Palin's "dumb bitch" legacy

I know it's just politics, but some things shouldn't be said by some people.

For instance, Sarah Palin's last programmed speech included some misleading accusations that Barack Obama hung out with an American terrorist. Obama lives in the same Chicago, Illinois neighborhood as Bill Ayers and served on a community board with him a few years back.

Bill Ayers is an admitted anti-American rebel. His radical anti-war group, Weather Underground targeted government buildings in the 1970s. Charges against him were dropped in 1974. Obama was less than ten years-old when that happened. Sarah Palin was maybe four years-old. Ayers is now a professor at University of Illinois-Chicago.

Political associations are different than personal ones. You, the average Joe, and I can choose our friends and acquaintances. Politicians cannot.

That being understood, Obama is fair game for smear tactics. However, the attacker must be above approach. No politician is. Sarah Palin is not.

While she spouts off with authority Obama's brief post-rebel dealings with Ayers, she is leaving herself open for a few questions. In particular, how does she know so much about Obama's "palling" around with a terrorist, but she was unaware of her teenage daughter's "palling" around with a teenage hockey player? A young, horny, sexually active, self-described rebel. And this happened while she was a "hockey mom".

Sarah should stop pretending to know what others were doing thousands of miles away, years ago, when she was obviously unaware of what was being done right under her nose,in her own governor's mansion, just a few months ago.

Don't choose Obama's "pals" when you didn't scrutinize your own daughter's "pals". Stop letting those "old Washington insiders" put stuff into your head that you and only you will suffer the consequences.

When it's all said and done, those "Washington men" will move on and Sarah will be left alone trying to defend her "dumb bitch" legacy.

Dear Sarah, here is a new twist on an old saying. "Let her who lives in an igloo strike the first match."