Today I called John McCain's North Mountain Regional Headquarters hoping that they had a lost and found.
See, I've been looking for the positive, issue-oriented campaign McCain said he'd run.
Imagine my surprise when the woman who answered the phone said they actually were running a positive campaign.
ME: But you guys called Barack Obama a terrorist.
SHE: Who did?
ME: Sarah Palin.
SHE: No, she said that Barack Obama palled around with terrorists [laughs] that's a big difference.
ME: Well that doesn't sound like the positive campaign Senator McCain said he was going to run.
SHE: I think we've been running a very positive campaign.
I don't know if I'm going out on a limb here, but I think John McCain might have broken his word.
Which is weird because he kept his word to Charles Keating and went to those meetings with the bank regulators.
I'm not being negative.
I didn't say John McCain looted a Savings and Loan, I just said he palled around with the guy who did.
That's a big difference.
I'm not saying John McCain was an active member of the World Anti-Communist League; an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. I'm just saying he was on the advisory board of the U.S. chapter.
Still being positive.
I'm not saying Sarah Palin advocated Alaska seceding from the union. She's just married to a guy who belonged to a party that advocates it. And she's cheated on him with his business partner, like a ton of times. So really, how close could they be?
This really isn't the kind of positive message I was taught in Sunday school. But if the North Mountain Regional Headquarters approves it, it must be OK.