Ouch, My Head

So now according to CNN, supporters at McCain rallies have started openly calling Obama a “terrorist.” Speakers onstage repeatedly refer to him as Barak Hussein Obama. 

McCain was reportedly startled when the word terrorist was shouted at at the rally, but what the fuck did he expect? He sent Palin out to make this association, to insinuate it, and to plant the seed that Obama was as good as a terrorist for having known a man convicted of something that happened 40 years ago. I can only imagine that this is the best case scenario for McCain. 

This is truly George W. Bush’s America at work. A respected United States Senator is smeared as a terrorist for political gain, and the lie gains traction. My only consolation is that the redneck assholes who think that calling him Hussein somehow constitutes a victory would never have voted Democrat anyways. And the recent polls form Florida and Ohio seem to be demonstrating this. 

Still, it is now clear that there is nothing McCain will not say or insinuate to try to reclaim this election. What’s next – white women are at risk if Obama wins? He’s already tried to raise this spectre with the Paris Hilton ads (blonde girl/black man race panic.) Disugsting. Are Americans tired of it? It’s hard to say. If one guy at a rally will scream out “terrorist,” then how many were silently thinking it?

Ok, this is so goddamn obvious. But I wonder how much further she is going to descend into her own bizarro world. She knows very well that the New York Times cleared Obama of any real association with Bill Ayers. They come from the same neighborhood? That makes him a pal with terrorists? This is a new low. Does anyone believe that Sarah Palin even reads the New York Times? Doubtful. 

Even more disgusting is the veiled racism she uses to preach to soccer moms in Home Depot parking lots, telling them that Obama is “not like us.” She needs to whip up fear about a black man with a strange name so that her pathetic fucking principle can stay within reach in the heartland. If she wasn’t so good at remembering the carefully written lines Karl Rove’s protegés are feeding her she might slip and tell us what she really thinks. 

I can only hope that Obama fights her at every turn and will not allow himself to be swiftboated. I would like to say that the American public isn’t stupid enough to fall for this again, but I am more worried than that. 

And if that’s not bad enough, Palin solves her stupidity problem by going on the attack against Katie Couric. For what? Asking fucking questions Palin didn’t know the answer to? Now we call this “gotcha journalism?” 

Sarah Palin and her “first dude” can both suck it, the hate mongering red necks. I hope she loses and is subsequently impeached in Alaska. 

Also, the Canadian election is sad. Jokes about the Prime Minister’s choice of sweaters passing as biting political zingers that make the front page. I can hardly bring myself to vote, but I will.