During McCain's speech yesterday in Albuquerque, he trotted out his campaign's new theme: Who is Barack Obama? It's meant to be a rhetorical question, but one supporter decided to answer. Barack Obama is "a terrorist!" McCain, just as he took the cowardly route of saying nothing when Hillary Clinton was called "the bitch" back during the primaries, again stays true to form and keeps his trap shut.
(TalkingPointsMemo has the video on their Youtube channel*. And honestly, it would be funny if it weren't borderline criminal.**)
Remember, this is the guy who said he'd run a campaign that would elevate the discourse. Yet another lie, as it turns out.
But it doesn't end there, because while McCain was whipping up the hate in New Mexico Caribou Barbie was doing the same down on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Dana Milbank has it at The Post:
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.
I can't ignore the obvious implications of a scene like that occuring in the Deep South. And I can't ignore the sheer irresponsibility of one of the two great political parties' leaders inciting their supporters to hate speech during a campaign. And I hope the American people don't, either, because even at our most assbackwards we should be made of better stuff than what McCain/Palin are playing on.
I hope that's what we see tonight after the debate. McCain/Palin have already shown they don't want to answer questions, while Obama/Biden have shown the opposite. Xenu willing, there will be a backlash.
* I tried to upload it, but it's being fickle. So you'll just have to give them more hits.
** McCain calling someone else angry? WTF?
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Holy lord. The part about Palin's crowd turning on the reporters at the event? Jesus Christ. The press people should have just turned off their cameras and mics and walked out of there. Seriously -- if you're not only going to attack the press as a campaign strategy, but foment this kind of five minutes hate bullshit among the raving masses... then there should be consequences. Reporters should stop covering McCain and Palin.
No...I think people need to know the sort of target audience the McCain/Palin campaign is after.
If only because, for God's sake, you're running against a black guy, and you're still having trouble nailing down the racist vote? Cheese and rice.
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