From a Palin rally yesterday in Johnstown, Pa. Something tells me it's not Obama's tax policy that this man fears.
Him, or the other smiling idiots walking approvingly beside him.
I had a feeling that as Mcain's fortunes would dwindle and the election neared, you'd start seeing the REAL reason why people fear an Obama Presidency despite all the "Muslim" and "anti-American" BS. Some people just never fail to be predictable.
The racist rhetoric that has been popping up on the McCain campaign trail as of late doesn’t seem to be just the work of an out of control mob: McCain’s campaign organizers are also getting in on the act. McCain’s Virginia campaign organizer, Bobby May, wrote a racist column titled “The (clarified) Platform of Barack Hussein Obama” last week that “satirized” Obama by claiming he’d “pay Ludacris to paint the White House black,” change the stars on the American flag to a “star and crescent logo,” he’d change the currency to feature images of Oprah and Ludacris (this guy’s knowledge of hip-hop seems relegated to people Bill O’Reilly hates), and he’d use the drug war money to give cheap heroin to his constituency.
He also wrote that Obama would divert more foreign aid to Africa so "the Obama family there can skim enough to allow them to free their goats and live the American Dream." Once again, He joked that Obama would replace the 50 stars on the U.S. flag "with a star and crescent logo," an Islamic symbol, and that his policy on drugs would be to "raise taxes to pay for Obama's inner-city political base."
Now Bobby May, far from being just another racist McCain nut job that the campaign seeks to minimize and disavow, is also treasurer of the Buchanan County Republican Party and was listed in a July news release as the county's representative on McCain's Virginia leadership team, though he said his column reflected his views alone, and he denied it was racist.
So yet again we see the real problem Republicans have with Barack Obama. If you look at most maps of the U.S. as far as the electorate is concerned, you can see that the edges are turning blue and the red is being relegated to the middle. I predict that the racist Republicans, after an Obama victory, will soon hole up in the hills of Montana, Idaho North Dakota and Wyoming and from there they'll make their last stand for the "real America" and "Real American values". The rest of America will give a collective shrug and a yawn though.
Oh, I'm sorry, the picture confused you.... It's understandable though. The McCain supporters' rhetoric can easily be confused with hate speeches from the KKK.
When liberals spent the past eight years spewing anti-Bush and anti-America hate the center-left media and people like whomod told us they were an anomoly.
When Louis Farrakhan praised Obama as the Messiah and Hamas endorsed Obama as the second coming, the argument was that he can't be responsible for all of his supporters.
When questions are raised about Obama's close 20-year relationship with racist pastor Jeremiah Wright, his personal friendship with former PLO spokesman and leading anti-Israel professor Rashid Khalidi, business dealings with convicted felon Tony Rezko, and ties to unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, we're told it's an unfair attempt to establish "guilt by association." With Glorious Leader Obama, all that matters is whatever he is currently saying.
...yet when an angry dude grabs a microphone at a McCain rally and says he's scared of Obama, and old woman says Obama's an Arab, it tells you all you need to know about McCain--even though McCain himself immediately condemns them and defends Obama.
Yep. It's all about the censorship. Any one who runs against the Messiah is going to be accused of promoting hate speech and censored.
Time's Karen Tumulty spent some time in Virginia this week covering the ground game in that battleground state, and happened upon an interesting little scene.
In McCain's Gainesville, Va., office, Virginia Republican Party Chairman Jeff Frederick, standing on a folding chair, spoke to 30 campaign volunteers who were about to go canvassing door to door.
He gave them "talking points," Tumulty writes, "for instance, the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden."
Said Frederick: "Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon," in a reference to Obama acquaintance William Ayers. "That is scary."
Added a woman: "And he won't salute the flag."
(Not true.)
Offered a male volunteer: "We don't even know where Senator Obama was really born."
(Also not true.)
Todays Republican Party. This is what John McCain has to deal with. A candidate that ran on his "maverick" image and his willingness to work along the middle. A candidate who has to appeal to independents and moderates in order to win the election. A candidate now saddled with, and still having to appeal and fire up the most idiotic virulent crazies in America today. People that get their hate filled talking points from AM talk radio and FOX News. He's saddled with you guys. For better or worse. And it looks like it's for the worst.
Good. The more crazy talk you right wingers put out, that you guys genuinely believe mind you, the worse it'll get for McCain.
The Modern Republican Party. Terrorized by the very people who feed them that shit to scare them into voting Republican. There's "terrorists" in America all right, and the main one is some ridiculous Fred Flintstone looking fuck called Sean Hannity. Hearing the real fear and misinformation in these crowds, you see that he's terrorized and misled scores of people in this country, many of them older Americans who trust them to tell them truth.
Then there's people like some of you who know better but still willingly and willfully accept this venomous, virulent, vile, crap and even help spread it further.
BTW is Walter Annenberg a "terrorist"? Just asking since it was (Reagan Ambassador)Annenberg that chose William Ayers as well as Barack Obama to sit on that education board.
Or does sitting on Waler Annenberg's board make Obama a Reagan Republican since he chose to "associate" with that Republican....
I know I know.. too much contradictory data to think about!!
With Election Day Nearing, Distasteful Rhetoric a Two-Party Problem John McCain's not the only candidate whose supporters are using distasteful rhetoric on the campaign trail.
FOXNews.com Monday, October 13, 2008
John McCain has taken a lot of heat from critics who say he's stoking anger and intolerance among his supporters.
But the Republican nominee is not the only one with supporters whose comments and demonstrations on the race are obscene and, in some cases, violent.
An array of T-shirts, for instance, displaying the image of Sarah Palin and some variation of the "C-word" are gaining new popularity as Election Day nears. A group of protesters outside Palin's fundraiser in Philadelphia Saturday wore shirts emblazoned with the words, "Sarah Palin Is a C--T."
Cafe Press is selling a slew of off-color Palin T-shirts, including the one spotted in Philadelphia. (Granted, a shirt with the words "Barack Obama Is a Can't" is also for sale on the site.)
The Portland Tribune also reported over the weekend that two men in Oregon were arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a large McCain campaign sign, igniting part of the structure.
And on Monday at a McCain rally in North Carolina, an Obama supporter stood outside and repeatedly yelled, "McCain is a murderer."
One woman yelled back: "He fought for your right to say that."
Republicans argue that while neither campaign can curtail every action of its supporters, McCain is being unfairly depicted as the only candidate who attracts audience members with extreme views.
"It's something that we recognize -- that neither campaign has complete control over their supporters," McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds told FOXNews.com. "We've stood firmly behind our effort to try to hold our rallies to a higher level, and certainly we would expect the same from Barack Obama.
"It is clear that on many occasions they have failed to keep their supporters above board," he added. "(Voters) should understand that this is a phenomenon that plays itself out at both campaigns."
Indeed, both candidates are still attracting rowdy supporters.
The mini-altercation in North Carolina took place a few hundred yards from a sign that read "NOBAMA" featuring side-by-side pictures of Obama and Usama bin Laden.
Politico.com posted a photo snapped at the McCain rally earlier in Virginia Beach showing audience members holding up signs that say: "Obama Bin Lyin'."
Bounds said the McCain campaign condemns such signs.
Georgia Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, accused McCain over the weekend of "sowing the seeds of hatred and division," and compared his rallies to the "climate" created by segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
The Lewis statement came after supporters at McCain's rallies repeatedly yelled words like "socialist" and "terrorist" when the Republican candidate was discussing Obama.
But both campaigns seem to be making an effort to dial back negative rhetoric, or at least calm down their crowds.
Obama scolded his audience Monday in Toledo when they began booing at the very mention of McCain. "We don't need that," he said. "We just need to vote."
McCain corrected a woman Friday who said Obama is "an Arab," drawing boos from the crowd.
The Arizona senator, who objected to the Lewis statement, hasn't been taking questions from his audience since last week, and on Monday made no mention of 1960s radical William Ayers. His campaign has used Obama's ties to Ayers in recent weeks to question the Democratic candidate's character and judgment.
The charge did come up, however, when country music star Hank Williams Jr. played a warm-up act at a Palin rally in Richmond, Va., Monday. His song lyrics included reference to the "left-wing liberal media" and said the Republican running mates "don't have radical friends to whom their careers are linked."
Speaking in Rochester, N.H., Monday, Joe Biden criticized McCain for launching "new attacks" on Obama.
"John McCain wants to attack Barack Obama," Biden said. "Barack Obama wants to attack America's economic problems. It is that basic. It is that basic right now."
Democratic strategist Jehmu Greene said the offensive audience-member comments don't belong in the race on either side.
"There are fringe elements on all sides of the spectrum, and that's what we're seeing right now," she told FOX News.
But Chip Saltsman, former campaign manager for Mike Huckabee, told FOX News that Obama has not taken the steps McCain has to settle down his supporters and rein in bad behavior.
"Barack Obama needs to come out and say, 'My supporters should not do this'," he said.
FOX News' Mosheh Oinounou, Judson Berger and Bonney Kapp contributed to this report.
Chris Hackett addressed the increasingly feisty crowd as they await the arrival of Gov. Palin.
Each time the Republican candidate for the seat in the 10th Congressional District mentioned Barack Obama the crowd booed loudly.
One man screamed "kill him!"
Supporters have been noted shouting “kill him,” “terrorist,” “off with his head” and other equally incendiary terms about Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Others have directly suggested Mr. Obama is a Muslim, which he is not, or a traitor.
I touched on it a few days ago in that post I wrote about that odious terrorist Sean Hannity's show last Sunday, but the New York Times investigated as to exactly why you retards on the right seem to believe that Obama is a Muslim. It'd be quite funny actually if it wasn't so sad the depths of deception you guys on the right seem to allow yourselves to fall under.
Keith Olberman devoted another "Special Comment" to adress the McCain/Palin mob. Spot on except for the fact that this racist murderous extremist loony mob is actually helping Obama. So keep up the extreme right wing looniness.
Here's the transcript:
Originally Posted By: transcript
The John McCain phony umbrage threat level is back to red. McCain supporters shout hateful, violent threats and incitements at McCain events. If you missed it, it happened before a Palin‘s speech in Pennsylvania today, and as usual, she said nothing to stop the fire.
And this is where the satire ends and the Special Comment begins—because this is not even remotely funny: 1:25 p.m. Eastern today in Scranton, Pennsylvania, during a warm-up act by a red meat congressional candidate aptly named Chris Hackett. Hackett mentions Obama and a Palin audience member shouts, “Kill him.”
And Governor Palin, as usual, does nothing about it, says nothing to those thugs and psychos. She may not have heard this one but it is impossible to believe that by now she has not heard about the other ones. Her silence is deafening.
Just that, Senator McCain, you have done nothing when violence has been asserted. Correction, you have done one thing, asked why in real-time you do not repudiate this hatefulness, you act is if you are its victim—speaking today to our NBC station in Washington.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MCCAIN: Sure. And I repudiated it, as I have on several occasions. And, unfortunately, Congressman John Lewis is an American hero who I admire. He made the most worst and utmost unacceptable statement a couple of days ago that I‘ve ever heard. He accused me and Sarah Palin of being involved with segregation, George Wallace, and even made reference to a church bombing where children were killed.
Senator Obama has not repudiated that statement. Senator Obama should do so immediately. It‘s the most outrageous thing that I‘ve heard since I‘ve been in politics which is a long time. It‘s disgraceful.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
OLBERMANN: Disgraceful? Obviously, senator, you haven‘t heard your own speeches or Governor Palin‘s and what people shout during them. And you haven‘t heard your state GOP chair in Virginia, Jeffrey Frederick, giving talking points to 30 of your field operatives heading out to canvas voters in the town of Gainesville with a reporter present, telling them to try to forge a connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden, to emphasize bombings and terrorism.
And you haven‘t heard those volunteers. Your volunteers, Senator McCain, shout back and, “He won‘t salute the flag, and we don‘t even know where Senator Obama was really born.”
Senator McCain, these people are speaking for you. And how dare you try to claim Congressman Lewis was linking you to Governor George Wallace‘s segregation. He was, in fact, linking you aptly, sir, to Governor George Wallace‘s lynch mob mentality “as public figures with the power to influence and persuade,” said Congressman Lewis. “Senator McCain and Governor Palin are playing with fire and if they are not careful that fire will consume us all.”
Senator McCain, your supporters at your events are calling Obama a “terrorist” and “traitor” and are calling for him to be killed, and yet you keep bringing back these same rabid right-wing nuts to deliberately stir these crowds into frenzies, and then, you take offense when somebody who remembers the violence of our political past calls you on it.
You, sir, are responsible for the pure acts (ph) of individuals who are shouting fire in a crowded theater.
There are some things to respect and honor about you, Senator McCain, but on this, you are not only a fraud, sir, but you are tacitly inciting lunatics to violence. If you want to, again, grandstand and suspend your campaign, here is your big chance, sir. Suspend your campaign now until you or somebody else gets some control over it. And it ceases to be a clear and present danger to the peace of this nation.
As usual, it's Olbermann who has been standing up to you thugs the strongest and loudest. Thank goodness your day is almost over.
whomod, for the last time, stop hating black people.
whomod said: I generally don't like it when people decide to play by the rules against people who don't play by the rules. It tends to put you immediately at a disadvantage and IMO is a sign of true weakness. This is true both in politics and on the internet."
Breaking news: Secret Service investigating threat from Scranton Palin rally
Yes, that news should make Sarah Palin and her running mate, John McCain, very proud. They're really riling up their base to the point where the Secret Service has to again investigate a threat made by a Palin supporter:
Quote:
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a threatening remark directed at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama during a political event in Scranton.
The agency followed up on a report in The Times-Tribune that a member of the crowd shouted, "Kill him!" after one mention of Mr. Obama's name during a rally Tuesday for Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
The remark came while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd at the Riverfront Sports Complex. There is no indication Mr. Hackett or Mrs. Palin, who took the stage a half-hour later, heard the remark.
