Sarah Palin says that Obama is friendly with terrorists.
This is, of course, the already discredited Ayers stuff. The telling dynamic here is that Palin, who’s managed to build up a land speed record reputation for saying nonsensical shit, is the one stuck holding the public bag on Obama-as-spiritual-heir to the 1960s bombings of a man who’s now a college professor and member of semi-polite society. It is with a heavy heart that I must admit that Jeff Goldstein has this one nailed:
A few days back, in response to Jimmie at Sundries Shack and Stacy McCain of the Washington Times, I suggested that, from a strategic standpoint, the McCain campaign might have been waiting to use Sarah Palin as the key attack dog — the upshot being that she draws more elitist fire (jokes about breeder hicks seem to play poorly in Peoria), that the Obama campaign and their media arm concentrates their attentions on her, and that McCain gets to look “Presidential” by remaining above the fray.
An astute prediction for the person in the VP role that’s only been predicted another 2.25 million times on Google (give or take).