Is There a Democratic Mole In the McCain Campaign?

The contrast between Obama and McCain campaigns hasn't been so strikingly evident until today's coverage.

McCain is interviewed outside of a German restaurant in Ohio and spends most of the interview complaining (dare I use the word "whinning") about Obama on essentially inane points.

Switch to Obama coverage: Obama is addressing over 200,000 Germans in the heart of Berlin and calling for a new era of western politics.

Even worse (or better depending upon your candidate), all through the McCain interview there is this omnimous bell ringing in the background, bringing to mind the John Donne quote, made famous by Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls": "...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."

Being one who is periodically "involved in mankind," the only thought that occured was that the bell was tolling for John McCain.

Remember, that the McCain campaign asked for this...the thus far triumphant Obama overseas tour. In fact, had it not been for the McCain campaign's attacks regarding Obama's lack of experience and absence from the world stage, it is likely the Obama campaign would have never left American shores.

Now McCain is faced with the photo-ops of Obama sitting with U.S. Generals in Afghanistan and agreeing with them on the need for additional U.S. and NATO forces; conferring with Prime Minister Maliki, in Iraq, and emerging with an Iraqi plan for the withdrawal of U.S. forces very similar to his own; laying a wreath at the Holacaust Memorial in Israel; and speaking to the largest audiance thus far in the presidential campaign.

The McCain campaign is one of the most inept I have ever witnessed in American politics. Faced with an American electorate angry over a war in Iraq, housing foreclosures at home and $4.00/gallon gasoline driving inflation, McCain - 0n the key issues of the election - has been unable to provide any alternatives to the still titular leader of the Republican Party...the guy still in the White House, President Bush. At this point, he'd be lucky to carry Arizona, Utah and Idaho.

McCain's policies on the War on Terror are somewhat tactically different from the President, but offer zero change in strategic direction. His economic policies were aptly summed up by his ex-campaign co-chairman, ex-Senator Phil Graham, when Graham called us "a nation of whinners."
If this is what 30 years of experience in Congress yields, the American voter must be thinking: "Experience be damned; that is precisely what we are trying to get rid of."

Indeed, McCain's campaign is so bad I feel there must be Democratic plants inside his staff to ensure his defeat. Or, maybe it's just McCain himself...and all of that experience.