McCain spells out his vision for the White House

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - John McCain today spells out his vision for the White House.

The Republican nominee-to-be will tell an audience in Columbus, Ohio, that looking ahead to the end of a first term, he would expect to see Osama bin Laden captured or dead, government spending curbed and "spasmodic" but reduced violence in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He also sees getting rid of the April 15th tax filing ordeal, replacing it with a simpler flat-tax system.

McCain also wants an end to political partisanship of the kind he says serves no other purpose than to gain a temporary advantage over an opponent. He calls it "mindless, paralyzing rancor" and says it must come to an end.

McCain acknowledges he can't do it alone, but he says if he were elected president, the era of the "permanent campaign" would end and the era of "problem solving" would begin.