The Error of Ayers

By Keith R. Schmitz

You got to feel sorry (I think I can) for the GOP this year. Not only did they have a crop of candidates who, to quote Howard Dean, reminded you of something out the 1950's, but the creme that rose to the crop was a media created fraud.

Think about all the cheap shots and dubious constructions that worked for the Republicans in campaigns past. They became so addicted to them that the apparatchiks formerly employed by Darth Rove felt a content free campaign could win this thing.

But now that the poll numbers for McCain are sagging, the campaign is turning to the McCarthyite guilt by association William Ayers attacks on Barack Obama.

But the irony is the blind ideology of the GOP brought to you by that past electoral success has led to this toxic economy so bad that now most voters are not susceptible to these siren songs. Even the racism that worked in years past may look like a costly luxury.

The clock is running out.

Gibbs Skewers the Inanity of Hannity

Keith R. Schmitz

Savor this fine six minutes as Obama Communications Director Robert Gibbs lets the air out of gas bag Sean Hannity following the debates last night.

Gibbs; in his typical affable, next door neighbor style; blasts the guilt by William Ayers association desperado tactic of the McCain by pointing out that Hannity had a whole show featuring the anti-Semite Andy Martin.

Worse for Hannity, his long-suffering foil Alan Colmes adds a dollop of Cool Whip on the topic by going into depth about the board that Obama and Ayers served on, talking about the other members who made up the board (funded by former Reagan supporter Walter H. Annenberg), blasting the McCartyite tactics. This "issue" will be something our own local Charlie McCarthyite will be using ad infinitum as the smell of dead horse drives people away.

Don't think Gibbs will asked be on Hannity's show any time soon.