McCain’s new Ayers attack is putting Obama’s life at riskOctober 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.
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