McCain's dirty Campaign

      On Sept 13, I stated that the strategy of McCain was to " distract and attack, emphasise personality and not issues and keep Obama off-balance and off-message ". This has worked well , and thus, it has continued.

      McCain cannot win on issues and substance, and so rely on a series of lies, smears, sleaze, and chicanery. He accused Obama of wanting to introduce a government run health care system, ( Obama favors a market based system, subsidised by the government ).He says that Obama wants to teach sex education to kids in kindergarten , when Obama made it clear that he wanted them to be taught to be aware of sexual predators and inproper touching. He stated that Obama is against off-shore drilling and nuclear plants, but Obama has made it clear that he is open to both. When Obama talked about " pigs in lipstick "( a phrase that McCain used on many occasions ),McCain accused him of referring to Palin and then he had the temerity to question Obama's patriotism, when he said that Obama would rather " lose a war than lose an election ". McCain who claims to live by the military code of honor has dishonored that code.

      The recent Wall Street collapse and the upcoming debate may be the key to changing the tone and get the campaign to deal with the issues. Obama, if he is to stop his downward spiral, has to seize this opportunity to press McCain on substance. Failure to do so dooms his chance in November.