Here's my final letter for Salon. I can't take it anymore.

We, the people, pick our candidates for the presidency. At least 48 percent of the American public think that Obama is experienced enough to be president. As an Illinois senator, he has the same amount of experience as Abraham Lincoln, who turned out be a pretty good president in his own right.

The presidential nominee then picks the vice-presidental nominee. For those people who were concerned about his so-called lack of "experience," Obama then said the following: if you are concerned about my lack of experience, I give you Joe Biden, my new right-hand man; an experienced Senator with impeccable foreign-policy credentials.

McCain, who brought up the whole "experience" meme in the first place, then made his vice-presidential pick. And he said to America -- here is a female vice-presidential candidate. I'm picking her over more experienced potential male and female vice-presidential candidates. I'm doing this because I think she'll help me win the election. And, um, she's creationist, so she thinks that fossils are fake, and that the entire universe was created 6,000 year ago.

Enough. Enough stupidity. I apologize for writing yet another comment, but I just can't take it. I really can't. I really just can't take it anymore.

...If we actually want to win this election, we're going to have to do better than freaking out, spazzing, and calling Governor Palin a dominatrix and 'fuckable.' Like, I dunno, maybe an actual strategy? Like maybe not spending every conceivable second discussing the Republican VP pick? We may not like Palin, but some people do. Figure out what they like about her, and negate it. That's what Republicans do.

Cintra Wilson's column is "fun" and "awesome" in the same way that listening to some Sean Hannity hyper-rant must be fun and awesome for a crazed right-winger. Salon, you're not helping.

...I think Obama is great, but this was a dumb misstep by him. And that's politics. Engage Palin and take her down, yes. But "lipstick on a pig"? When I heard it, it took several seconds for it to kick in, and for me to realize... 'Oh, he's referencing that weird old metaphor.' I guarantee you that plenty of people have never heard of this metaphor/aphorism, whatever you want to call it, and thought that he was calling Palin an ugly piece of swine. Sorry, but that's the way it is.

Besides, Obama has had good opportunities to strike back at Palin, on national TV -- on the community organizer issue, on experience -- and he just sort of muttered his way through them. I've worked on some national political campaigns before. "...Lipstick on a pig," is the kind of dumb idea than someone comes up with at 2am after drinking eight cups of coffee. And they think it's briillant: "...She calls herself a 'pitbull with lipstick'? See, and we'll flip that and take it right back to her! Lipstick on a pig! Can't put lipstick on a pig! Get it?! Take that, Senator Palin!" If I had been in the comference room, I would have raised my hand and said, "I think tying in a mother of five with a metaphor involving pigs is gonna backfire." And hopefully convinced the dumb person not to use the strategy.

And if Obama came up with the line by himself, then it's his own dumb idea. If we want to beat the Republicans, we're gonna have to be tough, we're gonna have to be canny, and we're gonna have to be strategic. Using obscure-ish 1940s era metaphors is none of the above; not when there are so many other solid ways to take McCain/Palin down.

And that's politics.