A shallow, dirty campaign

clipped from seattletimes.nwsource.com Let's fight over things that matter Danny Westneat Seattle Times staff columnist Somewhere between hot chicks digging Obama and the search for all of McCain's houses, it hit me. My dream for 2008 is dying. A campaign that began with as much promise as any instead has veered into the inane. Two years ago, when Barack Obama came to Seattle's Benaroya Hall, he talked of how "negativity is the easy path." It's dreaming that takes courage. The next day I wrote this: "My foolish dream is Obama vs. McCain in 2008. And that the two of them can somehow lift our desultory politics to a higher place." Anyone feel we're in a higher place? More like a puerile place. This summer our politics hasn't been all that brutal or nasty or hard-fought. What it has been is shallow.