12 Oct 08 Merchant of Fear
Barring an act of god, John McCain has lost the election. The only question now is what will be left of his reputation afterwards. If he continues in his current fear and loathing mode, he’ll be remembered as a modern-day George Wallace, the polarizing segregationist of the 1960’s.
Reuters link:
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE49B05720081012
Democratic congressman John Lewis, a veteran civil rights leader, accused Republican John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin on Saturday of “sowing the seeds of hatred and division” and said it reminded him of the segregationist era of Alabama Gov. George Wallace.
Friday McCaine made a lukewarm attempt to be conciliatory towards Obama, and was booed by the crowd at his rally for doing so. To us it seems like far too little and too late, judge for yourself.
09 Oct 08 McCain’s Uncontrollable Rage
Could we trust John McCain with the nuclear trigger? His friends say no.
09 Oct 08 McCain Goes Down
McCain has taken his campaign deeper into the muck at a time when people need to hear how he might fix the economy. His message to the American people is clear: McCain doesn’t want to help you, he only wants to scare you. All of his big lies, especially about running a “Straight Talk Express”, are exposed in this video:
But what John McCain has done is worse than telling a few lies. He and Palin are doing everything they can to make uninformed Americans deeply afraid of Obama. Over and over they have attempted to portray a United States Senator as an Arab, a Moslem, and a Terrorist. This is unconscionable: now is the time for all who know better to speak out.
New York Times link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/opinion/08wed1.html
It is a sorry fact of American political life that campaigns get ugly, often in their final weeks. But Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin have been running one of the most appalling campaigns we can remember. They have gone far beyond the usual fare of quotes taken out of context and distortions of an opponent’s record — into the dark territory of race-baiting and xenophobia.
07 Oct 08 Palin Incites Hate & Racism
The lipstick-wearing pit bull has made her home in the gutter. Check out the cold hard facts:
Washington Post link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602935.html
She wants you to believe that Obama is a terrorist:
Barack Obama, she told 8,000 fans at a rally here Monday afternoon, “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist!” This followed her earlier accusation that the Democrat pals around with terrorists. “This is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America,” she told the Clearwater crowd. “I’m afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.” The crowd replied with boos.
She wants you to believe that Obama doesn’t support our troops:
Palin also told those gathered that Obama doesn’t like American soldiers. “He said that our troops in Afghanistan are just, quote, ‘air-raiding villages and killing civilians,’ ” she said, drawing boos from a crowd that had not been told Obama was actually appealing for more troops in Afghanistan.
She’ll stop at nothing in her pursuit of power, including blatant racism by her supporters:
Worse, Palin’s routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.”
This is one dog that needs to be sent straight to the pound.
