OINK, OINK, OINK, THIS LITTLE PIGGY CRIED SEXISM AND RAN WITH IT ALL THE WAY TO THE WHITE HOUSE

You can put lipstick on a pig but it’s still pig! The republicans can talk about change but if you use the same old tactics you’re still the same ole fascist pig!

I’m with Obama, ENOUGH is ENOUGH. How many Willie Hortons do we have to suffer through election after election after election? Our House is FALLING DOWN people. We are in two tragic wars and winning neither. Our economy is in the shitter! Our children think George Bush is the member of a boy band! Most American adults read at a 7th grade level and comprehend at a 5th grade level. And what is the major issue serious news shows are tackling all day phony outrage over an innocent comment made by a Presidential candidate making a point about spinning change! ARE WE F-ING CRAZY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

We should all know by now that the Republicans do the same hatchet job every four years. Republicans decimated Mike Dukasis in 1988 when they married him to Willie Horton, a black man who raped a woman while out on a state furlough program. In 2000 the Republicans made Al Gore out to be a liar, by saying that he (Gore) said, he invented the internet. Truth is, if it wasn't for Gore there would be no internet today. Four years later it was John Kerry’s turn. The Republicans hunted down the men he commanded as a Swift Boat Captain and put them on TV to say that Kerry had lied about receiving wartime medals. This also turned out to be untrue. Now it’s Barack Obama’s turn. The Republicans are beating up on Obama like he dissed McCain’s mama. It's a lie a day, he’s not really an American, he’s a Muslim, a racist, a sexist, a terrorists, uppity, teaches sex education to five year olds, the list goes on.

Every election the Republicans roll-out the wheel-barrow fill it full of dirt and dump it on the American electorate, and we wallow in the mud loving every minute of it. This election is no exception. Republicans seem to understand Americans far more than Democrats. 1. Americans by and large are lazy and stupid. It’s true. In America smart people are called geeks, or nerds and outcasts. Nobody wants to be smart. To be smart you have to read, study, research; you have to do stuff. Both John McCain and George Bush finished near the bottom of their respective college graduating classes and people love them. Barack Obama was editor of the Harvard Law Review and he's called an elitist. 2. Americans like to drink. They sold George Bush as the guy you’d want to have a drink with. Hilary Clinton had to show hutzpa by drinking shots in a bar. Barack looked uncomfortable in a bar. 3. Americans love a good mudslinging fight. The more mud the better, John McCain a quick study has started blindly throwing mud Barack's way. Barack is merely deflecting, but he hasn't joined in the fray.

Democrats on the other hand stubbornly wait for Americans to “get it,” to realize that the country is going to hell in a hand basket and someone has got to govern! I have news for them, Americans don’t get it. For many the government is a vast labyrinth of branches, departments, bills, regulations, laws and layers usually used to do more harm than good to the American public. Most don’t know the difference between the House and the Senate, Executive vs. Legislative, a bill vs. a law; it’s all to confusing so let’s just not think about it.

Democrats like also like insist on having “confidence,” that Americans will see these tactics for what they are insidious and divisive. Wrong again Americans don’t live in segregated neighborhoods and small towns for nothing. We all know that suburbia is mostly white and Urban is most black or brown. There are not Baptists churches but white Baptists churches and White Baptists churches. Whites live in “safe,” neighborhoods, blacks live in violent neighborhoods. We are already a divided country they simply remind us just how divided we are.

That’s all well and good and I understand the game. But the world has changed. I’ve been to Asia on several trips. Japanese grandparents walk around typing on blackberries, while bullet trains whiz commuting executives 288 miles an hours to jobs 300 miles away from home every morning and whizzes them back home every evening. They generate electricity by burning their waste, schoolchildren walk down the streets with mini laptops. I witnessed this in Japan 10 years ago. If Japan was 50 years ahead of us 10 years ago where do you think they are educationally and technologically today? India now has more billionaire than any other country. This is a nation that just 40 years ago was one of the poorest in the world.

Obama has to figure out a way to wrestle this campaign away from the Republican smear makers. Our existence as a country depends on it. To do so he will have to steal a few pages from the Republican play book. I’m sorry but he has got to start slinging some serious mud himself. He has got to use John McCain’s strengths against him. He has to turn “Country First,” into “Campaign First.” He has to turn his choice of Sarah Palin into a cheap trick, and he has to do it immediately.