Today's strategy

At least, it's my strategy until the Magic 8-Ball tells me to try something different. So here is my new campaign slogan:

Monkeys Could Do This Job!

I hope it won't come to this, but if I have to do this during tomorrow night's debate, I will. I will point out that McCain is old and Obama is black (said in a stage whisper). I am a monkey...and what does my slogan say? 'Nuff said. What more do voters need to know?

Back to Troopergate and Palin's claim that she was cleared of any wrongdoing. The Washington Post's fact-checker gives her the maximum four Pinocchios ("Whoppers") for that. What a bizarre strategy: say something enough times and it becomes true. Worked so well for tying Saddam Hussein with 9/11, didn't it? Wait a second. McCain seems to still believe that. Where has he been?

McCain also wouldn't denounce the head of the Virginia GOP for telling canvassers to compare Obama with Osama bin Laden. McCain said, "I have to look at the context of his remarks." Because, of course, there is a context in which such a comparison is okey-dokey.

Honestly, is there a better word than "shameful" to describe the McCain-Palin campaign?

Only 21 days until Obama-Jama!