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There are no words to express how disgusting the McCain campaign has become:

A new e-mail making the rounds among Jewish voters in Pennsylvania this week falsely alleged that Mr. Obama “taught members of Acorn to commit voter registration fraud,’’ and equated a vote for Senator Barack Obama with the “tragic mistake” of their Jewish ancestors, who “ignored the warning signs in the 1930’s and 1940’s.”

So a vote for Obama is a vote for what … a new Holocaust?

Why? Because he’s really in league with Muslim terrorists?

At first blush, it was typical of the sorts of e-mails floating around with false, unsubstantiated and incendiary claims this year.

But where most of the attack e-mails against Mr. Obama have been mostly either anonymous or from people outside of mainstream politics, this one had an unusually official provenance: It was sponsored by the Pennsylvania Republican Party’s “Victory 2008” committee.

And it was signed by several

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Terence at Republic of T posted this earlier today with the comment “Pitiful: that’s the only word I can think of to describe this.” Vile was the word that came to my mind.

The “outraged” individual is Republican strategist Brad Blakeman, commenting on why it’s more outrageous for Obama to take a campaign plane to go visit his possibly dying grandmother than for the McCain campaing to spend $150,000 on clothes and accessories for Sarah Palin (that’s in, what, two months? Which is about $2,500 a day?).

As Terence points out, the idea of a presidential candidate, in this day and age, taking a commercial flight is just ludicrous. Not to mention the callous insensitivity of criticizing a man visiting his seriously ill grandmother. Every word that comes from these people’s mouths just digs them into a deeper hole with …

I was suspicious yesterday about the story that a McCain campaigner had allegedly been attacked and the letter “B” carved on her face because her mugger was infuriated at seeing a McCain/Palin sticker on her car. Of course there are nuts out there and anything could happen, but in the picture of the woman’s face it was peculiar that the supposed vicious attacker had been careful not to cause any actual bleeding. It would be peculiar if, carving a letter into a struggling person’s face with a knife, the injuries amounted to no more than a superficial scratch with no bleeding whatsoever.

Here’s the picture.

And here’s what appears to be the truth:

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ? Police say a campaign volunteer confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter B in her face after seeing her McCain bumper

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Found on Huffington Post via Digg.

Beautiful. Inspiring.

Obama ’08 – Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.

Some interesting comments from conservative columnist David Brooks today:

We’ve been watching Barack Obama for two years now, and in all that time there hasn’t been a moment in which he has publicly lost his self-control. This has been a period of tumult, combat, exhaustion and crisis. And yet there hasn’t been a moment when he has displayed rage, resentment, fear, anxiety, bitterness, tears, ecstasy, self-pity or impulsiveness.

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There has never been a moment when, at least in public, he seems gripped by inner turmoil. It’s not willpower or self-discipline he shows as much as an organized unconscious. Through some deep, bottom-up process, he has developed strategies for equanimity, and now he’s become a homeostasis machine.

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Through the debate, he was reassuring and self-composed. McCain, an experienced old hand, would blink furiously over the tension of the moment, but Obama didn’t reveal even unconscious signs of nervousness. There was no hint of

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