Hypocrisy abounds

I've seen the Palin video flying all over the internet in the past couple of days.  She bumped the republican ahead of the democrat and it's driving everyone crazy.

The Republicans were going crazy over Obama's lack of experience (and so was his current vice president) but now they're ok with Palin's?  The Democrats were ok with Obama's lack of experience, but don't let a woman with that little experience hope to get into office.  I've seen so many posts about how much experience matters from people who didn't really care a few months ago....or even now...because with their guy it's not such a big deal.  Hypocrites are on both sides of this one.  In fact I'd say that hypocrites are running this election.

Talk radio people complain about the networks - CNBC watchers complain about Fox news while they're reading their Moveon e-mails.  It's all just one side spinning the other.

Palin looked stupid in an interview - and it's all over the interweb.  I looked back on several of these sites where people are so concerned for the direction of our country.  I wanted to see in what other ways we were warned of stupid things potential candidates have said...and I'm still looking  - I went back to when Obama said we had 57 states, where he said that he lost Kentucky to Hillary because her home state of Arkansas was closer than his home state of Illinois...and I didn't see those videos.  We pick our battles and get outraged when it's the other team.  We don't mind it when our side screws up because....well because we choose to overlook those points.

One vp candidate said some stupid stuff about Russia, the other vp candidate told the country that his future boss was too inexperienced to hold the office of the President.  You'll read about one on some sites, but it'll be a rare site that shows both sides.

There is a video of Obama calling a female reporter "Sweetie" and then brushing her off - I didn't find it in the archives of these blogs.  It makes him look like a mysogynistic jerk - so we'll not show that.
He gave a speech in Israel referring to the Senate Banking Committee that he was on...only to find out he wasn't on that committee.  Oops.  I didn't see this on those same sites....

McCain didn't know if we were in a recession - and I didn't see it on the sites that would never show the Palin video.  It wouldn't make their side look very good.  He's still counting his houses and he has more of those than years spent as a POW.  I read that on a couple of sites that left off the part about Obama calling his Pastor of 20 years his mentor...and then the guy he just sort of knew because once he saw him at a TGI Fridays.

McCain "inned" himself as a washington insider who was away from "the day to day challenges that people have".  He spoke of that as a good thing...seemingly. 

So go crazy when the other guy says something dumb in one of their 73 interviews they'll do today- they'll say there are 57 states and that someone is a "typical white person" - they'll flip flop on key strategies and they'll play on their history of serving this country.  They have lots of houses and say lots of dumb things.

I just really don't think I've seen this much bitterness/jealousy/anger/vitriol in an election before.  I think Seth was right.  The University of Wisconsin tracked the national and regional commercials of both campaigns - 77% of Obama's ads were negative and 56% of McCain's were...and I keep reading about how Obama won't go negative - you can ignore facts if you really want to - we do it all the time - the bottom line is that both are more negative than positive - both are talking down the other side rather than talking about their vision for our country.

Mostly this was a post based on a challenge to use the word "vitriol"
and if you think I'm writing this based on your blog - it's not about you - and you were one of 8,746,489 weblogs that posted something negative about one side or the other last week.

I'm one of 6 who used the word vitriol - so you do the math...