Oh No, McPalin, Please Don’t Throw Me into That Briar Patch!

So, Sarah Palin has been traversing the country spewing on about Barack Obama living in the same neighborhood as Bill Ayers, a “domestic terrorist” by her standards. Bill Ayers was indeed a militant anti-war protester against the Vietnam War. Again, that’s the Vietnam War. The McPalins are so desperate that they’re pulling out a 40 year old scandal that had nothing to do with their opponent (and happened when he was 6 years old).



But let’s jump into that briar patch. Sarah Palin’s buddies in Alaska are now serving time in federal prison for taking bribes from another close pal of hers, Bill Allen, CEO of VECO Corp., who has also been convicted of giving bribes in order to affect public policies favoring his company for a natural gas pipeline. This is the same pipeline that Palin takes credit for, even though ground hasn’t been broken on the project.

How about John McCain’s ties to Charles Keating? John McCain not only accepted $112,000 from this morally challenged real estate speculator, but also received trips to the Bahamas. For his money, Keating was able to get John McCain as an early sponsor for his deregulation resolution and several threatening calls to the Treasury Department in an effort to keep Keating from serving time for his federal fraud charge.


But the McPalin attacks didn’t end there. They’ve accused Obama of being tied to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This is especially interesting since their campaign manager was being paid by Freddie Mac up until August of this year while continuing to work on the McPalin campaign.

I know that you McPalins are trying to get Americans to question whether we really want to elect a brilliant progressive young man to sit in the Oval Office – and I know you can’t scream, “He’s Black!” but your desperate search for a scandal in the face of your obvious ties to unscrupulous CEOs shows only that you’ve run out of tricks and have no idea how to manage America’s domestic issues.