McCain-Palin play the ignorance card...

Hearing John McCain and Sarah Palin make their closing arguments about Barack Obama's policies, rhetoric, history and associations puts me in mind of watching Homer Simpson argue with Marge. The McCain campaign says that Obama's association with Bill Ayers requires further clarification and a straight answer as it is suspect. Palin is quoted as saying:

And -- not only those terrorist activities that Bill Ayers was involved in, but the questions need to be asked, I believe, when did Barack Obama know of these activities? We've heard so many conflicting stories, and flip-flop answers about when he knew the guy, did he realize that he knocked off his political career in the guy's living room?

Flip-flop answers? I have heard Obama say several times that he was 8 when Ayers committed his terrible crimes. I'm guessing that, as good as he is, Senator Obama didn't know about them then. He has fully explained his relationship with Ayers as being members on a board for the same charity for 4 years. When they met, Ayers was a college professor.

When the idiot-couple heading the McCain campaign then come out and say "Oh, right. Well, we heard differently. That's all I'm saying." it's because THEY ARE THE ONLY ONES SAYING ANYTHING CONTRARY TO OBAMA'S STATEMENTS. They are taking their own word for it. It's unbelievable.

The same goes for the surge in Iraq. McCain keeps repeating that Barack Obama has never admitted he was wrong on the surge in Iraq being a success. This is blatantly untrue. Obama has said to the press on at least two occasions (once to Bill O'Reilly on Fox News of all places, showing the Obama still has time to do charity work) that:

I think that the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated ... I’ve already said it’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.

The McCain response to this involves the lesser seen but always popular "la, la, la, I'm not listening" school of politics, then going straight into telling the Republican no-information voters that "that one" has definitely never, ever stated that he agrees that the surge worked.

Apparently, McCain and Palin are no-information voters too.

Sorry, but are you kidding me?...

I see that Senator John McCain has formally requested of Senator Barack Obama that the first Presidential debate, to be held tomorrow, be delayed so that he may focus on reviewing America's current economic crisis.

Is he serious? The current US financial woes have been in the making for nine years. Some of the world's largest financial institutions are on the brink of bankruptcy. People are losing their homes. The world's stock markets are extremely volatile and sway from good to bad every hour and John McCain, with a self-confessed 'lack of knowledge regarding economic matters', wants to delay a debate and get this problem rectified quick-smart. How? What is he going to do? Is John McCain going to sell a couple of his smaller houses and loan the ailing Wall Street $700 billion instead of the taxpayer?

While he is at it, why doesn't he just ask Obama if they can delay a face-off until all troops withdraw out of Iraq, Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzalez are a distant memory, Guantanamo Bay is a theme park and Sarah Palin actually has some experience?

Quite rightly, Barack Obama declined the request to delay the debate, saying, and I may be paraphrasing here, that in such desperate times, the American public deserve to hear exactly who does have a plan, as well as a spine.