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I used to respect and like McCain. He really was a decent politician and faced up to many of the excesses of the right.
Unfortunately, unlike you, I have lost most of that respect in his dirty campaign. He and Palin have stirred up all that is bad, angry, and racist in his followers. Instead of inspiring them to rise up to better themselves and the country, he has led them into an ugly and even frightening outburst of mob behavior.
If he were truly a leader, he would never have gone down this path at all. His behavior has been erratic, desperate, unpredictable, and ugly. That he tried to calm the crowd down shows his residual decency. But he has let his ambition, bad temper, and lust for power overshadow the old goodness.
Obama, by contrast, has remained cool and in control of his emotions and the character of his campaign. True he has retaliated with some misleading ads of his own, but he did not initiate the mud-slinging ads.

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