Can you say "adavan"?

Back in the blog-saddle with more observations about this crazy campaign season. I am worried on many fronts this beautiful Sunday (have just phoned in a refill for my adavan prescription): the impending financial meltdown, McSame and Pit-Bull Palin's nasty stump speeches, Obama's safety and security and the burn on the roof of my mouth from a steamy Hot Pocket. Not necessarily in that order.

Melting down like Hot Velveeta.
I went to my bank yesterday to cash a check. As I stood in line, I tried to imagine what a financial "meltdown" would look like. Is it putting your ATM card in the machine and getting poopie back instead of cash? Is it walking down Main Street and watching all the shops shutter windows and put out signs that say "Closed due to Meltdown." These signs are going in place of other signs that used to say "Meltdown Markdowns --80% off!"

I came out of this reverie when I began to notice that everyone in line was making withdrawals. No one was panicked or even stressed. They were just quietly, silently making a run on the bank. After cashing my check, I too made a sizable withdrawal. And that, I fear, is what is going on in every bank in every community. It's the "well, what if..." scenario. As in well, what if the close all the banks and freeze you out of making withdrawals, then what? Even though deposits are insured, what if the gov. decides to dole it out to you slowly because of the meltdown? Okay, can you say a-d-a-v-a-n?

McNasty and the Dirty Dog.
I really never thought they would stoop as low as they have. Okay, Sarah Palin is an amateur, so maybe I'm not surprised by her. But we really do expect more from Mr. Country First. McCain's big question of the week was not, "How will we fix this financial mess?" but "Who is the real Barrack Obama?" McCain-Palin (McPain) are actually trying to turn this race into one about Obama's character. Can you believe it? Here's a guy who dumped his first wife after she was in an accident and still in the hospital recovering; and here's a woman who abused her power in Alaska to try and settle a family score, and THEY are talking character?

I don't think this will work with the Independent voters, but watching these two get down in the gutter in their stump speeches this past week has been unsettling. Palin has especially pumped up the violent rhetoric by saying Obama is "pallin' around with terrorists" and that he is "not a man who sees America the way you and I see America." Also at a Palin rally, a Florida sheriff in full black uniform (scary) used Obama's full name "Barrack Hussein Obama" as he went into a rant about him.

It sounds like Joe McCarthy is alive and well -- just substitute the word "communist" with "terrorist."

Another thought: these violent rallies sound best in their original language. That would be German. As in Nazi Germany.

Obama, please wear a helmet.
I want Barrack Obama to start wearing a bullet-proof vest and a motorcycle helmet when he goes out now because since Flailin' Palin and McShame have been out there stirring up the angry masses, it has spread like a cancer. We already know that people in the crowds were shouting "Kill him!" in reference to Obama. And I'm afraid with all the panic in the air right now, some nut out there just might think he should take a shot at Obama. I just saw a story from Time.com that said the head of the Virginia GOP party is telling campaign workers to compare Obama to Osama. Here's an excerpt:

He (state GOP Chairman Jeffrey M. Frederick) climbed atop a folding chair to give 30 campaign volunteers who were about to go canvassing door to door their talking points — for instance, the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden: "Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon," he said. "That is scary." It is also not exactly true — though that distorted reference to Obama's controversial association with William Ayers, a former 60s radical, was enough to get the volunteers stoked. "And he won't salute the flag," one woman added, repeating another myth about Obama. She was quickly topped by a man who called out, "We don't even know where Senator Obama was really born." Actually, we do; it's Hawaii.

These extremists Republicans are out there stoking the fires and pouring gas on the flames at a time when there is a great deal of angst and panic in the air about what shoe is going to drop next in this economy. When some psychopathic, gun-loving redneck loses his job next week and begins to think Obama might be to blame, the "Kill him" rhetoric could take on a life of its own.

Okay, my Hot Pocket has cooled, and I need to eat a bite. But mainly, I have a drug-store errand to do.
Later.