What is going on over in John McCain’s mind? Is he really so desperate that he has to allow his crowd to spew out hatred and racist epithets and stand by them? Or that he allows his running mate to do the same?
From the Washington 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.”
Is this the kind of leadership we need at a time of serious challenges facing the nation? This sort of behavior does nothing to bring people together, and instead only foments violence and hatred.
The reception had been better in Clearwater, where Palin, speaking to a sea of “Palin Power” and “Sarahcuda” T-shirts, tried to link Obama to the 1960s Weather Underground. “One of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers,” she said. (“Boooo!” said the crowd.) “And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, ‘launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,’ ” she continued. (“Boooo!” the crowd repeated.)
“Kill him!” proposed one man in the audience.
Kill him? The political answer to those with whom you disagree is to kill them? And did she interupt her speech to advocate against that sort of thing? No, she did not. The Anti-semitic Sarah Palin, like the Anti-semitic John McCain before her, did nothing in the face of such threat.
How much worse is it going to become before it gets better?
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.
– John Burke
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There are no words strong enough to describe how depressing the feeling is of hearing some of that hostility…
All we can do is hope that when the greater population hears these things it will help influence them to vote for the right candidate. So our nation doesn’t suffer through another term of irresponsible leadership.
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