Getting political for a minute

For the most part, I’ve kept politics out of this blog. This just didn’t seem the place to bring it up. But Sarah Palin’s latest attempt to tar Barack Obama with a bizarre guilt-by-association charge, attempting to connect Obama to Vietnam-era activism that took place when he was about eight years old, has pushed me over the edge. Rather than speculate about the the relationship between Obama and a passing acquaintance with whom he served on a community board, lets look at real relationships. The kind that matter. Like Palin’s own husband – a member of the secessionist Alaska Independence Party until she decided to run for office. Palin may not have been a member of the organization, but she attended at least one, and probably two of their conventions, and sent a taped greeting to the convention while Governor. That’s right, she publicly greeted a party whose primary aim amounts to treason.

And then there’s the top of her ticket, John McCain. It is laughable that a campaign headed by John McCain is suggesting guilt by tenuous association. How about we talk about real association? Let’s talk about Charles Keating, the “Keating 5,” and a $3.5 billion bill to taxpayers. Better yet, here’s a short documentary – a history lesson on John McCain and the Keating 5