One of ABC's News commentators last week imformed his audience that Barak Obama was "the son of a black man from Kenya and a white man from Kansas."  Somewhere over the rainbow...

But to me, even more surreal is right wing radio commentator Rush Limbaugh words of enthusiam about Republican John McCain's choice of Vice Presidential running mate, Sarah (not Michael) Palin:  "Palin equals guns, babies, Jesus..."  The trinity of American Facisto-Christians, no doubt.