Memo to McCain: It is your rhetoric talks in the rally that your own campaign staff is trafficking in the idiots and not taking personal responsibility makes your campaign appeared to be breeding more racism and hatred into this campaign race .
Recapping from the New York Times:
"I think there have been quite a few reporters recently who have sort of implied, or made more than implications, that somehow we’re responsible for the occasional nut who shows up and yells something about Barack Obama," Mr. McCain’s closest adviser, Mark Salter, said. "We’re not."
Recapping from the New York Times:
"I think there have been quite a few reporters recently who have sort of implied, or made more than implications, that somehow we’re responsible for the occasional nut who shows up and yells something about Barack Obama," Mr. McCain’s closest adviser, Mark Salter, said. "We’re not."
The problem for McCain--and the nation--is that McCain's campaign message now systematically encourages voters to believe that Obama is secretly something awful.
Scherer quite correctly points out that:
As it stands, McCain's effort to paint Obama as awful appears to be stirring up widespread racial, religious and xenophobic prejudices which are not acceptable.
As it stands, McCain's effort to paint Obama as awful appears to be stirring up widespread racial, religious and xenophobic prejudices which are not acceptable.
In additon, Karen Tumulty at Time reports:
With so much at stake, and time running short, [Virginia Republican Party Chairman Jeff] Frederick did not feel he had the luxury of subtlety. He climbed atop a folding chair to give 30 campaign volunteers who were about to go canvassing door to door their talking points — for instance, the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden: "Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon," he said. "That is scary." It is also not exactly true — though that distorted reference to Obama's controversial association with William Ayers, a former 60s radical, was enough to get the volunteers stoked. "And he won't salute the flag," one woman added, repeating another myth about Obama. She was quickly topped by a man who called out, "We don't even know where Senator Obama was really born." Actually, we do; it's Hawaii.
With so much at stake, and time running short, [Virginia Republican Party Chairman Jeff] Frederick did not feel he had the luxury of subtlety. He climbed atop a folding chair to give 30 campaign volunteers who were about to go canvassing door to door their talking points — for instance, the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden: "Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon," he said. "That is scary." It is also not exactly true — though that distorted reference to Obama's controversial association with William Ayers, a former 60s radical, was enough to get the volunteers stoked. "And he won't salute the flag," one woman added, repeating another myth about Obama. She was quickly topped by a man who called out, "We don't even know where Senator Obama was really born." Actually, we do; it's Hawaii.
Finally, on Saturday morning, a pastor giving the invocation for McCain at a rally in Iowa, said the following: "I also would also pray, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their god--whether it's Hindu, Buddha, Allah--that [McCain's] opponent wins, for a variety of reasons." This is dangerous stuff. Need anyone be reminded, Obama is a practicing Christian.
There you have it. A nutty campaign with a nutty agenda trafficking occassional nuts in their rallies.
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