The smell of desperation

Not content on whipping their followers into a racist frenzy, the McCain-Palin ticket are now making bizarre claims about Obama-Biden that most of their supporters probably don't even understand.

"You see, [Obama] believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that help us all make more of it. Joe, in his plainspoken way, said this sounded a lot like socialism," McCain said Saturday.

"At least in Europe, the socialist leaders who so admire my opponent are up front about their objectives. They use real numbers and honest language. And we should demand equal candor from Sen. Obama. Raising taxes on some in order to give checks to others is not a tax cut; it's just another government giveaway."

Yes, a middle class tax cut is now socialism in McCain-world. Tax cuts for the rich are proper and awesome. But for anyone else, tax cuts are a socialist government giveaway.

Not to be out-nutjobbed, his running mate decided to call most of the country anti-American.

"We believe that the best of America is in the small towns that we get to visit, and in the wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation," she said.

"This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans," Palin added.

Once these comments started getting criticized, she tried to spin the whole thing. But it seems pretty clear that she said exactly how she feels. She doesn't consider the blue states to be "real America" or to have values or to be "pro-American". Apparently, when terrorists attack "blue" areas like New York or DC, social conservatives are quick to claim those areas as American since this leads to policies they're interested in, like invading other countries. But any other time, those parts of the country aren't American enough for them.

And one more thing. Palin has going on about William Ayers for a couple of weeks now. From what I've seen, Ayers has been an upstanding member of the Chicago community for years. He's a professor and won some big civic honor a decade ago.

So why isn't Sarah Palin, the fervent Christian, forgiving him? Shouldn't she be holding up her Christian "values" and forgiving him, rather than slandering him every chance she gets? How can she justify her attacks with her supposedly moral beliefs?

Oh, wait a minute. Of course. There's the reason. She's a Christian and behaving just as she was taught. Sorry about that.