Ready for the classy part of the election?

I hope you didn't think you were getting off easy. That the worst part of the election mudslinging was over and you could watch TV ads with dignity intact. No. God no, TB Buckaroos, it's just starting. Sarah Palin tipped the hand of the McCain campaign over the weekend, bringing up the William Ayers thing, calling Ayers and Obama best friends who totally hang out all the time, and that Obama basically hates the country and wants Ayers to explode every part of it with Wavy Gravy and Jerry Garcia. There was also a foray into Barack Obama wanting to bankrupt our troops and accusing soldiers of murdering civilians, but that's not really a new line of attack for McCain. The AP even referred to the attacks as "racially tinged". The McCain camp didn't even really get into the truly racially tinged stuff, that was for today when they decided to bring Jeremiah Wright back into the election. Good, because that wasn't hashed through to the point of irrelevance.

But that brings up a good chance to talk about Palin's church, what with it's seminars from pastors who stone witches for causing car accidents, convert gays, thinks the Iraq war is a messianic affair where the US can act out God's will, thinks Jews control the economy, and that Jews deserve to be victims of terrorism. So I hope they really wanted to wade into the Wasilla fever swamps, because I'm guessing those last two are going to make it into Florida ads.

Obama, for his part, kicked up a site called Keating Economics, in which he seeks to remind Americans that the last massive banking and mortgage crisis this country had was with John McCain at the center getting reprimanded for ethics charges. I'm assuming ads will be running about the site, but at noon there will be a 13 minute documentary for everyone to take a gander at. Obama also started running ads over the weekend in an attempt to salt the earth for McCain's attacks. He put out an ad saying that McCain was going to devolve into baseless attacks because he had nothing to say on the economy, for which there was another ad calling McCain erratic on the economy.

So I hope you are excited. Ads about ads that are coming. Boogidy boogidy boogidy BLACK MAN! Obama is planning covert terrorist attacks against the US in effete liberal elite chicagodaleypoliticscorruption circles. John McCain is going to steal your health care and Charles Keating will rape you with it. McCain is going to give you a free balloon and Obama is going to pop it. 29 days. 2 more debates. McCain is hemorrhaging ground in red states and is officially out of options. You aren't going to be able to wash the puke taste out of your mouth with 4 bottles of Listerine.