I’ve been thinking for the past couple of days about what John McCain and Barack Obama have in common. Way back after Iowa, when Mike Huckabee and Obama had surprising wins, Chris put out the theory that change was the winning theme this year. Change from traditional Washington politics, partisanship, and the names that put us on this incorrect path. I think what what we might really want is a return to truth. From “it depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is” to “I remember landing under sniper fire” and “opposed to NAFTA at the time” and more, I think we’re tired of it. Poll after poll showed that Americans don’t find Hillary trustworthy. Bill’s lies didn’t cost lives but now we’ve seen that they can. I think that’s how we ended up with the Straight Talk Express and “a first-term senator with few legislative achievements and a worrying penchant for honesty (in his autobiography he admitted to using marijuana and even cocaine, ‘when you could afford it’).” I wonder if Stephen Colbert has anything to do with this…