Durrty

Five more days and I can stop writing about politics in my blog. I can't wait. I have a lot of other stuff to write about, but can't focus due to the fact that every time I start writing something else, I go to PoliticalWire or an Atlantic blog and see that 23% of Texans think Obama is Muslim, and 64% of people who go to Palin rallies think that Muslim, Arab and Terrorist are synonyms.

There's a new ad for a Minnesota house race (3rd District) that is so offensive, it's almost funny in its absurdity. The race is between Erik Paulson (R) and Ashwin Madia (D). Madia is the son of Indian immigrants, therefore his skin is the same color as relatively all Indians. In the ad, they portray his ideas as menacing, and to further illustrate the point, they darkened his skin to make him look black, in a district where less than 4% of the population is black. It's obvious race-baiting, trying to play to people's fear. However, Minnesotans are too smart, and too open-minded to fall for this crap. It's a dumb, desperate ad, made by dumb, desperate people.

The pictures are here on HuffingtonPost.