Obviously, I can’t help myself.

Nancy Keenan, the president of NARAL, on McCain, air quotes, and women’s health.

And…

Undecideds Laughing At, Not With, McCain

Sorta sad, isn’t it?

*snort*

I cannot believe that I’m posting this within hours of saying I’m not posting about politics anymore.

In commenting on the Obama-Is-A-Terrorist garbage, specifically the absurd Osama/Obama foolishness, my personal hero, Bob Cesca, wrote this:

Odd that we haven’t heard from any of these wise men about all of the serial killers, maniacs and assassins who have been named “John,” as in “John McCain.” For the record, there’s John Wilkes Booth, John Hinckley Jr., John Schrank (attempted to kill McCain’s hero Teddy Roosevelt), John Wayne Gacy, Paul John Knowles, John Allen Muhammad (DC Sniper terrorist), John Edward Robinson (the Cyber Sex Killer), Gerard John Schaefer (killed 34 women and girls in Florida), John Gotti, John Dillinger and John George Haigh (the UK’s ‘Acid Bath Murderer’).

I snorted, and had to share.

Apropos of nothing, one of my favorite KITH skits — Head Crusher VS Face Pincher:

Why am I posting it here? Because I love you, and with it nice and snug, embedded in my LJ, I can watch it over and over and over again at my leisure.

I think I need a nap.

I can’t blog about politics anymore. Not right now, and probably not much until after the election. I’m too angry, too disgusted, too exhausted from frustration and angst, and too nauseated from watching McCain’s camp spout garbage and lies.

I’m going to keep doing what little I can to help out, and that’s all I can do. I loathe McCain, and I pity him. I fear for all of us if he’s elected. I won’t waste words on Palin anymore. She’s filth. I want to wash both of their mouths out with soap.

Bob Schieffer kicked ass tonight. I wish he’d moderated the other debates.

Hate on parade.

Ok, back to work.

There are two kinds of people, you divine flesh balloon — those who snort majesty and those who buy cantaloupes.

Ain’t it the truth?

Not their best Karl, but still good.

Fucking cold flew to my chest. Now I’m snotty, and it feels like someone poured Elmer’s Glue into my lungs.

*rude gestures galore at whoever got me sick*

I really, really hope Offspring doesn’t get sick, too. I’m tempted to wear a hazmat outfit until this passes.

Feel like crap. Going to bed.

Snipped from the Washington Post:

McCain and Palin Are Playing With Fire
By Khaled Hosseini
Sunday, October 12, 2008

I prefer to discuss politics through my novels, but I am truly dismayed these days. Twice last week alone, speakers at McCain-Palin rallies have referred to Sen. Barack Obama, with unveiled scorn, as Barack Hussein Obama.

Never mind that this evokes — and brazenly tries to resurrect — the unsavory, cruel days of our past that we thought we had left behind. Never mind that such jeers are deeply offensive to millions of peaceful, law-abiding Muslim Americans who must bear the unveiled charge, made by some supporters of Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin, that Obama’s middle name makes him someone to distrust — and, judging by some of the crowd reactions at these rallies, someone to persecute or even kill. As a secular Muslim, I too was offended. Obama’s middle name differs from my last name by only two vowels. Does the McCain-Palin campaign view me as a pariah too? Do McCain and Palin think there’s something wrong with my name?

But never mind any of that.

The real affront is the lack of firm response from either McCain or Palin. Neither has had the moral courage, when taking the stage, to grasp the microphone, turn to the presenter and, right then and there, denounce the use of Obama’s middle name as an insult. Instead, they have simply delivered their stump speeches, lacing into Obama as if nothing out-of-bounds had just happened. The McCain-Palin ticket has given toxic speeches accusing Obama of being a friend of terrorists, then released short, meek repudiations of some of the rough stuff, including McCain’s call Friday to “be respectful.” Back in February, the Arizona senator apologized for the “disparaging remarks” from a talk-radio host who sneered repeatedly about “Barack Hussein Obama” before a McCain rally. “We will have a respectful debate,” McCain insisted afterward. But pretending to douse flames that you are busy fanning does not qualify as straight talk.

What I find most unconscionable is the refusal of the McCain-Palin tandem to publicly condemn the cries of “traitor,” “liar,” “terrorist” and (worst of all) “kill him!” that could be heard at recent rallies. McCain is perfectly capable of telling hecklers off. But not once did he or his running mate bother to admonish the people yelling these obscene — and potentially dangerous — words. They may not have been able to hear the slurs at the rallies, but surely they have had ample time since to get on camera and warn that this sort of ugliness has no place in an election season. But they have not. Simply calling Obama “a decent person” is not enough.

Is inaction tantamount to consent? The McCain campaign certainly thinks so when it comes to Obama and incendiary remarks from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. By their own inaction, then, are McCain and Palin condoning these slurs? Or worse, are they willfully inciting the angry and venomous response that we have been witnessing at their rallies? If not, then what reaction are they hoping to evoke by their relentless public suggestions that Obama is basically an anti-American liar who won’t put “country first” and has an affection for terrorists? Do they not understand the kind of fire they are playing with?

I — and, I suspect, millions of Americans like me, Republicans and Democrats alike — couldn’t care less about Obama’s middle name or the ridiculous six-degrees-of-separation game that is the William Ayers non-issue. The Taliban are clawing their way back in Afghanistan, the country that I hope many of my fellow Americans have come to understand better through my novels. People are losing their homes and their jobs and are watching the future slip away from them. But instead of addressing these problems, the McCain-Palin ticket is doing its best to distract Americans by provoking fear, anxiety and hatred. Country first? Hardly.

Khaled Hosseini is the author of “The Kite Runner” and “A Thousand Splendid Suns.”