When Sarah Palin quoted a newspaper story saying that Barack Obama is ‘palling around with terrorists’, this was a desperate and poorly researched attack on the campaign that races ahead in the polls. McCain and Palin seems to be losing, and they know it. To shift emphasis in the media from the economic crisis that keeps on battering the US they have started what seems like a smear campaign. Smear campaigns have worked well before in US politics, but people who live in glass houses….and so on. The gloves are well and truly off!