Presidential campaign getting nasty

It's officially underway now, folks. With polls calling Obama/Mcain a dead heat, the rhetoric between the two camps is starting to heat up.
I couldn't believe it when I heard that McCain is running an ad claiming that Obama is for comprehensive sex education for kindergartners.
Is it me, or does every ad that this guy runs throw an outright lie in the face of the American public? He's still running ads that say Palin was against the bridge to nowhere, which is clearly not true as the record shows. Even CNN admits it.
For his part, Obama is starting to get a little pointed in his attacks, as this Politico article addresses.
Hey, if The Daily Show can run video of McCain and Palin contradicting themselves, why can't the Obama campaign?
Maybe its because he was in Lebanon, VA the other day, but Obama made a comment about "putting lipstick on a pig" that is sure to have Republicans crying foul in the next few days. The New York Times looks into how Obama's lipstick line was taken out of context:

"With a laugh, he added: "You can put lipstick on a pig; it's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change; it's still going to stink after eight years."
In the latest sign of the campaign's heightened intensity, Mr. McCain's surrogates responded within minutes and called on Mr. Obama to apologize to Gov. Sarah Palin for the lipstick remark. But to those in the audience, it was clear that Mr. Obama was employing an age-old phrase -- lipstick on a pig -- and referring to Mr. McCain's policies. He had not yet mentioned Ms. Palin at that point of his speech."

The dirt is flying, folks. And it's probably going to get a lot muddier from here on out. I just wish they would spend a little more time talking about the issues.
Both campaigns have raised a lot of money so far, and it looks like a lot of it will be spent on slurs.
This is a crazy election, and one in which bloggers will be playing their biggest role yet. In my opinion, we've already seen them have a major impact, driving the vetting coverage, and steering mainstream media into Palin's family matters, when it really should be addressing her judgment and questionable, hard-right, extremely religious viewpoints. I've already heard Palin compared to Bush, but she may be a bigger tough guy than he ever was. And scarier too. I'm still waiting for her to do some real interviews and put herself up to the media scrutiny that Obama and Biden have been facing for years now.