There was an eerie similarity between the campaign to discredit Jimmy Carter after his book on Palestine, and the whisper campaign against Barack Obama as a secret Muslim intent on destroying Israel through friends like Power, Malley, Brezinski, and so on. It may be that Dershowitz and CAMERA's misrepresentations of Carter as a tool of saudi anti-semites etc were much more media-friendly than the assortment of cranks attacking Obama, or Carter didn't matter, while Obama does, but given how jewish grassroots groups were able to block the slurs on Obama so he won with 78% of the J-vote, maybe its time to start up a "Jews For Jimmy" to fight to rehabilitate his reputation after that 2006 smear campaign.

you might enjoy these image responses to McCain's banner ad: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Juxtaposition_as_Mind_Control

seems to me that Ron Paul should join forces with Bob Barr on the republican-libertarian ticket.

I am one day late to this thread, but also 6 years early. After having my invention - an alternative to Blackberry server sync which even made the Palm 7 usable -- rejected for N.I.H. between 1999 and 2001, I applied for the open CTO position and wrote an essay on how to rediscover their groove. When even the HR department proved to be broken, I published it in the WSJ dated July 9 2001. The company's been broken that long, with and without the charismatic founder. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB99463533766587792.html