No Democrat should be overconfident. John McCain, forever bitter about the dirty-tricks campaign the Bushies waged against him in South Carolina in 2000, has obviously cooked up some monstrously hypocritical rationalization for basing his current campaign on filth, filth and more filth. In so doing he has given up his last chance to make it close and instead has cleared the way for an Obama landslide of historic proportions. If present trends hold, and Obama pulls it off, we could be looking at a strangely perfect inversion of 2000 - candidate Bush ran on the promise of being a "uniter, not a divider," took office only after the Supreme Court installed him in what amounted to a U.S. coup d'etat, and then embarked on a hard-right presidency that ensured division, resentment and even hatred would be inflamed - and become a...
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