On "Countdown" last night, Keith ran a montage of Palin repeating the Obama-as-terrorist smear over and over. I can just imagine Rove and his aides sifting through piles of old newspapers and transcripts trying to find something--anything--to hang on O. "Okay, there isn't much, so we'll have to go with this. Twenty years ago, he passed some former revolutionary in the hall..." And the Repubs, well aware of the knee-jerk response of the public, keep repeating and repeating until--well, it must be true because otherwise, they wouldn't keep saying it, would they?
I'm actually beginning to be okay with the idea of a Repub victory. It might as well be them who preside over the last gasps of the republic. After, maybe some party will rise that can get things back together, but it will take decades and the U.S. will never be the same.
Also:
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 7th October 2008.
"While all eyes were fixed on the banking bail-out, a bucketload of public money was quietly sloshed into the pockets of another undeserving cause. Last week, George Bush agreed to lend $25bn to US car manufacturers. It’s a soft loan, which will cost the government $7.5bn(1). Few people noticed; fewer fought it. The House of Representatives approved the measure by 370 votes to 58. The great corporate bail-out is spreading like the plague."
Did you know that? I didn't know that.
Domestic Note: On the home front, I cooked up a big pot of kidney bean stew. Ate some and froze some. Gave Pat scrapple and eggs for dinner and he ate every morsel. Getting a flu shot today and want to ask the doc some blood pressure questions.