And hopefully inspiring.

Obama Buying Half-Hour Block of Prime-time Broadcast - Advertising Age - Campaign Trail: "WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- In what is likely become biggest network-TV buy of the presidential campaign, Sen. Barack Obama is buying 30 minutes of time on major TV networks for a program to air from 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Oct. 29."

Here's the thing: Palin is the super popular cheerleader who runs for class president. She makes stuff up, since she truly has no idea what she's talking about, then expects you to believe it due to the sheer force of her charm. You betcha!

But to imply that Obama would rather hang out with terrorists than 'see America as the greatest force for good in this world' is a truly stupid distraction technique. If the man is running for president, he has to believe that America is good and that he can help make it better. Everything else aside, this is what someone believes if they run for president. Motives can very widely, but even George Bush believed this.

So America, you are right. Palin is stupid. McCain has been using really reckless tactics in navigating these last weeks of his campaign. I disagree with his politics, but he is an intelligent man. Palin is stupid. Plain-old stupid. A talent-show approach and a particular and precise diction can certainly be entertaining. But, comon, I don't know how it works where you're from in Alaska, but where I'm from, you don't shoot your mouth off right after getting put in your place. Especially if you get put in your place by a Scranton boy.

I mean, Sarah, think about it. Really. After getting killed by both press and personalities over your Katie Couric interviews, you managed to successfully make yourself look mildly cognizant during your debate with Joe Biden. Not bad. Not good, because you were outclassed, but not bad.

Then you immediately open the door for the press to slam you about inaccuracies all over again. That's like catching flies and pushing them into shit.

Please don't complain to us about the stink.

Via CNN:

Palin cited an article in Saturday's New York Times about Obama's relationship with Ayers, now 63. But that article concluded that "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.' "

Several other publications, including the Washington Post, Time magazine, the Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The National Review, have debunked the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship.

America's presidential race | The Palin effect | | The Economist: "Mr McCain has also been caught telling some straightforward fibs, for example that Mrs Palin, as governor, had “never” sought federal earmark money for her state—her request per head for Alaska was the biggest in the country. He and Mrs Palin continue to insist that she killed an infamous “bridge to nowhere” project in Alaska, even though every journalist in America now knows she did so only after supporting it, and only after it became a political albatross. Mr McCain has good reason to worry about his reputation for straight-talk, the strongest part of his political brand."