The Week in Short

~Both McCain and Clinton have been linked with attempts to "muslim-ize" Obama. His name, his heritage, his upbringing and all the non-existent roots that go along with those attributes.

First this picture was leaked to the Drudge Report ...
When accused of being the one responsible for putting it out, Clinton did not deny it but her spokesperson said this, ""If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed."

Sounds fishy to me.

Then a Cincinnati radio jockey introducing McCain used Obama's full name, "Barack Hussein Obama" at least three times in an introduction and more or less outrightly called him a Muslim.

I have never seen such obvious fear and hate mongering since...well, ever. This tactic hasn't been used since we were duped into a war in Iraq. At least Bush made his attempt appear legit, to some people.

This was just pathetic. The only people that will buy this are the crazies that already wouldn't vote for Obama for "being" a Muslim, anyway. Even if he was who cares, maybe Barack could end the war even more effectively that way.

~The debate also was more interesting than I expected. There was some fighting and some whining on top of the same old sameness. Oh, and poor Hillary got the first question again, poor thing. Isn't she the one that wanted to have these debates in the first place? After her performance the other night I can't fathom why.


~Mitt Romney's son is running for Congress in Utah.

~The United States may be facing stagflation. A fun word, but it isn't so fun for the economy.

~Bloomberg isn't running for president. (I didn't think he ever announced, but whatev.)

That's about all that happened on the domestic front this week, besides the Oscars. Here's Jon Stewart's hilarious opening monologue from his stint as host...