Double standards

John Ridley has a humorous piece on HuffPost comparing the Obama and McCan't/Palin (mostly Palin) backstories. Example:

If you spend 18 months building a campaign around the theme of "Change," it's just "empty rhetoric." If one week before your party's national convention you SUDDENLY make your candidacy about "Change," that's "red meat."

Then some of the commenters get in on the act. My fave, though it doesn't follow the form:

Palin is Milli Vanilli of politics 'cos she is totally lipsyncing. To Bush speechwriters, no less.

And another:

If you're Black and your pastor says "God damn America," you're a national security threat.If you're white and your pastor says that God will damn Kerry voters, you're a moral example.