Why Are McCain Supporters SO Mad?
The stories are popping up everywhere. McCain supporters are boiling over with anger at their rallies -- so much so that they're even booing their own candidate when he's not as vitriolic as they want him to be. They say they're mad because McCain isn't "fighting" Obama as hard as they would like to see, that he isn't pressing the issue of Obama's past relationships with his former pastor and with William Ayers. They say they're mad because ACORN is supposedly using fraudulent means to register voters.
Does all that fully explain the depth of their rage? Does it explain McCain having to take the mic away from an old lady in Minnesota because she began babbling about disliking Obama because "he's an Arab"? Does it explain McCainites yelling "socialist" or "liar" or "terrorist" at the mention of Obama's name? Reports describe "...boos, middle fingers turned up and thumbs turned down..." McCain, obviously concerned about the level of nastiness among the mob, insisted that his fellow Senator should be disagreed with but still treated respectfully, only to have the crowd turn on him with their jeers and boos.
There have been shouts of "traitor," "treason" and "off with his [Obama's] head." The Secret Service has even investigated an instance in which someone in Palin's crowd in Clearwater, Fla., shouted "kill him," meaning Obama.
These are serious sentiments, people. Maybe it's just me and all the years I spent in small towns in the south, but I don't think these are merely expressions of "frustration." When people start yelling stuff like this in public, it's time to take notice. And just one more thing -- again, I have to owe this to my southern background -- but when you look at a crowd of McCain-Palin supporters, do you see anyone of color? They are the whitest crowds of people I've seen since I went to a square-dance at a VFW hall in South Carolina as a teenager.
McCain is trying to play nice, on one hand, appearing to try to calm the riled crowd. On the other hand, he and Sarah have been busy working their supporters to a froth with their own claims against Obama's character and questioning his allegiance to America. It was Palin who accused Obama publicly of "palling around with terrorists." McCain's ads have shown that he is more than willing to take the lowest road to the highest office. Do you think maybe no one ever told John McCain or Sarah Palin that if you stir sh*t, it stinks?
Joan Walsh, Editor in Chief at Salon.com, makes an excellent point about the parallel downward slide of the economy, McCain's ratings in the polls, and McCain's integrity. Check out her video at the end of this posting.
Sources:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100903169.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14479.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/10/angry-anti-obama-taunts-grip-mccain-palin-events/?page=2
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002895.html?nav=hcmoduletmv
Does all that fully explain the depth of their rage? Does it explain McCain having to take the mic away from an old lady in Minnesota because she began babbling about disliking Obama because "he's an Arab"? Does it explain McCainites yelling "socialist" or "liar" or "terrorist" at the mention of Obama's name? Reports describe "...boos, middle fingers turned up and thumbs turned down..." McCain, obviously concerned about the level of nastiness among the mob, insisted that his fellow Senator should be disagreed with but still treated respectfully, only to have the crowd turn on him with their jeers and boos.
There have been shouts of "traitor," "treason" and "off with his [Obama's] head." The Secret Service has even investigated an instance in which someone in Palin's crowd in Clearwater, Fla., shouted "kill him," meaning Obama.
These are serious sentiments, people. Maybe it's just me and all the years I spent in small towns in the south, but I don't think these are merely expressions of "frustration." When people start yelling stuff like this in public, it's time to take notice. And just one more thing -- again, I have to owe this to my southern background -- but when you look at a crowd of McCain-Palin supporters, do you see anyone of color? They are the whitest crowds of people I've seen since I went to a square-dance at a VFW hall in South Carolina as a teenager.
McCain is trying to play nice, on one hand, appearing to try to calm the riled crowd. On the other hand, he and Sarah have been busy working their supporters to a froth with their own claims against Obama's character and questioning his allegiance to America. It was Palin who accused Obama publicly of "palling around with terrorists." McCain's ads have shown that he is more than willing to take the lowest road to the highest office. Do you think maybe no one ever told John McCain or Sarah Palin that if you stir sh*t, it stinks?
Joan Walsh, Editor in Chief at Salon.com, makes an excellent point about the parallel downward slide of the economy, McCain's ratings in the polls, and McCain's integrity. Check out her video at the end of this posting.
Sources:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100903169.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14479.html
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/10/angry-anti-obama-taunts-grip-mccain-palin-events/?page=2
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002895.html?nav=hcmoduletmv
posted by Lynn Nappari at 12:27 AM
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