Is McCain Still Fighting Obama?

It all seems so familiar for John McCain. As he battles the younger, more charismatic J.D. Hayworth in his senate bid in Arizona, there are unmistakable echoes of his presidential campaign two years ago. And in two debates over the weekend, it even seemed as if McCain was running against Barack Obama rather than Hayworth. “I am proud of the leadership position I have taken fighting this administration,” McCain said at a debate in Phoenix on Friday. Listing a number of conservative organizations he has behind him, McCain added: “They all support me because they know that I’m not only going to go back to Washington to fight, but to lead.” For the Freudians out there, there was even a slip of the tongue to confirm that old habits die hard. He began one answer by addressing “the American,” before pausing and correcting himself to say, “people of Arizona.”