I wouldn't say "found guilty". There was no trial or actual criminal charges.
Really, if you look into the details of this particular incident there's nothing to it. Just because there's a personal connection doesn't mean the guy didn't still deserve to be sacked.
And I would say that it's not just the Democrats that would do a hatchet job on Palin. Those who actually read anything about the circumstances of her political career would understand that she made a lot of Republican politicians in Alaska rather upset, so even a bipartisan commission would not necessarily judge fairly.
McDuffies wrote:I'm starting to be pissed off about mcCain's campaign, it seems to be mostly based on mud slinging, dragging out some trivial details and blowing them out of proportion or taking them out of context. "That one" probably wasn't meant as racist, but regardless it's incredibly rude, shows total disrespect of the political oponent. But my impression from that segment (I watched that part of the debate on tv later) was that mcCain was clinging onto trivialities.
Look, these aren't all trivial details. Barack Obama's political career was started in William Ayers' living room. This man led a domestic terrorist group that bombed the Pentagon. Just because he's in education now doesn't mean he's a different person now, and Barack Obama is stretching everyone's credulity by suggesting that he honestly thinks that Ayers has somehow reformed just because he's in a different line of work now.
Read Ayers' own words if you don't believe me.
And beyond that, his associations with ACORN are also nothing to sneeze at. This organization is the very source of the economic crisis that faces us now.
The Community Reinvestment Act was pushed by ACORN lobbyists and signed by President Carter in 1977, and significantly expanded under President Clinton in 1995, and is very much the cause of the real estate bubble (more people buying houses who can't really afford them) and the subsequent crash. We are now sitting in the mess that Obama's friends created. And furthermore, ACORN is being investigated in about half of the states in the US for voter registration fraud.
I really, really, honestly believe that Barack Obama represents more of this, more of the same. I don't really like John McCain all that much; the news media chose him by choosing to ignore the better candidates in the primaries. It's not as though Thompson or Giuliani forgot to run campaigns. They had campaigns, but those who rely on the news media wouldn't know to follow them since they were deemed "not newsworthy."
And anyone who doesn't believe Obama is a radical socialist is invited to look him up in an Internet archive under the "New Party" circa 1997.
And this may be a low blow here but if he wins, Michelle is going to be the next Hillary, without question.