McCain and Palin – Dividing America One racist at a time

It’s really interesting to see Palin and McCain step up their character attacks against Barack Obama. From Palin calling Barack essentially a domestic terrorist and unAmerican to McCain calling Barack a liar, it’s clear what the McCain campaign has degenerated into, a campaign that seeks to win by dividing Americans. Their attacks are tinged with racial undertones and it’s starting to show in the mindset of their supporters.

At an event in New Mexico, John McCain was clearly unprepared for the venom from his supporters, yet he didn nothing to correct them.

McCain asked the crowd “who is Barack Obama?” Immediately you hear someone yell “terrorist.” McCain pauses, the audience laughs, and McCain continues on, not acknowledging, not chastising, not correcting.

This is not an isolated incident, the same Huffington Post article goes on to post a couple more examples from Sarah Palin events.

“Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers,” Palin said.
“Boooo!” said the crowd.“And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, ‘launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,'” she continued.

“Boooo!” the crowd repeated.

“Kill him!” proposed one man in the audience.

The personal and racially tinged attacks have also been directed at the Media.

Worse, Palin’s routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.”

You would be naive if you think that this is not the McCain Palin Strategy for rescuing their sinking campaign. I had hoped, like many, that John McCain wouldn’t sink this low as to pull out the racial attacks and play on Americans personal prejudices. I guess we are all wrong and we shouldn’t be surprised. John McCain has shown throughout this election that he is not above sacrificing his own diginity and honor in order to win. The scary part is that they have implicitly allowed their supporters to verbally manifest their prejudices and who knows when it will take a physical form.

We have made tremendous progress since the Civil Rights movement and the McCain campaign threatens to throw the nation backwards in terms of racial relationships in one fell swoop. Nice John McCain, very nice.. A person can pretend to change and be something else, but when faced with adversity, they revert back to their true form. We are now seenig the real John McCain. I guess it’s very “mavericky” to play the race card and win by destroying this country.