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AMERICAblog: Former McCain aide warns of "angry mob mentality" at McCain/Palin events

  • Sage24 · 1 year ago
    Here is something they should really be angry about, or will they be happy?
    Sarah Palin is palling around with these dirt bags.
    Who really knows Palin? McLame and she keep asking this about Obama, but the joke is, no one really knows about her. At least Obama has been vetted many times throughout the primaries and now the Presidential campaign,
    Palin is the mysterious candidate, who has lied to us from the beginning.
    How long has she been doing this? 5 weeks?

    http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/10/10/pa...
  • Ginger_FL · 1 year ago
    "please find me a swing voter, an undecided independent, or a torn female voter that finds an angry mob mentality attractive.”

    OH SNAP !!!!
  • therepguy · 1 year ago
    If we're ahalf luck the far right, christian, fascist nuts will go off half cocked and expose thenselves for what they are hate filled people looking for a fight!
  • Ginger_FL · 1 year ago
    OT: The dow is below the 8300 floor predicted not to long ago....It's still falling and when it opened, it was down to 7900.

    Ooops...how low will it go......
    See what happens when "wealth" is build on a pile of DEBT.
  • therepguy · 1 year ago
    It could go to "0"

    However we're watching what is called a free fall but the good news is that when the market finds it's finial bottom it will stop and jump back up to it's true bottom which is always greater than it finale bottom after that it will work its way upward again but don't expect the old highs we've come to take for granted.

    In the sexity the market functioned in the 100's and 1,000's were few and far between but folks did make money over time.

    Look for companies with large cash reserves, i.e Apple
  • Apphouse50 · 1 year ago
    Good for Weaver, but the people he's holding responsible frankly don't give a damn.
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    Hmmmm, might I inquire as to where you got that lovely little pix?
  • Apphouse50 · 1 year ago
    Got it in an email, as I recall.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    If I have heard this once, I have heard the pundits say a hundred times "Angry candidates do not win votes" John McCain is an angry man that will do ANYTHING to win. Let's just see if the pundits are right about angry candidates.
  • therepguy · 1 year ago
    I hope so,,,
  • Sage24 · 1 year ago
    Weather Underground prosecuter outraged that Obama is getting attacked from the McShame campaign. Writes letter to NYT.

    Perhaps McShame and Appallin' Palin should get copies?

    http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/ar...
  • therepguy · 1 year ago
    The single most important thing Obama can do is to outlaw direct church involvement in politics & public policy!

    The second thing he can do is to put the fundamentalist's mega-churchs on the tax rolls and tax the living crap out of them!
  • Ginger_FL · 1 year ago
    So does this mean McSame is going to talk about the Economy???

    Like this:
    "Oil prices plummet to a one-year low below $83 a barrel as investor fears of a severe global economic downturn caused by the crisis in credit markets spark a panicked sell-off of both crude and equities."
    http://money.aol.com/

    OH but wait....Gas cost less than 2.80 a year ago...however my local stations are charging 3.19 ??
    hhmmmm

    OPEC to have an "Emergency Meeting" to discuss cutting production
    http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/...
    http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/10/co...

    they already cut production by 500,000.....
    Never mind...nothing to see here....
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    It's possible that McCain's going so negative because he knows he's NOT going to win, and this is his "scorched earth" exit... a giant F U to the USA that he "didn't really love until he was a POW"... a huge, destructive, tantrum played out on the national stage... making it harder for "that one" to pull people together after the election...
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    This type of behavior of inciting violence is close to illegal, but I suppose no one will do anything unless an act of sheer hate is committed. Let us all hope and pray that the cooler minds of the GOP & Dems can persuade an out of control campaign to calm down (or else).
  • Ginger_FL · 1 year ago
    http://www.crooksandliars.com/john-amato/what-h...

    Watch the video.....Where is Geraldo??? He used to investigate people affiliated with hate groups....
  • JMOHR · 1 year ago
    We are seeing the Republican party for what it truly is. A party of hatred, narrow mindedness and bigotry. There is no middle ground, there is no compromise and there is no tolerance. Republicans are inherently evil. We have seen this building for years. We saw it with the mocking of Dukakis. We saw it with the persecution of Bill Clinton. We saw it with the destruction of Al Gore and John Kerry as presidential candidates.

    How many times have you seen Republican conventions that center around calling Democrats traitors, un-American and unworthy of even a voice in the public square? How often have you seen bigotry and racism used as primary selling points for a Republican candidate? How often have you seen the name of God taken in vain as a mere political slogan and justification for imposition of a radical regime?

    Now we see the evolution of this fear, hatred and loathing into a movement more akin to the Brown Shirts of the Nazi Party. It is a time to end the Republican party. It is time to arrest their leaders as traitors and see them tried, imprisoned or executed in accordance with their crimes.
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    I'm watching a SNL outtake about McCranky talking about how he crosses Party lines. LOL, right, isn't that what he's doing now?
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    The unthinkable

    The saddest thing about many Republicans isn't just that they disagree with liberals on race--it's they are largely ignorant on race. When the McCain campaign cast the spell of diabolical jingoism, they have no idea of the forces they are toying with. We remember Martin Luther King's murder as a sad and tragic event. Less remembered is the fact that ground-work for King's murder was seeded, not simply by rank white supremacy, but by people who slandered King as a communist.

    This was not some notion bandied about by conspiracy theorist, but an accusation proffered by men who were the pillars of the modern Republican Party:

    http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives...
  • scytherius · 1 year ago
    So very well said.
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    I'm an INDEPENDENT and I find everything McCain has done thus far to be disgraceful and running the very lowest type of campaign I have ever witnessed.

    How's that for a positive response from McCain's actions?
  • hrh · 1 year ago
    Speaking of incitement to violence, this is an 8-min video tirade in which a black preacher repeatedly trashes Obama's mother and father. Is this a product (or sanctioned) by the McShame campaign? The very fact this video exists stuns me. Decide for yourself.

    http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/ndnr09-03-08.html
  • Spunky_Jitters · 1 year ago
    Similar thread as below - and Cowboyneok has an excellent suggestion there so I will not take credit for it- find your local Secret Service and tell them you are alarmed at the mob mentality and Angry McGrumpypants and Betty Boop should tone it down. Inciting a crowd to asssasinate a senator is illegal, I am pretty sure. Find you local office and call them NOW -

    http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/field_offices.shtml

    Off topic-I laugh when I think of all the bigots out there who would never vote for a black man but would also never vote for a woman. They must be pretty conflicted people right about now! I guess that is why they had to turn Betty Boop into a sex symbol. I hope they just stay home and suck their thumbs on election day.
  • High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago
    Ok, I need to speak up on this issue. As most of you know i have advocated a mob type of mentality to change our government. Becasue it is my contention that things will not change with your vote. We have sen this time and again, where our interests in how we govern are not met. There are many of us who are angry and we are angry for the right reasons. I don't need to go into the reasons why here, surly you all know why.

    But I think the we we finally realize the full ramification of the bush crime family via death and destruction, it is reasonable to be pissed off and angry. The mob mentality should be directed at those who have done this country wrong. The American people have not risen up to do so. We have not had a million citizenry march to Washington demanding "redress"; Demanding our say in how we govern ourselves. So while the repukes have a misplaced rage, and are told to "tone" it down. It is in my belief, that this meme to tone it down is a way to say to the American people, hey don't get angry, just vote..... which of course has really gotten us no where in the two party system.
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    there's a difference in what you're advocating and what the McCain campaign is inciting... I think it's the difference between a relatively peaceful revolution with well defined goals / targets ... and a raging mob that will destroy everything in it's path...

    the latter is what McCain's going to get if they keep it up.
  • High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago
    I understand that.

    As noted the REPUKES have a misdirected anger. It will bite them in the ass, hopefully.

    I deplore anyone who incites violence on an individual person/group (ie. the cameraman)

    I would bet that if a million citizen march were to happen towards Washington, we would see some scared ass politicians, running for the hills.
  • slappymagoo · 1 year ago
    Problem with your theory is, your one blaming one set of people (I'm gonna assume the same people *I'm* blaming) but McCain/Palin are convincing their base that Obama and Dems are solely responsilbe not only for the economic mess, but predicting that we as a nation will go soft on terrorism because Obama is in league with terrorists. Mob mentality only ever seems like a good idea when you agree with mob, ya know?
  • Laur · 1 year ago
    It worries me that a camera guy who is black was assaulted at Palin's rally in CA. This is truly frightening. When people in the MOB start yelling for the death of Obama and Palin does nothing to discourage this sort of reaction, it is clear that she condones it. Same with McShame, who has taken up the tenuous Ayers association as an issue, but didn't have the cojones to discuss it in the debate, face to face with his opponent.
    McCain and Palin are cowards. You betcha!
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    Exactly.....for all McFraud's describing of himself as bi-partisan he can't even look his opponent in the eye at a debate.....nor say it to his face...

    Joe Biden said it yesterday:

    "In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it ...."
  • therepguy · 1 year ago
    We all need to have long memoies when she tries to run in 4 years.
  • slappymagoo · 1 year ago
    Stop your typical liberal exaggerating. It wasn't a black camera guy. It was a black sound operator. And that...you know...makes all the...difference?
  • Laur · 1 year ago
    I stand corrected--he was a sound operator. But I believe that the salient point was the fact that he was not there to do anything but his job, which was to record the vice-presidential candidate's appearance before her supporters.

    Typical liberal exaggerating? Maybe on your planet.
  • slappymagoo · 1 year ago
    Once again my attempts at Colbertian levels of dry sarcasm go
    unrewarded. That's why he gets the big bucks and I don't.
  • Joneses · 1 year ago
    FACT: The McCain/Palin camp are instilling civil unrest on prue lies! If innocent people get bodily hurt by this bullshit I will blame the GOP!

    And this will be a criminal act. Rove, Bushco, Cheney, McCain, Palin, etc all need to go to jail!
  • therepguy · 1 year ago
    One of the reasons that the republican are pressing so hard is the fact that they all fear Obama letting the legal dogs of war loose and going after bush and company... not to mention McCain and comapny!

    Even at this late date I still favor impeachment!
  • Ginger_FL · 1 year ago
    In case you missed my post below...
    Check out the hate mongers at this McGrampy rally....

    http://www.crooksandliars.com/john-amato/what-h...
  • Polly_Tics · 1 year ago
    -------------------------OT-----------------------------

    Chris Buckley Endorses Obama!

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/...

    This is simply delicious!
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    OH for god's sake. Just read this on CNN ticker. McCain has a new ad out addressing Obama's (get ready) BLIND AMBITION. Obama's blind ambition??????? This just makes me want to puke in view of McCain's campaign.


    ""Obama's blind ambition. When convenient, he worked with terrorist Bill Ayers. When discovered, he lied. Obama. Blind ambition. Bad judgment," the ad's narrator says."
  • EmGD · 1 year ago
    What's he have to warn about? It's all they have left, it's been their modus operandi for the past week and will be their sole strategy for the next 4. The Republican party has lived off some form of it for over a decade. Perhaps he should have warned in the mid-nineties.

    http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
  • slappymagoo · 1 year ago
    Hey, John,

    I rarely if ever try to address guys like you, who run sites like this, directly. I'm usually of the opinion you're kinda busy. But if anyone who can give an idea like this traction, it's you:

    I think it's time to ask some point-blank questions to guys like Limbaugh & Hannity and O'Reilly, not to mention McCain and Palin.

    In your opinion, IS Barack Obama a terrorist? Or at the very least, a terrorist sympathizer? After all, they're talking about him "pallin' around" with Ayres, that sounds, at the very least, like an implication that he's a terrorist sympathizer to me.

    If you think Barack IS aterorist or sympathizer...well, shouldn't we kill him? I mean, isn't that what we're supposed to DO in this war on terror? Protect our way of life by any means necessary? Why is McCain even on a STAGE with a terrorist? Why isn't he sneaking a knife in his pants to take out thie terrorist threat once and for all?

    Seems to me like there's no one way or the other. IF Obama's a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer, he should be dealt with as such. And if Hannity or Limbaugh or O'Reilly or any of their lessers can't bring themselves around to say it, well, then...why can't they bring themselves around to say it? I'll hazard a guess: THEY DON'T THINK OBAMA'S A TERRORIST! And if they don't think Obama's a terrorist, then I think they should have no problem devoting, oh, 20 seconds of their respective programs to say Obama's not a terrorist, and no harm should come to him. They should be part of the solution to let cooler heads prevail.

    And if they don't want to be part of that solution, well, then I guess their silence implies that they DO think Obama's a terrorist. That should go over really well with the undecideds, don't you think?

    Look, the right likes to throw everyone who's NOT part of the right together. We're all commie/homo/terrorist/Islamofascists/athiests/babykillers/traitors/ and on and on. It's part of their cute li'l hate-filled tribe, and the names they hurl at us are practically interchangeable, all synonymous with "UnAmerican." 95% of the dill holes on those youtube videos saying Obama's a Muslim and a terorist probably don't believe it any more than I believe McCain is a robot, but they think it's all part of the fun of an election year, to dehumanize your opponent. But it's that whacked out 5% I worry about, as I'm sure we all do. They need to hear, from the very pundits upon whose altars they worship, that Obama's a guy they disagree with poltiically, not a threat, not a terrorist, not someone to be used for target practice. And if they can't bring themselves to say it, then they're pretty much admitting all the awful things we on the left have come to assume about them.
  • Laur · 1 year ago
    Curious that there's not enough focus on Palin's AIP associations, considering that she's very supportive of them, they've been very supportive of her & that her husband was a member of this seccessionist organization for 7 years.

    I thought that whole issue was settled at Appomatox Courthouse in April, 1865.

    But she goes on about "America First".

    Some US Nazi-sympathizers belonged to a party called "America First" in the 30's & 40's. When it became unpopular in the US, they generally threw in with conservative Republicans & hoped that nobody would notice. I guess that Palin's clarion call is their Judgment Day call to rise again.
  • RonTunning · 1 year ago
    Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin are dangerous. They've moved beyond being mere liars and crooks to stoking violence and fascism.

    In viewing this video I was immediately reminded of film clips I've seen of Hitler's Brown Shirts. McCain is intentionally appealing to peoples' most base fears and prejudices, inciting hatred and creating an incendiary atmosphere that borders on treasonous.

    One can only hope that wiser heads in the Republican Party exert pressure on McCain to halt his destructive campaign before it erupts into tragedy. Otherwise, all Republicans will be held responsible for the acts and behavior of these frightened people fueled by the inflammatory rhetoric of the leaders of their party.

    Send a link (http://laconiademocrats.blogspot.com/2008/10/mc...) to this to your family, friends and neighbors, whether they be Democrats, Republicans or Independents. We must stop McCain's and Palin's assault on civility and the rule of law and encouragement of a mob mentality.
  • TomaHawk · 1 year ago
    The candidates are accompanied at all events by their Secret Service security team. Don't these agents have the responsibility to act in the event of threats against any of the candidates? At the least, any of the nuts should be subject to a few minutes of a lecture on the law from any of the agents who witnesses it. It doesn't make any difference whether the threat is to the candidate the agent is assigned to or to any of the other three. If the agents don't, aren't they failing to do their duty?
  • Milli · 1 year ago
    The angry, racist, mob mentality is an attempt to keep African Americans away from the polls.