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Racist and Ignorant McCain/Palin Supporters in Ohio

Oct 10 at 11:11am by Jagwire X

I ran across a couple of interesting blog posts in which some enterprising bloggers (Blogger Interrupted and BlueOhioan) got their cameras out and asked people standing in line for a McCain Palin rally in Ohio what they thought about Barack Obama, John McCain and Sarah Palin.  It’s truly scary. I don’t mean like kind of scary like Halloween, I mean really truly terrifying like Nazi Germany.

From Blogger Interrupted:

It’s no wonder that the slightest incitement from Sarah Palin or John McCain will turn one of their rallies into a lynch mob.  Just talk to the folks who attend.

My camera was rolling for literally seconds before people happily said to me, on camera, that Barack Obama is a terrorist.  If I hadn’t spent most of my time at the event inside, waiting for the candidates to show up, I could have gotten dozens of these people on tape.

The McCain-Palin mob in Strongsville, Ohio

Anthony Fossaceca of BlueOhioan:

These people will stop at nothing to further spread the lies and hate that surround that campaign. Bill Ayers, Osama bin Laden, Muslim terrorists, Hamas, PLO, Arab - all things we heard in connection to Barack Obama in yesterday’s crowd line at the Strongsville McCain rally.

Hate First

The one of the things that strikes me in these videos is how ill-informed these people are, and how hateful.  These people want John McCain and Sarah Palin in office because it will allow their magnificently tiny worlds to go on existing in their heads.  I got news for you people, the future is coming and you my sad pathetic creatures are the dinosaurs.

The other thing that really gets me is how these people just seem to think that, well, how well do we really know Barack Obama? And I think, how well do you really know John McCain?

Well, let me tell you, he known to be unethical. He cheated on his first wife (who was disabled due to a car accident in 1969) with his soon to be second wife, he was involved in the Savings and Loan Scandal in the 1980’s and was known as one of the Keating Five. I don’t care that he’s expressed remorse for these acts - it shows that he is capable of them and reflects on his character.  The fact that John McCain is veteran of the Vietnam War and was a POW does nothing to bolster my faith in him.  I’ve know a lot of ‘nam veterans and everyone one of them is unstable and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.  That doesn’t mean they aren’t war heroes and it doens’t mean their bad people but if we need a “steady hand at the tiller” then John McCain certainly isn’t it.

McCain and Palin’s allegations toward Barack Obama are, if you bother to look at the facts, completely unfounded, and are being used to create a boogey-man out of Obama.  To his credit Obama has remained very steady and unlike McCain has stayed focused on the issue which is what you as citizens should really care about!

There seems to be a strange attraction to the right wing of the political eagle in this country of the very wealthy and the ignorant despite the rather large gap between the two.  It’s as if being a dumbass has now become some sort of badge of honor for the right.  This is something I am going to have to write about in a follow up post, so be on the look out for that.