County clerk distributes anti-Obama letter at work

This is what passes for political discourse in BushAmerica?

In Johnson County, Indiana, County Clerk Jill Jackson is a big Republican. As county clerk, she's one of the individuals most responsible for making sure elections run smoothly.

So naturally, Jackson used her workplace to disseminate a preposterous chain letter that called Barack Obama a "young, black 'Adolf Hitler.'"

Obama hasn't sent anyone to a concentration camp or censored any library books, but that's not really my point. (Certain Republican politicians have sent people to concentration camps or censored books, but that's not my point either.) My main point is that Jill Jackson is out there abusing her office by distributing political material on the taxpayers' time and dime.

If you're a county clerk, you're free to speculate all you want about how elections in your bailiwick might go, as long as you carry out your duties properly. But if a county clerk engages in political activities at work by handing out incendiary letters to workers who they know will be angered by it, you have to seriously question if the clerk will be unbiased in overseeing the election.

Jill Jackson ought to resign.

(Source: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IN_OBAMA_HITLER_LETTER_INOL-?SITE=ININS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-10-23-17-59-23)