Personality Politics
Personally, I find Obama to be a bit of a humourless prig (which is a lot like being an Al Queda terrorist, when you really stop and think about it) while McCain is truly, madly, deeply insane - so it's interesting that both the Democrats and the Republicans are running on the personalities of their leaders.
Interesting in an end-of-irony way, I mean. How is it that the democracies of which we in the New World are so boastful hither and yon seem to come down to such cartoonish mano a mano contests here at home?
