While John McCain gives us the moronic Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber, Barack Obama gives us decency, intelligence, and hope.

Go vote.

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Joe the Plumber, the new foreign policy expert on the McCain-Palin ticket, says a vote for Barack Obama is a vote for the death of Israel.

FoxNews — FoxNews! — anchor Shep Smith points out just how wrong and idiotic that statement is. And frightening.

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Pretty funny stuff.

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A month and a half ago, the day after her speech to the Republican National Convention — a speech that was rapturously received by both the media and the Republican base — I had this to say about Sarah Palin in my review of her speech:

Finally, this. There is something a bit off for me about Palin.
Something not quite trustworthy. I can't put my finger on it, but
something about her demeanor, the blatant using of her family as props,
her persistence in blatant lying about her "reform" record, and her
career path suggests to me she is not someone who values loyalty much
at all. Someone who wouldn't blink to throw a mentor, friend, or
colleague overboard if she had to. After all, she's been happy to do it
before to get ahead.

If I were John McCain or one of his senior advisors, I would be careful.

She threw around military metaphors liberally tonight. Here's mine: I wouldn't want to share a foxhole with her.

So, it is with joy and happiness and a delightful sense of schadenfreude I read Tapper at ABC News today:

Allies of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are now trying to throw McCain
aide Nicolle Wallace under the proverbial bus, and as they do so those
in McCain’s circle are wary of the impact on Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.,
himself.

Since becoming McCain's running mate, there have been a host of
issues where Palin publicly challenged decisions made by McCain –
withdrawing from competition in Michigan, for instance, or for not
attacking Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for his longtime relationship with
the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

….

And some Republicans are starting to now say they should have seen this
coming, since Palin has a reputation for making friends who can help
her and then screwing them over.

See? Told you so.

It's interesting, these debates have become a kind of Rorschach test — what you see says more about you.

I've noticed that many of the pundits just don't see what most of the rest of us see — that John McCain is an ass.  A snarling, condescending jerk. Who is incoherent much of the time.

Great encounter between Barack and a plumber, who asks about increased tax rates for those making more then $250,000.

h/t:
http://jedreport.com/

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If nothing else, this election cycle is making it abundantly clear that Fox News viewers are really dumb, far more stupid than your average citizen.

That they're falling for the ACORN nonsense hook, line and sinker is just one of hundreds of examples we could cite.

I wonder if and how this affects Fox News advertising (CPM) rates. Are they substantially lower, because premium advertisers aren't interested in talking to them? Or, are there classes of advertisers who pay a premium to reach highly targeted, extremely gullible morons?

Just wondering.

More video of the good people of Strongsville, Ohio.

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This man, through fraud, stole $285 million from 21,000 depositors — most of them elderly — at his bank in the late 1980s.  When his bank went belly up, the Federal Government had to step in to save it, at a cost of $3 BILLION. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison (by the California state courts) and 12 years in prison (in Federal court).

He was a close personal friend of John and Cindy McCain during the time he committed these crimes. One might say they palled around, but that would not capture the closeness of their relationship. They traveled together on holidays, including trips on this man's jet to the Bahamas.  This man made over $150,000 in contributions to the McCain campaign, with the goal of having McCain prevent Federal inquiries into fraud by his bank. Cindy McCain invested $300,000 in a development project with him.

This man is believed to have set off four bombs in the late 1960 and early 1970s — at a police statue in New York, the New York City police headquarters, the Pentagon, and the U.S. Capitol — to protest the Vietnam war. The bombs destroyed property, but did not produce any injuries or deaths.  Total property damages from these bombings appear to have been around $1 million. He was never charged for these bombings.

This man was charged for by the Federal for participation in the Days of Rage protests, but those charges were later dropped.  (The Days of Rage protests resulted in $183,000 in property destruction. A Chicago lawyer was paralyzed when he tried to tackle one of the Days of Rage protesters, and hit a concrete wall.)

When he committed these acts, for which he was charged but never tried, Barack Obama was eight years old, living thousands of miles away.

Barack Obama only met this man some thirty years later, after he had become a distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois and a leading figure in the education reform movement. Barack Obama and this man served together on the board of an education reform charity, along with other prominent Chicagoans includings a numbers of conservatives, founded by Walter Annenberg, a prominent donor to and friend of Ronald Reagan.

So, you tell me: which man was the bigger "domestic terrorist." Which man did more damage to our country? Which relationship raises more questions about judgement?

Great video from the Jed Report.

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