At a town-hall meeting event, when a woman said she can't trust Obama because she suspects he's an "Arab", Sen. McCain said "No, no ma'am." He corrected her, and said Sen. Obama "is a decent family man with whom I happen to have some disagreements". He also rebuked a man who claimed to be "scared... to bring up a child" with Obama in the White House, saying that there is no reason to fear an Obama presidency.

Specifically: "I have to tell you he is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States". This seemed to deflate some in the audience, and McCain was even booed for defending his opponent, but McCain explained in sensitive tones that Obama would be a fine president, but that he's running against Obama because of course, as a Republican, he thinks he'd be a much better one.

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Has the breaking point come?  Has McCain realized that the tactics that were used against him in 2000 just aren't going to work this time and is he back peddling on his whole, "Who is Barack Obama" theme of his campaign?

I hope so.  The last couple of weeks have been bittersweet for me for many reasons.  I'm so very glad Obama is surging in the polls but to hear people yelling such things as "Terrorist" at McCain/Palin rallies it puts a rock in my stomach.  The first feeling is crushed by the latter and I fear that the downward spiral of McCain's campaign was not only going to lose but bring a dark cloud of cynicism and hate across our whole Country.

The other con to Obama's soaring numbers is the plummeting stock markets and the failing banks.  As we witness our fellow Americans lose their jobs everyday and hear their stories, I wonder how dampened my joy is going to be by the sorrow of seeing this amazing Country crumble around me.  That is what scares me the most, more than Obama losing this election right now is the idea that what made America great is being lost as I type.

There is hope of course.  There is hope in the faces of the children who embrace our next President.  There is hope in the faces of the elderly who see a new beginning for this troubled Nation.  There is hope everywhere I see Obama and so much anger and despair where I see McCain/Palin.  At what cost people?  

In the immortal words of Mr. Welch , "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?".  Or actually, should it really be, as I wake to the news that Palin denies any wrongdoing in her actions as Governor of Alaska, "Have you no sense of decency, Mam, at long last?".

Hope, I want to continue to see hope in the eyes of our children.

Having a bad day?  Visit Yes we Can (Hold Babies), I'm telling you it brings me out of the doldrums.

Lets hold on to hope and pray, or whatever it might be that you do, that McCain realizes that he's put Country last and he has the power to stop that downward spiral that makes me less hopeful.

Yes, you are a decent man Senator Obama.  I see that in the embrace of these children, your warmth and your humanity.  I see your grace and your power in these embraces.  They symbolize that we all need a hug now and again and that we need each other if we are going to get through this, without fear and without hate.  Thank you, Thank you for the tone of your own campaign and thank you for continuing to fight for all of us.  I will be forever grateful.