So let me get this straight. The man who attacked her was black and very passionate about Barack? Big fuckin surprise!![]()
Despite your strong language, I disagree. There is plenty of gray in analyzing violent actions of candidate's supporters. If McCain and Palin are trying to paint Obama as essentially a terrorist or, at the least, a terrorist supporter, and saying that he will bring down America with his socialist policies (it's called red-baiting), etc., etc., and he and Palin do little to calm rally attendees who cry out "Kill him!" and "Off with his head!" during the rally (it's easily audible), then that lends some tacit support to those who are going to "patriotically" attempt to tackle the problem and work to eliminate the threat, be it by targeting Obama, targeting Obama supporters, targeting liberals generally, or even executing bizarre plans to make Obama and his supporters look like violent street thugs.
If you keep crying out (in essence) "Who will save our country from this secretive man of strange background who is "pals" with terrorists?" then is it REALLY a surprise if people get violent?
(No, it isn't.)
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So let me get this straight. The man who attacked her was black and very passionate about Barack? Big fuckin surprise!![]()
Pssst....you might wanna read the rest of the thread. There was no attacker, black, white or green.
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You missed it.She made it all up.No one attacked her, she just said a black guy attacked her the little racist bitch lol.
and he and Palin do little to calm rally attendees who cry out "Kill him!" and "Off with his head!" during the rally (it's easily audible)...
There we go with the "kill him" and "off with his head" where is this on audio?? the secret service looked into this and there was nothing!
lol, I just read the quoted part in the first post. Well then, as you were. :hatsoff:
Sorry, you just landmined yourself into POST OF THE YEARor NOOB OF THE YEAR (take your pick:glugglug
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First off. Not to gloat or anything. But.....
SHE MADE THAT SHIT UP!
In ya face!:thefinger
Second, in respose to AFA. When I said this story would "stir some shit up", I wasn't implying that I didn't think that the attacker, if there really was one (which there wasn't), shouldn't be apprehended and prosecuted. I just meant that this was a story that would spark some heated debate. Which it has.
There we go with the "kill him" and "off with his head" where is this on audio?? the secret service looked into this and there was nothing!
People get excited from both camps and what they do is their FAULT! that's the problem in this country it is always someone else's fault. I got fat because McDonalds made me eat big macs, I hate Britney Spears because she dropped her kids, I love Birtney because she came out with a new hit song, people do what they do because at they let themselves get instigated so then they are not held responsible.
Did you forget when McCain corrected that old lady for saying what she said about Barack? Or where has anyone said anything agaisnt the attacks today towards Cindy McCain and Sarah Palin in Denver Colorado?
McCain example
MSNBC clip about the "hate" at McCain/Palin rallies
Both of you are right and both of you are wrong (sort of? :dunno
These comments ARE being made, there is no question about that, but it's not like McCain is just sitting there and doing nothing about it. I don't like McCain, but I do give him a lot credit for addressing the problem. IMO, this is one of the most heated elections that I can remember, mostly due to Barack Obama being black. I will also give credit to both parties for being classy enough to not bring race into the election.
Enough with the Limbaugh talking points. Politicians can get people charged up, and their words can legitimize the feelings that people might not otherwise feel free to express. And then people lose any sense of restraint.
Case in point, see here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081025...ght_attacks;_ylt=AtRo6zPAvGgtDoLqjzAKx7p34T0D
"Steve Strang, publisher of Charisma magazine, a Pentecostal publication, titled one of his recent weekly e-mails to readers, "Life As We Know It Will End If Obama is Elected.""
No, sorry, I actually don't think McCain deserves very much credit at all for correcting a woman who was just spewing some patently false disinformation that likely came from some bigoted source. She stupidly said, right in front of McCain, that Obama's an "Arab". Wrong - (DUH!) See, the dumber elements of his base took his and Palin's hints and winks and nudges and just ran with them, probably thinking that that was what the purpose of such talk all along. McCain was simply confronted directly with the results of his "Who is this strange man?" smear tactic. Nobody knows, according to McCain, so why not just let the knuckle-draggers fill in the blanks with whatever they want?
Yes, okay, I give him a LITTLE credit. He did stop her cold and say that Obama's a good family man, yada, yada, yada, but what choice did he have? It was either that or get folks going with a cheer for "Kill the Arab Muslims who Hate America and Seek to Destroy It!" He also seemed to accept the real heart of the old lady's argument - that being an Arab is, NECESSARILY, a bad thing.
Had he corrected her the way Colin Powell suggested he should have, he would have got a lot more respect points from me....
.....But as stated a gazillion million times people are what they wanna be and do want they want to do. What are you afraid of from a McCain rally? a bunch of senior citizens in their hoveraround chairs chasing B.O and beat him to death with their canes or bitting him with their dentures till he screams "uncle"?
With all due respect to Mr. Powell, perharps he should have run the campaign. It is always easy analized if other people fucked up or did not said enough according to us and come and say "well I could have done better"
Your views are like water and mine are like oil, they don't mix well, but mine always come on top...just messing with you