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McCain's Chilling Dance With the Dark Side

US Politics & Gov't (tags: mccain, Govtfearmongering, dishonesty, lies, corruption, candidates, republicans, crime, ethics, propaganda )

- 39 days ago - voices.washingtonpost.com

This past week, by ginning up an anger and resentment on the campaign trail that should leave all with a cold chill running through their bodies, McCain has shown neither presidential temperament nor character.

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Past Member (0)

Friday October 10, 2008, 12:02 pm
the yard signs in this article are more than just disturbing -it's hate. ignorance at it's highest extreme. the works of the prince, the power, and ruler of the air -HaSatan.

Louise L. (41)

Friday October 10, 2008, 2:33 pm
McCain is very C-R-E-E-P-Y. Maybe for Halloween he can be himself...thanks, Mae.

Margi L. (87)

Friday October 10, 2008, 4:02 pm
Great - McCain has won the endorsement of the the NRA, KKK & Neo Nazi's. That should tell people something right there. He is a man of the past, a past we would all like to forget. Certainly not the person to lead us into the future.

Blue Bunting (794)

Saturday October 11, 2008, 8:36 am
At what point do people realize how crazy things are? Republicans are whipped into a frenzy.

John McCain showed respectable constraint. I wonder how calculated it was. I wonder if his campaign staff are discussing the long term impact of running a campaign that goes this far in vilifying non-Republicans?

Republicans have convinced themselves that they are under siege. The language they're using is as strong as I've ever heard, and it isn't about the promotion of American values, it is about the defense of the American way of life from an internal enemy. Whether or not it is explicit in these campaign speeches, the message being taken away by Republicans is that those of us who aren't Republicans are fighting a cultural war against white heterosexuals, Christians, and Jews, and that we are collaborating to make ourselves rich by creating economic turmoil.

The videos from Ohio and Pennsylvania are not of individuals gathering around a common idea, they are a mob gathering around a common enemy. And, they're lashing out at their neighbors. Not objects. Not property. At people. There's a difference between schadenfreude and sadism.

Republicans aren't wishing their enemies trivial misfortune, they're wishing them dead.

How does this not call for alarm?