Something smells

The McCain/Palin compaign is on the road telling the same lies over and over. This is very strange. it seems to me, given the fact that everyone now knows they are lies: the MSM, the bloggers, the pundits, even Karl Rove. Why do they keep telling these same lies when everyone is aware they are lies? Do they really believe the voting public is really that stupid? Obama raised 66 million dollars last month. His campaign has apparently registered 500,000 new voters. On the McCain side, he has been publicly exposed as a liar and is supposedly even lying about the size of his crowds. Palin has been exposed as another George Bush, firing competent people and replacing them with her High School buddies, stonewalling those trying to investigate troopergate, greedy for earmarks, ignorant of Foreign Affairs, opposed to what most American women desire, and what have you. Not only that, Palin’s complete inexperience in Foreign Policy has been exposed for all to see. Would you not think that by now voters would have become aware of this and acted accordingly? But apparently not, according to the polls McCain/Palin have been gaining on Obama/Biden. Does this make any sense? Not to me. Something smells, and it smells big time. Unless it’s the case that the polls haven’t yet caught up with reality I do not see how this can be. If they do not begin to change pretty soon you can be certain they are being rigged in favor of McCain/Palin.

Of course the big news of the day is the economy. The stock market dropped more than 500 points, the biggest drop since who knows when. Unemployment is at a five year high. Banks are closing. Huge companies are going bankrupt. People are losing their homes in record numbers, and on and on. McCain says the economy is basically sound. When challenged he says the basic economy really consist s of American workers, and anyone who criticizes it is criticizing the American workers. Talk about Alice in Wonderland! But, as I say, the polls say he is gaining on Obama. Something smells. It is perfectly obvious that all of this trouble with the economy (and most everything else you might think of) is the result of the Bush/Cheney failure to regulate anything and thus let the corporate bandits get away with murder. Their mantra of privatization has been a disaster. Of course to these nitwits any regulation suggested at all is socialism and of course socialism is to them the worst thing that could ever happen. Mention socialism and they bring up Cuba and China, never Norway, Sweden, or the Netherlands, where socialistic types seem to be living the good life. Of course we can’t have anything like that, the obscenely wealthy and the corporations might have to pay taxes. If it is not obvious by now what unregulated capitalism does to people I fear there is no hope for the future. When they talk of privatization and deregulation someone should quickly lock them up before they can do any more damage.

McCain and his followers have been making points about how the media is unfairly attacking Palin, yelling sexism at the drop of a hat. They apparently believe that because Palin is a woman she has no need even to be vetted. Olberman and others fell right into this trap today when they started bitching about the fact that Palin has installed a tanning bed in the Governor’s mansion. This really is stretching criticism too far and making it appear to be true that she is being unfairly picked on. Of course she has a tanning bed, everyone in Alaska does tanning. It’s Alaska, remember, the land of the midnight sun, which doesn’t exactly give one an even tan (or even much sunshine). Palin has so many shortcomings wasting time on her tanning bed is just plain silly. No matter how much lipstick they try to spread, or where, she cannot be made to be prepared to be President of the United States. And McCain’s insult to the American public by picking her should make him equally unsuited for the job. But the polls, the polls, the horror…

LKBIQ:
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm