Column of the Day - Bonus Edition

Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, takes the McCain/Palin campaign to task for allowing speakers at their rallys to use Barack Obama's middle name to insinuate he is a terrorist:

The real affront is the lack of firm response from either McCain or Palin. Neither has had the moral courage, when taking the stage, to grasp the microphone, turn to the presenter and, right then and there, denounce the use of Obama's middle name as an insult. Instead, they have simply delivered their stump speeches, lacing into Obama as if nothing out-of-bounds had just happened.