Palin Jumps the Shark.

[Joanne98]

US Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin has accused the Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, of associating with terrorists.

She said he had been “palling around” with an ex-member of US-based militant group Weather Underground, which opposed the Vietnam War in the 1960s.

Mr Obama once served on a charity board with a member of the group, but he has denounced its activities.

A Democratic spokesman accused the Republicans of gutter politics.

“What’s clear is that John McCain and Sarah Palin would rather spend their time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy,” Hari Sevugan said.

Commentators say Mrs Palin’s attack forms part of a broader Republican strategy to attack Mr Obama’s character.

Via BBC News

Gutter politics is right. One of the more repugnant Republican tactics of the 1990s was the constant impugning of the patriotism of Democrats, a tactic which they then took into the new century with Swiftboating and the constant references to Obama’s middle name, as if that proved something.

The McCain campaign should be ashamed over this. This is negative campaigning at its most disgusting and abhorrent, and frankly, whichever puppeteer was operating Sarah that day needs to be fired, immediately.

I won’t say that Palin needs to be ashamed, because I don’t give her enough credit to have actually come up with it on her own; she’s a mouthpiece, a gimmick, a one-trick pony brought in for entirely cynical and despicable reasons, and I wouldn’t give her credit enough for being able to tie her own shoes.

http://mek1980.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/palin-jumps-the-shark/

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Never expect Sarah to be ashamed.

I believe the woman is incapable of feeling either guilt or shame.

[Skidmore]

2. The shark is chomping on

Palin's ass and she thinks she's caught it and will cook it up for dinner. The woman's clueless. Palin=shark bait. I don't get all the crap about how shes such a savvy politician. She's a user and a manipulator, yes. Users and manipulators pull their stuff until someone calls them on it. We're here to call her on the BS.

[Mist]

5. Yes indeed--but what's the name of that shark? Swing voters? Yet another

scandal from Palin's past?

[gratefultobelib]

3. "...wouldn't give her credit enough for being able to tie her own shoes." I love it!

[paulthompson]

4. Some visual assistance for you here :)

Palin:



And McCain for good measure:

[scarface2004]

6. obama and osama are tight!!!

apparently obama osama and weatherman ayers have been conspiring since obama was in the third grade to knock down the world trade center, invade iraq, and strike fear into the hearts of amerika so that we have to take off our shoes before we can board airplanes now!!!!

[TheOddBlog]

7. Thanks for the link!

As the blogger in question, I'm always happy to see my turns of phrase bandied about :D

Much obliged.