Terrible Sarah the terrorist

By Capt. Fogg

Most people who only know me casually are surprised that I'm interested in politics. I rarely talk about it in this coven of Republicans. That's changed recently. I've begun to tell off the people who forward me these e-mails claiming Obama was put through school by Muslim extremists from Malaysia, that Obama is "palling around with people who attacked America," and, horror of horrors, was seen wearing a USMC T-shirt when he hadn't "earned" it.

It's hard to tell which GOP cesspool some of these things come from, but the business about Obama being best buddies with Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers comes from Sarah Palin -- you know, the same Sarah who believes in witches and knows all about Russia becuase someone told her you could see an uninhabited rock from a tiny Alaskan island she's never been to.

She's been making the Slime Circuit -- or cruising the Bullshit Belt if you prefer -- telling the folks that Obama is a terrorist and a friend of terrorists. She cites a New York Times article as a source, although, true to the Palin Practice, the article does not say anything of the sort and that's been affirmed by most of hte mainstream media. Of course, back when Ayers was raising hell trying to stop the Vietnam war by blowing things up, Obama was thousands of miles away and eight years old. They do, now that Ayers is a 63-year-old professor at the University of Chicago, live in the same area of Chicago and once did sit on the board of the Annenberg Foundation, but that's as far as it goes. Close enough, though, for someone devoid of conscience, uncaring enough for responsibility and in utter contempt of truth like Sarah Palin.

Of course, if having once said hello to a former radical makes one a terrorist, then the U of C, which employs Ayers as a professor, must be an al Qaeda stronghold, but I'm rapidly running out of cynicism here. I'm just too damned angry.

Actually, if anyone is effectively participating in terrorizing Americans and interfering with the democratic process, it's Slimy Sarah, and now we know why she was selected. It would have been damned hard to find anyone else low enough, un-American enough, and deranged enough to believe her own lies. She allows McCain to wash his hands and pretend to be unsullied. She allows bigots and racists to pretend they have legitimate reasons for hating Obama.

(Cross-posted from The Swash Zone.)