The ability to separate the chaff from the grain is what is missing with so many voters. Negative campaigning is a feature of every campaign ever known and what is negative versus instructive is in the eye of the beholder. Obama's camp tries to ruin McCain by comparing him to Bush and worse. They mutilate, wherever possible, Gov. Palin's middleclassness and Alaska centered background. The McCain camp focuses on Obama's lack of achievement and success in office, his naivete and liberal ideologue views buttressed by his associations with the Chicago machine, a hateful church, and a known former terrorist. McCain pays less attention to Biden because in many ways Biden has supplied so much rich anti-Obama material and enough of his own gaffes, it is better to leave Biden on auto-pilot. To go to the grain, it is most important to weigh the legacies of the candidates and their achievements in office against their style and rhetoric. What a candidate says he will do before an election and what a candidate can or will do after an election, calls for straight talk and trust in the achievement, strengths and credibility of the candidate. Voters seem increasingly enamoured with style over substance and hope over accomplishment - which I would call a kind of collective naivete. This is why for Obama, hope in him is so audacious.
 

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