How Low Can They Get?

Barack Obama has left the campaign trail to fly more than 8 hours to Hawaii to be with his grandmother, who is gravely ill and probably dying.

In 1960, when Richard Nixon was hospitalized for a few days due to an injury, John F. Kennedy voluntarily stopped his campaigning until Nixon was able to resume campaigning, as a gesture of fairness.

Those days are gone. John McCain is using Obama's absense to step up his attacks on Obama during a bus tour in Florida.

Not only that, one of his surrogates went on television to express outrage that Obama was "taking a 767 campaign plane to go visit grandma." He said Obama should be "humping his bags on a commercial plane."

Let's leave aside the fact that the Secret Service would not allow Obama to take a commercial flight, which would turn out to be much more expensive because of all the security measures necessary.

Let's just look at what kind of a campaign sends somebody on television to speak in disparaging terms of a candidate who is sacrificing two days of campaigning at a crucial time to be with the grandmother who helped raise him, in what are probably among her last days.

The McShame campaign--how low can they get? This low.