When McCain used the line, “you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” on Clinton’s health care plan, it was fine. When Obama used the same line applying toward McCain’s political policies, it’s offensive and disgraceful to Palin. Damn, these people sure knows how to smear words.

McCain’s new ad, which attacks Obama on kindergarten’s sex education, is unbelievably despicable. It amazes me how someone could reach that low to win an election.

Update: Here is a fact check from Margaret Talev:

[T]he legislation allowed local school boards to teach “age-appropriate” sex education, not comprehensive lessons to kindergartners, and it gave schools the ability to warn young children about inappropriate touching and sexual predators.

McCain must not want to teach kids to be cautious of sexual predators.

Time‘s Michael Kinsley:

Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. Its tax burden per resident is 21/2 times the national average; its spending, more than double. The trick is that Alaska’s government spends money on its own citizens and taxes the rest of us to pay for it. Although Palin, like McCain, talks about liberating ourselves from dependence on foreign oil, there is no evidence that being dependent on Alaskan oil would be any more pleasant to the pocketbook.

In her RNC speech, Palin attacked Obama with a startling statement:

Al-Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America and he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights.

Obama striked back:

First of all, you don’t even get to read them their rights until you catch ’em. They should spend more time trying to catch Osama bin Laden and we can worry about the next steps later. My position has always been clear: If you’ve got a terrorist, take him out. Anybody who was involved in 9/11, take ’em out… If the government grabs you, then you have the right to at least ask, ‘Why was I grabbed?’ And say, ‘Maybe you’ve got the wrong person.’ We don’t always catch the right person. We may think it’s Mohammed the terrorist, but it might be Mohammed the cab driver. You might think it’s Barack the bomb-thrower, but it might be Barack the guy running for president… Don’t mock the Constitution. Don’t make fun of it. Don’t suggest that it’s not American to abide by what the founding fathers set up. It’s worked pretty well for over 200 years.

Wow! He gets it.

Damn! This chick lies her ass off.

A creepy video on “Sarah Palin’s Churches and the Third Wave.”

Hendrik Hertzberg’s New Yorker piece, “Let It Rain,” points out the mean spirit in Palin’s speech:

According to Time, Palin’s acceptance address was drafted—by a former Bush White House speechwriter—before she was chosen and then retailored to fit her. Like almost every major speech at that Convention (Mike Huckabee’s being an exception), it substituted sarcasm for humor in its sneers at Obama. “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities,” she said. “Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America, and he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights,” she said, a little chillingly. “Listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or even a reform, not even in the state senate,” she said. This last was simply false; Obama’s legislative record, both in Illinois and (given its brevity) in Washington, is impressive. (Also, it’s McCain whose books have been “authored.” Obama wrote his.) But the speech was well crafted and more than competently delivered, with even its most mean-spirited lines accompanied by perky smiles and wrinklings of the nose.

The GOP has been criticizing Obama for lack of experience, yet when CNN‘s Campbell Brown questioned McCain spokeman Tucker Bounds regarding to Palin’s experience, he badly fluffed his way out. The McCain’s campaign got so upset that they canceled McCain’s appearance on Larry King Live. Brown punked them.

While I am still waiting for the debate to decide who to root for, anyone who could step up to the antediluvian O’Reilly earns my credits. Obama is doing a great job of holding down Papa Bear on the first part of the interview. Hopefully, Fox News won’t edit the interview and distort the truth like they always do.

The 2008 election is just around the corner and I have yet to make up my mind which party to rock with although I have been leaning toward the left. John McCain, however, got me excited when he announced Sarah Palin as his running mate. She seems like someone that could feel our pain. She’s a middle class who is married to a production worker. She has five kids. One is pregnant at seventeen and one requires special needs. We heard some buzz about her accomplishments as a governor of Alaska. She seems decent and not as evil as some of the republican old heads. Yet last night she released her demon on her acceptance speech.

The evilness in her smile and sarcasm when criticizes senator Barack Obama irked me. She was so hostile in her speech. I was not even sure why she was disrespecting the community organizers, but I am sure they are way more decent then most of the politicians, particularly Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. In his speech, Romney said, “Just like you, there has never been a day when I was not proud to be an American.” How low do you have to go to attack a candidate’s spouse? Then again, you can’t really take any of these guys’ words seriously, especially when Guiliani claimed, “Sarah Palin has more experience than the entire Democratic ticket combined.”

I was hoping that Palin would stand out from the guys. I was looking for some real substances instead of lies and tough talks. After last night’s speech, the only thing that is different between Palin and and Guiliani is the lipstick.