In recent days, John McCain and Sarah Palin have had to turn up the rhetoric against Barack Obama as they fall behind in the polls. Since last Saturday, attacks on William Ayers ties to Obama and on Obama's inexperience have been the norm in McCain and Palin rallies. Additional news was also made by McCain and Palin supporters, who were caught on tape saying frightening things about Obama. McCain received criticism for not responding to those angry supporters, but he tried to make up for it in a rally yesterday.
In recent days, a few McCain supporters have yelled out "terrorist" to describe Obama and one even used the phrase "kill him" in one rally. Even a recent senate debate in Georgia had a woman shouting "bomb Obama" in the background, according to MSNBC's Countdown.
In a town hall meeting with supporters in Minnesota yesterday, McCain actually talked to some of these more hysterical fans, which he didn't do during rallies this past week. It all started when McCain talked to a man who said that he would be scared to bring up a child in an Obama administration.
Though this attack was not as inflammatory as the previous ones made by McCain fans, McCain was far quicker to respond. He rebuked the comment by saying that Obama was "a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as President of the United States," according to FOX News.
For this defense, many supporters in the rally gave a string of boos.
A female supporter later asked McCain a question while also saying that Obama was an Arab, a common attack against Obama as he is suspected of being a "secret Muslim." McCain had to grab the microphone from the woman and defend Obama again, saying he is a "decent family man" and not a Muslim.
Other McCain fans urged him to say the facts about Obama and to go to "the mattress" with him in the final Presidential debate next week.
In recent days, a few McCain supporters have yelled out "terrorist" to describe Obama and one even used the phrase "kill him" in one rally. Even a recent senate debate in Georgia had a woman shouting "bomb Obama" in the background, according to MSNBC's Countdown.
In a town hall meeting with supporters in Minnesota yesterday, McCain actually talked to some of these more hysterical fans, which he didn't do during rallies this past week. It all started when McCain talked to a man who said that he would be scared to bring up a child in an Obama administration.
Though this attack was not as inflammatory as the previous ones made by McCain fans, McCain was far quicker to respond. He rebuked the comment by saying that Obama was "a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as President of the United States," according to FOX News.
For this defense, many supporters in the rally gave a string of boos.
A female supporter later asked McCain a question while also saying that Obama was an Arab, a common attack against Obama as he is suspected of being a "secret Muslim." McCain had to grab the microphone from the woman and defend Obama again, saying he is a "decent family man" and not a Muslim.
Other McCain fans urged him to say the facts about Obama and to go to "the mattress" with him in the final Presidential debate next week.
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Tommy
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10/13/2008
One could confuse the McCain campaign and especially it supporters with terrorist, ar! delicious irony.
Even though I am horrified at the turn the McCain/Palin campaign has taken and have supported Obama from the beginning (I always vote Democrat), I am trying to give McCain the benefit of doubt. Maybe it really was his genuine decency (which I hope is still in there somewhere) that caused him to finally defend Obama, albeit belatedly. I used to think McCain was a decent guy, but it's like his loss to W in 2000 crushed him and caused him to believe that he had to engage in Rove-style politics in order to win. But he doesn't really have the stomach for it, which is why he hasn't exactly been Mr. Congeniality lately. And he doesn't want to be responsible for something happening to Obama. I'd hate to think that someone who has basically been an honorable person might be remembered for such dishonorable things, even if much of this current mess (this current mess being his campaign and the way it's being run) is of his own making.
Good reporting.
The real Joh McCain Has Emerged
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10/11/2008
Perhaps the reality of something happening to Obama hit him. This man is a father to two children and a respected member of congress.
It is an unspoken fear that I am sure Mrs. Obama has nightmares about. GOD FORBID if something did happen. If the hateful rhetoric of the McCain champagne fueled that, Mr. McCain could go down in history not as the hero he is, but as an accessory to a unspeakable event.
The video of him saying Obama is "a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as President of the United States" is also on CNN and other sites. When a woman called Obama an "Arab" and noted her fear, McCain would not support that, either. People actually booed him, people in his own party, who'd come out to hear him speak.
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