If how they run their campaign is any indication as to how they would run the country, then John McCain is a disaster waiting to happen.

Out of his hearing, Mr. McCain is called the White Tornado by some people who have worked for him over the years. Throughout his presidential campaign, he has been the overseer of a kingdom of dissenting camps, unclear lines of command and an unsettled atmosphere that keeps aides constantly on edge.

Even now, after a shake-up that aides said had brought an unusual degree of order to Mr. McCain’s disorderly world in the last month, two of his pollsters are at odds over parts of the campaign’s message, while past and current aides have been trading snippy exchanges debating the wisdom of attack advertisements he has aimed at Mr. Obama.

......Mr. McCain’s style contains contradictions, veering between a shoot-from-the-hip tendency and assertions of damn-the-consequences authenticity on the one hand and a grudging acceptance on the other of the need to give in to the discipline of programmed politics. While he avidly seeks advice and contrary opinions, he routinely resists basic political counseling, such as when aides pleaded with him not to campaign sitting on a horseshoe-shaped couch in the back of his bus because they feared it made him look like an old man rumbling around the country in an R.V. He refused.

His management of his campaign offers a glimpse of how he might run the White House. He would, it appears, be a president who is intensely interested in issues (particularly foreign affairs) and open to conflicting opinions, but also impetuous at times and tolerant of the kind of internal churning that can impede orderly decision-making and keep aides on edge.

You know it was Obama's competent management that helped him to earn far more money then his Democratic opponents, and his ability to focus on the things he needed to address swiftly that made him the Democratic nominee in the first place.

McCain simply did not self destruct as rapidly as his unimpressive adversaries.

John McCain is the best of the worst, and Obama was the best of the best.

I am confident that his command of the facts and his incredibly cool persona will easily offset the deep racism and irrational mistrust that is rampant in this country. Some will never vote for him, but many are about to be swept off of their feet.