McCain (who wasn't my GOP member of choice) tried to jump out of that banter back and forth and it drove me crazy! He let stuff roll off his back and made Palin be quiet (to an extent) and I think it cost him the election.

Your right about the division but it's never gonna stop. Politics is a game and it sukks you in so much that you do get upset and to the point of fighting. The Dem party raised the bar by nominating a black man. The country voted him in because we basically have two choices (parties) and the GOP was hurting in the public opinion polls. The mud slinging was so good from the Dem side that McCain actually did pretty good considering what he was associated with. That tore into alot of people and empowered others so what happened? You get the black panthers, louie farakhan, jerimiah wright (the white pastor forgot his name??) and other extreme racial wacko's getting air time on tv which pissed off myself and others of the double standard. Add into that the Muslim connection obama has and you just polarized the country even more.

You can say what you want but I'm 100% convinced that the Dems used Obama because of his skin color not because of his skills at running a state or his proven decision making skills because he had none of either. The divide we now face is more than politics it's racial and that alone is bad enough.