JISHOU, HUNAN — Is the McCain campaign (or Sarah Palin) getting background information from the World Net Daily? Or are they trying to rekindle the 1950s Red Scare witchhunts?
Back in bad old days of the 1950s, Sen. Joe McCarthy made a name for himself by labeling people as Communists because they associated with known Communists. The process was “guilt by association.”
This week, Palin accused Barack Obama of hanging out with terrorists on a daily basis because he once served on the same board as a former member of the 1970s Weather Underground. That same member, Bill Ayers, is now a university professor.
According to this logic, I am a supporter of oppressive, corrupt dictators. I was in the same yoga class in college with Imee Marcos, daughter of former Phillipine ruler Ferdinand Marcos and the shoe-loving Imelda Marcos.
Utter nonsense. (In case you’re wondering, though, Imee was — and probably still is — a really nice person. As for her parents, I can’t say. I never met them — two degrees of separation there. I’m still waiting for that country to oppress — my lifelong ambition.)
So I wondered where did Palin get her information to make this statement in Costa Mesa, California?
Obama “is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country. This ladies and gentleman, is not the kind of change that I think we should be believing in.”
