The next four weeks are going to be sad. Why you ask? Because we’re seeing the very public self-destruction of John McCain. I’ve been a big critic of the election process thinking it’s too long, too boring, too repetitive, and not effective. However, I’m wrong about that and the proof is what’s been happening to John McCain over the past few weeks, the pressure has finally gotten him and pushed him over the edge. It started with the selection of Sarah Palin, surely a decision that will go down in history as how fine the line is between genius and madness.

Then we move on to the stunt of suspending his campaign until the financial crisis is solved. Well, we’re still in crisis and McCain is still campaigning. I’d like to know how his actions square with his words. Clearly, it was nothing more than a cheap stunt. Meanwhile, he blew off David Letterman to do an interview about this stunt in the same studio complex with CBS News! Not smart.

Now we’re seeing a dredging up of old issues that didn’t stick the first time with Ayers, minister-gate, and race playing an issue in campaign ads. I can’t fault Obama for unearthing Keating & Co. – at least that has some bearing on real issues at hand and shows that McCain didn’t have good judgment in the 1980’s and with the decisions we’ve been seeing throughout the campaign, McCain’s judgment remains in question.

It’s really good that we’ve been able to see the real John McCain, under pressure and desperate. He’d make George Bush look thoughtful. Only the most blindly loyal, partisan creatures will vote for McCain in November – that means, and you heard it here first, Obama will win in a landslide.