Media focus on Republican campaign antics distract from financial crisis (Daily Orange)

In February 2000, when Sen. John McCain lost the Republican nomination to George W. Bush, he declared in response to dirty Bush campaign tactics, “I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land.” Looking at recent dirty campaign developments, he might as well of prefaced his statement with a “read my lips” because at this moment in the 2008 race the McCain campaign isn’t on a …