Apparently Cindy took some pot shots at Obama today.

Whatsamattah, McCain? Too chickenshit to take Obama on directly, you gotta farm it out to your lady friends?

He's a pathetic old man.

I notice that Josh has a post up about that speech and the people yelling "traitor" when someone says Obama's full name - which is their new way of saying: "Goddamn it, people, he's black!"

Josh now thinks they are plants. I do too - it cannot happen that consistently without something being up -

In case you missed it here's a link to Thomas Friedman's article about Palin's patriotism remark that you might find interesting.

It's also possible that Palin dropped the reference today because unlike in the past few days, she's appearing jointly with McCain.

Sarah doesn't mention Ayers? Oooh, you made my day. Let me run down the wine cellar, get the glasses ready...Oh wait, I hear someone calling "kill him."

Shoot, Sarah came close to becoming Gandhi today. I'm hopeful. May be tommorow. She does look cute with a 72 year old dick on forehead.

Please...26 more days and not a second more.

The probability of a black president is starting to sink in on the right, and the extremists--the fat, stupid, bible thumping racists--are really fired up. It truly is time to quadruple Obama's secret service detail.

HuffingtonPost.com

“On Wednesday morning, John McCain’s campaign released a list of 100 former ambassadors endorsing the GOP presidential nominee.

Second on the list, though her name is misspelled, is Leonore Annenberg, currently the president and chairman of the Annenberg Foundation and widow of ambassador and philanthropist Walter Annenberg. Ms. Annenberg was herself the “chief of protocol” at the State Department under President Reagan.

If the last name sounds familiar, it’s because it also graces the name of the Chicago education board where Barack Obama and William Ayers sat in the room six times together.

In recent days, the McCain-Palin ticket (and particularly Palin) has faulted Obama for having served on that board with Ayers, who was a founding member of the radical 60’s Weather Underground group when Obama was in grade school.

Since then, however, Ayers has been rehabilitated in Chicago society, carving out a niche in education circles. As a former Republican representative in Illinois told NPR on Monday, smearing Obama for his board association with Ayers is “nonsensical.”"

“It was never a concern by any of us in the Chicago school reform movement that he had led a fugitive life years earlier … It’s ridiculous,” Republican Rep. Diana Nelson said. “There is no reason at all to smear Barack Obama with this association. It’s nonsensical, and it just makes me crazy. It’s so silly.”

Andrew Sullivan posted this from an Israeli reader of The Dish, commenting on the fog of murderous madness that the hate speech and tactics of the Palin McCain is now rabbelrousing on the stump,,,, and what it inevitably leads to.

An Israeli reader writes:

Your post on "The Danger of Obama" immediately brought to mind what happened here in Israel in the period leading up to Yitzhak Rabin's assassination. Even allowing for the differences in political culture between the two countries, some of the sounds we're hearing in the public debate around the election have a haunting echo. Here no one would have thought it possible that an Israeli Jew would take the life of a high official. There's little doubt that the crescendo of demonization toward Rabin – including accusations of treason, flyers picturing Rabin as an SS officer – and the difficulty, in a society guaranteeing free speech, of 'civilizing' the public debate before it creates a fertile bed for actual violence, all helped create the context in which Rabin's murderer decided to take matters into his own hands.

I'd like to see which Republicans will denounce this turn towards demonization. And if there are no takers – maybe Joe Lieberman?

It's all parts of a puzzle that McCain is providing for undecideds to put together and portray Obama as they see him.

And Obama has not now or ever responded with a fully truthful, comprehensive and complete piture of who he is and the timeline of his life. As a virtual unknown he allows McCain to characterize him by virtue of his incomplete and dishonest autobiography.

McCain's portrayal Obama is no more disingenuous than Obama's portrayal of McCain. The difference is that McCain has a long public history for people to refer to. Obama has virtually none.

McCain suffers a flashback, and is back in the Hanoi Hilton, or did someone in the audience draw a cross in the dirt that Sarah was preparing to sling.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RqGsn6kwK6g

Just reading "The Page" which is chock full of references to Cindy McCain and Sarah Palin attacking Obama.

Someone needs to tell John McCain to stop hiding behind the skirts of his wife and his running mate. He had his chance last night to accuse Obama of being a terrorist to his face, and he didn't do it.

If John McCain really thinks that Obama is a dishonorable scumbag and a terrorist sympathizer then - as the real American hero that he claims to be - he should have looked him and America in the eye and said it last night.

If he doesn't think Obama is a terrorist then he should stop letting the women in his life do his dirty work for him.

Seriously, Senator McCain, you are running for President of the United States. The job requires a lot of traits. One of them is courage. If you want to accuse Obama of being a liar and a terrorist sympathizer then at least man-up and have the honor and the cojones to tell him that yourself rather than letting Sarah Palin and your wife do it for you.

I actually wonder if they were advised by the Secret Service to cut the crap. When the 'kill him' thing first happened, I called the local Secret Service field office in Florida to report it. The mailbox was full, so I think it's safe to say I wasn't the only one.

The next day I saw a short news story that said they were looking into it. Maybe they had a word with the McCain camp?

Replaced with what, a flute recital???

Nobody has dealt with the Ayers issue better than Robert Gibbs did with Hannity!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/robert-gibbs-confronts-ha_n_132842.html

http://iowaindependent.com/6718/mccains-hail-mary-pass-in-iowa

Smears and lies are the only thing they have left. It's despicable that they are doing this, but I would at least appreciate it if they were as honest nationally as they seem to be in Iowa and just said "We're going to attack Obama's character in order to win."

Yea, sure, for the last two years there has been zero scrutiny of Obama's background. I mean, like nothing. We really don't know who he is do we? We don't know where he was born, or who is parents were, or anything like that. It's because the media is liberal and in on the conspiracy, dontcha know?

I mean, he could be some subversive sleeper agent from Al Qaeda, designed to take over the USA, you know? He's never denied it, plus some talk radio show hosts said it, so doggoneit, it must be true.

Does anyone have a link to a comprehensive list of the supposed 'connections' between Obama and Ayers? (I'd like to be in a position to clarify and refute this claim when I hear it.)

The word "terrorist" is an intentionally distorted, woefully incomplete description of Bill Ayers.

Professor Ayers (he is Distinguished Professor of Education at U. of Illinois) has written many books on teaching and on education. I have bought and read three of those books and I've heard Professor Ayers speak on three different occasions. He has been tremendously inspiring to me, although I don't know him personally. In the late 1990s, WIlliam Ayers' books helped me make the decision to change careers, go back to college and become an elementary school teacher. His beautiful writing challenges teachers to be our best selves and reminds us of our power to help change lives.

Professor Ayers was named Chicago Citizen of the Year in 1997 because he had worked hard to successfully secure the city a $49 million Annenberg Foundation grant for public school reform. Citizen of the Year!

I do not pretend that Mr. Ayers was not involved with a violent group in the late 1960s, but I object to labeling him solely on the basis of what he did 40 years ago. The McCain campaign's attempts to caricature him, and to somehow make Obama guilty of something by virtue of association, are sure signs of desperation.

Why do all you figgots go to this blog thing. This internet phenomenon only gets press because of idiots like yourselves. Do you realize they don't actually write anything- they just post videos and press bites from other sites. Why don't you fat lazy hipsters take off your tight jeans and actually do some of your own research. Or go to my site: TalkingPointDouchebagNotes.com

It's possible that the people shouting epithets are plants, I guess, but I've got an extreme rightist in my family, and it sounds exactly like the kind of thing he says when he gets riled up.

Those of you who don't see this ugliness first-hand don't know how lucky you are.

So...they ain't mentioning Ayers anymore?
Sooo....Senator Obama's counter-attack is effective?
Well...LIKE UH-DUH!!!
..like that was hard to figure out!

Carlos
"Realizing the Obama/Biden Faith for 08!"

Sort of off topic but did anyone see the remark
Carville made on CNN last night? Something like
"If Obama goes into the election with a 5% lead and loses I hate to think whats going to happen"
None of the other bobble heads would touch it..
Radioactive.. He even clarified it a bit... no takers..

"...the McCain campaign wants Ayers to be discussed in the press, but doesn't want McCain -- and now also Palin, perhaps -- associated with such a slimy attack at a time when voters want solutions to the economic crisis."

Sean Hannity's exclusive interview of McCain/Palin tonight (wasn't anybody watching?) pretty much demonstrates that the slime campaign is alive and well. McCain even moved the slime factor up a notch by bringing in Ayers' wife (Bernardine Dohrn). Just because they seem bewildered on the stump for a few hours after a bad debate performance doesn't mean they'll stop throwing meat to their most ardent supporters (and donors). What's their alternative?

When You Need an Attack, in the Neighborhood, Who’s McCain Gonna’ Call … William Ayers!
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=3859