What's REALLY Important?

"Who played the race card, who is more patriotic, who would have visited American troops in Germany — all subjects that Senator John McCain, the... presumptive presidential candidate, has used to criticize Mr. Obama, his Democratic opponent — seemed to matter a bit less on a morning when the Labor Department reported that unemployment had risen to a four-year high of 5.7 percent and General Motors said it had lost $15.5 billion in the second quarter." —The New York Times, Aug. 1, 2008