Charlie Black, that big campaign strategist for John McCain with lobby ties and all the wrong types of friends around the world, said in a Fortune mag interview that a terrorist attack on American soil "certainly would be a big advantage" to McCain.

Apparently he's now beginning to backtrack on that statement.

Is this how low presidential politics in America have come? So low, so fast. It seems like every other day we're burdened with bullshit issues like this. But this bullshit issue is kinda sick.

I mean, whose thinking this way in America? The truly petty? I have to question anyone's patriotism when they suggest that 3,000 more US deaths due to terrorism would be good for their campaign. But would it? So the Republican Party has lead America for 8 years, doubled the deficit, overseen practically no job growth and a record number of manufacturing jobs go overseas, and they would benefit from having those 8 years bookended by terrorist attacks here at home?

I think another terrorist attack before Bush leaves office would put the nail in his and his party's coffin. Unless of course Americans are really the sheep that they're becoming and just get played by the fear card again.