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STINK BOMBS

I took a break from the election for four days.

I come back to McCain in a bunker sending stink bombs over the wall to maintain his convention-mo.

It seems there is no end of the lies and distortions that are becoming a daily part of the McCain's repertoire.

The one today about Obama wanting kindergarten kids to learn about condom installation is the biggest stinker so far.

They say that John has screwed his campaign down tight. He has no interviews now. Just like his partner Sarah. He does not answer questions.

He is sticking to a very tight script. No winging it. Gaffe prone that he is.

Palin is, evidently, back in Alaska but now they say that she will continue to team up with old John on the campaign trail since she attracts people to rallies and he does not.

In the meantime, Obama is still on defense after the convention blitz and the McCain poll bounce.

But I hear him cranking up the offense. Harder yesterday. Today off but harder tomorrow and, soon, the Big Dog will be out pounding some podiums.

It is interesting to watch it play out.

I get nervous and I liked being ahead which we are no longer.

But Dukakis was ahead now.

There is time.

Leads evaporate and so will McCain's.

There is beginning to be a wave of pundit outrage at the lies and distortions as well as the slime of the McCain campaign.

I assume that they are also pissed at being shut off from their favorite candidate.

We will see.

Last night, in the bar at the hotel, there was a loudmouth whose monologue penetrated the entire place. I was not in the bar but in the restaurant adjacent. No wall.

Anyway, this guy was holding forth on the election and I figured him to be another loudmouthed right winger until he started in on Palin and her inadequacy to be president, the feeble vetting that went on and the tabloid aura of the Palin phenomena.

He did not like it. Not a bit.

He expounded at length about it being an insult to the American people. He was certain that someone had paid the family off to be good for 56 days so that there were no more surprises. (He evidently had not read the latest National Enquirer article on Palin's reputed affair with her husband's best friend).

You will have to look at the news stand copy for details but here is a rundown of other pithy nuggets.

Of course, none of this is fair game. The son's drug problems, the shotgun marriage or even an affair here and there. But since they are making it all about family values, then lets look at the family and its values.

Obama won't go there of course.

I don't mind, today.

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