Pounding on the Table

There's an old lawyer saying: "When the law is on your side, pound on the law. When the facts are on your side, pound on the facts. When neither is on your side, pound on the table."

Senator McCain's campaign, clearly running out of gimmicks and apparently unable to mount a credible campaign that can legitimately distance itself from the Bush Hindenburg, has decided that it needs to spend the rest of its time until the election in negative campaign mode. The first salvo came from ethics investigatee Sarah Palin (the campaign is now making an emergency appeal to the AK Supreme Court to intervene and delay the "troopergate" investigation reports until after the election). Governor Palin stated that Barack Obama seems to see the United States as being so imperfect that he is "palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." (Source: the AP) The article also notes that Senator Obama served on an advisory board with the subject of this statement and denounced said board member's past activities.

You know, 8 years ago, I had some respect for Senator McCain. I never knew Sarah Palin until 5 weeks ago, so I couldn't have had too much respect for her, other than to respect that she was elected governor of Alaska in her early 40s.

But these are desparate times, and if you can't win with lies and obfuscations, and your one trick pony doesn't change the game, then I guess there's nothing wrong with slinging all the mud you can, not unlike the last two Administrations. But then again, isn't McCain supposed to be a maverick?

This is not leadership. This is pathetic.