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According to Editor & Publisher, Obama now has a 3 to 1 lead over McCain in newspaper endorsements -- 51 newspapers with a total 6,299,363 daily circulation. At least seven of those papers endorsed President Bush in 2004.

McCain Using Same Robocall Firm That Helped Smear Him In 2000 - yes, the same company that George W. Bush used in the North Carolina primaries to basically phone-spam voters and "smear" McCain, for which he expressed public outrage, is now being employed by McCain himself for the very same smear campaign against Obama. Maverick: doing the exact same thing as one's party stipulates, particularly the most heinous or the actions most disliked by the voters one is serving.

Racist 'N-Word' Robocall Reported In Pennsylvania - "The third party call was interactive, and purported to be from Barack Obama himself. The call starts out reasonably, and then "Obama" asks what the listener thinks is the most important issue. Whatever the response, "Obama" then launches into a profane and crazed tirade using "n***er" and other shock language."

Palin Office Wants $15 Million For Emails - Sarah Palin has offered to sell emails from the governer's office that the media have been clamoring for. Not until after the election, of course.

And the shocking video of hatred and racism at a Palin rally:

Some of the more offensive bits were:

• The guy holding a fucking stuffed MONKEY with an Obama bumper sticker on his forehead, telling us it was "Little Hussein" and cackling.
• The most absurd connection between Obama and Osama (the only difference is BS).  It's a fucking name that his parents gave him, for fuck's sake, it has nothing to do with his politics or religious beliefs!
• Someone shouting "Hussein Muhammed Obama!"  Aside from the previous comment about his name not having anything to do with his politics or religion, Muslims make up a huge population in the world and as legitimate American citizens.
• Someone shouting "Obama bin Laden". 
• That same asshole shouting "born in Kenya, citizen of Indonasia" (I'm sure he meant Indoneysia).  Uh, hello, he was born in Hawaii, that's a matter of public record.
• "Kill some more babies you bastard!" Same guy.
• "Kill the babies!  Abortion after they're born!" Different guy this time.
• "If he gets in office, he's gonna have not a cross-section of America in his cabinet.  It's gonna be Al Sharpton, Rev. Wright, Jesse Jackson"  Can we say racist?
• A guy grabbing his dick and yelling "Kiss my lipstick!"

It's just apalling that we still have racism and bigotry to this degree after all these years of suffering and fighting.  There are plenty of legitimate reasons to not like Obama, but the Republican supporters caught on this video are the lowest of the low, spouting blind hatred, misinformation, and outright lies.  For all the faults of the Democrats, this is usually not one of them. 

I outright fear and loath Sarah Palin and I'm pretty afraid of McCain too, but I might develop a glimmer of respect for them if they or their "official campaign" would make a statement discouraging this kind of behaviour.

Oh, wait, they can't.  They're the ones who started spreading the rumors and lies and half-truths this hatred is built upon.