Has McCain Gone Too Negative?

Even Karl Rove says that McCain has stretched the truth too much. AKA Lied! In his defense McCain says that he would not have gone so negative if Obama had just agreed to the series of town hall meetings that McCain wanted to have. This was at the 9/11 Columbia event

McCain was asked about disparaging remarks that his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, made about Obama’s work as a community organizer—an experience Obama later called the best education he had ever received. McCain responded by blaming Obama for the negative timbre of the campaign.

“The tone of this ... whole campaign would have been very different if Senator Obama had accepted my request for us to appear in town hall meetings all over America, the same way Jack Kennedy and Barry Goldwater had agreed to do so,” McCain said.

Is he really serious? He is saying that if you don't play my way, I will shit all over you. How incredibly mature for a 72 year old.