Divide and Conquer

I'm spitting mad. Millions of Americans believe what their Republican leaders tell them. That's elected leaders and Republican media personalities. I'm furious because when Sarah Palin, Rick Davis-- McCain's campaign director, Bill O'Reilly, even John McCain himself, when they say things like "The American people need to know the extent of Senator Obama's relationship to domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers," and "Senator Obama sees America as so flawed that he needs to pal around with terrorists..." and so on, when they say things like that more and more as the election nears, they KNOW they are lying! It isn't just the lying that infuriates me. I expect politicians to stretch the truth beyond reason. Both sides twist the other's policies into caricatures that are more easily ridiculed. But this hateful, racist, fear-mongering, divisive, terrorist talk is beyond the pale. If Obama wins, millions of Americans will believe that a real life terrorist has just been elected to the highest office in the land, or at least that he is a terrorist sympathizer. If McCain wins, millions of Americans will know that their shot at real change, at history-making, race-barrier-shattering hope was stolen from them by a gang of hateful liars. Either way, our president's credibiity and authority will be seriously undermined, and either way, the divide between the left and the right will grow far wider, while the enmity and distrust of each other brews to dangerous levels. There is no good that can come from these willful, deceitful tactics. Winning at all costs and by any means necessary is not only un-American, it is evil and treasonous.