Eastern Standard Blog

Pretty much says it all…do you really want a bitter, petulant 74 year old child for your next president?

Wait, wait. Suddenly we don’t want to talk about whom hangs around with whom?

And the hits just keep on coming. I’m sure that having read her bible, Gov. Palin knows that those without sin should cast the first stone. Apparently when you and your husband are members of, and support a clearly anti-American group (the Alaska Independence Party – AIP) it’s probably a good idea to try and divert the focus off that and on to something else.

“The Republican ticket is working hard this week to make Barack Obama’s tenuous connection to graying, ’60s revolutionary Bill Ayers a major campaign issue. But the Palins’ connection to anti-American extremism is much more central to their political biographies.”

Sound familiar?

McCain, speaking about the financial crisis, took offense at Obama’s accusation that McCain opposed regulation that would have prevented the credit crunch. “I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed,” McCain said.