Pathetic low for McCain campaign

UPDATE: Obama calls McCain campaign cynical, not racist. This seems to sum up rather accurately the amateurism McCain exhibits on a national campaigning scale. In times when half your base is in a panic and you don’t really know what you stand for, having to read prepared speeches every campaign stop and giving answers tomorrow to the media’s questions today, cynicism is just a later chapter in the book of desperation politics. It’s third party for me this time.

Seen the new McCain ad that’s been circulated among his supporters?

I think only a campaign that does not care much for the importance and value of religious symbolism could craft such a thing. When you have the party of the so-called “Religious Right” willingly conflating sacred messianic truth with the staggering phenomenon of a politician’s hyper-popularity, you know that religion itself has become a thing of little importance, employed in a campaign only to attack and satirize a political opponent. Just when I was beginning to view McCain a bit more positively, he resorts to this low. “Country first”–even if it means exploiting religious imagery for gain. Sad thing is, I do not doubt that McCain would relish in the excitement and media indulgence engendered by the Obama campaign if it were his own: