Kudos to The Huffington Post for leading me to this. Peggy Noonan, the current Wall Street Journal columnist and former Ronald Reagan speechwriter, was caught on a live mic yesterday calling the choice of Sarah Palin “political bullshit.”

I couldn’t agree more.

This has nothing to do with Palin being a woman (although it wouldn’t surprise me if some Johnny-come-lately feminist comments on here that I am a sexist because there is no other defense of her pathetic record). This has everything to do with McCain’s selection being a political blow job to the conservative right.

When Barack Obama’s supporter compared Bill Clinton to Lee Atwater, he could not have been more correct.

We have all known for years that Bill was a lacking in some areas of morality, so I don’t expect him to be a saint. He is also an astute politician, and so I understand that he has gotta do what he’s gotta do, but to see a former president get as nasty and dirty as he has during the campaign ahead of and after the South Carolina primary has really pissed me off. I was not aware that the so-called “first black president” was capable of stooping to levels below Karl Rove and pulling something that even Bob Corker would grimace at.

After campaigning heavily for weeks in South Carolina - a state where his wife led in the polls until the last month, Clinton managed to denigrate the state’s entire African American population to nothing more than a tribal community with a throw away comment saying essentially that Obama won South Carolina simply because he is black like Jesse Jackson. From it we can gather - without much reading between the lines - that Clinton is essentially saying “black people only vote for other black people if given the option, so we did the best we could.”

This is pretty low, and not something I would have expected from the guy who did more for the African American community since Lyndon Johnson (not that that is saying a lot at all, but at least he didn’t ignore them and jump start a campaign with the lingering white anger of the Civil Rights Movement). I guess it just goes to show: If you turn on Billary, you’re part of a conspiracy against them. Or, taking a page from the playbook of the only other family who has controlled America for the last 20 years, you’re either with them, or against them.

Just to clarify, I am not an Obama supporter, but an avowed Edwards supporter till the death. That said, with Bill Gates and Al Gore, I can’t think of any American who has done more for the benefit of the world in the last seven years than Bill Clinton through his Foundation. It’s a shame to see him sully the name of it by getting back into the pig pen of politics. I would hate to have to vote for John McCain only because the Clintons turned into race-baiters to win the nomination.