The (Oil) Blame Game

McCain's campaign ran an ad this week blaming Barack Obama for the current high gasoline prices. That's right, Senator Obama single-handedly caused 4-buck-a-gallon gas.

The gasoline gallon has risen $2.50 since oilmen George W. Bush and Dick Cheney took office in 2001. Exxon Mobil this week posted the largest quarterly profit of any company in history. $11.68 billion. That's around $90,000 per minute. In profit.

Yet it's all Barack Obama's fault. Right. Thanks for clearing that up for us, Senator McCain.

The (Middle) Name Game

Many Republicans amuse themselves and each other with Barack Obama's middle name. They can't resist tossing it like a hand grenade into their political emails, editorials, letters to the editor. Barack HUSSEIN Obama.  HUSSEIN, always in all caps, so we won't miss it.  It really is his middle name, so let's remind everybody about it whenever we can. All in CAPS of course. He's a Muslim, you know. Related to Sadaam. He's not one of us. He's secretly a terrorist.

In other parts of the world, Hussein is an extremely common name. Like Smith.  Or John.

Hmmm. John.  John Hinkley.  John Wilkes Boothe. One, a would-be presidential assassin. The other, an actual one. Both named John. Using the logic of the HUSSEIN-ophobes, we must assume that JOHN McCain has assassination in his blood. A Manchurian Candidate, programmed like previous Johns to assassinate the president... even if his target ends up being himself.  JOHN McCain. Be worried. He's going to kill the president.