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Oct
10
Okay, this isn’t just crazy anymore, it’s getting dangerous, and someone from the McCain douche squad needs to do something. Issue a statement, a press release, something. People actually believe that Barack Obama, a guy who’s running for the office of the President of United States of America, is a terrorist?
People have shouted terrorist, uppity negro, kill, bring me his head, commie faggot at both McCain and Plain rallies. Not once did either candidate condemn those statements. In fact in one incident McCain This is the kind of hate mongering that gets people killed.
Let me explain something about hate: People hate Bush and people hate Obama. The type of people who hate Bush get frustrated and suck down tofu smoothies. The type of people who hate Obama carry assault rifles and wear white hoods. These are not reasonable, intelligent people they’re inciting and to let this continue is taking a huge risk.
I’m convinced that if anything were to happen as a result of this we’d see riots like we’ve never seen before.
The McCain campaign is playing with dangerous emotions and only they can put a stop to this.
Even John Weaver, McCain’s former strategist, called it a moral and tactical mistake.
Here’s just a small sample of what’s going on:
Oct
8
Okay, maybe lost is the wrong word. It wasn’t much of a debate after all. Even according to FOX, if you can listen, read, or watch what they have to say without loosing a piece of your soul Obama won. But also according to to some of the “reporters,” at FOX it’s not over.
Look, the thing is Obama relates better to people. Whether it’s one-on-one or to mobs. McCain calls people “friends” in a such insincere way you’d think he was taking your wallet and he lets people call for Obama’s head at his rallies. At the very least, he doesn’t condemn it.
This was supposed to be McCain’s shining moment. It’s his best format they said. McCain’s been asking for a Town Hall meeting for months, they said. Obama’s going to get punked, they said.
Foreign policy was supposed to be his strength too and he wiffed on that.
I’ve said this before … Obama gives me hope. McCain was favored to take undecideds and independents. Maybe the McCain that ran in 2000. This one makes me a little sad.
Here’s CNN’s Report Card.
Oct
7
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Sooner or later people are going to figure out that if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future, or you’re not ready to articulate it.
You know who said that? John McCain said that. He said that in 2000 when he was running against Bush and being accused of having fathered illegitimate black children, among other things. Now, I guess it’s all water under the bridge. A bridge too nowhere.
Now he’s calling his opponent a terrorist and letting people yell “kill” at his rallies? He’s running ads that call Obama dangerous and dishonorable? He’s selling out … God damn it!
I liked the McCain 2000 model. I didn’t like all of what it said and stood for, but I liked the way it said it. I liked the Straight Talk Express, that he called a kid a “little punk,” that he made witty and sarcastic remarks on Letterman and Jon Stewart. That he seemed (an important distinction) like a reasonable guy with a decent sense of humor.
The McCain 2008 is morally bankrupt and vicious. He’s lost the respect he had for the American people. I do believe that he once thought of the people of this country as able to think for themselves and see through the garbage that he himself is now tossing our way. It’s sad to see a man who once had a vision and passion resort to the underhanded tricks we’ve come to expect. It’s sad we weren’t wrong in expecting them.
I had hoped, when it came down to these two, that we’d finally see real conversation. Somehow I was naive enough to believe that there was a chance that we’d be offered plans that could stand on their own; hear debates that covered topics we cared about; and finally have questions answered honestly and directly. Not bullshit that we’d have to wait days until someone deciphered what was really meant and who was telling the truth.
They’re both capable of clean honest campaigns. They’re both experienced, articulate, intelligent guys who obviously made it far enough to be able to do something unbelievable.That we’re being inundated with smears, lies, and blatant attacks laced with slander is causing me physical pain.
I had bigger hopes for this election.
