We're on a bridge to nowhere

I've been too busy commisserating with the folks at Daily Kos over this Palin thing lately to update my own blog. But I must pause to offer this to the Obama camp:

It's time to fight back.

Because the other side is simply making stuff up. In the past, at the worst, even the Bush campaigns, there was some passing acquaintance with reality. It was silly to question if Kerry was wounded enough, but it could be debated.

But really, Palin? She campaigned on support for the bridge to nowhere, now she's campaigning because she gave it up under fire? Just flat-out lying. And yet, Americans seem eager to walk the bridge to nowhere with her.

More shocking to me is that John McCain, after cozying up to Bush and the far right to get the GOP nod, now wants to be a maverick again. Obama needs to call him on it, loudly. I'm waiting for this speech:

"I'm not going to get personal, but it's time to talk about the record. The record is that over the past several years, John McCain has shifted his positions to those of George Bush and the far right. The only thing he changes anymore is his mind.

-- he opposed George Bush's tax cuts for the rich, saying they'd bust the budget. They did. Now he wants to keep them.

-- "he opposed lobbyists, then hired them to run his campaign. He saw his child slandered by Karl Rove and Co. and condemned them. Now they run his campaign.

-- "he called those who seek to divide us over religion divisive forces. Now he praises them and gives them his vice presidential pick.

-- "he wrote a fair bill on immigration the far right hated. Now, he opposes his own bill.

"This is not change, it's more of the same. But overnight, he's changed from falling in line with President Bush to calling himself a maverick again. That's not change you can believe in."

C'mon, Obama. It's time to fight.

Side note: As a former journalist who's worked all over the western states, I can tell you I never met a working journalist from the University of Idaho. Never heard of one. On this part of the resume, it may make him an elitisit but at least Harvard Law grads tend to succeed.