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Anger Still Reigns at McCain/Palin Rallies

US Politics & Gov't (tags: mccain, palin, republicans, corruption, ethics, crime, Govtfearmongering, politics, elections, candidates, propaganda )

- 39 days ago - washingtonpost.com

Election Day is just a few weeks away and people in the crowd at McCain-Palin rallies are more and more often heard shouting political slurs at Obama and insulting the media.

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Blue Bunting (794)

Friday October 10, 2008, 3:11 pm
McCain and Palin are both always SO VERY ANGRY ... it's reflected in those who surround them; they are COMFORTABLE being ANGRY.

We need a calm, steady hand on the tiller in these troubled times.

McCain and Palin are not suitable to serve in public office.

Roseann Dudrick (33)

Friday October 10, 2008, 5:01 pm
ironic how Palin whips up the crowd on "who is obama?" from the one who arrived on the scene 5 weeks ago and is an unpatriotic, unamerican seccessionist. How about this slogan, Want to Lose Alaska as a state? Vote McCain Palin. American's unAmerican Sweetheart.

Blue Bunting (794)

Saturday October 11, 2008, 8:33 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?