● A 57-year-old Obama campaign worker was allegedly assaulted in Caledonia, Wis. on Saturday afternoon. Chicago resident Nancy Takehara was working as a door-to-door canvasser, when she encountered a disgruntled male resident. In an interview with 12 News, Takehara said: "The next thing I know he’s telling us we’re not his people, we’re probably with ACORN, and he started screaming and raving. He grabbed me by the back of the neck. I thought he was going to rip my hair out of my head. He was pounding on my head and screaming. The man terrified me."
The Obama campaign reacted quickly to the incident. In fact, by the time Takehara returned home, a message from the campaign awaited her, asking her to call in and speak with Obama. Takehara said: "Senator Obama understood… it was wonderful. It made me feel wonderful. It made me feel connected to this government again." The campaign also issued a reasoned public statement Sunday: "Last night’s unfortunate incident in Caledonia was isolated and extremely rare, and we are grateful our volunteer is doing well,” said Phil Walczak, Wisconsin communications director for Obama For America. "Thousands of Wisconsinites welcome our canvassers at the doors each and every day and whether or not they support Barack Obama. There is an overwhelming desire across the state to have a dialogue about how to bring our country forward." I couldn't help but agree with HuffPo columnist Jeff Dorchen when he wrote yesterday: "It isn't hard to imagine what Sarah Palin's reaction would be to a McCain/Palin volunteer being assaulted. It would no doubt sound something like this: 'Some of these people just don't get democracy. They don't get that you have to be accepting of others' right to disagree. That's the American way. But they don't get it. So, like Bill Ayers, they lash out violently at what they don't understand.'" And it's strange how little coverage the liberal, elite MSM is giving to this tasty little sensationalist nugget.
● Yesterday, in Grand Junction, Colorado, Sarah Palin gave Barack Obama a new "Joes the Plumber"-style nickname: it's, get this, "Barack the Wealth Spender". I guess "Barack the Wealth Spreader" didn't have quite the same ring to it. CNN reports that, in addition to providing Obama with a shiny new nickname, the McCain/Palin campaign have located a new working class hero. This time it's "Tito the builder", or Tito Munoz, a Columbian immigrant and construction worker. Palin explained Tito the builder's beef to the outdoor crowd: "Tito is not pleased with how the Barack Obama campaign and some of the media friends there have been roughing up Joe the Plumber,” Palin said, after accusing the Obama campaign of 'investigating' Wurzelbacher’s background." As we've all read by now, thanks to the evil, liberal, elite media, Wurzelbacher inflated his income and was only speaking metaphorically about buying a business that's a) not for sale and b) generates less than $250,000, the profit margin at which further earnings would be taxed at a higher rate in Obama's proposal. So, it would seem that the McCain campaign's poster child for working-class-hero-whose-dreams-will-be-crushed-by-Obama would actually benefit from Obama's tax plan. And, unless they're making way more than the national average, the other heroes that Palin conjured at Monday's rally -- "Phil the bricklayer" and "Rose the teacher" -- probably stand to save money under Obama's plan, as well. My question is this: After the Joe-the-plumber media disaster, Team McCain's reaction is to attempt to force more hokey stereotypical and, more disturbingly, blatantly inaccurate working-class-hero rhetoric down our throats? Really? Is Palin so utterly removed from reality -- or in an "alternate universe", as suggested by Rachel Maddow re: Troopergate -- to think that "Rose the teacher", even if she has a fellow teacher as a domestic partner and their income is combined, is makin' over $250,000?! Ain't happenin', folks.
● In other news, it's been a hard weekend for the McCain/Palin camp. Colin Powell delivered a strongly worded endorsement of Obama that simultaneously served as a rejection of the GOP ticket. Palin flopped on SNL, amidst potty humor. And Obama is outspending McCain in advertising in an unprecedented manner. Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann channeled McCarthy. Man names baby Sarah McCain-Palin. And I've got a crush on Arianna.
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