I try to be better, but the mind-numbing banality of Sarah Palin has driven me over the edge I guess. That she should have any traction at all on the scene, considering her stunningly obvious mediocrity, makes me wonder if the country truly is too far gone for us to come back from the course of disaster we are so clearly on.

Give a red star to Arthurlee. Do it now!

Wait a minute! Are you telling me that John McCain was a POW? Why hasn't this been brought out before? That's the sort of vital information I've been waiting for. I was going to vote for Obama because of his comprehensive plans for how we can take the country into the next few critical decades, but this POW thing is game changer. I'm glad it's been brought out before I threw my vote away on, you know, actually policy stuff and shit. Got it now, though. John McCain was a POW 30 years ago. That one fact alone is worth at least 15 volumes of solid energy policy.

Don't you ever get tired of being so full of shit? Four years ago in Ohio, in many "Stalinist" districts (Democrats=Stalinism? WTF?) voters stood for hours in the cold and rain to even cast one vote, much less to get right back in line and go through the ordeal again, which is the only way I can figure there would be any advantage in these so-called phony registrations.

They stood in line this way to cast votes on Diebold machines that could easily be tampered with, providing no method of verification. The Diebold machines came courtesy of a company that was owned by major Republican donors. The Ohio secretary of state Kenneth Blackwell, like Katherine Harris did four years earlier in Florida, all but announced that the fix was in, and in many precincts the election was a total farce of mismanagement and poor planning. Reports of discrepancies and disenfranchisement were rampant, but all attempts by Rep. John Conyers to hold hearings on the matter were crushed in the Republican controlled house. Faced with all this evidence of Republican corruption, President Bush turned his Justice Department into a vendetta hit squad designed to tar democrats with the voter fraud label. Prosecutors were fired for failing to fall in line.

Now, four years later, we're supposed to get all excited over supposed registration irregularities, even though it is very unclear how these will translate into votes being cast. That scenario makes no sense. What does make sense is that by keeping the discussion about ACORN, the Republicans have a perfect smokescreen for purging and disenfranchising legitimate votes. How much you want to bet that most of the "cleaning up" will be done in those "Stalinist" (again, WTF?) areas. I bet their won't be many challenges in the Republican districts at all.

ACORN is about providing a smokescreen whereby Republicans can continue their assault on the voting process. As an Obama volunteer who has worked very hard, with dozens of others, to register new voters, I can tell you that all of us treated those forms as utterly sacred, even when someone told us that they were probably voting for McCain. But even as I did so, I have read story after story about Republican lawyers and strategists devoting all of their strategy on keeping people OFF the voter rolls. I've never run across a McCain supporter out trying to sign people up.

Elephantman, you are full of shit.

Can't help but think that Fox is mocking us, putting this ad on Salon. But if you watch it flash by, it tells the truth. No one sticks it to you like Fox.

Oh, wait. It says "brings it" not "sticks it." Hmmm, well that's true, too. It would be nearly impossible for anyone else to bring it to us the way Fox does.

It happens that way with such hectic travel schedules. In her mind, it's like "Let's see. If it's Tuesday, then that means... Obama is an arab terrorist who wants to barbecue your children on the White House lawn."

Misspeaking or not, she's still the most ridiculous hairball our crazy political system has ever coughed up.

That woman at the McCain rally didn't call Obama a Arab. She was about to say that Obama was A Rab-ble rouser, but McCain had already grabbed the microphone back by then.

I watched and heard the tape in question. Sounded like "Kill him" to me.

That's not so bad. For years I've had morons telling me flat out that I'm un-American.

"Iraq did not attack us. We're killing innocent people!" Traitor!

"We're destroying our economy with this endless war!" Communist!

"George Bush has set himself completely above the law. He is answerable to no one." Terror-loving Flag-burning Troop-hater!