Dangerous

I think we can conclude that the McCain-Palin ticket is inciting a violent attack on Senator Obama and his family. Here’s the reasoning: they say Senator Obama hangs around with terrorists. Therefore he supports terrorists. We’re fighting a war against terrorism. So let’s fight a war on that one.

I don’t think we’ve ever seen this level of potentially violent form of campaigning in our lifetime, and someone needs to seriously call out McCain on this one.

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  • bacaangel

    McCain-Palin rallies remind me of a evil past –of seeing a Nazi rally, with Palin in the role as a female Hitler. The way the crazed mob chants and sing-songs her name over and over again — Sarah, Sarah, Sarah! In a very dazed, fevered and crazed way, almost like being hypnotized! A crowd who would do anything for her, maybe even Kill for her!Yet this is the very same Palin who is so illiterate that she is unable to go on Meet the Press, like every other vice presidential candidate who has gone before her. Palin a/k/a Hitler, who could be a heart-beat away! Scary…dangerous, scary!

  • ceu

    Just posted the gist of that on the Hoo-Sane thread:What I see is an old man asking “Who will rid me of this uppity terrorist black guy?” They don’t want Obama’s background investigated – they want him dead. It’s appalling and MSM apparently thinks that’s acceptable.I’m old enough to clearly remember JFK’s assassination (I was 9) as well as MLK’s, RFK’s, the attempt on George Wallace, and on Reagan. That any news organization is deaf to what is being said by the McCain campaign, what emotions – including misguided patriotism – are being stirred up, and is therefore a party to the calls of “kill ‘em” and “off with his head” is dangerous and obscene.

  • JG

    and our media is pouring gasoline all over that hate speech…shame on them…

  • violadefacto

    People at those rallies really don’t know what they’re hearing, do they? They’re getting away with things that the rest of us would be arrested for. How’s the hate crime rate doing recently?

  • Poleezz

    AGREED!

  • Poleezz

    That certainly seems to be the intent. Like I said in a previous comment; it’s a dangerous game of “fill-in the blank”. THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING!

  • JG

    again, mob mentality is such a powerful psychological principle. Our media needs to stop this now–

  • http://livefreeordie08.wordpress.com LiveFreeOrDie08

    The MSM would have televised every Hitler speech. They have no moral compass.There is nothing newsworthy in the words of McCain & Palin. Hate speech and inciting a mob has no business being televised.Would they televise any other propagators of hate crimes? How about sending a crew out to cover the next Clan meeting? Rednecks dragging gays behind a pick-up? Rapists? What’s the distinction here?

  • JG

    Bay Buchanan on CNN asking whether Barack sold cocaine. Unreal–I will be surprised if this bile doesn’t tighten the race–it always does, and the media is an accomplice.This is getting scary.

  • JG

    earth to Colin Powell–we need you. We need your FORCEFUL rebuke of this–you can now redeem yourself for the Iraq war.

  • J M Ashby

    McPalin supporters after one of her fear-mongering speeches:http://www.crooksandliars.com/silentpatriot/palin-mccain-mob

  • JG

    I have to say it seems like the media has shifted today back to their “all Obama all the time/referendum on Obama narratives.” Much less on the economy even though it’s a still a big story–but it seems it has become more amorphous than political. This concerns me because when all of the focus goes to one candidate in a questioning way, it seems to move the polls.When it is a referendum on issues, like the economy, Obama cannot lose. The polls have remained pretty steady, but it seems each day gets more and more heated–I sure hope this BULLSHIT doesn’t work, but I am weary after the last 8 years–every right wing TP-Ayers anf ACORN seem to be getting a ton of air.

  • ShelleyBee

    ceu, do you remember what the national mood was like after the JFK and MLK assassinations? It’s so macabre that I hate to think of it, but I’m afraid that’s where an Obama candidacy/presidency is heading. Should the worst happen, I am afraid we would see dancing in the streets, from America, broadcast all over the world. That would be the end of America as we know it. Flat out, unrepentant treason. There are a myriad of reasons to support any candidate, and those neocons and lifelong Republicans who support McCain on ideological grounds or social issues . . . whatever. They’re in every election, I don’t agree with them, but I get it. Some of my best friends are Bush bashers, and Bush bashing is usually a response to the President’s incompetence and general dickishness. I don’t hate Bush, I just think he’s irredeemably awful. The worst Kerry got was ridicule for looking “French” and mockery of his service in Vietnam. And conservatives hated Clinton, but I never knew of anyone ranting “Off with his head.” I have no illusions about where they stand, but conservatives like Joe Scarborough, George Will, and Peggy Noonan, who may disagree with Obama but seem to have a genuine respect for him as a politician (and a human being), give me the warm fuzzies compared to some of these people at Pale ‘n’ McClurg rallies. They don’t just hate Obama, they HATE him. They fear him and HATE him, and they will not call him their president. Now people had their opinions about Obama long before McCain won the nomination, and they’d feel the same even if the Republicans had run Jesus Christ himself. Some people are just dumb and hateful. But when John McCain asked “Who is real Barack Obama?” and someone answered, loudly, “Terrorist!” you know that McCain heard it. He visibly winced, as if he were ashamed it had come to this, as if he were ashamed that he was there, in front of those people. He winced, as if, in that moment, he was ashamed to be a part of his own campaign. It’s on videotape, as damning as “The fundamentals of our economy are strong.” It’s on tape. A man called John McCain’s opponent a “terrorist” right in front of him, and the Republican nominee for president said NOTHING. That’s not change. That’s not more of the same. That is a NEW low.Good night, and good luck?

  • brutlyhonest

    Didn’t the Nazi movement start off being marketed as nationalism? Convince the sheep you are one of them/understand them and “lead” them into the abyss.

  • ceu

    Good luck, indeed, Shelley :( McCain has gone off the rails. He spouts how bipartisan he is & stands by while people at his rallies, not just voices in the crowd, but questioners and introducers use highly inflamatory language and nothing is being said about it! It’s unreal.I remember the country’s reaction in ’68 after MLK and RFK’s assassinations. It was scary beyond telling. I was a young teenager and the news covered what was going on – they didn’t sit around and talk about it, they showed the pictures and told the stories. It seemed sometimes like we were heading for another civil war.The other night Elvis said something about having an uneasy feeling that we were headed for another 1968 (I’m paraphrasing and I might be misremembering what exactly he said” and I disagreed with him then…but now? After the last few days, listening to McCain & his supporters, I’m coming around to Elvis’ point of view.

  • The Space Cowboy
  • http://livefreeordie08.wordpress.com LiveFreeOrDie08

    The MSM better put a lid on this before it boils over or their gonna have blood on their hands. Let’s just vote today, please?!?!

  • Strawdog

    Thank you for saying this, Bob. McCain and Palin are inciting violence through hate speech. Very dangerous behavior.

  • http://watergatesummer.blogspot.com/ enigma4ever

    thank you for saying this, I have been blogging it too, I have also been encouraging people to write to the Secret Service and provide MORE and Better protection for Obama and his family- because McCain and Obama are campaigning in the same states, so this is truly dangerous….this is about Inciting People and Inspiring Mobs to Violence and NOT once have we seen McCain or Palin STOP the Violent Threats that are being Shouted…it is like watching a Klan Rally ( I have seen them on the Discovery Channel….it certainly does NOT resemble any political rally we have ever seen).I have the address posted and am encouraging others to blog about it too…..

  • Andhakari

    McCain used to drop napalm on factory workers. Do you think he’s going to care if someone whacks a political enemy?

  • http://livefreeordie08.wordpress.com LiveFreeOrDie08

    I couldn’t take it anymore. Sent a letter to NBC and CNN. If you feel as I do, steal this letter in whole or part and make your voice heard by the MSMhttp://livefreeordie08.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/ive-had-it/

  • gyutty

    GOP = NSDAP

  • dontpanic23

    These town mob meetings do look like incitements to do the unthinkable and there’s no shortage of nuts out there who could take his or her cue from the dog or from an actual invisible person within the system (tin hat time). If they would stop showing over and over and over this shit, maybe a couple of said nuts might not go all OCD about it and do what the dog (or the agent) said. And if McShit and McNell would loudly point out DURING these rallies (Obama style) the inappropriateness of it, they could at least look like they don’t totally condone it. As it is, they look complicit in potential hate crimes of great magnitude. Bastards.

  • shane

    Doesn’t the Secret Service have the authority to step in and tell the McCain campaign to stop this dangerous bullshit? Probably not, as it would be infringing on First Amendment rights, I suppose. But the recklessness and irresponsibility of what Palin and McCain are doing is so blatant and egregious. Palin is hopeless and clueless, a wind-up doll that’s dumb as a bag of rocks, but that McCain would allow the legacy of his long career to boil down to this disgraceful implosion is stunning.