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Swine Fever

I agree with John Dickerson about the silliness of the McCain campaign getting all outraged over Obama's alleged "sexism." Their ticket is of a warrior and frontierswoman. They undercut their own case with their quickie video whining that Sarah Palin is a victim, of all things. But I'd be more willing to buy Obama's surprise as to how his lipstick remark was taken (and it was clear the crowd heard it as a Palin reference) if he hadn't also referred to McCain's ideas as "old fish" wrapped in paper. Surely Obama understands the use and misuse of coded language.

Aside from lipstick, there are two stories on Drudge today that may help explain why Democrats have such a hard time winning the White House. One is about an international poll showing the rest of the world is rooting for Obama to win. The other is about an international poll showing much of the rest of this same world believes either the United States or Israel were the perpetrators of the attacks of Sept.11.  It is understandable that many Americans don't care that much about the good opinion of a world that thinks we attacked ourselves, and they worry how a "citizen of the world" would respond if we were attacked again.