We Are All Chaylee Cole

This morning all Americans should feel pride in one of us-- no, not Charles Keating's Ohio relative Joe the unlicensed plumber-- in Fremont State University student Chaylee Cole. When someone stands up to the inhuman all-powerful Machine and just says "no," the way Cole did, it is a person striking a blow for our national dignity and our liberty for all of us.

On Friday she lost her job in West Virginia. She lost her job because she refused to read a Republican script lying about Barack Obama, smearung him and degrading American politics.

"I was working at the call center," Cole said. "We got a campaign ad talking about how Obama had been part of terrorist attacks on the Capitol, the Pentagon and a judge's home and had ties with Bill Ayers.

"Last Thursday, I told them I did not want to read it," Cole said. "They said, 'Either you read it or you go home.'

"I told them I wasn't going to read it. They made me go home without pay for the rest of the day."

The "work paper" told callers to say:

"Hello, I'm calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers [airs], whose organization bombed the US Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge's home, and killed Americans.

"And Democrats will enact an extreme leftist agenda if they take control of Washington. Barack Obama and his Democrat allies lack the judgment to lead our country.

"This call was paid for by McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee."

Cole said, "We were just supposed to read that message and hang up. One of my other issues working there was that someone told me it didn't matter who picked up the phone, whether it was a 5-year-old or a 95-year-old. We should read the message."

Right now the Republican Party is busy trying to disenfranchise as many voters in as many battleground states as they can. It is a time for individuals to stand up and not take it anymore. That's what they have left: smears and voter theft. Watch Olbermann: