Right wing politicos; they’ve been looking for some barely transparent way to play the race card, and Rev. Jeremiah Wright brings a loaded deck. Helping John McCain win is probably the least of their motives, too — they enjoy ruining a black Democrat for the hell of it as much as most of us enjoy, say, oxygen. It’s just a matter of getting caught. Now one McCain aide has been caught circulating a video of Jeremiah Wright’s “incendiary” speeches. The campaign suspended him, and then giggled, because campaigns like to giggle. The dumb, racist video in question comes after the jump. MORE »

Hillary Clinton and her demonic velociraptor “surrogates” have linked Barack Obama to all sorts of unsavory figures: Jesse Jackson, Deval Patrick, Tony Rezko, and Martin Luther King Jr. But a new surrogate, Tom Buffenbarger — president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which represents space rocket makers and such — has upped the negative ante: Barack Obama is the Roman god Janus, the most dangerous terrorist since Rosa Parks. MORE »