What I Learned Today About McCain & Palin

1. Gov. Palin and her husband owe tens of thousands of dollars in taxes

2. Gov. Palin isn't backing down from her comment that Sen. Obama "pals around with terrorists," even though the mainstream media knows she's lying.
But while Ayers and Obama are acquainted, the charge that they "pal around" is a stretch of any reading of the public record. And it's simply wrong to suggest that they were associated while Ayers was committing terrorist acts. Obama was 8 years old at the time the Weather Underground claimed credit for numerous bombings and was blamed for a pipe bomb that killed a San Francisco policeman.
3. I'm not the only one who thinks that Sarah Palin is a stupid, conniving bitch

4. John McCain's career has been distinguished by its recklessness and dishonesty. Sounds oddly familiar to the career of the current occupant of the White House, doesn't it?
John Sidney McCain III and George Walker Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At each step, with the aid of their fathers' powerful friends, both failed upward. And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to Jesus in their wives' evangelical churches.

In one vital respect, however, the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a much better pilot.