Dumb, Coarse and Also...

Not a lot of people read my blog (thanks fam - shout out to McShizzles on the East and West Coasts). So, what I am about to say really won't come to bear any true influence on how Americans think about this election. However...

It's like we are in a bad, abusive relationship with our government, in which we have been bullied into thinking a Bush-league president is the best we can do. We've been chastised into believing that folksy leadership is normal.

But, here is the hum-dinger coming from Sarah Palin and John McCain. They lie. This isn't a subjective opinion, it's just a fact. Sometimes, I feel like I am in a time machine and the flux-capasiter sent us back to 1983 when tax was a four letter word.



Talking points of Governor Palin this week: "Regan, taxes, hockey mom, can I call ya Joe, gotchya journalism, moose and also..."

The American people should be insulted that a leading official will go out on the campaign trail, spew lies, such as the following:

• "Obama wants to raise taxes on you"...yes, he will raise taxes on anyone making $250,000 or above. Something McCain won't touch because he's completely out-of-touch. However, McCain is planning on giving huge tax breaks to large companies - hello corporate bailout.
• "Obama wants to pal-around with the terrorists"...this one is a particularly sickening statement of such untrue and slandering proportions Palin could technically be sued for libel. She is calling into question Obama's patriotism while masking a lie. No one wants to pal around with terrorists. It's called diplomacy. Diplomacy even Henry Kissinger supports.
  

The McCain-Palin camp has turned up the voltage on low-blow tactics and this next month will get very, very interesting. And, over the last eight years I've finally realized the theme of the R political verbage: Say anything, no matter how true it is because we've bet on the American people not doing any reading or fact checking to figure out we're just slinging mud.