John McCain's unprecedentedly ugly speech today

In the last two months of this election -- as the Bush administration winds down as the most unpopular in modern American history and the Right is on the verge of a desperately-needed collective death -- we see a perfect microcosm of what our country has been over the last eight years. The financial crisis is spreading, accelerating, and morphing across the globe in unpredictable ways. The economic anxiety levels are as high as one can recall, teetering on panic, and even the Wall St. Journal Editorial Page is acknowledging that America's days of economic dominance are over. The national debt is over a staggering $10 trillion and has doubled in the last 8 years alone. And the symbols of our nation have become gulags, the waterboard, an endless stream of bombs and occupations, and people imprisoned forever with no charges of any kind.

And as these flames engulf America's foundations, what is the Right doing -- the movement that brought us all of this through their virtually absolute control of our Government for the last eight years? They're spending all their time chattering with each other about an aging 1960s radical and giddily cheering the increasingly repellent Sarah Palin as she skips around the country in front of rambunctiously booing right-wing crowds accusing Barack Obama of palling around with The Terrorists and pointing out that he doesn't see America the way all the Normal, Good Americans do. For the last eight years, the opponents of the Right have been America-hating Terrorists and they still are.

And just now, John McCain -- speaking in New Mexico -- delivered one of the ugliest, nastiest, most invective-filled personality attacks a major candidate has ever delivered, blatantly designed to stoke raw racial resentments and depict Obama as a Manchurian candidate funded by secret Arab Terrorist sources -- a truly unstable and hate-mongering rant filled with lines like these, delivered with an angry scowl to screaming, howling, booing throngs, while Cindy McCain stood behind him shaking her head in disgust at each fact she heard about the Black Terrorist daring to challenge her husband:.....(see link)


McCain also repeatedly claimed that the fault of the financial crisis lies with Democrats who (despite controlling no branches of Government) forced banks to give mortgages to poor people who couldn't afford them (which, as we've seen, means minorities) and that Obama "aided and abetted" these practices. What are typically Rovian attack themes disseminated underneath the surface are being unleashed in their naked, unhidden form. As Marc Ambinder just put it with real understatement: "Sen. Barack Obama is, Sen. McCain said in New Mexico just now, a mystery, a liar, complicit in the economic crisis and an unaccomplished naïf, at all the same time."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/06/microcosm/

McCain many new voters, though.

Obama is going to win this!!

Just seems some people forget that Salon.com is a pay site

click it and you'll go to the article.

That is how solon offers free articles to those that don't pay... suffering through advertising is how we less cash advantaged get to read the great articles at Salon.

He's gone over the edge, and this is the person the wingers want to have his finger on the button. Says nothing for any of them, except they're radicals.

He is Sicko

and lead the good folks of rightwingastan in a frenzy of lynching and mutilating the democratic candidate which will set off the beginning of the end times!!!

A rope and a hood is all Palin and McCain need for the grand finale!

...face to face with President-To-Be Obama on Tuesday. Oh wait, I guess "face to face" is an inaccurate expression, since McDoof will be surely be looking in every other direction except at Obama.

I felt like I was watching a Klan rally.

:puke:

March 03, 2008 - McCain pledges 'respectful campaign'
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-04-01-mccain-va_N.htm


Oct 03, 2008 - McCain Abandons Promise to Run Respectful Campaign
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/10/3/16436/1064

Nothing the repugs do really surprises me-- outrages me, you bet. But not surprise. Not surprising since they're truly the scum of the earth.

McSame knows he's toast. Similarly, Poppy saw the writing on the wall around Labor Day 1992, and he changed tactics to scorched-earth policy against Bill Clinton. Don't know if many of you remember, but it was vicious...the goal wasn't to get Poppy to win--that was a lost cause--but to get as many people as possible to hate Clinton.

That part of the strategy worked. Clinton won the election, but was treated as a lame duck for his entire presidency, because of such rabid hatred from the right. Even with majorities in both houses, I remember how every measure and every appointee Clinton put forward was stymied by the repukes. With the help of the M$M, Clinton then became synonymous with Satan himself, resulting in 1994's Contract on America and the GOP winning back both House and Senate.

McSame has possibly already conceded the election, and is merely setting the stage for a ferocious GOP counterattack in 2010 and beyond.

McCain was speaking today in New Mexico, doing his usual personal attack on Barack Obama, as the stock market plummeted (you can see the ticker next to McCain on the screen, an apt reminder of what McCain and his fellow Republicans represent), and McCain asked the crowd "who is Barack Obama?" Immediately you hear a supporter yell "terrorist."

"Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin 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.