Campaign of hate ?? - Political Ravings Forum

Smurf-316 · #1 10.11.2008

Hate rising on the McCain campaign trail.

(CNN) -- With recent polls showing Sen. Barack Obama's lead increasing nationwide and in several GOP-leaning states, some Republicans attending McCain-Palin campaign rallies are showing a new emotion: Rage.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at a campaign rally Tuesday morning in Jacksonville, Florida.

"When you have an Obama, [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and the rest of the hooligans up there going to run this country, we have got to have our head examined. It's time that you two are representing us, and we are mad. So, go get them," one man told Sen. John McCain at a town hall meeting in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Another man was more pointed.
"And we're all wondering why that Obama is where he's at, how he got here. I mean, everybody in this room is stunned that we're in this position," another man said at a rally.
"I'm mad. I'm really mad. And what's going to surprise you, it's not the economy. It's the socialists taking over our country," one said.

Later in Minnesota, a woman told McCain: "I don't trust Obama. I have read about him and he's an Arab."
McCain shook his head and said, "No ma'am, no ma'am. He's a decent family man...[a] citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. That's what this campaign is all about."
The audience then applauded McCain.

McCain urged his supporters to be respectful of Obama.
"We want to fight and I will fight. But we will be respectful," he said. "I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments. I will respect him and I want everyone to be respectful, and let's make sure we are."

CNN contributor David Gergen, who has advised Democratic and Republican presidential administrations, said Thursday that the negative tone of these rallies is "incendiary" and could lead to violence.
"There is this free floating sort of whipping around anger that could really lead to some violence. I think we're not far from that," he said. "I think it's really imperative that the candidates try to calm people down."
On Friday, Obama said the "barrage of nasty insinuations and attacks" was a result of the Republican nominee's failed economic ideas.

"They can run misleading ads, they can pursue the politics of anything goes. It will not work. Not this time. I think that folks are looking for something different this time. It's easy to rile up a crowd, nothing's easier than riling up a crowd by stoking anger and division. But that's not what we need right now in the United States. The times are too serious," Obama said at a rally in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Recently, McCain's campaign launched a string of ads that question Obama's judgment and character.

The McCain campaign calls Obama "too risky for America" in a new Web ad that focuses on his political relationship with Bill Ayers, a founding member of the radical Weather Underground.
"Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. They've worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it," the announcer said in the 90-second ad.
The now-defunct Weather Underground was involved in bombings in the early 1970s, including attacks on the Pentagon and the Capitol. Obama was a young child at the time of the bombings.

Obama and Ayers, now a university professor, met in 1995, when both worked with a nonprofit group trying to raise funds for a school improvement project and a charitable foundation. CNN's review of project records found nothing to suggest anything inappropriate in the volunteer projects in which the two men were involved.
Obama, in an April debate during the primaries, called Ayers "somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8."

At a rally Tuesday in Clearwater, Florida, Sarah Palin said Obama was being "less than truthful" about his ties to Ayers. "His own top adviser said they were 'certainly friendly.' ... I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way that you and I see America -- as the greatest source for good in this world," she said.
Palin told the crowd that she sees "a pattern in how our opponent has talked about one of his most troubling associations."

One member of the Palin audience in Jacksonville, Florida, Tuesday shouted out "treason." And at another rally in the state Monday, Palin's mention of the Obama-Ayers tie caused one member to yell out: "kill him" -- though it was unclear if it was targeted at Obama or Ayers.
At several recent rallies, Palin has stirred up crowds by mentioning the "liberal media." Routinely, there are boos at every mention of The New York Times and the "mainstream media," both of which are staples of Palin's stump speech.

Some audience members are openly hostile to members of the traveling press covering Palin; one crowd member hurled a racial epithet at an African-American member of the press in Clearwater, Florida, on Monday.
And at a McCain rally in New Mexico on Monday, one supporter yelled out "terrorist" when McCain asked, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" McCain didn't respond.
Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, on Friday told voters that the McCain-Palin campaign "would want you to be afraid of Barack Obama."
Some Republicans have also been critical of the McCain campaign.
Former Michigan Gov. William Milliken, a Republican, told the Grand Rapids Press he was "disappointed in the tenor and the personal attacks on the part of the McCain campaign."

"He is not the McCain I endorsed," Milliken said Thursday.
Some anger found at McCain-Palin rallies is directed at McCain for a different reason.
"I am begging you, sir, I am begging you, take it to him," another supporter said to the Arizona senator at the Wisconsin rally.

Smurf-316 · #2 10.11.2008

I am really sad to see people acting this way.
I know most of you don't like Obama But this is truly disturbing that grown up people resort to this kind of behavior. I thought Terrorist did this sort of thing? NOT Americans! What would Republicans be saying if Powell was their Nominee and the Democrats acted this way.

I don't care if you like Obama or not, THIS kinda sh*t is VERY uncalled for! I would be very upset if i heard this talk at an Obama rally. And McCain and Palin can shift the blame all they want but THEY are encouraging this kind of sh*t with the remarks and attack ad's on Obama.

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metermaidbf1 · #3 10.11.2008

Wait a minute, now you are a terrorist if you express your anger to politicians? Since when did politicians become gods? They've always been lowlifes with their own political expenditures at hand. I would state more safely that a politician who associated himself with Bill Ayres is like a politician associating himself with Timothy McVeigh and ask why this Bill is still being appropriated while that Tim is underground! Truth is, if Powell , or Rice was our nominee, there would still be fed up Americans who are righteously pissed off and asking questions. You know damn well that it wouldn't hurt so much if it wasn't the truth, and what is more important, you're fricking party, or America itself?

metermaidbf1 · #4 10.11.2008

I still want to know your belief that a terrorist would have a simple disagreement with you. I guess you are probably of the crowd that believes we shouldn't have Guantanamo detention. Maybe if they say your mother sucks, we should have to kill them because that would be aterrorist act under your clause! Get a grip, there's going to be a hell of a lot more world crisis to come, last time we were her, it was world war!

metermaidbf1 · #5 10.11.2008

I say screw the media and let the American's vent, because this bubble is about to burst and the mainstream media is ignoring it.

Antiochus · #6 10.11.2008

The problem here is that its not about venting, but false claims and death threats. This is a dangerous ground for McCain, especially when he himself made such a deal about a "clean campaign".

WiseOne · #7 10.11.2008

Yea, I watched all that on TV this AM. LOL. One old lady said well Obama is an Arab and you should've seen McCain jump back and take the mic back, LOL. Yes, people ARE getting more hateful to be sure! I mean people are saying stuff that should be thought, not spoken. There is a LOT of stuff I would like to say about Obama, LOL, but I don't as I have respect for people. I DESPISE Hillary, but I still would never have called her a tramp or a pig, etc., etc. I have heard some of the meanest stuff, lately, from both sides.

I remember, in the Bible, it says...[" in the last days there will be those who speak evil of diginitaries..."]

What does this mean? It doesn't mean your "normal" political fighting and such...it means calling "dignitaries" pigs, tramps, Arabs, sluts, and other stuff like that that shouldn't be said.

Smurf-316 · #8 10.11.2008

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Originally Posted by metermaidbf1

Wait a minute, now you are a terrorist if you express your anger to politicians?

So you see nothing wrong with yelling threats about killing and beheading someone at a rally? You call this "discussing"?
So lets see here....
Obama is called terrorist but yet They are the ones talking about chopping off somebody's head? Ah OK got it!
McStain is getting his azz kicked and they're all crying!

beascott · #9 10.12.2008

When I saw the video about a kid saying that "you need gloves to touch him[Obama]" that was it --- That's just sickening.

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