An 'idiot wind'

From an asshole candidate. An editorial in the Washington Post blasts John McLiar's latest attempt to smear Sen. Obama:

With the presidential campaign clock ticking down, John McCain has suddenly discovered a new boogeyman to link to Sen. Barack Obama: a sometimes controversial but widely respected Middle East scholar named Rashid Khalidi.

In the past couple of days, McCain and his brownshirted running mate, Sarah Palin, have likened Mr. Khalidi, the director of a Middle East institute at Columbia University, to neo-Nazis; called him "a PLO spokesman"; and suggested that the Los Angeles Times is hiding something sinister by refusing to release a videotape of a 2003 dinner in honor of Mr. Khalidi at which Mr. Obama spoke. McCain even threw former Weatherman Bill Ayers into the mix, suggesting that the tape might reveal that Mr. Ayers was at the dinner.

They stopped short of calling him a puppy-eating gay terrorist child-molester -- oh, and of mentioning John McCain's own ties to the man.

To suggest, as McCain has, that there is something reprehensible about associating with Mr. Khalidi is itself condemnable -- especially during a campaign in which Arab ancestry has been the subject of insults. To further argue that the Times is trying to hide something is simply ludicrous, as McCain surely knows.

Which reminds us: We did ask Mr. Khalidi whether he wanted to respond to the campaign charges against him. He answered, via e-mail, that "I will stick to my policy of letting this idiot wind blow over." That's good advice for anyone still listening to the McCain campaign's increasingly reckless ad hominem attacks. Sadly, that wind is likely to keep blowing for four more days.

Some days I wish Sen Obama would just sucker-punch this douchewipe right between the eyes.