McCain and Palin dive in the box

That's all I have to say about all the bullshit that's coming out of their campaign. I hope this most recent episode, involving lipstick and pigs, is a clever ploy by Obama to show how petty and inane the Republican candidates are. While Obama gives a speech addressing the importantce of making the electorate less retarded (better education of course!), McCain demands apologies (for using the same terms he himself used to describe Hillary's health policy). I think Barack may be too busy to be apologetic, even if he did "misspeak." By the way, while Barack was graduating in the top 10% at Harvard Law School, Palin was busy switching colleges, to the tune of six colleges in six years (twice at U. Idaho). The anti-intellectualism of the (national) Republican party is appalling. This cultural populism of theirs (which effectively says being ignorant is somehow an American value) threatens to destroy this country.

David Paterson may not be right that criticism of community organizing has racial connotations. But, "small town values" from Palin's speech is a not so oblique reference to "white values." American cities and American towns share American values which encompass hard work, faith, etc. Therefore, there is no principled way to distinguish between small town values and city values other than on the basis of race. (Are city inhabitants lazy? Many are plenty religious.) Black inhabitants of small towns will overwhelmingly vote Obama and Palin knows that nothing she could say would change that, so she wasn't speaking for them.

P.S. Apologies for using a soccer analogy when discussing a "hockey mom," but soccer is what's on my mind these days.