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To: biotech_bull who wrote (84885)	9/16/2008 5:42:35 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541559

Hi Biotech. Yes, the McCain that shined in that speech has been infected by the new, and severely diminished, McCain. It's sad in many ways to see his good side losing so badly to his other persona. I don't think it had to happen in order for him to win. I think he could have played within ethical rules and springboarded off his amazingly effective convention speech. I think it's now fairly clear that many independents were captivated by the McCain story, which he told with obvious sincerity and heart. And he already had the base; his selection of Palin gave the silly wing of the Republican party enough sugar to get them high and keep them there. The speed of his post convention and unqualified move into the Rove politics wing of his campaign, however, reveals the extent of his personal ambition and the weakness of his ethical constraints on the one hand, and the power of the Rovian wing of his campaign on the other. I think his transparent distortions open up an attack front that Obama can drive a tank through if he'll just attack the attack and let people know that the Republican machine is, once again, assessing them as simplistic and trying to make fools of them. Of course he'll have to get specific, make it amazingly obvious and stop treating the voting public as if they were as insightful as his fellow Harvard law classmates. Ed