Watching the debate last night, it was evident that Mccain needs to retire. He has been in politics too long. I might think that he should stay in the game if he was still making policy proposals.
Obama, on the other hand, is young and cool. In the light of the economic crisis, maybe coolness can seem more like arrogance but not in Obama’s case. Barack is knowledgable about the economy and deserves to be confident. He has a clear record of fighting for the middle and lower classes, he has nothing to hide.

Mccain is and should be scared. He’s going to lose the race because he can’t convince people that he knows what’s going with the crubling financial markets. He still thinks that he can distract the people of the United States with stories of how Barack, while 8 years old, was involved with Bill Ayers.
In the last 8 years of the 21st century everybody has become much more connected. The internet that makes instantaneous fact checking possible has spread to almost everybody and makes the slanderous claims like collution with Bill Ayers obviously perposterous; it comes accross as old trivia. People can now assume, in the last year or durring the primary, that if major flaws in the candidate have not yet been elucidated it’s because there are none.
The Mccain campaign will not get anywhere with this tone. The fight is over the independents who are put off by attack ads.
The politics of 2000 are long gone. Mccain is still using tactics that ousted him from the South Carolina Primary 8 years ago. I don’t want someone in the Whitehouse who takes 8 years to learn something.