I HATE SARAH PALIN LIKE CANCER: GREAT ARTICLE

I HATE SARAH PALIN LIKE CANCER: GREAT ARTICLE

Why Sarah Palin's Guilt By Association Is A Dangerous Game:

As you may have heard, with her new found confidence following the debate, Republican VP pick Sarah Palin went on the offensive against Barack Obama over the weekend.

At a rally in California, Palin accused Obama of "palling around with terrorists" because of his association with a former 1960s radical. The "terrorists" to whom she was referring was Chicago education professor William Ayers, a founder of the 60s radical leftist group the Weather Underground.

"I was reading today a copy of the New York Times," Palin said proudly (probably because she couldn't name any papers a week earlier). "And I was really interested to read in there about Barack Obama's friends from Chicago. Turns out one of his earliest supporters is a man who, according to the New York Times, was a domestic terrorist, that quote 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and the United States Capitol.'"

"This is not a man who sees America as you and I see America," Palin said. "We see America as a force for good in this world. We see America as a force for exceptionalism. Our opponents see America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who would bomb their own country."

But apparently Palin didn't get to the end of the story, which was an investigation into whether Obama had a relationship with Ayers. Because the same article concluded that the men were never close and that the Ayers' radical past was when Obama was just eight years old.

And guilt by association is a dangerous game. Palin's comments prompted the Associated Press to say that her attack was 'racially tinged': "Though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret," it said.

Not only that, her comments appear to have given Obama supporters the incentive to dig up dirt on John McCain. And what they claim to have found is that McCain has a history on a board of the US council for 'World Freedom', an ultra conservative, right wing group which was a "gathering of extremists racists and anti-semites."

Everyone has a history, but John McCain, with all his year's, will have a much longer one and the Republicans may have just opened a box they wish they had left alone.

Sarah Palin's address at the rally:



Paul Begala's comments, who believes the Republicans' attack was a 'strategic mistake':

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