Gettin' Ugly

So, it looks like the McCain campaign, obviously eager to change the dynamic is going to *shocker* get even more ugly. Palin has already started by saying the Obama pals around with terrorists.

On a related note, Rolling Stone has come out with a set of articles deconstructing McCain. My favourite is a piece on Palin: "Mad Dog Palin"

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove. But more than that, she is a horrifying symbol of how little we ask for in return for the total surrender of our political power. Not only is Sarah Palin a fraud, she's the tawdriest, most half-assed fraud imaginable, 20 floors below the lowest common denominator, a character too dumb even for daytime TV — and this country is going to eat her up, cheering her every step of the way. All because most Americans no longer have the energy to do anything but lie back and allow ourselves to be jacked off by the calculating thieves who run this grasping consumer paradise we call a nation.

[update]This is Obama's jujitsu move: