Oh, I absolutely agree. It's clear that this is just a random nutcase. If the McCain campaign had concocted this story, they would have chosen a different victim: someone 5 feet tall and 90 pounds, cute, blonde, virginal, maybe a minister's daughter. Or maybe Bristol Palin. And not only would she have been mugged, assaulted, and branded, she would have been raped. Just to put that perfect cherry on top of the white rage-inciting "big black man attacks poor helpless innocent adorable white girl" sundae. ;)

I'm kidding, Republicans. But really, this is way too sloppily executed to be some grand political conspiracy. She was acting of her own accord. I hope someday we get an explanation as to why.

(GeekyPenguin -- does this remind you of the Audrey Seiler case at all? Because that's the first thing I thought of.)

Ha ha - very funny... ;)

Yes it does! I actually thought of that College Republican at Michigan first who got beat up by his friends and said it was "liberal thugs" but Audrey Seiler is another excellent comparison.

And I think it would have been Willow Palin. ;)

OK, the majority of Pgh East Enders (which I am one, well sort of still) called bullshit on this to begin with. The intersection where this happened is a busy one, in an increasingly busy as far as nightlife goes area, and NWIH would this have happened without anyone seeing it.

Bloomfield is NOT a high crime area - it isn't the soccer mom suburbs, but it's more overrun with hipsters in need of baths than it is muggers in need of a fix.

Oh, and this girl might be my little's ex-husband's step-niece because the name is the same. My lil hasn't seen her for years and years (since Ashley was a little girl) so she really couldn't tell from the picture.

I'm from Wisconsin, too, and that is also the first thing I thought of. What a mess...

Of course, John and Sarah can be Jon and Sara.

:rolleyes: Sooo, Warren Buffet and Colin Powell are supporting a communist? Who'da thunk.

C'mon, you can do better than this. It really has gotten to the point that when I hear someone calling Obama a Socialist/Communist, I pretty much discount anything else they have to say -- it's a credibility-blower, a corrollary to Godwin's Law. (Maybe we can call it Bachman's Law? :D) But you can do better.

Well, that was actually a joke...

But his tax policies are redistributive to the point where socialism becomes a better comparison than any tax cuts we've had in the past.