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Racist, Fascist and Lying Their Heads Off

Oct 8 at 2:02pm by Jagwire X

McCain is behind in the polls because he has no real plan for the average citizen and Obama does and anyone that’s paying the least bit of attention knows it.  So how does the McCain campaign react?  Do they get their shit together and come up with a plan other than “the heels are on, the gloves are off?”  No, they don’t, they rely on attacks against their opponent, more and more lying and general fascist attitudes.  It’s become clear now that the McCain/Palin team is composed of and attracts racists and fascists.  There is little doubt about the kind of administration we would get should they get into office.  One that would transform America from the Land of the Free to the Land of the Oppressed.

At this point Sarah “Pit-Bull” Palin’s campaign rallies have apparently degenerated into some sort of neo-nazi pseudo-pogroms against the media and Barack Obama.

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post wrote:

Barack Obama, she told 8,000 fans at a rally here Monday afternoon, “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist!” This followed her earlier accusation that the Democrat pals around with terrorists. “This is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America,” she told the Clearwater crowd. “I’m afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.” The crowd replied with boos.

McCain had said that racially explosive attacks related to Obama’s former pastor, the Rev.Jeremiah Wright, are off limits. But Palin told New York Times columnist Bill Kristol in an interview published Monday: “I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more.”

Worse, Palin’s routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.”

Palin says, “This is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America.”  You’re right Sarah he doesn’t see America the way you see it, he sees it the way our founders saw it.  He sees it as Benjamin Franklin saw it when he wrote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

She goes on to say, “[Obama] is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.”

In February 2008 (long before it even became a “topic” of the McCain campaign), Obama spokesman Bill Burton released a statement from the senator about the relationship between the two: “Senator Obama strongly condemns the violent actions of the Weathermen group, as he does all acts of violence. But he was an eight-year-old child when Ayers and the Weathermen were active, and any attempt to connect Obama with events of almost forty years ago is ridiculous.”

CNN’s review of project records found nothing to suggest anything inappropriate in the non-profit projects in which the two men were involved. Internal reviews by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time magazine, The Chicago Sun-Times, The New Yorker and The New Republic “have said that their reporting doesn’t support the idea that Obama and Ayers had a close relationship”.

That’s a lot of news sources saying the same thing for them to all be wrong.

Oh, and, dear Sarah, your interview with Katie Couric went off so awfully because you are an idiot.  You think the mainstream media is liberal but you are wrong, if anything in their attempt to be impartial they favor the conservatives because of the Right’s over vocal attacks.  In this case I am referring to the fact that if the McCain campaign attacks Obama the media will generally not look into facts but will rather just say, “Oh, well here’s the equivalent attack from the Obama campaign.”  That’s not journalism, that’s equivocation.

Meanwhile rallies that McCain himself attends the crowd is no better.

Greg Sargent from Talking Points Memo writes:

After John McCain delivered the central question of his speech today — “Who is the real Barack Obama?” — the first, and loudest, supporter seems to yell:

“Terrorist!”

McCain listens as his planted crowd member yells terrorist

That’s what John Aravosis and Marc Ambinder heard, and it does sound like it.

Who is the real Barack Obama?  Are you really asking?  Who the fuck is the real John McCain and what have you done with him?

This really pisses me off to no end.  I hate smear tactics, and have no tolerance for people who are so desperate for their power grab that they will sink to these depths, demonstrating their obviously racist bent using typical fascist tactics of scaremongering and party supporters planted in the crowd to whip them into a frenzy.  What will the McCain/Palin campaign October Surprise be?  A black man committing a domestic terror act?