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AMERICAblog: THIS JUST IN: Erratic McCain issues two statements defending supporters who want to assassinate Obama

  • Eric on the Beach · 1 year ago
    Way to go John M. (not John A.) for being the sleaziest, dirtiest politician. I've never liked John McCain, but what he has become is disgustingly awful.
  • imjussayin · 1 year ago
    If McCain wants to concede the election, why doesn't he just say so?
  • gwpriester · 1 year ago
    This is ugly. And there has to be a law against inciting violence which is precisely what these two "maverics" cum bigots are doing.

    The only thing that is going to stop this hate speech is for the public to become outraged and demand a stop to it.
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    There is a law against threatening the president, other major politicians and has been held to be against the law to threaten to kill political opponents in an election. When that filthy southern bigoted senator, Jesse Helms, threatened to kill Bill Clinton if he showed his face on a military base in his state, that was actually a serious prosecutable crime. Similarly, when an admiral threatened to keel haul Clinton for being a fag lover, he also should have been arrested and sent to jail. These are ... were crimes and would be enforced severely if the Damnocrats had threatened Republicans, but of course, the Damnocrats are too cowardly to enforce the law on the Republicans.
  • AdrianBrowne · 1 year ago
    Someone needs to tell the Republicans that if Obama wins that they won't have to hide in secret attics behind hidden doors.
  • djny10003 · 1 year ago
    I think you should post them! McCain and Palin are about 2 weeks away from leading chants of "white power!"

    Why is there not a bigger fuss about the Alaska Independence Party? Would President Palin make a deal with North Korea that they could bomb WA, OR or CA if they leave AK alone?
  • samiinh · 1 year ago
    I lost all respect for John M. when I saw the pictures of him embracing George W. Bush.
  • PeteWa · 1 year ago
    McCain, you dumb fucking piece of shit, you are playing with fire.
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    So, if someone does attempt to assassinate Obama, will the Damnocrats insist that McCain be charged and prosecuted with being an accessory, accomplice and co-conspirator? Ha ha! Don't make me laugh! If they succeed, my guess is the Republicans will declare McCain won the election and the Damnocrats will say:

    Puk! Puk! Puk! Puk! Puk!
    Puuuuuuuukkkkkkkk!
    Puk! Puk! Puk!
  • PeteWa · 1 year ago
    Your stupidity has reached epic proportions.
  • Styve · 1 year ago
    Anyone find links for these comments, because google yielded little?

    Must be that Ambien high he's feelin', Charlie!!
  • shrrrr · 1 year ago
    Hint: Check out Huffington
  • naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago
    Sully has it too.
  • Kcunac · 1 year ago
    Anybody ever think Sarah Palin is just so uncomplicated (that's liberal media elite for stupid) that she just thinks this is all the most fun she's had since she shot a wildlife from a helicopter?
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    McCain just now in Lakeville, MN saying Obama is a good and decent man and lets have a respectful campaign.....but that Palin has yet to do say so..(per Wolf Blitzer)

    Also in this regard:

    In the face of deepening U.S. financial catastrophe that is quickly spreading worldwide, U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman said Friday that he will pull all his negative advertising from television, print and radio and disavow any interest group ads that attack his opponents.

    The turnaround comes amid the harshest, most costly Senate campaign in the country, in which Coleman and Franken have aired biting attacks on one another's character, temperament and records.

    Coleman's statement came just hours before presidential candidate John McCain, whose own campaign ads have gone almost entirely negative, was scheduled to appear at a town hall-style campaign stop in Lakeville.

    Coleman said he would not join McCain because he was going to spend the afternoon on ensuring that negative ads went down ....

    http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/30750...
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    If the Republicans want to maintain ANY seats in congress they have to start moving AWAY from McCain / Palin... that's what Coleman is doing... I think there are some folks in their party that see where McCain / Palin are going with their "rallies" and that's something they don't want to be associated with... look in the next week or so for Repubs running for election / re-election to start disowning their party's presidential ticket...
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    If the Republicans want to maintain ANY seats in congress they have to start moving AWAY from McCain / Palin

    Yeah, but they should have done that 8 years ago, and never elected Bush/Cheney. Actually, Bush/Cheney usurped the office as Gore won and didn't have the guts to contest the corrupt results.
  • Eyeball_Kid · 1 year ago
    Coleman's a lying sack of excrement. He's getting away from McCain because he sees doing so as part of a strategy to gain on his approval numbers. Now he's running against McCain as well as Franken. Franken is tying Coleman to the extreme right wing of the Republican Party, and referencing Bush and McCain whenever possible. It's smart politics because it's true and it resonates with the voters. Coleman has to monitor the negative ad situation? Hah. Give me a break. Coleman is running away from McCain as fast as he can in order to save his skin, and the coward can't admit the obvious.
  • scottinsf · 1 year ago
    We knew this was coming. It's desperation mode from the repuglicans and amazingly enough I think most people are paying attention in spite of the mainstream media's biased "reporting". I have a guarded optimism that this is going to backfire on McShame big time. It's our job here on the progressive blogs and other online sites to force the MSM to report the facts and create visibility on the issues the corrupt traditional media won't touch.

    One thing is certain. This election, coupled with the economic crisis, is forcing America to face some serious questions about what direction we take from here. Racial minority issues, GLBT issues, class issues; these are all coming to a boil like I've never seen in my life. I hold out faith we'll ultimately head the right direction but it sure is ugly getting there.
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    We knew this was coming.

    It will get worse yet as McCain and his campaign is saving the worst for last. My guess is that he will show up in the last week wearing six guns, ordering his followers to shoot the N----- and whip out the six guns and start firing them off. I hope he has enough functional brain cells left to have the guns loaded with blanks when he starts firing. If Palin should accidentally shoot someone, she can, of course, claim she was homesick thought she saw a moose and was hungry for mooseburger.
  • Soaplady57 · 1 year ago
    Does anyone know where this happened at and exactly, what was said??? I can't believe this happened. I am really surprised that there are no places sited but then maybe it is coming??
  • sherifffruitfly · 1 year ago
    I need a transcript, please.
  • Milli · 1 year ago
    me too. I'm not having luck on the google.
  • minik · 1 year ago
    I fail to see how not publishing news like this is helpful to anyone. If this is true it needs to be printed.

    Why would you want to hide something that is so damning to the GOP?
  • ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago
    I'm guessing these "angry McCain supporters" must be racists who flat out can't deal with the probability that they will soon have a black president, no? Add to that their personal panic over losing retirement moneys.
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    Maybe this is like the video of the Kill Him moment, this does not exist either.
  • nikto · 1 year ago
    I predict McCain will not live long past this election--maybe a few months or so, perhaps a year?

    He will die a broken, disgraced man who threw away everything he supposedly "believed in" to try to win the Presidency.

    Deep down inside, he knows he is vile scum who believes in NOTHING.

    He will lose the will to live and fade away fast.

    Or, he may even take his own life.


    John Mccain's life will not end happily, and his life will be seen to have concluded on a tragic note.

    The man essentially died in 2000, IMO.
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    MCCAIN CAMP DEFENDS THE BEHAVIOR

    http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/...
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    This whole story is BS and is a waste of electrons and my time. I feel played.
  • scottinsf · 1 year ago
    What is BS? That the McCain campaign put out these two releases defending their obnoxious followers or that it's even being reported on?
  • Fireblazes(cheetohsandcatfood) · 1 year ago
    I would tell you what I was alluding to but my comment would be against the terms of service. Lets just say I believe that the John McCain story is valid and enlightening. Other aspects of its appearance here are less valid.
  • ms elyse · 1 year ago
    Thank you for posting this. I was looking everywhere. This is utterly disgusting.
  • minik · 1 year ago
    what was the reason exactly for not just linking to this in the main post? Failing to see the point to that here after reading it.
  • Milli · 1 year ago
    Instigating hatred against the likely winner, Bush throwing Posse Comitatus out the window for no apparent reason. Just a coincidence I'm sure.
  • jebauer · 1 year ago
    After listening to NPR's Fresh Air show yesterday, featuring political science professor Ronnee Schreiber and a discussion of what "conservatism" has done to the ideals of feminism, I've decided words like conservative and Republican are no longer proper descriptions of what remains of the party of Abe Lincoln. This is clearly the new Regressive Party of America -- frightened of the future and of anything or anyone that may offer new ideas for the progress of civilization. It appears John McCain does not have the foresight to imagine the consequences of his actions. I've suffered through 8 years of this mentality. I'm done. Obama or bust.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    McCain has gone off the deep end. I cannot believe this. If this is really ok in their minds, something is very wrong.
  • Milli · 1 year ago
    His handlers are concocting all of this. Its pretty evident to all that McCain's brain is literally and figuratively mush. Never thought I was the conspiracy theory type but this is getting too freaky to ignore. Watch the wizard behind the curtain.
  • Indigo · 1 year ago
    Who's got the guts to go get the arrest warrant?
  • Rab · 1 year ago
    Why didn't the party dinosaurs get ahold of him and explain how to lose with dignity? It's too late for that now.
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    This is why the MSM have been blocked from covering the Palin-McCain rallies. All hail citizen journalists who have reported from the lines!
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    Erratic? At the same time McCain is booed for telling a MN crowd that they must be respectful and that Obama is a good guy ("family man'), snotty Nicolle Wallace and lil' Tucker Bounds are on cable news saying that those same crowds are the Salt of the Earth and that Obama HATES them, and is therefore a bad guy.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    HARDBALL is live right now at 7pm
    And Mathews jsut played a tape from today and the crowd jsut about boo ed McCain for saying "Obama is a decent man"
    Chris Matthews is pissed
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    Chris Matthews is REALLY grilling Pat Buchannon
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    Buchannon is very defensive.
    Chris Matthews jsut said Buchannon is laughing
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    BOB Shrumm is really hitting hard!
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    MAthews is pissed at the GOP
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    Buchannon is getting boxed in......he is trying to defend the what the GOP is doing.
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    Yep Matthews is certainly pissed off and far good reason. Matthews has been on this for almost a week.
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    Well, we should not forget the 92 convention, where Buchanan fed red meat to the yahoos there. Buchanan is a disgusting demagogue, and I am never charmed or convinced by MSNBC's re-branding of him as a lovable old coot. In fact, when Maddow does her thing with him, like virtually every other day, I push "off."
  • Calgon · 1 year ago
    I've tried to find a cartoon that aired on Saturday Night Live years ago -- McCain is going through the schizophrenia of embracing Bush that really sums up McCain's complete transition to The Dark Side. At this point, he's given up on trying to win over undecided voters and is just throwing red meat to the base -- the basest base of all bases. Bleah. So sick of this!
    OBAMA-BIDEN '08 PLEEEEASE!
  • BlueNTexas · 1 year ago
    Hey. Awfully close to my screen name there buddy.

    We need to turn all of TEXAS BLUE.
  • Calgon · 1 year ago
    I'll fix that up yonder next time I comment, Blue. We're workin' on Texas being blue, I reckon. Gotta git on my horse and mosey over to the Obama party down the street. Yee haw! Fixin' to change!
  • Butch1 · 1 year ago
    Seems to me that anyone who threatens the life of a public servant is arrested or at least questioned by the secret service. Has anything like this happened. Those who instigate this type of behavior are also culpable, unless republicans follow a different set of rules.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    Shrum just said..".most of the people went to jail who worked with you 30 years ago Buchannon"
  • Asterix · 1 year ago
    Isn't threatening an official of the US Government a felony under federal law? As far as I know, Obama would qualify as an official.

    At least I can recall one or two very vocal drunks during St. Ronald's tenure getting hauled in for a serious talking to by federal agents.

    Post 9/11, I'm surprised that this wouldn't get you sent to Gitmo.
  • beachboi · 1 year ago
    We must fight Republican scum and the authoritarian power structure currently in place. Case in point, the kid who hacked Palin's e-mail is now under Federal indictment. He actually should be receiving a Nobel Prize, getting a billion dollar book deal, a movie deal, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, appear as the centerfold in the final issue of Playgirl magazine, and get a recording contract. All this he would have and more if he had been a Republican hacking a Democrat's e-mail account.. Such tragic double standards in this morally bankrupt country.
  • HereinDC · 1 year ago
    WOW..I just read the 2 statements....

    That in now way was any kind of a retraction of the hate going on.

    It actually would fuel the hate.

    Shame on McCain
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago
    In fact, many of these yahoos (Bethlehem, PA etc.) would be happy if McCain dropped dead or dropped out so they could have "their" Sarah at the top of the ticket. They have no respect for him.
  • ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago
    We need to lobby for this potential of violence to be addressed in a question at next week's debate at Hofstra University. McCain must be forced to address this in a debate!!
  • FunMe · 1 year ago
    I have 2 words:

    Aiding

    Abating
  • ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago
    From NBC's Mark Murray:

    Earlier today, Obama remarked on recent outbursts of "Traitor!" "Terrorist!" and "Kill him!" at McCain campaign events. "It's easy to rile up a crowd," Obama said. "Nothing's easier than riling up a crowd by stoking anger and division. But that's not what we need right now in the United States."

    In response, McCain senior adviser Nicolle Wallace released this statement, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports. "Barack Obama's assault on our supporters is insulting and unsurprising. These are the same people obama called 'bitter' and attacked for 'clinging to guns' and faith. He fails to understand that people are angry at corrupt practices in Washington and Wall Street and he fails to understand that America's working families are not 'clinging' to anything other than the sincere hope that Washington will be reformed from top to bottom."

    "Attacking our supporters is a new low for the campaign that's run more millions of dollars of negative ads than any other in history."
  • woodroad34 · 1 year ago
    And yet Nicolle doesn't deny that the NRA (who do cling to guns) has supported every Republican or denied that Republicans have shouted "Kill him". Also, if, as Nicolle posits, that 'people are angry at corrupt practices', it's amazing that McCain and Palin haven't been assassinated.
  • tlsintx · 1 year ago
    ok, it looks like McCain is back-tracking on the hate a bit...he's telling people to remain respectful of Obama, and that he's a decent man...but these winger GOPers don't like it.

    http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/10/mcca...
  • scottinsf · 1 year ago
    No they're not back-tracking. They're trying to play some good cop/bad cop type game in the course of a few hours.

    How do you explain those two campaign statements?

    They are simultaneously feeding the hate and trying to make it look like they bare no responsibility for it. What a crock.
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    At this point, EVEN IF McCain tried to reel it in, he wouldn't be able to... and I doubt that Palin would follow suit if he tried to do more than pay lip service to reigning the crazies in...

    He opened this door, has been condoning and amping it up for weeks, they've managed to draw in the most vocal, racist, hate-mongering groups as their "base" and there won't be anything McCain / Palin can do or say at this point to stop what they've put in motion ... and if they try, the anger will be turned on them...
  • vkobaya · 1 year ago
    Yeah, but think about it having seen McCain's behavior toward Obama. McCain is the leader, the chief hater and chief bigot. He wouldn't shed a tear if Obama were assassinated and is so senile, he would even think that meant he won and is now president.
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    I don't doubt that for a minute... but McCain has boxed himself into a corner... he's going to be getting enormous pressure from his fellow Repubs to reign it in and shut down the attacks and at some point in the next few days, those Repubs currently running for office will have to "disown" the McCain / Palin ticket if they want a chance of being elected...

    AND his "supporters" aren't going to back off O. If McCain starts pushing in earnest to squash the "terrorist" talk, ect. his mob will turn on him...
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    He absolutely had to respond in that way, there was no way out for him. In no way does the McCain intend to stop these attacks. He has been admonished by his own party members, by the press and of course the left and nothing has stopped the hated. He is feeding off the crowd but unfortunately for McCain he is only taking to his base.
  • CitizenX · 1 year ago
  • sukabi1 · 1 year ago
    that's a nice story...
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    How's this for "accidental" ballots. A county in New York sent out ballots with the name Barrack OSAMA on the ballots. Mind you these ballots were proof read three times and yet the county maintains it was an error.

    http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/10...
  • Ben Dover · 1 year ago
    At this point in time, and after today's revelations about Palin's abuse of power and McCain having to call down his murderous hordes of followers, he would serve the nation best in suspending his campaign and retiring to Arizona to await the general election.
  • ndtovent · 1 year ago
    Y'know, nothing surprises me about this asshole, nor does any other tactic the repugs use to win an election, but this is beyond outrageous. However, on the bright side, it's another nail in the coffin for his losing the election. It can't be any better for his popularity factor, so I say, keep on slingin it, johnny... It's just another notch up for obama.... goooooo O!
  • Nuffsaid · 1 year ago
    There is a sickness eating the American soul. After watching it devour the country for sixty-five years, I am afraid I will live long enough to see it complete the process.

    There are some good people in America, there has always been some but they are too few and do not have the streingth of numbers to stand up against the ignorant masses.

    It only takes one 'Hater" to destroy the hopes of a generation.