Silly Little Country

An Excellent Gesture

And this typifies what makes both presidential candidates this year attractive.

Both campaigns have been running negative television ads and, at the just-concluded political conventions, pulled no punches in exploiting partisan differences.

Obama and McCain said Thursday will be different.

"All of us came together on 9/11 — not as Democrats or Republicans — but as Americans," they said. "We were united as one American family. On Thursday, we will put aside politics and come together to renew that unity."

posted by Alan Adamson @ 3:08 AM