Please don't feed the trolls!
Epic failure.
I pray for two things: Obama's election, and Obama's protection.
Here's the thing that all of Obama supporters still fail to realize.....Even if he is elected, the country will once again stand divided. He is as polarizing as Hillary was to many. The notion of and the reality of living with a President named Obama, a black President, is as shocking to many as it is significant to his supporters.
The reality is grim, no matter which SCHMUCK takes office.
I'm with Billums on this one...
What an ugly crowd in this video - ugly in *all* ways.
These attacks on Obama are thinly veiled racism. These people know they can't use the "n" word and get away with it in this day and age in front of a camera, so they resort to name calling - "he's a terrorist," "he's an Arab."
It's likely very few of them completed high school. Seriously.
Their small brains can't comprehend much. They all probably have very miserable lives.
Go to the Huffington Post today - lots of articles about the failing McCain-Palin campaign.
Republicans are feeling the rage because they're LOSING.
Keep up the fight, boys and girls!
OBAMA ALL THE WAY.
Pray for his children. I am REALLY afraid for them.
As for me, I'm a proud commiefaggot. One who will track your ass down, also.
Very depressing.
Catch 22 McCain. You can't say he's a terrorist sympathizer who would make a good President. You can't fight your own crowds who think you are a savior to the kind, and then expect them to vote for you. His campaign is imploding.
To John: So what if certain people don't like a black president named Obama? No surprise there. The country will not be divided in half conveniently between hate mongers and Obama supporters. Nothing is that simplistic. What's your solution? Just vote McCain so there are no hurt feeling amongst the voters in Appalachia?
There's nothing "thinly veiled" about it!
I'm both gleefully happy that this is exploding in John McCain's face and mildly disturbed that calling Obama "decent" can draw boos from a crowd.
BTW, the Alaska court found that Sarah Palin abused her power. The circus continues.
Since when has being an Arab meant not being a family person or being decent???
The fucking dumbing down of Americans is infuriating. I remember when education and science were considered important. Not anymore, now the Creation Museum is seeing record attendance. I blame the Republican party.
Every group follows the example of behavior set by the leader. There might be some individual exceptions, but the tone, morals, and behavior of the entire organization will swing strongly toward the leader's. It is an upgrade and takes effort to become better people. It's easy to go below the line and be reactive and ruled by emotion. The US needs to vote to upgrade.
These people in the video are idiots, not evil geniuses folks. If W and Cheney have avoided the business end of a sniper's rifle, Obama and family will be just fine.
I give credit to McCain for attempting to reign in their racist lies. It reminds me of that old, decrepit king in Lord of the Rings who is possessed by an evil advisor. Every so often the soul of the old McCain resurfaces before becoming enveloped once again by the GOP strategists.
The anti-intellectualism espoused by the McCain/Palin campaign is fueling this hatred. And the hatred is evidence of inherent racism from a part of the country that I'm now embarrassed to say I'm from.
Parts of Wisconsin are demographically some of the whitest parts of the country. While once I would have exused some of the comments as a result of ignorance, now I see it as outright racism. They simply have no exposure to cultural diversity and it shows.
On 9/11, my workplace included an Arab and an Afghani - both were U.S. citizens and I didn't think anything of it. But I guess others who aren't exposed to such diversity can hang on to some pretty moronic ideas.
This is the most important election of my lifetime, and it is the nastiest. This is mob mentality bigtime, and these people are going to fall apart once Obama wins. However, progress does not mean we should not do what is best for the country. McCain has fostered this type of feeling, and he is now trying to get the genie back into the box, but it is too late.
Even my mom is voting for Obama, but she told me last night that she fears Obama is going to be killed. I told her that makes Obama even better. He knows the risks, and he is willing to run for president knowing he could be killed. You can't not vote for progress simply because someone may be hurt (Milk anyone?). My mom is very much an average voter, and she leans Republican, but she sees that Obama is the only good choice in this election. She has also seen the mob mentality and is scared by it. I think the more people see how McCain looks like he is leading racist rallies (some of these crowds look like the anti-civil rights people of the 60s), the more they will vote for Obama. We are winning and winning big time, and we need to look forward. Even fair conservatives are horrified at what their party has become.
@satan: I think you have a point there. In the 1960s, the tide of national opinion against segregation and Jim Crow in the South (which had increased ever more since the 50s and Little Rock and other educational incidents where troops had to be called out) became a tsunami when people saw, on national television, dogs and hoses being unleashed in Selma, Alabama against demonstrators.
I have a feeling that we have reached, or will reach, another Selma-like point. Or at least I hope so.
It's also interesting to envision how these same people will react with Obama as a successful president who uplifts the country. Will racial prejudice win out of their own well being or will they acknowledge he is making a difference and doing a good job? It would create a huge shift in the mentality of a large population of people.
Sarah Palin: Lester Maddox/Faubus/Wallace with lipstick.
Do you notice that these anti-Obama trolls that have been on the boards in the past are disappearing? Have they seen what is happening with McCain? Remember our lovely Hillary supporters who threatened to only vote for McCain or stay out of the election?
I honestly don't thin Hillary would be this ahead in the polls. I also don't think it would expose the McCain side as much (but there are some very sexist idiots who hate Hillary because fo who she is--she was voted two years ago the most hated woman in the country). Obama really has run an outstanding campaign. He is calm when McCain is not. He does not let the little things get to him. He only attacks McCain when McCain attacks him (the difference at the rallies--McCain is all about Obama and people he has known in his lifetime; Obama is talking policy and ideas). I really think that the democrats made the right choice this time. Yes, there are burps in the road that have made people afraid Obama was the wrong candidate, but in the end Obama held out. Pretty amazing, and I think we will look back and see this campaign as a model for democrats. At this point, unless some huge surprise happens, Obama will win the election.
this sentiment is whipped up weekly at evangelical megachurches throughout this nation. don't kid youselves about the holy rollers. they mean to turn this nation into a theocracy by any means possible.
how any gay man or gay woman could vote with people like this for mccain/palin is beyond me.
BTW, if you go to Free Republic and other sites, they are deluded about the polls. They think typically that the polls are media run lies (almost all the poll organizations are run by Republicans like Zogby and Rasmussen); they think the media is making this up. They completely think that McCain will win in a landslide.
Even the stupid movie American Carol which flopped--they think that it was a huge hit but there is a conspiracy with the tickets (that theaters gave tickets with different movies so that American Carol would have bad numbers). These people are deluded and scary, and just wait until the morning after the election--the hangover is going to be bizarre and terrible for them.
John:
There is only one "SCHMUCK" as you call it in the campaign and it's not Obama.
McCain and Palin are doing nothing short of inciting riots. Bring them to account.
Meanwhile Obama proceeds with dignity and grace hammering home his platform and message.
So how does that make him a schmuck?
I agree, Tex, and I fail to see how Obama could be any more polarizing a figure than Bush has been over the last eight years. John, haven't you been paying attention?
John: Your country has been polarized for the last eight years, with President Bush winning about 50% of the votes each time. It will still be polarized in January, whichever candidate is sworn in. Having said that, though, I think that Obama is more likely to attempt to end the polarization than to attempt to exploit it. McCain (based on how the campaign is being conducted) seems more likely to continue the practice of deploying wedge-issues and scare tactics in order to demonize the half of the country that does not support his party or its policies.
"The notion of and the reality of living with a President named Obama, a black President, is as shocking to many."
So is the idea of thriving gay and lesbian citizens (with full rights). So is the idea of fairness and government intervention in corporate greed machines. So is the idea of a USA that is NOT the "world's cop". So is the idea of representative democracy and not plutocratic trickle-down oligarchies of power elites. All of these things are shocking -- to fools living under rocks. Wake up, America! A black president is here. Change is happening. History is moving forward. Be a part of it -- or rot in your Jesus-ridden trailers.
This message brought to you by a Canadian fag for Obama.
Jesus-ridden trailers....wow.
Harsh.
On a brighter note...Anyone else notice that the IMF collapsed today?
I'm concerned that after Obama gets elected we'll start to see Christianists and various other right-wing knuckledraggers strapping on vests full of explosives and blowing up crowded Starbucks stores or the arugula stand at their local farmers' market. And then Republican lawmakers and their apologists will suddenly decide that maybe the President's tools to fight the War on Domestic Terror — warrantless wiretappping, secret prisons, suspension of habeus corpus, "enhanced interrogation techniques" — aren't so righteous and justified as they once thought.
On the other hand, the vast majority of these simpletons are lazy, easily-distracted blowhards who can barely tie their own shoes, much less figure out how to build an IED, despite their Turner Diaries fantasies. God Bless America!
(p.s. I'm a different John than the one from upthread)
That roar you hear is the Rear Guard of the Old, White America going down for the count, making way for a more diverse and flexible nation. What with the economy and war, we will need all the flexibility we can muster. McSame is not the leader we need and he may actually be waking up to this. He is part of that old social/political/economic elite of this country, no lover of mobs, in fact, terrified of them. Historically it has never been easy, there (Europe/Asia)and most of all here. "May you live in interesting times" Let's hope we survive them...
"The Villager People (in video, think mob) = idiots, not evil geniuses..."
It doesn't take a genius to attempt to assassinate: John Hinckley? L. H. Oswald? Jack Ruby, Timothy McVeigh? Not Mensa.
"If W and Cheney have avoided the business end of a sniper's rifle..."
Cheney had his house taken off Google Earth, will do undisclosed locations indefinitely. This inciting is done by an Alaska woman who knows not the dangers she runs: I'm not making excuses for her, I'm saying she knows the rubes she's whipping up and not the distinct wave it's making in cumulative effect. She'd deny to the tragic end any role in creating a target of Obama.
It worries the shit outta me, and I have only Sadat, Bhutto, and Begnino Aquino, Jr. to go on; I was 6 mo. old when the last happened and see it as an uncomfortable parallel.
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Wow, you're Canadian!? This really IS Coming Out Day!
Dear John McCain and Sarah Palin,
We just wanted to thank you for not only guaranteeing us jobs for the next 4 to 8 years, but also for making those jobs incredibly interesting and exciting. We'd also like to thank you for getting us promoted to more senior positions as a direct result of the increase in personnel we've needed to deal with the results of your 2008 Election Campaign. (Sorry about the outcome, though!)
Our bank accounts and pensions and new co-workers thank you from the bottom of our holsters.
Love,
The Secret Service
Proof positive that no one ever went broke underestamating the stupidity of the American People.
....whispers to ramal.....
"underestimating"
If Obama wins, and I really, really hope he does, we are going to have to deal with all of that crazy militia crap again, just like after Clinton was elected, but much worse. Remember that Helen Chenoweth person?
I'm planning on avoiding most of the country.
Bethlehem PA should be wiped off the map!
I clicked in to David Ehrenstein's blog about veiled threats--yes, David, you may consult the clicker and confirm this, if it serves the point you always have to prove--and reviewed the names of people assassinated in my day.
The list was short--as am I in years and, um, mccain-height, but it finished w/ Sadat and Bhutto; on Wikipedia-ing 'assassination', i saw one that went down when i was n't even (guessing, here) 10 lbs. large. Ninoy Aquino, Jr.
I pulled up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ben...igno_Aquino,_Jr. and did a double-take when I saw his portrait. (Scratch the, um, iconic glasses.)
So my day's been consumed w/ reconciling myself to this non-omen. Shit!!
How ironic that Bethlehem is so filled with hate. Wasnt it named after the birthplace of the Lord?
Wow. You're quick!
Georgie--sorry. Obviously your heart's in the rt. place. Lost in agony over where this seems headed, frankly.
Remember our lovely Hillary supporters who threatened to only vote for McCain or stay out of the election?
I'm still here.
I seem to recall similar behavior by a few of your kind. Threats to vote for the Republicans or stay out of the election in the event HRC won the nomination.
Or have you forgotten? I sure haven't.
A vote for Obama is a vote AGAINST McCain. So fuck off.
Hate breeds hate.
To the McCain campaign -
KARMA'S A BITCH.
These people are a supreme embarrassment to all Pennsylvanians & all Americans.
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