Yes, I agree with everything you say above.

       But the deal with McCain was this, as I understand it:
Cindy McCain was in India, and there was a little girl, an infant, who needed an operation. The only way Mrs. McCain could get the child out of the country and back to the states for the operation fast enough was to adopt her. So she did; the operation was a success and the girl is alive and well today.

       Karl Rove took that, and twisted it into a story about John McCain having had a black child out of wedlock, and the child now lived in the McCain's home.

       The press found a child of color in the McCain's home and ran with the Rove story.

         I think all of this has been pretty well documented. It makes one wonder about any kind of dirt coming up during a political campaign.