Kwitcherbitchin'

John McCain's advisers are more brilliant than you or me or me or you; we know this. That is why -- in an election where massive economic despair is easily the biggest issue on unemployed, homeless, bankrupt voters' minds -- McCain economic adviser Phil Gramm said we are in a "mental recession," not a real one, and we are also a "nation of whiners." Savvy. Politics at its best.

• Jim Newell