If Barack is a terrorist...

That's it. It's getting dirty. A month before the election, the McCain campaign knows they cannot win on issues, especially on the issue number one among Americans polled, the economy. So, they are getting dirty. That's how the Republicans win their elections.

They let go of the pitbull. They sure put some lipstick on it, but you can put lipstick on a pitbull, it's still a pitbull.

For the past three days, Sarah Palin has emphasized some link Barack had with Bill Ayers, a radical anti-Vietnam war activist of the 60s whom she calls "a domestic terrorist."

We are back to the tactics used before the summer to try to depict Barack Obama as a mysterious guy whom people don't really know. There are some fishy things about him.
First, he is black of course. Experts say that this fact probably costs him about 5 percentage points. You can actually hear people saying it is a problem for them to elect a black president.

Then, his middle name is Hussein. Barack Hussein Obama. That's not very American, is it? Hussein, Hussein, hmm, it rings a bell. Didn't we just hang a dictator called Hussein? Even a guy with Milhous as a middle name would be better off (that was Richard Milhous Nixon).

Oh, and he attended a muslim school in Indonesia when he was a kid. So, he is a Muslim.

Now, in today's context, what does the whole picture represent? A stroke of former ties with a radical activist, a stroke of "Hussein is his middle name," a stroke of "he attended a Muslim school," take a few steps back and you have portrayed Barack Obama as a terrorist.

If someone would have told me that the Republicans were cynical enough to do this, I would not have believed it. This has to be the dirtiest campaign I have ever heard of.

It is too early to know if people buy that. But I wouldn't be surprised. Ignorance and fear are the two pillars of a Republican victory.

What that move truly does, though, is debunking the seriousness of terrorism. American voters who are afraid of terrorism, who were terrified and horrified at the planes crashing in the World Trade Center should realize that people who use images of 9/11 during their convention, who play so lightly with the words terrorist and terrorism are not trustworthy.

In my world, Osama Bin Laden was a terrorist. If Barack is in fact a terrorist, I guess Osama Bin Laden is Jesus!

Vote Osama Bin Laden, then.