HALPERIN'S TAKE: Enough Already

Things we would prefer to see banned through Election Day:
-- Media coverage driven by horse-race polling data.
--John McCain's use of his signature phrase, my friends.
--Barack Obama's referring to himself as a symbol.
--Members of Congress trying to out-outrage the other party.
--Superfluous use of the phrase the race card.
--The Hilton family injected into the campaign.
--McCain's repetition of any joke he first told in the '80s.
--Obama complaints about negative press attention.
--Both campaigns' going on the attack reflexively when the opposing candidate misspeaks on the trail.
--Coverage of Internet campaign videos as if they were paid television ads.
--The focus on the trivial and superficial while the nation remains at war and teeters on the edge of an economic recession.
