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doh_phooey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 01:21 AM
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Sarah Palin Is A Rock Star (the crowds love her) ...
Edited on Fri Oct-10-08 01:24 AM by TDubyaA
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doh_phooey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:31 AM
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1. McCain’s new Ayers attack is putting Obama’s life at risk
McCain’s new Ayers attack is putting Obama’s life at risk

October 9th, 2008

In the last few days, as the rhetoric of John McCain and Sarah Palin has grown more and more heated, so have the crowds. During that rally in New Mexico, John McCain asked, “Who is the real Barack Obama?” Someone in the crowd shouted out, “A terrorist!” That same day in Florida, as Sarah Palin twisted Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers into evidence of some kind of secret hatred for America, a man in the crowd shouted, “Kill him!” (The Secret Service is investigating that incident.) Another Palin supporter at that rally ”shouted a racial epithet at an African-American sound man from a network and told him to, ‘Sit down, boy.’”

This is the fruit of the increasingly dishonorable, increasingly disgusting campaign being run by John McCain. There’s nothing wrong with attacking your opponent’s character in a closely contested and heated election. But McCain’s message isn’t that Barack Obama will be a bad president, it’s that Barack Obama harbors a secret resentment against his country, associates with terrorists, and will deliberately harm America.

First of all, McCain knows none of that is true. He’s simply looking to gain political support by, sadly and cynically, appealing to the ugliest fears and prejudices of some Americans. Second, McCain is a grown man who understands fully the ramifications of pushing this kind of message against the first African-American major party nominee for president. This is the United States of America, and we have a history of mentally unbalanced loners who somehow became convinced that one of their country’s leaders wanted to deliberately harm America. We also have a history of virulent racism. And there’s no telling what the combination of those two dangerous factors could unleash. John McCain was 27 years old and serving in the Navy when John F. Kennedy was shot. He knows the ramifications.

If John McCain has even a shred of honor left, he will stop insinuating that Obama intends to deliberately harm America. He will drop the Bill Ayers nonsense, he will drop the patriotism garbage– keep in mind that none of these attacks are moving the polls– and he will instruct his wife to stop telling people that Obama tried to get her sons killed. If John McCain has even a shred of honor left, he will start running his campaign based on issues, not political stunts and divisive hate-mongering.

http://trainwreckpolitics.com/2008/10/09/mccains-new-ayers-attack-is-putting-obamas-life-at-risk/


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Dinger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:34 AM
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2. Those Freaks Are Dangerous
I hope Obama has top notch security. This shit is scary.
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doh_phooey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 07:06 AM
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3. Where is the "Barry Goldwater" of today's GOP?
Goldwater went to Nixon and told him he had to resign.

Is there anyone in the GOP who will go to McCain and Palin and tell them that these lines of attack are too dangerous and they have to stop it before someone gets hurt, literally.


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LiberadorHugo Donating Member (557 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 10:03 AM
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9. According to McLame...
He's the Goldwater...though it's pretty hard to forge any connection between a guy who was pro-choice and who essentially told Christians to lynch Jerry Falwell and anyone in today's GOP.
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doh_phooey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 10:15 AM
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10. Maybe Michael Moore can make a parody of "American Carol"
in which the ghost of Barry Goldwater comes to John McCain to show him the evil of his ways.

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doh_phooey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 07:19 AM
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4. Panic attacks: Voters unload at GOP rallies
By JONATHAN MARTIN | 10/10/08 4:44 AM EDT

Activists outside rallies openly talk about Obama as a terrorist, citing his name and purported ties to Islam in the fashion of the viral emails that have rocketed around the Internet for over a year now.

Some of this activity is finding its way into the events, too.

On Thursday, as one man in the audience asked a question about Obama’s associations, the crowd erupted in name-calling.

"Obama Osama!" one woman called out.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14445_Page2.html


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doh_phooey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 09:51 AM
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5. "She's so adorable"



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ipfilter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 09:53 AM
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6. She is the first
politician I have ever seen with a pen in hand ready to sign autographs. WTF is that about?
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doh_phooey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 09:59 AM
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7. How much is she selling them for?
The autographs that is, though she may have to sell the pens, too.

(The soon-to-be ex-governor has to worry about putting food on her family.)

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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 10:01 AM
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8. that's her sick base.
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Fozzledick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 10:18 AM
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11. I'm just not into "death metal"
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doh_phooey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 10:21 AM
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12. Quiet Riot?
:think:
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doh_phooey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 01:51 PM
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13. McCain/Palin ...


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doh_phooey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 09:41 PM
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14. the mad hater












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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 09:43 PM
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15. The crowds loved Evita Peron too!
Another demagogue!
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doh_phooey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-08 07:24 AM
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16. Evita Palin
Or Sarah Peron
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doh_phooey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-11-08 08:14 PM
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17. their gang


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doh_phooey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-12-08 07:34 PM
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18. Republicans Racist?






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