Wow, hardcore. I have the sinking feeling that the Republicans get nastier and nastier the further the campaign goes.

Here is a nicer story about a woman voting early for Obama and then collapsing on a chair sobbing because she couldn't believe she would live long enough to cast a vote for a black president.

*sighs* Yeah, and some of the far Right commentators have been Making Something of the fact that Obama's middle name is Hussein, for pity's sake. And that, while living in Indonesia as a child, the school he was at had a course on Islam (standard curriculum, I believe). Oh, gee, he must be a muslim/terrorist! Really makes me want to go out there with the Cluebat.