I am still waiting for John McCain’s ad touting his endorsement by Vice President Darth Cheney, who appeared from his secret location hidden away from the American people last week long enough to endorse McCain.

George Bush is the worst president in the history of these United States.

Darth Cheney was the real power and policy setter, Bush was just his puppet (all according to Leo Strauss Neo-Con plan, hand in hand with PNCA, the Project for the New Ameican Century). Don’t believe me? Just google the last three items, and inform yourself.

So that makes Cheney not only the absolutely worst Vice President in history, but also the most flat out evil. Unrepentant, relenting, Un-American, treasonous evil.

I really do not understand why John McCain, who is running for George W. Bush’s third term, does not run his own ad touting Cheney’s endorsement.

John McCain has run a campaign that has been nothing but attack ads, lies, smears and innuendo. That is what Republicans now do as a party. For this election, that is what John McCain and the Republicans do because they have nothing positive to offer. They have no answers for the future, because they are the past, and the past is eight years of failure by the worst administration in the history of this nation.

Again and again through this election cycle McCain and the Karl Rove neo-con thugs to whom he turned over control of his campaign have tried to find some line of attack that they could zero in on to distract the American people.

This week they tried linking Obama to a widely respected Middle East scholar named Middle East scholar named Rashid Khalidi. After all, they refer to Obama as “Hussein”, his middle name, and “Rashid Khalidi”, how much more Muslim sounding and threatening can you get, right? That should work, let’s try it, was clearly their plan.

Drudge Report tried to start the ball rolling, but quickly pulled his latest contribution to the wing-nut hate and smear campaign when Huffington Post revealed that John McCain himself had been a huge contributor to Mr. Khalidi! McCain Funded Work Of Palestinian His Campaign Hopes To Tie To Obama

Today the Washington Post writes on this latest epic failure at negative attacks, instead of a positive message of what McCain and the Republicans have to offer for the future.

An ‘Idiot Wind’
John McCain’s latest attempt to link Barack Obama to extremism

Friday, October 31, 2008; Page A18

WITH THE presidential campaign clock ticking down, Sen. John McCain has suddenly discovered a new boogeyman to link to Sen. Barack Obama: a sometimes controversial but widely respected Middle East scholar named Rashid Khalidi. In the past couple of days, Mr. McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, have likened Mr. Khalidi, the director of a Middle East institute at Columbia University, to neo-Nazis; called him “a PLO spokesman”; and suggested that the Los Angeles Times is hiding something sinister by refusing to release a videotape of a 2003 dinner in honor of Mr. Khalidi at which Mr. Obama spoke. Mr. McCain even threw former Weatherman Bill Ayers into the mix, suggesting that the tape might reveal that Mr. Ayers — a terrorist-turned-professor who also has been an Obama acquaintance — was at the dinner.

For the record, Mr. Khalidi is an American born in New York who graduated from Yale a couple of years after George W. Bush. For much of his long academic career, he taught at the University of Chicago, where he and his wife became friends with Barack and Michelle Obama. In the early 1990s, he worked as an adviser to the Palestinian delegation at peace talks in Madrid and Washington sponsored by the first Bush administration. We don’t agree with a lot of what Mr. Khalidi has had to say about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the years, and Mr. Obama has made clear that he doesn’t, either. But to compare the professor to neo-Nazis — or even to Mr. Ayers — is a vile smear.
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Which reminds us: We did ask Mr. Khalidi whether he wanted to respond to the campaign charges against him. He answered, via e-mail, that “I will stick to my policy of letting this idiot wind blow over.” That’s good advice for anyone still listening to the McCain campaign’s increasingly reckless ad hominem attacks. Sadly, that wind is likely to keep blowing for four more days.

This humiliating incident is emblematic of not just the John McCain campaign, but the root reason why a vote for McCain and Palin would be a vote to put utter incompetence and lack of organizational skills and leadership in the White House.

It is reported the McCain campaign had contacted “Joe the Plumber” about appearing, but he had decided not to appear at the last minute, and neither side had been in communication.

McCain has his script expecting Joe to appear, so he can recite some meaningless attack phrases and talking points. And when Joe does NOT appear, McCain is stunned, and not even able to recover and continue.

If this were not someone running for the highest office in America, a position that before George W. Bush’s destructive tenure was considered the leader of the free world, it would be sad and pathetic. But in the context of a presidential campaign, it is absolutely horrendous.

My only question to those voting for McCain and Palin? Why do you hate America so much?

Although this site has been dedicated to tracking John McCain and Sarah Palin’s devolution into the nastiest, ugliest, most slanderous, hate-filled presidential campaign perhaps ever, Elizabeth Dole’s ad claiming Kay Hagan, an elder in the Presbyterian Church, was ‘Godless’, was an absolute nadir for the Republican Party in its descent into madness and irrelevance.

Here is Kay Hagan’s response.

This is what McCain and Palin and the Republicans have sunk to. Even I am shocked and appalled that Elizabeth Dole would go so low as to run a patently fraudulent and false ad against her opponent for the Senate. The add claims that Kay Hagan does not believe in God, using a voice over at the end that is not Kay Hagan. Kay Hagan is a life-long member of the Presbyterian church, and Elder in her church, who does repeated missions of charity and good deeds.

This is so despicable on so many levels it is actually painful to see. Here is the hideous ad. Can you watch this and then claim to be a Christian, or a moral person regardless of your religion or lack thereof? Is this the kind of person you want running America? Elizabeth Dole is a disgrace.

Kay Hagan’s lawyers have already sent a formal cease and desist letter to Elizabeth Dole, pointing out the obvious, that this ad is so far beyond the pale that it is in fact actionable slander of Kay Hagan.

Link to PDF Acrobat Reader file of the Cease and Desist letter

Remarks from Kay Hagan (as prepared)

State Senator and U.S. Senate Candidate Kay Hagan
Remarks as prepared
October 29, 2008, 10:30 A.M.
Press Conference at First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro

Thank you for coming today. I know this was called at short notice, and I appreciate you being here for this.

Let’s get right to it. Elizabeth Dole should absolutely be ashamed of herself.

I don’t know what things were like when she grew up in North Carolina, but the North Carolina I was raised in would NEVER condone this kind of personal slander.

I can’t begin to tell you how upset I am that she has attacked my Christian faith.

She’s been in Washington for too long, gotten too close to George Bush and the special interests and this is what she’s become.

I am appalled at these tactics. This is politics of the worst kind, and it’s been rejected by North Carolinians at every level. This is so unbecoming of the woman she claims to be.

I have taught Sunday school. I’m an elder in this church, where the Hagan family has attended for over 100 years. I go on mission trips. I was raised going to Sunday school and church every week. And I raised my children that way.

On Christmas Eve, we attend the 11:00 evening service, then early on Christmas mornings, my children and husband and I go to the Bell House and cook breakfast for the residents there. My family, my community and my church are the anchors of my life.

If Senator Dole wants to pass judgment on my faith, that’s her right – but it’s not what my faith teaches.

This is a fabricated, pathetic ad.

I am outraged…That is not my voice at the end of the ad, and I do not share their beliefs.

This was an event with nearly 40 hosts, including an ambassador and a sitting U.S. Senator (John Kerry).

We have already contacted our lawyers and are proceeding with a cease and desist order sent to Elizabeth Dole.

This kind of politics should not be tolerated.

The politics of George Bush won’t create one new job, lower the cost of health care, or do one lick of good for North Carolina.

At their core, Americans aren’t Democrat or Republican, red or blue – they’re Americans, plain and simple. We ALL love our country, and we all value the role of faith in American life.

Shame on anyone who says differently.

Congress just had to bailout Wall Street, workers’ retirement savings are out the window, people are genuinely concerned about keeping their job in this tough economic climate, and Elizabeth Dole is trying to talk about ANYTHING but the issues.

This attack speaks volumes about her personally and politically, but more importantly, it speaks to the lack of leadership she’s shown on behalf of North Carolinians. At this critical point in American history, why isn’t Elizabeth Dole talking about what she’s done for North Carolinians and what she’s planning to do if re-elected?

This is exactly why people in North Carolina are supporting me – I have real, concrete proposals to help fix what’s broken in Washington and advocate on behalf of working families. I’ve been talking about the issues and ensuring North Carolinians know what real leadership looks like.

Elizabeth Dole is just relying on the same old, tired rhetoric that divides people instead of bringing them together, and that’s the last thing people in North Carolina want right now.

Disclosure: I am Kay Hagan’s Online Communications Director
http://www.kayhagan.com

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Kay Hagan responds.

Wow. Who could have known? Sarah Palin is the new Ronald Reagan??!!

All I can say to the Republicans is: Let your internal blood bath begin. The longer you are down and out and incapable of regaining power, the better for America.

GOP Draws Internal Battle Lines Around Sarah Palin

Jim Nuzzo, a White House aide to the first President Bush, dismissed Mrs Palin’s critics as “cocktail party conservatives” who “give aid and comfort to the enemy”.

He told The Sunday Telegraph: “There’s going to be a bloodbath. A lot of people are going to be excommunicated. David Brooks and David Frum and Peggy Noonan are dead people in the Republican Party. The litmus test will be: where did you stand on Palin?”

Hold it now. They’re serious about going all in with the Palin loyalty test? Uhm…apparently so! Nuzzo adds:

He said: “Win or lose, there is a ready made conservative candidate waiting in the wings. Sarah Palin is not the new Iain Duncan Smith, she is the new Ronald Reagan.”

Sarah Palin in 2012 for President. Yes, I am sure that will restore the Republican party to sanity and glory. True conservatism will triumph at last.

Meantime, here in the Hoosier Heartland, we have some Real Americans (TM) the nation can be proud of for their refusal to participate in the McCain/Palin/Republican Great Slime Machine Robocall Campaign of 2008. Note that in Indiana robocalls are illegal, so the campaign has to pay human beings to make the calls and read the scripts.

Dozens Of Call Center Workers Walk Off Job In Protest Rather Than Read McCain Script Attacking Obama

Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents.

Nina Williams, a stay-at-home mom in Lake County, Indiana, tells us that her daughter recently called her from her job at the center, upset that she had been asked to read a script attacking Obama for being “dangerously weak on crime,” “coddling criminals,” and for voting against “protecting children from danger.”

Williams’ daughter told her that up to 40 of her co-workers had refused to read the script, and had left the call center after supervisors told them that they would have to either read the call or leave, Williams says. The call center is called Americall, and it’s located in Hobart, IN.

Editorial. Barack Obama for President

Published: October 23, 2008

Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.

The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped of its ability to protect and help its citizens — whether they are fleeing a hurricane’s floodwaters, searching for affordable health care or struggling to hold on to their homes, jobs, savings and pensions in the midst of a financial crisis that was foretold and preventable.

As tough as the times are, the selection of a new president is easy. After nearly two years of a grueling and ugly campaign, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois has proved that he is the right choice to be the 44th president of the United States.

Mr. Obama has met challenge after challenge, growing as a leader and putting real flesh on his early promises of hope and change. He has shown a cool head and sound judgment. We believe he has the will and the ability to forge the broad political consensus that is essential to finding solutions to this nation’s problems.
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Mr. Obama has withstood some of the toughest campaign attacks ever mounted against a candidate. He’s been called un-American and accused of hiding a secret Islamic faith. The Republicans have linked him to domestic terrorists and questioned his wife’s love of her country. Ms. Palin has also questioned millions of Americans’ patriotism, calling Republican-leaning states “pro-America.”

This politics of fear, division and character assassination helped Mr. Bush drive Mr. McCain from the 2000 Republican primaries and defeat Senator John Kerry in 2004. It has been the dominant theme of his failed presidency.

The nation’s problems are simply too grave to be reduced to slashing “robo-calls” and negative ads. This country needs sensible leadership, compassionate leadership, honest leadership and strong leadership. Barack Obama has shown that he has all of those qualities.