarier to whites when directed at them. That Ferraro used coded racism to appeal to aspects of the Pa voter base, this is not as important to media or "fans"

The history of this country is sometimes rather sad and would better be forgotten, wiping out the natives, fighting a war to end slavery and then retracting post-war amend-making so it would take another 150 years for some more progress, sanctioning mass graves of murdered students and intellectuals in Central America, sanctioning torture of Iraqis who were unrelated to al Qada; pandering to racists since Nixon.....we could go on for years listing things. But we live in country in denial so we have all this American Exceptionalism spouted by our candidates and we cover up any true truths. The media, thumb sucking on over-analysisng just about everything, and rarely being right, is bored and afraid of discussing anything in depth, the secret being how densely dumb most of the populace has gotten and proud of their hidebound stupidity.

All the candidates are flawed, we live in inferior times for true giants in the political sphere or in the journalistic sphere.

McCain is also a danger for promising to continue appointing to the courts justices who have made up their minds before even hearing cases, strict obstructionists I call them, pre-programmed, unbending, usually twisting the true Constitutional meanings into some simplistic Ayn Rand-ish comic book version of ideological unmodified dogma. Also a warmonger, he would prefer wars on every continent and would make Cheney seem pacifist.

I am unsure what Hillary is, a nice person with a lot of women haters and Clinton haters that don't really care what she is about.

Our electorate are 1/3 morons who would vote for Hitler if he was eating live babies on TV, as long as he was Republican, 1/3 who have no idea how to think and 1/3 who are now divided and angry at each other, who maybe vote for progress if it doesn't affect their pocketbooks too much. If they are cogent and thinking that election cycle.

Courage is for other ages past, fairness, true democracy. Republicans voting for Hillary to screw up the Democrats is not Democracy, it is childish, it is showing how weak your policies are, how weak your ideas, how pathetically weak your candidates; most of the Bush adminstration has been of this thread. Obstruct, subterfuge, signing statements so he doesn't have to follow laws, vetoes so he doesn't have to do what's right, agencies that mostly steal or misuse funds, rewriting reports so they say the opposite of their findings; in the Senate, the non-filibuster filibuster so 40 votes can block the majority on anything and everything; what did the Republicans call this when the Democrats only hinted they might use this once? undemocratic? no, it was some phrase they invented, like fast-track, the term no one wants to recall vis a vis Nafta and why it had no regulationary aspects included in it.

Why am I bothering, no one cares to pay attention even if I finished a thought before drifting into tangential matters.

The masses are asses and the US public have no independent minds to speak of anymore