what this campaign is all about. he s not. andrea, that campaign was singly nasty up to that point. it was a difficult campaign but what did that moment tell you about john mccain? that he was not going to play the kind of dirty politics that were rising up and which have threatened to overwhelm the senate and the rest of the country right now. he would not play that game and the fact that he took the microphone away from that woman and at a very critical point. he could have let the rumors fester against barack obama. not that there s anything wrong with being an arab but it was being used in a trogtory sense and he picked up on that right away and corrected the woman at a town meeting in public at a very important point and it showed that he was if he s not going to win the presidency he was going to lose with dignity. michael beschloss, one of the things that mccain cited as a regret is that he didn t choose