McCain’s got a new ridiculous ad out against Obama.  It claims that Obama wants to teach sex education to kindergarteners.  Now, people say some stupid things in the heat of an argument, but is McCain really trying to claim that Obama wants to teach sex ed to pre-schoolers?  Are we really that gullible as a nation?  If you’re going to lie, why not go whole hog and say that Obama plans to distribute condoms to pre-schoolers?  Actually, that kind of reminds me of an XKCD strip.

I realize McCain’s a “maverick”, but was it really a good decision to stick his own head up his ass?  I guess a more genteel way to say this would be: for someone who claims to put his country first, he really seems to have jumped into the sleazy, mudslinging end of the pool with both feet.  It’s shameful.

Anyway.  Here’s the ad:

The appropriate response is: “WTF?”

And here’s the link to a blogpost debunking the ad.

I haven’t been the biggest Obama supporter, but damned if these new sleazy, despicable, dishonest, pathetic attacks don’t make me want to go and vote.  Anyhoo, like they say about Chicago, “Vote early, vote often.”  Here’s a link to register to vote, from the League of Women Voters website.  I wouldn’t bother with Obama’s site unless you wanted to be inundated with Obama ads for the rest of your life.

I’m confused by this NY Times post.

Obama said:

“John McCain says he’s about change, too – except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics,” Mr. Obama said. “That’s not change. That’s just calling the same thing something different. You can put lipstick on a pig – it’s still a pig.”

So the McCain camp responded:

Palin campaign spokesman Maria Comella: “Barack Obama’s comments today are offensive and disgraceful. He owes Governor Palin an apology “

Does that mean that they’re conceding the idea that Sarah Palin is a pig?  Does she have a hidden porcine past that we don’t know about?  (Insert joke here about “bringing home the bacon”).

Why else would they take offense at an expression that, as McCain should know, is older than dirt?

As you know, McCain is one of the few things in the world older than dirt.

6 More Weeks of election (make it end!) and I feel like such a fool.  I never realized this until just now:

Wouldn’t MC Cain be a kick-ass name for a rapper?  This has just jarred my consciousness.

I’ll be MC Cain and Estragon can be DJ Abel. It will be awesome.  Political nerd rap!  Check it out!

From TPM:

As for the question of Friday night’s debate, which some in the media seem to think more important than saving the financial system–if the negotiations are still going on in D.C., McCain should offer to send Palin to debate Obama! Or he can take a break from the meetings, fly down at the last minute himself, and turn a boring foreign policy debate, in which he and Obama would repeat well-rehearsed arguments, into a discussion about leadership and decisiveness. –William Kristol

Palin should debate Obama on foreign policy?  Awesome.  Will she mention that Alaska’s relatively near Russia?  Or will she share tips from Kissinger about carpet-bombing nations we’re not at war with?

Can I just go to sleep for 6 weeks and wake up when this is all over?

From the Times of London:

In an election campaign notable for its surprises, Sarah Palin, the Republican vice- presidential candidate, may be about to spring a new one — the wedding of her pregnant teenage daughter to her ice-hockey-playing fiancé before the November 4 election.

Inside John McCain’s campaign the expectation is growing that there will be a popularity boosting pre-election wedding in Alaska between Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18, her schoolmate and father of her baby. “It would be fantastic,” said a McCain insider. “You would have every TV camera there. The entire country would be watching. It would shut down the race for a week.”

So–when the media first found out about Palin’s pregnant daughter, everyone went ape inside the campaign and said that she was off-limits (Even though it was a clear example that an abstinence-only education is laughable and worthless when preventing teen pregnancy).  Now they’re considering pimping her out to the media in order to change the subject for a week?  I need to go back to my “signs you’re losing the argument” post..

This could help them firm up the gun-rights advocate base, though, since it would confirm McCain and Palin as pro-shotgun wedding.

On the subject of changing the subject, I’ve heard unsubstantiated reports that the McCain group is hoping that Jesus will return on a cloud of glory before November 4.  Maybe he’ll show up to the Vice Presidential debate and protect Sarah from witchcraft.

Actually, from the Boston Herald:

The video of a Kenyan bishop asking Jesus to protect Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin from “witchcraft” has turned into a political witch hunt, says one Harvard expert who found “nothing unusual” about the blessing.

“He was giving an African prayer to an American Christian,” said Jacob K. Olupona, a Harvard African studies professor. “His prayer reflects his own background and his own training and his own world view. America may not believe in witchcraft, but witccraft is a reality (in Africa).”

Catholic League President Bill Donohue echoed that sentiment, saying witchcraft is a “sad reality” in Kenya that has resulted in scores of deaths.

“Nothing unusual” in an anti-witchcraft blessing?  Did Superman spin the world around and we’re suddenly back in the 17th century?  Man, where did I put my copy of the Malleus Maleficarum?  Witchcraft is a “sad reality“, but only in Kenya?  (Is Bill Donahue in touch with reality?)  I guess it will be a shock to Bill when this here Texan boils up my magic cauldron later this morning and curses him with erectile dysfunction and boils.  (Though I think some witch has already beat me to the punch to curse him with baldness.)

But, first I’ve got to finish my coffee.