Obama Rallies Turn Ugly
PHILADELPHIA, PA — In a sign of increasing nastiness on the left, supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama have been booing rivals John McCain and Sarah Palin, and even screaming “liar!” — with no response from Obama.
Yesterday, at a Philadelphia hockey game, Obama supporters booed Sarah Palin — despite the fact that Palin was accompanied by her 7-year-old daughter. Some notoriously conservative news outlets, such as MSNBC, have reported that there were cheers mixed in with the boos. But it appears clear that there was significant booing, all from Democrats — and the trend towards ugliness is clear.
The emotion of anger has been distressingly present at Obama rallies. Stephen Hayes reports the disturbing details.
This morning at a McCain rally here, a bearded young man in the crowd responded to a McCain critique of Barack Obama by shouting: “You’re a liar John!” He then hoisted a young woman with an antiwar poster onto his shoulders and began yelling antiwar gibberish as McCain tried to continue his speech. When McCain supporters ripped up the woman’s sign, she unfolded another one and the spectacle continued.
Earlier, at a rally in Philadelphia, Obama praised John McCain’s service to America and called for a civil debate over the final days of the campaign. He was lustily booed by his angry supporters.
And yesterday, at a McCain rally in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, another angry heckler shouted “Liar” and other insults at McCain from the crowd.
There are indications that Obama has been spurring his crowds to anger, sometimes launching into what Reuters as described as an “attack” against the former POW and military hero, even as McCain has been cautioning his supporters to respect Obama.
In addition, reports indicate that Obama failed to bring his rallies to a grinding halt to remonstrate the hecklers. Some say that Obama must have heard the hecklers, since reporters heard them. Other experts suggest that Obama is creating an atmosphere that could well turn to violence. As James F. Treacher, Professor of Media Studies at Noesutch University, notes: “If Obama isn’t an evil, racist, fascist hatemonger of hateful hatred, why hasn’t he conceded the election?”
Syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin warns that the recent Democratic anger is part of a larger trend of death threats and other concerning behavior from the left. Malkin, who routinely receives racist attacks and death threats from Democrats, notes in a comprehensive post the hate-filled attacks on McCain and Palin, such as artwork calling Palin a “MILP” — “Mother I’d Like to Punch.” Malkin’s post is replete with examples of the left suggesting that President Bush be killed, and that McCain and Palin be attacked in violent ways.
“Holy crap,” New York Times columnist Kall Prugman said in a brief phone interview. “I had no idea we were worse than the people at the McCain rallies.”
UPDATE: Thanks to Instapundit for the link. Here is some more stuff that would be Very Significant if done by McCain supporters, but hardly merits any mention, because it was done by Obama supporters:
- Wearing a T-shirt stating “Sarah Palin is a c*nt.” (No, the T-shirt does not use an asterisk.)
- Vandals spray-paint “Republican means slavery” at a local GOP Headquarters. (By the way, the linked story continues to spread the canard that someone yelled “Kill him!” about Obama at a McCain rally. That is a lie. If the phrase was yelled (a commenter of mine says the man was yelling something else), it was about murderous terrorist Bill Ayers and not about Obama.
- Obama supporters outside a Palin rally yell: “Let’s stone her, old school!”
At the L.A. Times, blogger Andrew Malcolm is asking very sensible questions: Does political restraint apply only to Republicans? And if the Democrats fail to exercise restraint, will the media notice? I hope he is asking his colleagues this question — and I hope his colleagues are listening. So far, however, his own paper seems interested only in painting Republicans as “nasty.”
“Yesterday, at a Philadelphia hockey game, Obama supporters booed Sarah Palin — despite the fact that Palin was accompanied by her 7-year-old daughter.”
Even the most dim witted were well aware she would be booed.
Governor Palin using her 7 year as a shield was a cowardly act. And aren’t we supposed to leave the children out of it, anyways?
A a tip of my hat to the Philadelphia fans for the boos. True patriots from the city that birthed our great country. Most American’s (not the 25% ers) are grateful.
Comment by jharp — 10/12/2008 @ 2:39 pm
Patterico,
“In a sign of increasing nastiness on the left”
Have you not seen the McCain rallies. There very well might be some anger from the democrats but can you blame them after what Bush and the GOP has done to the country. And I have yet to hear “kill him” for the left.
Yet the democrats angry outburst pales in comparison to the right wingers.
Comment by jharp — 10/12/2008 @ 2:44 pm
jharp: “A a tip of my hat to the Philadelphia fans for the boos.”
I approved this comment but please think twice before you say things like this in the future. It makes you look very bad.
Comment by DRJ — 10/12/2008 @ 2:44 pm
“A a tip of my hat to the Philadelphia fans for the boos.” Typical, leftard manners, and an accurate depiction of how most of them behave - rude, crude and lewd.
Comment by STEPHANIE Silva — 10/12/2008 @ 2:50 pm
Booing in the context of a sporting event? Unheard of! Suddenly things that have been occurring at both Republican and Democratic events is more repulsive at the Democratic ones? Give it a rest. I am literally done with this site. There has been nothing of substance added in weeks. I came here for healthy debate, but all I’ve been hit with is horrible logic written with better-than-average vocabulary.
If A+B=C and C-D=A, then Obama is a terrorist.
I am going to find a site that will actually provide a healthy, respectful, and thoughtful debate; this one just doesn’t have any of those things.
Comment by truthnjustice — 10/12/2008 @ 2:53 pm
Good riddance! (yeah, you’re predictable too)
hey, a letter I received from a fellow Christian and Obama voter:
Dear _______,
I have to be honest that I’m a little hesitant to answer your question. From the stuff I’ve read that people are writing on Facebook, I have a feeling that you are really not going to like what I have to say. But I hope that you can respect that my opinions have been thought out and are based on my understanding of what the Bible has to say on a lot of issues.
From what I understand, there are two things most evangelical Christians have a problem with about Senator Obama: 1) his stance on abortion and 2) the possibility that he isn’t a “real” Christian. Let me start by addressing why these two things don’t stop me from voting for him.
1) Abortion:
For the record, let me start by saying that I think abortion is a tragedy and morally wrong. However, having had an evangelical, pro-life president and a Republican Congress for 6 out of the last 8 years has done NOTHING to help reduce the number of abortions in this country. However, this year, with the help of evangelical Christians like Tony Campolo, the Democratic party has added to their platform the goal of reducing abortions in this country by, among other things, providing greater pre- and post-natal care to poor woman, providing more comprehensive sex education, improving access to education for woman who do get pregnant, providing income support and increased access to adoption programs. Furthermore, 60 percent of abortions are motivated by economic issues. The fight against poverty is a crucial front on the fight against abortion. It is highly unlikely that Roe v. Wade is ever going to be overturned in our country – most Americans do not want all abortions to be illegal. So since this is the case, why shouldn’t we put more money into reducing abortions instead of wasting our time and energy on something that isn’t going to happen? Before Senator McCain started running for the presidential nominee, he admitted that he didn’t think Roe v. Wade should be overturned. He is a politician using this highly divisive issue to win votes.
Rick Warren recently declared: “Jesus’ agenda is far bigger than just one or two issues. … We have to care about poverty, we have to care about disease, we have to care about illiteracy, we have to care about corruption in government, sex trafficking.” I believe this is an important part of the new politics of evangelical Christianity. We HAVE to care about more than 1 or 2 issues. We have to care about the environment, those without health care, the poor, the disenfranchised, those in prison, people dying of HIV/AIDS, people starving around the world. I am voting for Senator Obama because his positions on these issues align more closely with mine – and I’m trying to base my positions on my understanding of how Christians are supposed to be living out the Kingdom of God in the world.
Now to the point about Senator Obama being a Muslim or a terrorist or whatever. First of all, there is only one presidential candidate in this election who has ever publicly declared that Jesus is Lord. And that is Senator Obama. Yes, his father was a Muslim-turned-atheist. Since when do we hold children responsible for the faith of their parents? He has been active in a church community for 20 years, admits to a moment of asking Jesus to be his personal savior, and is clearly in love with his wife of 16 years and respected by his 2 children. Why do we doubt that this man’s faith is sincere? Here’s what McCain said when asked about his own faith:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/12/16/mccain-is-asked-is-jesus-christ-your-lord-and-savior/
Now I am not one to believe that a person has to have a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ to be a good government leader. We have had 8 years of the most evangelical president ever. What has that done for us? Is this country following any more closely to “the will of God?”
Finally, I have to say something about the politics of hate and fear. This fear that is running through conservative circles about Obama’s ties to terrorists is basic prejudice. Governor Palin’s recent comments about Senator Obama “palling around with terrorists” or “not seeing America the way you and I see America” are wrong. Yes, Senator Obama had a professional relationship with Bill Ayers, who 40 years ago was part of a violent anti-Vietnam group. But now Bill Ayers is a professor at the University of Illinois, has done terrific work in the area of juvenile justice, and was recognized as Citizen of the Year in Chicago in 1987. But the real issue is when Governor Palin uses the word “terrorist” she knows that she’s not conjuring up images of an old white professional man in a large Midwestern city. She knows that “terrorist” brings up images of men with different skin color, that it preys into the fears of average Americans. That is wrong.
Politics should bring out the best in us. We should be having high-minded debates about important issues and we should disagree with each other with respect and compassion. I don’t see that in the angry McCain/Palin rallies. I don’t see that when I read on the Facebook pages of people I love and respect that they don’t see how a Christian could vote for Senator Obama.
The world is a big, messy place and Jesus was rarely cut-and-dried on issues except that we are supposed to love our neighbors and care for the least among us. If, for you, that means voting for someone who, in theory at least, is against abortion, then I can respect that. But for me, that means voting for someone who will decrease the tax burden on working class families, who will increase federal aid for those dying of AIDS, malaria, and TB around the world, who will seek to end a war that is killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians, who will work to provide health care for the 50 million people, mostly children, who must go without it in the wealthiest nation in the world.
Comment by truthnjustice — 10/12/2008 @ 2:58 pm
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“Holy crap,” New York Times columnist Kall Prugman said in a brief phone interview. “I had no idea we were worse than the people at the McCain rallies.”
Yep, you on the left, as things turn out, actually are worse — and surprisingly hollow when it comes to truly meaningful do-gooder, big-hearted sentiments — in more ways than you realize.
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Comment by Mark — 10/12/2008 @ 2:59 pm
jharp: “A a tip of my hat to the Philadelphia fans for the boos.”
I approved this comment but please think twice before you say things like this in the future. It makes you look very bad.
Comment by DRJ — 10/12/2008 @ 2:44 pm
To me, injecting politics into a sporting event at this time is completely inappropriate.
Maybe they were booing that and not Governor Palin though I doubt it.
And Governor Palin subjecting her daughter to the debacle was not putting her daughter first. Everyone was well aware the extreme likelihood of boos. Leave the kids out of it.
Comment by jharp — 10/12/2008 @ 3:02 pm
And aren’t we supposed to leave the children out of it, anyways?
Said the commenter who made fun of Palin’s Down’s Syndrome child. You’re beneath contempt, and a real scumbag.
Now go ahead and call me and everyone else who will republish your filth (after you deny it for the umpteenth time) a big liar.
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 3:03 pm
this one just doesn’t have any of those things.
Considering your idiotic postings here, we’ll take that as the ultimate compliment. No don’t come back, lest you beclown yourself to the point of complete buffoonery.
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 3:04 pm
“Now.”
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 3:05 pm
According to the Dems and the MSM:
- Repubs don’t care if you get sick, they want more fossil fuel
- Repubs don’t care if the temperature rises and drowns all of the polar bears before destroying the planet, they’ll be dead by then (they don’t care what happens to their own grandchildren, let alone ours)
- the world hates us because of Republicans
- Bush lied and people died, repeat until you mumble it in your sleep
- they even out their covert agents if they get out of line
- the repubs are in with the big fat cats on Wall Street and the evil corporations, they don’t care about the little guy, they ruined the economy
- the repubs are anti-science, they’re against “stem cell research” (says so everyday on my radio, don’t bother me with details)
- the Dems are for minorities, so the Repubs must be against them
The last few years I have read how conservatives are being “marginalized”, how conservative perspectives are delegated more and more to the “far right” and to the “fringe”.
On some level this is what must happen before every holocaust, get the public consciousness to not even think of “them” as human anymore, whether the “them” are Jews, unseen embryos, babies born alive from a “failed” abortion, people severely handicapped (Terri Schiavo), people not so severely handicapped (Trig Palin), people who cause problems for the rest of “us”…
Years and years of irresponsible education of the public, by our schools or by the MSM, are threatening to bear rotten fruit. And all in the wake of the “different kind of politician” that is “post-partisan”, “post-race”. He is encouraging a climate where if he loses there will still be hell to pay, for the next 4 years at least, unless somehow a fresh wind of responsibility and integrity sweeps through.
McCain needs to realize “crossing the aisle” gets brownie points only if you are a Republican in Congress and undercutting a Republican administration. He should have taken better notes at the credit Bush got for trying to do bipartisan things.
Comment by MD in Philly — 10/12/2008 @ 3:07 pm
Wow, this is silly.
It’s obvious that you’re trying to compare Obama rally-goers yelling “liar!” with the recent news of McCain/Palin rally-goers yelling “Kill him!” and “Off with his head!” and “Terrorist!”
Doesn’t hold water, my friend. Calling someone a liar and saying they should be decapitated are not the same thing.
So if you wanna talk about rally vitriol, it’s an argument the McCain campaign loses.
Also, since when is everyone at a hockey game a Democrat? Hockey isn’t exactly the home of the “liberal latte class.” Besides, fans in Philadelphia booed Santa Claus at an Eagles game. It’s a tough town.
The crowd saw Palin using their team as a shallow photo-op, so they nailed her for it. The fact that she dragged her daughter into that situation tells you all about her family values: her family is *value-able* to her ambitions, despite what harm she may be doing to them as young people caught in the media crossfire.
Comment by RC — 10/12/2008 @ 3:16 pm
I am literally done with this site.
Please, keep your promise.
Governor Palin using her 7 year as a shield was a cowardly act.
Parents who love their children often do things with them for fun.
DRJ may have let the post get through, but comments that are beneath contempt are also beneath acknowledgement.
I am now going to list every post on this site that advocates causing grief for Obama’s children:
I know there is a Latin phrase that lawyers use that means something like, “The thing proves itself”. If this thread is about how ugly Obama backers are getting (are getting?), then (insert Latin phrase)
Comment by MD in Philly — 10/12/2008 @ 3:17 pm
I would like for mean & nasty things to happen to jharp — wife eats the last cookie in the bag, dog pees in his shoe — because of his inability to handle compound words (dimwitted, indeed).
Comment by Icy Truth — 10/12/2008 @ 3:17 pm
RC, ditto #10
Comment by MD in Philly — 10/12/2008 @ 3:19 pm
That’s right, RC. Anytime she shows up anywhere in public it’s nothing more than a shallow photo-op. How . . . DARE she try to act like a normal mother!!!
Comment by Icy Truth — 10/12/2008 @ 3:23 pm
First we have this:
Calling someone a liar and saying they should be decapitated are not the same thing.
Followed by this:
The crowd saw Palin using their team as a shallow photo-op, so they nailed her for it.
The Troll appears to have a problem recognizing cognitive dissonance within it’s own posting. However, the term itself is probably beyond said Troll’s vocabularly at this point of it’s gestation.
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 3:24 pm
I am literally done with this site.
Now that’s hope and change I can believe in!
Comment by Dana — 10/12/2008 @ 3:26 pm
I would like for mean & nasty things to happen to jharp
I think we already realize that many mean things have happened to Harpy; no home, no wife, job as Fluffer on snuff films - anyone with that much bile and bitterness must be quite disappointed with how it’s life has turned out.
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 3:27 pm
The problem, MD, is that Palin can’t be so ignorant as to think this was going to be “fun” for her child. She was anticipating the boos, and set her daughter up in hopes of deflecting it. She says so herself.
The other idea is that this whole thing was a plot to play to the sympathies of people looking to demonize liberals. Like the poster and you, MD. In which case it may have succeeded admirably.
Comment by RC — 10/12/2008 @ 3:27 pm
Said the commenter who made fun of Palin’s Down’s Syndrome child. You’re beneath contempt, and a real scumbag.
Now go ahead and call me and everyone else who will republish your filth (after you deny it for the umpteenth time) a big liar.
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 3:03 pm
Said the liar, Dmac.
Liar.
Comment by jharp — 10/12/2008 @ 3:27 pm
Poof-in-bustier –
If A+B=C and C-D=A, then Obama is a terrorist.
– Where, IN ANY OF THE POSTS BY THE REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS SITE, does anyone say that Obama is a terrorist? Where, a-hole?
I am going to find a site that will actually provide a healthy, respectful, and thoughtful debate
– Find one where being a effing liar is a prerequisite for admission.
Comment by Icy Truth — 10/12/2008 @ 3:29 pm
YOU CAN DISH IT OUT BUT YOU CAN’T TAKE IT!!!!!
Comment by David Ehrenstein — 10/12/2008 @ 3:29 pm
She was anticipating the boos, and set her daughter up in hopes of deflecting it.
Then link your source, douchebag. Right now.
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 3:30 pm
Right now. Do it, or else you’re just another coward.
Right now, douchebag.
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 3:31 pm
Oh noes! Snarky insult from Dmac, whose demonstrations of circumlocuitous verbosity will surely exceed the linguistic comprehension of any mere mortals in our temporal corporeality. Teach me, O Professor!
Please give me reports of any death threats made against Sarah Palin at the hockey game.
Comment by RC — 10/12/2008 @ 3:33 pm
‘Kay, douchebags.
How’s Fox News?
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/11/palin-drops-puck-at-flyers-game-receives-mixed-reaction/
The GOP Vice-Presidential nominee said at an earlier fundraiser that she would stop some of the booing from the rowdy Philadelphia fans by putting her seven year old daughter, Piper in a Flyers jersey. She said, “How dare they boo Piper!”
Comment by RC — 10/12/2008 @ 3:35 pm
Actually, Dmac, to be even I need even more than that. Give me an example of a death threat made against either McCain or Palin at an Obama rally.
Comment by RC — 10/12/2008 @ 3:38 pm
dmac: this is from an FNC blog. Can’t vouch for it beyond that:
link
That sounds like a different thing than bringing her daughter to staunch the boos, but who knows if the FNC blogger is correctly summarizing what she said.
Comment by jpe — 10/12/2008 @ 3:39 pm
jharp:
Give me a break, jharp. Just 2 months ago, Obama was negotiating for a NASCAR sponsorship.
Comment by DRJ — 10/12/2008 @ 3:39 pm
Teach me, O Professor!
If you’re a Flyers fan, then I have to assume you’re beyond simple comprehension skills. You make Dave Shultz look like Einstein by comparison.
Your link is also bogus - what Palin said and your interpretation are two different things, sorry to tell you. But keep trying to get it right - no doubt you’ll come up with something more coherent.
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 3:40 pm
RC - Give me an example of a death threat made against either McCain or Palin at an Obama rally.
– Give me an example of where Dmac said that such a threat was made.
Comment by Icy Truth — 10/12/2008 @ 3:44 pm
Atrios put it well
Read the comments at the NYT Hockey Page.
Even Palin knew, so she used her daughter as a screen FOX
And meanwhile even people inside the McCain campaign have expressed concern over the behavior at their rallies: “Traitor” “Terrorist” “Arab Terrorist”
The Secret Service was called to check out the behavior at a McCain rally. Has there been anything similar concerning Obama’s events?
No.
Comment by Nanker Phelge — 10/12/2008 @ 3:44 pm
Nice assumption. I don’t follow hockey. I live in Boston and am usually too busy drinking champagne with my married lesbian friends to bother with such base entertainments.
Considering my interpretation is about the same as the FNC commentator–that Sarah put her daughter up there to deflect the boos–and FNC is pretty in the tank for McCain/Palin, I don’t see how I’m so far off.
You’re right that I haven’t analyzed the transcript of her fundraising speech, but the last time I checked the internet wasn’t law school. And I have better things to do, like figure out how to spend your tax money on Ted Kennedy’s infrastructure projects.
By the by, most of the smartest people I’ve met (you know, those Harvard elites) don’t address people as “douchebag” when engaging in an argument. That’s something people with intellectual insecurities usually do.
Comment by RC — 10/12/2008 @ 3:48 pm
Icy–I’m asking him to prove the cognitive dissonance of my earlier post, which he did allege.
To do so, he needs to prove that comments made at Obama rallies are just as hateful as those made at McCain/Palin rallies.
Unfortunately Palin fans set the bar pretty high, so I don’t think he’ll be able to do it. . .
Comment by RC — 10/12/2008 @ 3:49 pm
Give me an example of a death threat made against either McCain or Palin at an Obama rally.
I’ll do that one better, Douchey - these are protests that turned violent before they were even nominated at their convention in Minneapolis:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/09/rnc-protests.html
The police also broke up a large - scale plot to attack convention delegates:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-08-31-protesters_x.htm
Now, who’s the real party of “violence,” Douchey?
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 3:49 pm
Nanker, it is getting pretty old that all the Obama trolls repeat the nonsense about the Secret Service investigating.
When the Secret Service investigated anti-Bush rhetoric - all the Democrats cried about being oppressed.
Comment by SPQR — 10/12/2008 @ 3:51 pm
Look. No one gave a crap that Obama stuck his brats on Inside Hollywood. Twice. Strictly for votes.
You probably noticed: the Palin family is tough and capable. They aren’t the self-probing cream puffs that you guys promote from the radical fringe to higher office. She’s accomplished actual reform, where as Barry’s only talked about it.
Comment by Vermont Neighbor — 10/12/2008 @ 3:52 pm
By the by, most of the smartest people I’ve met (you know, those Harvard elites) don’t address people as “douchebag” when engaging in an argument.
Gee, perhaps not - but “most of the smartest people I’ve met,” may also not post the following insightful observation:
It’s obvious that you’re trying to compare Obama rally-goers yelling “liar!” with the recent news of McCain/Palin rally-goers yelling “Kill him!” and “Off with his head!” and “Terrorist!”
Perhaps you could look up the term “moral relativism” and get back you us on that - after your lunch with your Lesbo friends.
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 3:54 pm
I support the death penalty for Ayers style behavior… so what if when someone mentions the evil bastard that I articulate my desire for justice?
Oh. Wait.
I said that about someone Obama knows, so by extension I must want Obama to face capital punishment too and thus John McCain is a racist hatemonger…
bonus logic points for the “intelligentsia on the left”
Comment by SteveG — 10/12/2008 @ 3:56 pm
…or make contradictory posts like these:
Hockey isn’t exactly the home of the “liberal latte class.”
Nice assumption. I don’t follow hockey.
I forget - who’s making the assumptions here? Or is that another one of your “smart people” argumentative stylings?
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 3:59 pm
and get back you us on that
“and get back to us on that”
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 4:00 pm
A wise person once said “if you don’t want to be called an asshole, don’t act like one”
Which seemed fair, but in this context the person was probably racist and by extension tainted the whole GOP.
The other issue is:
Politics is rough
The world out there doesn’t give crap if Axelrod sues them.
Obama is a puff pastry who can’t stand any heat.
Out in the world where the gloves are always off, and the arena is not at all friendly Obama is gonna hand our ass to anyone who says “boo” even as his supporters claim “boo” is short for “jigaboo” and then go into the UN to demand a retraction.
Obama will give a great, articulate speech that our enemies totally ignore and the world will see see Putin, the Chinese, the Taliban, and Chavez laughing out loud at the hope that a speech is gonna change anything they intend to do.
Comment by SteveG — 10/12/2008 @ 4:07 pm
Victor Davis Hansen once again nails it: “Obama, as I have said ad nauseam, has brilliantly prepped the battlefield to such a degree that a Farrakhan endorsement or surrogates calling Palin a quasi-Nazi or a bimbo, or smearing McCain as near senile is irrelevant; yet one screamer in a crowd of tens of thousands is proof of McCain’s and Palin’s racism and hatred.”
Comment by SPQR — 10/12/2008 @ 4:09 pm
What’s the matter with saying that certain things are worse than other things? I’d rather be called a liar than have someone threaten to kill me. Is that moral relativism?
I would do research on all these things, but I had some downtime at my job (working with the formerly homeless and mentally ill on your tax dollar) before I left, and it’s time for me to go.
It makes me sad, but the entertainment is appreciated.
Dmac, all you’re proving is that the violent anarchists (who got stomped on at the DNC rally as well for causing a ruckus) are marginally more pissed at the GOP than the Dems. These aren’t ardent Obama supporters–they consider him another NWO shill.
I should know, since I shop at one of their bookstores when I need to brush up on my Kropotkin.
I said I do champagne with my lesbians. My vegan lunches are strictly for my ALF friends, though sometimes I’ll have weekend brunch with the transgendered cabaret.
Toodles, darlings!
Comment by RC — 10/12/2008 @ 4:09 pm
The Secret Service was called to check out the behavior at a McCain rally.
Knowing who likely was pushing for such a response, all I can say is “big whoop.” The Obama people apparently do have a George-Orwell-ian streak when it comes to comments that bother them.
Of course, and by contrast, the bile — including words expressing sympathy towards the idea of terrorist bombings — that spews forth from someone like Jeremiah Wright or William Ayers is hunky-dory and AOK with Obama and Co.
Comment by Mark — 10/12/2008 @ 4:10 pm
My vegan lunches are strictly for my ALF friends…
Ah, so no wonder you’re big on Obama. You’re a terrorist sympathizer too.
Oh, and please keep drooling on about your champagne-fueled gliterrati lifestyle. Nothing exposes a slum-dwelling, meth-addicted DNC troll faster.
Comment by qdpsteve — 10/12/2008 @ 4:16 pm
And RC, your messiah doesn’t need to threaten anyone at his rallies when he’s got these kinds of thugs to do it for him:
http://www.katu.com/news/30847164.html
To save you the trouble, I’ve already listed your most likely responses below. Just pick the letters that best suit you.
A. They’re not the repub candidates, they deserved it
B. They’re republicans, they deserved it
C. The sign is too big, they deserved it
D. They eat McDonalds sometimes, they deserved it
E. They’re white and straight, they deserved it
F. All of the above
Comment by qdpsteve — 10/12/2008 @ 4:21 pm
1. Stop calling others liars and douchebags. Now.
2. Is there not a SINGLE GODDAMNED PERSON who got the satirical nature of this post? Do you think there is really a columnist named Kall Prugman?
3. Did a random nutcase yell “Kill him” about Ayers (not Obama)? Maybe. Have random leftist nutcases talked about killing Bush? Yes. Read Michelle’s post.
Stop pretending your side is better than ours, based on the behavior of some random nutcases. By that standard, you guys don’t do very well.
Comment by Patterico — 10/12/2008 @ 4:25 pm
It’s funny how this particular article doesn’t find fit to mention that at Palin and McCain rallies people yell “terrrist”, “kill him” and “off with his head” when Obama is mentioned but only focuses on Obama rallies. Lame.
Comment by Nicole Milwaukee — 10/12/2008 @ 4:30 pm
Nicole, actually what is lame is that you fail to read any of the other posts where that is mentioned.
But then, since you were probably sent here by some dishonest link on a dailyKos post, no surprise.
Comment by SPQR — 10/12/2008 @ 4:34 pm
Ok yes. That was satire. It should’ve said Filadelfia, Yo for the intro.
Comment by Vermont Neighbor — 10/12/2008 @ 4:34 pm
Is there not a SINGLE GODDAMNED PERSON who got the satirical nature of this post?
– I did . . . after I caught the “humor” tag.
Therefore, I was being satirical when I called truthnjustice a liar.
Comment by Icy Truth — 10/12/2008 @ 4:37 pm
I think Jack Klompus will attest that Philadelphia sports fans can be insufferable. They’ve been known to boo Santa Claus. My own experience there at Eagles, Flyers, Phillies and Sixers games was that punks alone of in groups with or without booze like to show off with despicable behavior and really disrespectful language. So what’s new? There are plenty of assholes everywhere. Patterico gets his share of duplicitous, hatemongering trolls too.
I have not heard of any reporters or Republican consultants warn that there will be riots if McCain loses…unlike shitheads like that Philly Daily News bitch or ugly ass James Carville.
Nobama- bend over america
Comment by madmax333 — 10/12/2008 @ 4:37 pm
Nicole Milwaukee is yet another Olbermann fanatic who has gotten lost.
Comment by Icy Truth — 10/12/2008 @ 4:39 pm
To everyone,
jharp is, for the time being, a lost cause due to the fact he suffers from “political anterograde amnesia.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterograde_amnesia
Accordingly, jharp is more to be pitied than hated: pray for his recovery and the safety of his immortal soul.
Comment by MarkJ — 10/12/2008 @ 4:44 pm
Racists
Comment by JD — 10/12/2008 @ 4:46 pm
Is satire supposed to be funny?
The humor tag threw me and the chuckles felt guilty… or maybe I thought if I laughed Axelrod would sue me.
Comment by SteveG — 10/12/2008 @ 4:50 pm
Do you think there is really a columnist named Kall Prugman?
When I googled that name, I knew something was up (a play on the name of the NY Times very liberal columnist Paul Krugman, perhaps?). However, since that bit of satire appeared directly under a few sentences related to very serious, very hostile reactions (or threats) that Michelle Malkin has received over the months/years, I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it.
Comment by Mark — 10/12/2008 @ 4:52 pm
Do you guys know who Jim Treacher is?
Say the name of his university out loud.
Comment by Patterico — 10/12/2008 @ 5:08 pm
Yes, I understood the satirical nature of the post - but it was immediately threadjacked by the Trolls, and rapidly went downward shortly thereafter. I will try to refrain from calling others names, but when they continue to misrepresent Palin and then drag her children into every action that she involves them in, it will still necessitate a response.
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 5:08 pm
BTW, Treacher’s a hoot.
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 5:09 pm
you want some humor and moonbats to laugh at?
http://conservativegamergal.blogspot.com/2008/8/giant-moonbat-puppet-parade.html
courtesy of zombietime. The American people should check out the antics of Obama’s ‘tards as represented at various protests and parades at http://www.zombietime.com
Comment by madmax333 — 10/12/2008 @ 5:16 pm
The disgusting people of Philadelphia who boo’d a woman and child are the slime of the earth and for those idiots who believe someone called for killing Obama at a McCain rally you obviously do not read the news because it was a plant from….you guessed it the left side of the spectrum……you classless pieces of bitter slugs of human beings who call yourselves liberals have no clue that anger on the right is not nasty it is thoughtful and makes us get on with sending the worst Presidential candidate in the history of the United States back home to his Chicago allies.
Comment by Jaded — 10/12/2008 @ 5:22 pm
Do you guys know who Jim Treacher is?
If not, neither does Wikipedia, so don’t feel too bad.
Comment by Sans — 10/12/2008 @ 5:25 pm
Sans, Treacher is actually quite famous among bloggers for his hilarious work.
Although frankly, the quote sounded quite legitimate to me, Patterico …
Comment by SPQR — 10/12/2008 @ 5:27 pm
Is that a public university?
Where do they stand in the BCS?
Comment by SteveG — 10/12/2008 @ 5:34 pm
Hey,
I’ll admit I didn’t notice or think it was satire.
I guess I need to pay closer attention.
Comment by jharp — 10/12/2008 @ 5:35 pm
It was idle last week so it may be tied with ‘Bama.
Comment by DRJ — 10/12/2008 @ 5:36 pm
Oooooo, that was a mean shot from DRJ.
Comment by SPQR — 10/12/2008 @ 5:38 pm
Better to be kicked by Gov Palin’s hockey skate than helped by Obama.
Comment by JJ — 10/12/2008 @ 5:38 pm
Patterico - I was reading some stories this weekend about how members of the Papier Mache Headmakers Guild of America have been traveling to McCain/Palin rallies in the hopes of drumming up business from the teeming masses of angry frothing Republicans they had been reading about in the news. The result - disappointment, no sales, zippo, zilch, nada. One guildmember, Gaia Granola said “These Republicans are absolutely nothing like the crazed members of the left who could be counted on to order up giant papier mache heads for any occasion - Bush, Cheney, Rove, Condi, you name it. If Obama is elected I think a lot of our members will be forced to go one food stamps.”
Commenting on the situation, one lifelong concerned Christian Republican at one rally said “We don’t need any silly giant puppet heads to get our points across at our rallies. I mean I’m sorry if those guys are out of a job, but it’s kind of a drade school political tactic. I yhink they imported it from the euroweenies or something.”
Comment by daleyrocks — 10/12/2008 @ 5:58 pm
Patterico,
I typically don’t read the categories (my ADD) and did not get clued by logging it under humor.
I’m afraid I didn’t see much humor in the events themselves or the rude comments that had already hit the thread.
I did not enjoy seeing Obama taking the city by storm with the full support of the mayor, the governor, and the logistics of the City of Philadelphia pulling off the event at a moment’s notice. I do not enjoy the thought of living in a community where such hostility exists.
I especially do not like the thought that emotions are being stocked so if the “chosen one” loses we’ll see a repeat of the Rodney King aftermath or a return to the “wonderful ’60’s” for those that missed it.
One of Obama’s visits was to an area on 52nd Street where my son was in the middle of an interesting confrontation a few months ago. On one corner were adherents to Farrakhan’s Black Muslims, on another corner was a group of Black Islamists of a more “Middle East” variety, on a third corner was a group Black Jehovah followers (sorry, don’t know name, AA version of Judaism). There was a face off due to someone from 1 group having been beaten by another group earlier in the week. It ended non-violently, but the area does not need agitation. People get shot in Philly and elsewhere for a whole lot less. Soldiers go to war and fight for the US so freedom of speech can be maintained for purposes better than vulgar ad hominem attacks.
Sarah Palin made one mistake, expecting grown-ups to act like grown-ups.
Comment by MD in Philly — 10/12/2008 @ 5:59 pm
Stop pretending your side is better than ours
Beyond the behavior of some nutcases on the left and right, when it comes to my side of the political divide, I truly do believe it is better, much better, in fact, in some crucial and surprising ways. So if there is ugly behavior coming from the left, it actually does seem to go hand-in-hand with — as things turn out — the hollowness of what they generally believe their politics is all about.
Comment by Mark — 10/12/2008 @ 6:02 pm
“A a tip of my hat to the Philadelphia fans for the boos.”
Ha. The best part is people thinking this was partisan. Santa gets booed and pelted in philly. We should be noting how NICE the fans are since no batteries landed on the ice.
Comment by imdw — 10/12/2008 @ 6:04 pm
Comment by Patterico — 10/12/2008 @ 4:25 pm
Satire is best presented to an audience that; a, can understand it; and b, appreciate it.
The Axelrod-Corps has neither the intelligence, nor the comprehension skills.
Comment by Another Drew — 10/12/2008 @ 6:06 pm
and another thing….
Don’t give up your day-job!
Comment by Another Drew — 10/12/2008 @ 6:06 pm
You have a point, imdw.
Just think, no one will ever be able to say that Piper Palin doesn’t like Philadelphia just because she’s never been there.
I’m going to email the mayor now.
Comment by MD in Philly — 10/12/2008 @ 6:11 pm
MD - Plus in Philly didn’t you have that newspaper columnist calling for or predicting riots if Obama did not win the election just a short time back. I haven’t seen any conservative leaning journos, the few that can get published, call for or predict violence if McCain loses.
Comment by daleyrocks — 10/12/2008 @ 6:15 pm
Having my very own Wikipedia entry… what could be more wonderful? [sighs dreamily]
Comment by Jim Treacher — 10/12/2008 @ 6:16 pm
Uh, just about anything else, Jim. Your work speaks for itself.
Comment by SPQR — 10/12/2008 @ 6:17 pm
Umm, Is this a clone story about the ugly McCain rallies?? The nerve that this writer has!
Comment by Joel — 10/12/2008 @ 6:23 pm
Why does jharpy hate other people’s children?
Comment by JD — 10/12/2008 @ 6:23 pm
Nice to see Mark Steyn link Treacher. Surely a Wiki page is in the offing…
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Njk3YmRiNmI3MjQ4OWEzMDkwOGFhNGY0NWUyMjlkZGY=
Comment by Dana — 10/12/2008 @ 6:24 pm
Obama “fans” are the lowest of the low.
Of course it’s OK to boo Sarah Palin in front of her daughter. NOT..
How would Obama feel if he was booed in front of his kids.
Comment by Heidi — 10/12/2008 @ 6:25 pm
The slime of the earth votes Democratic and urged by their Messiah, they are indeed “in the face” of the GOP. Losers, liars, nuts, flakes and fruit reside on the left and one can see how unhinged they are by the spectacle they make of themselves as they make a mockery of our elections and civil debate. I have yet to see a story about supporters on the right with as much vile contempt as Obamamaniacs. I have yet to see a story obout protesters arrested outside of the rallies for the “ONE”. To whit there wasn’t any interruptions of the DNC by rabid radicals, yet the leftist snuck into the RNC and tried their best (as lame as they are) to steal thunder. No, these are all part and parcel to the unhinged left.
And to those who spout crap about the GOP and Bush BS about the economy, do your homework so you don’t look like the absolute fools you appear to be. The state of the economy lies squarely at the feet of the Democratic party, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and the Clinton Administration.
There is no place for Marxism, no place for voter fraud, no place for socialist programs, and NO utopia associated with Obama - who may or may not even have all the prerequesite qualifications to even run in this race.
Comment by melissaTX — 10/12/2008 @ 6:33 pm
Comment by Heidi — 10/12/2008 @ 6:25 pm
The more important question is how would Obama feel about his kids being booed in front of him?
And, should we care as long as Michelle can put fruit on the table?
Comment by Another Drew — 10/12/2008 @ 6:33 pm
“I do not enjoy the thought of living in a community where such hostility exists.”
You’re asking sports fans to to adults? When Boston won the series someone pulled a man out of a car where he was siting with his family and beat the shit out of him, for wearing a Yankees shirt. And Palin was going to go around Philly with a Rangers shgit on before someone in an elevator suggested otherwise
Philadephia Inquirer
“Stop pretending your side is better than ours, based on the behavior of some random nutcases.”
“Your side” panders to these nutcases: they’re called the base.
“In the book, Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction, author and former Bush official David Kuo, a real Christian and conservative, explains how Karl Rove referred to their so-called Christian “Values Voters” as “the nuts,” “out of control,” and “just plain goofy.”"
And no, no one high up in the democratic party is as bad as Atwater, who asked for forgiveness before he died, or Rove, or the scum who slimed McCain about his black adopted daughter, and who McCain now hired[!] And no one is as bad as Helms who said “I’m going to sing Dixie till she cries.” And don’t try to come back with Byrd: he’s apologized fully and publicly a long time ago. Should I add to the list? Race-baiting, Red-baiting,
But what’s the use? Any examples I gave would be from “the press” and you know they’re all liars.
Comment by Nanker Phelge — 10/12/2008 @ 6:34 pm
Treach is scary funny. Scary in the same way that the creepy dude that drives the ice cream truck is scary …
Comment by JD — 10/12/2008 @ 6:34 pm
You’d have to be a clone to think McCain’s rallies have been ugly. Specifically, a clone of a clone of a clone.
Comment by Jim Treacher — 10/12/2008 @ 6:35 pm
The Treacher quote was legitimate.
The facts of the post are true.
It’s not iowahawk style satire — I’m not anywhere near that good — it’s just a representation of how the media could spin some true real-life events if they were as in the bag for McCain as they are for Obama.
Comment by Patterico — 10/12/2008 @ 6:37 pm
‘…“I’m going to sing Dixie till she cries.”…’
Wasn’t that one of Abe Lincoln’s favorite songs?
Comment by Another Drew — 10/12/2008 @ 6:38 pm
“The more important question is how would Obama feel about his kids being booed in front of him?”
The more important question is whether he would bring them along and try to use them as a shield?
Comment by Nanker Phelge — 10/12/2008 @ 6:39 pm
Well, I have to admit that booing kids is not cool; so I’ll have to settle for booing politicians and their wives, and outing their girlfriends.
Comment by Another Drew — 10/12/2008 @ 6:43 pm
Nanker is a mendoucheous asshat.
Comment by JD — 10/12/2008 @ 6:45 pm
Wanker, we’ve already dealt with that story - you’re about five hours behind here; try to keep up before posting more redundancies.
Comment by Dmac — 10/12/2008 @ 6:48 pm
Given this thread’s track record on spotting sarcasm, any chance Sarah Palin was being sarcastic with her comment about Philadelphia fans booing Piper?
Comment by DRJ — 10/12/2008 @ 6:49 pm
Here’s what left-leaning publication The New Republic’s Michael Crowley had to say October 10th about the stream of media reports of “ugliness” at McCain rallies. Here are Crowley’s comments in a blog post titled “Is the GOP Fury So Unique?” (bold, italics mine):
When a couple of TNR.com participants responded to Crowley’s relative level-headedness by repeating the Obamabot gospel that someone at a McCain rally shouted “Kill him” when Barack Obama was mentioned, this was the response from the blog post’s author:
Indeed, the blog post that started the whole disingenous ball rolling was Dana Milbank’s Washed-up Post entry detailing the “Kill him” shout. But never did Milbank suggest that Obama was the target of the scream. NEVER. But to my knowledge, Milbank, unlike Crowley, has not corrected the misconception.
Meanwhile, we have had the MSM scrambling to cover Obama’s pinko posterior over the truth about Ayers coming out. One AP report even referred to Ayers as an “ex-radical.” Ayers, who is staying mum on Obama issues, has never backed down from the radical label and would doubtless still claim it if he dared fan the flames by making himself available for comment.
Comment by L.N. Smithee — 10/12/2008 @ 6:53 pm
Nancy Felcher is a consistently mendoucheous troll.
Comment by JD — 10/12/2008 @ 6:56 pm
I already have the guns and I’ll be buying three boxes of fresh ammunition.
Although I’ll be far insulated in my little village from “Obama’s base”.
The pro-Obama leftards, in their gentrified, over-priced apartments, may be experiencing a little buyer’s remorse, though. Along with looting, arson, battery and rape.
Comment by nk — 10/12/2008 @ 6:56 pm
Why does jharpy hate other people’s children?
Comment by JD — 10/12/2008 @ 6:23 pm
Why do you hate the truth.
I’d call you a liar but I guess technically you didn’t lie.
But obviously you cannot justify Governor Palin using her own child as shield so I shouldn’t be surprised that you make an insinuation that is based on lie.
Comment by jharp — 10/12/2008 @ 6:57 pm
nk…
Do your country a favor, and spare the leftards, unless they’re carrying a Press-Pass.
Comment by Another Drew — 10/12/2008 @ 7:07 pm
Err … I won’t be the one victimizing the leftards. It will be their fellow Obamatards.
Comment by nk — 10/12/2008 @ 7:10 pm
More revelations from Sarah Palin about who the “bad guys” are and who the “good guys” are. Obama and his evil network of “terrorists” are the bad guys. So lets vote for John McCain to stop the bad guys from taking over. Sarah Palin is cool….
Even the crowd agrees.
Comment by love2008 — 10/12/2008 @ 7:14 pm
There are these sweet, young, blonde, blue-eyed things knocking on my door to ask support for Obama who really need to experience a Chicago West Side “rally” up close and personal.
Comment by nk — 10/12/2008 @ 7:16 pm
Does love2008 remind anybody else of Eddie Haskell?
Comment by nk — 10/12/2008 @ 7:18 pm
“Your side” panders to these nutcases: they’re called the base.
And Barack Obama coddles kooks like Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright (aka Obama’s “sounding board”) until his embrace of such fanatics is outed via the press and public criticism.
Comment by Mark — 10/12/2008 @ 7:24 pm
Mark - You are imagining things. Baracky’s relationships with Ayers and Wright will continue to be ignored by the press. Racist.
Comment by JD — 10/12/2008 @ 7:27 pm
love2000hate wrote:
You’re a liar. This is what your link says:
This is what you Obamabots do: You view each and every word from McCain, Palin, or the campaign’s supporters and look for a way to imply racism or a smear.
Obama, when McCain pulled even, needed to portray everyone opposing him as racists. He’ll dance around that, but he sends Claire McAsskiss and Bawney Fwank to say it out loud.
Why won’t Obama accuse McCain to his face?
Comment by L.N. Smithee — 10/12/2008 @ 7:30 pm
Jake Tapper has photos of some vile anti-Palin protesters in Philly. Funny it never made the local news there…but then if its not anti-Palin, its not really news.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/vile-anti-palin.html
Comment by Dana — 10/12/2008 @ 7:40 pm
#108
Are you one of the GOP people John McCain was talking about when he said “Well you’re angry, and I’m angry too”? Are you angry too? Why are you angry? Are you angry because of the economy or because your party is being slapped about by Obama? Or are you angry because you are a mean-spirited, frustrated little man who can’t stand others?
I am curious, why are you and your party angry?
Comment by love2008 — 10/12/2008 @ 7:45 pm
Dana - Those clowns wearing those shirts look exactly like what you would expect them to look like.
L.N. - He will not do so to McCain’s face, because he is a coward, and it is such an incredible lie that even he could not make that accusation with a straight face.
Comment by JD — 10/12/2008 @ 7:46 pm
Typical lovie behavior. SHOCKA!
Comment by JD — 10/12/2008 @ 7:47 pm
Another Sarah Palin, half truth. If you keep telling a lie soon it will become true. Just keep saying it. “I am innocent….” If she says it, I guess that’s what it is. Right?
Even when evidence contradicts her.
Comment by love2008 — 10/12/2008 @ 7:58 pm
love2008..I think our party is angry because we see our country turning into a socialist country before our eyes and we can’t do anything about it.
The love fest of the media over Obama hasn’t given the American people a clear picture of who he is.
Everyone he has a past with, his mentors, those who have shaped his political future have socialist/communist ideals. Ayers, Wright, ACORN, et al..many from the 60’s anti-war movement.
He comes from the Chicago political machine, that in it’s self is scary, the pay to play scam there goes back for years, cronyism, fraud and crooks all on the taxpayers dime.
If he forms his adminstration and economic ideas from Cook County, even more scary.
ask yourself one question, Chicago has Democrat rule, why then does it have the worst schools, crime, poverty and can’t pay the bills..Mayor Daley has to lay off 1000 employees?
Comment by Judy — 10/12/2008 @ 8:09 pm
The media and the left are out of touch. They have become innoculated to the degree of their own anger and rage and think they have a monopoly on bitterness in this country. To see the expressions of anger come from other directions come as as shock to people who have been living on a bubble.
Comment by daleyrocks — 10/12/2008 @ 8:16 pm
bad typos in that one
Comment by daleyrocks — 10/12/2008 @ 8:17 pm
Hey Love2008, yet more love for McCain-Palin, eh?
Vandals spray-painted the words “Republican means slavery” on the door of the York County GOP campaign headquarters overnight Friday.
Party volunteers called police after discovering the message when they arrived at the office on Rock Hill’s Oakland Avenue. The vandals also stole about 45 candidate signs from the front yard and spray-painted over a banner that carried a picture of Republican presidential nominee John McCain. Their messages included lettering and symbols sometimes used by gangs.
http://www.heraldonline.com/109/story/877049.html
Oops. I forgot - it only matters if its against O.
Comment by Dana — 10/12/2008 @ 8:38 pm
lovie - That report found that Gov. Palin’s decision was within her authority. What say you?
Comment by JD — 10/12/2008 @ 8:41 pm
res ipsa loquitur
The thing speaks for itself
Comment by lawmom90 — 10/12/2008 @ 8:46 pm
Come on.. It’s a fact that the dems are insane and deranged. They appear to have very malleable brains.. they take what they think is the path of least resistance.. lazy brains I call it and you know easily led, sheep to the slaughter etc. They are products for the most part of the public school system.. need I say more. The only discourse they know how to have is coarse, vulgar gutter words..words just words (sound familiar?). not fully formed ideas or even paragraphs or hell not even complete sentences.. something like.. oohh oohhh aahhh ahhh.. somewhat like monkeys. I’d feel sorry for them except for the fact they are very dangerous with their mob (sheep) mentality. I have lately come to feel there is a real danger out there for McCain and Palin.. I hope there aren’t enemies within their campaign which is a possibility for McCains penchant of trusting the dems.. he just doesn’t get it.. they think he’s a fool with all this bipartisan crap.. nobody cares about that except him.. he thinks it’s a badge of honor. We conservatives think it’s just stupid. Dems have nothing to offer us. Conservatives are the backbone of this nation. We’re not the freeloading craven neandrathals that make up the dems’ party.
Comment by hogtrrashhd — 10/12/2008 @ 8:47 pm
I’m angry cuz the repubs had control
and they f*cked up
I’m angry cuz the media wont do their jobs
I’m angry cuz the dems voted for the war
[sorry-can't quote the resolution by congress]
and 3 months later-they just BITCHED and WHINED
I’m angry cuz Every major inner city is controlled by dems -and has been 4 40 years!and they pimp black people out..
is that enuff?..
oh yeah-I’m pissed Nanker Phelge won’t call
himself Andrew Lloyd Weber!under-assistant west coast promo-man…my ass
Comment by pdbuttons — 10/12/2008 @ 8:58 pm
Perhaps a better description of Gov. Palin’s visit to the hockey game can be found here:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/terry-trippany/2008/10/12/nyt-pulls-misleading-account-palin-puck-dropping-ceremony
hat tip: Don Surber
Comment by Adriane — 10/12/2008 @ 9:09 pm
Love2000hate wrote:
While Judy pretty much summed up the reasons why I’m indeed angry (thanks, Judy!
) I would like to know why you were compelled to lie about what Gov. Palin said in your link.
Why wasn’t the truth about what she said not good enough? Why did you say she said “Obama and his evil network of ‘terrorists’ are the bad guys” when she said nothing of the sort?
Why are you a lying witch?
Comment by L.N. Smithee — 10/12/2008 @ 9:20 pm
122- surely you know by now that CV dicates that all that dem support went down the memory hole? Revisionist history is de rigeur now. Even though we can see vidoes of Clinton and his minions insisting that Saddam needed taking out well before W was even running for Potus.
Under asst. west coast promo man? Darn it, I can hear Mick Jagger singing that now. I sure sure do earn my pay sittin’ on the beach every day.
Comment by madmax333 — 10/12/2008 @ 9:26 pm
Obama isn’t any sort of power figure. He’s a trained television performer and a teleprompter reader. Sadly, he’s just a field n****r for George Soros… the Chicago machine, Daley and the Strogers… really, anyone he could leech off of to get pushed up the political ladder.
Luckily, these entries will serve as great I-told-you-so stuff should this hobo break into the White House. A Socialist all set to undo America and sell her soul to hostile nations and ruthless dictators. Expect nothing less, lovey. We’ll be here to remind you, you were buying a bill of goods called hope & change… just wait to see what actually arrives on your doorstep. You’re in for a real shocka.
Comment by Vermont Neighbor — 10/12/2008 @ 9:42 pm
“A a tip of my hat to the Philadelphia fans for the boos.”
- - -
And yet another mooch salivating over his welfare payment . . . er . . . “tax refund” . . . yeah, that’s what we’ll call it . . . is heard from.
Comment by bobby b — 10/12/2008 @ 9:44 pm
Instapundit posts an e-mail from a commenter that captures some of the spirit that surprises the left. It sounds rational and disappointed, not angry.
“I consider myself a libertarian/conservative. Like many people of that bent, I was uncomfortable with Bush when he was nominated. But Al Gore’s increasingly-erratic behavior during the 2000 election made me hope Bush won.
Once Bush won, and it became clear that the Florida democrats were trying to steal the election, I became something of a Bush loyalist. Throughout his first term, I took note of all the really horrible things that were said about him, saw that a large portion of the left would rather see Bush fail than see America succeed, and was alarmed by the complicity (and often, participation) of the MSM and mainstream Hollywood. It wasn’t far into his second term that I succumbed to Bush Fatigue, due to his inability to make the case for his foreign policy to the American people, and his inability to find the veto pen. He has truly been a terrible steward of the Republican brand, and because of this, the Conservative and libertarian causes are suffering.
I’m no fan of McCain , but as I dislike Obama (and love Palin), I’ll be pulling the lever for McCain in November.
This is surely small of me, but if Obama wins, I plan on giving him as much of a chance as the Democrats gave George Bush. I will gleefully forward every paranoid anti-Obama rumor that I see, along with YouTube footage of his verbal missteps. I will laugh and email heinous anti-Obama photoshop jobs, and maybe even learn photoshop myself to create some. I’ll buy anti-Obama books, and maybe even a “Not My President” t-shirt. I’m sure that the mainstream bookstores won’t carry them, but I’ll be on the lookout for anti-Obama calendars and stuff like that. I will not wish America harm, and if the country is hurt (economically, militarily, or diplomatically) I will truly mourn. But i will also take some solace that it occurred under Obama’s watch, and will find every reason to blame him personally and fan the flames.
Obama’s thuggish behavior thus far in this election cycle - squashing free speech, declaring any criticism of his policies to be “racist” (a word that happily carries little weight with sensible people these days), associating with the likes of Ayers, Wright, and ACORN - suggests that I won’t have to scrape for reasons to really viscerally dislike Obama and his administration. And even if he wins, his campaign’s “get out the vote fraud” activities are enough to provide people like me with a large degree of “plausible deniability” as to whether he is actually legitimately the president.
I’ve seen a President that I am generally-inclined to like get crapped on for eight years, and I’ve seen McCain and Palin (honorable people both, despite policy differences I may have with them) get crapped on through this election season. If the Democrats think that a President Obama is going to get some sort of honeymoon from the folks who didn’t vote for him, as a wise man once said: heh.”
Comment by daleyrocks — 10/12/2008 @ 9:51 pm
Vermont Neighbor and Daley Rocks -
Spot on about those sentiments. I’ll rue the day Obama takes over and he’s already saying that the likes of ACORN will help him set his agenda.
How much of a honeymoon will the media give him, given that they already figurativley suck his johnson? Assclown Chrissie matthews is apparently running right along side him in anticipation of being Pa. Senator in ‘10.
My sense is that Obama and his rubber stamp Congress with lackeys Pelosi and Reid running interfernce will surely fuck up the works big time. Why would it not be remind one of what goes on in Venezuela now? Sure, Chavez has opposition but he does a quite job of silencing newspapers and ordinary dissenters. The blog The Devil’s Excrement out of Caracas has chronicled much of the horror of Hugo. Let’s see how abolishing of blogs like Patterico plays out, or the Fairness Doctrine or an Obama Justice Dept. run amok. Being a geezer already, I intend to do my part by paying as little in taxes as necessary. I don’t look forward to something likely far worse than Carter II, due to the long term consequences on the country, but I’m not sure that a McCain as Potus is heaven on earth either what with all those illegals being granted citizenship and ready to offically suck at the public teat.
Comment by madmax333 — 10/12/2008 @ 10:11 pm
Maddoggit, VN! Rule #1: DON’T GIVE YOUR ENEMY SOMETHING TO HIT YOU OVER THE HEAD WITH!
Comment by L.N. Smithee — 10/12/2008 @ 10:22 pm
Sorry, L.N. I fully meant that disparaging remark and to emasculate Obama for the man that he’s not. He is a field hand sent in to do the big boys’ work, with a fabricated jazz club ‘cool’ that looks good on TV.
Not to offend black-Americans but I believe Cornel West would cite the same problem with style over substance. Servitude over serving.
In Obama’s case, it really is about who’s pulling the strings. Words have meaning and Obama is not a uniter. I think we all see him playing the racist card still, and his karma will come back to punish him. That and ACORN are not an honest win.
I’m just enjoying my say till reeducation camp. The TRUTH SQUADS and political oppression….
Comment by Vermont Neighbor — 10/12/2008 @ 10:34 pm
Sorry I stepped out. Like you know, I have a real life outside this crazy blog community.
LN Smithee, you a mendacious, two-faced lying son of a gun! And you know it. Just like your candidate, Sarah Palin, you have lost all sense of right and wrong. May God forgive you.
Comment by love2008 — 10/13/2008 @ 12:39 am
#127
he’s just a field n****r for George Soros
Need we say more? We knew what this whole Obama-hatred was really about-racism. Carefully concealed in an aversion for his policies. At the end of the day, it’s still about the anger that an arrogant, ungrateful post-affirmative action “N-” dares to lead his masters. But I am not shocked. But still, I am sad. So sad.
Comment by love2008 — 10/13/2008 @ 1:00 am
Obama isn’t any sort of power figure. He’s a trained television performer and a teleprompter reader. Sadly, he’s just a field n****r for George Soros… the Chicago machine, Daley and the Strogers… really, anyone he could leech off of to get pushed up the political ladder.
Jesus Christ. OK, consider this your official warning. One more comment like that and you’ll be banned.
LN Smithee, you a mendacious, two-faced lying son of a gun! And you know it.
Warning for you as well.
You guys seem to think I’ll tolerate any sort of behavior in the comments. You’re wrong. I’m tired of this.
Comment by Patterico — 10/13/2008 @ 1:08 am
Why are you a lying witch?
Same for you. I haven’t read the whole thread to see what led up to this, but in a way I don’t much care. My commenters are better than this. At least I thought they were.
Comment by Patterico — 10/13/2008 @ 1:10 am
Don’t forget concerned! Very, very concerned.
Hey, you know how Obama likes to complain about “guilt by association” tactics? How about that, huh?
Comment by Jim Treacher — 10/13/2008 @ 1:11 am
We knew what this whole Obama-hatred was really about-racism.
Oh, give me a break. If Obama were a conservative, you’d be quietly musing that the value of diversity — racial or otherwise — and “civil rights for all” was not necessarily all it was cracked up to be.
Comment by Mark — 10/13/2008 @ 1:15 am
#120
lovie - That report found that Gov. Palin’s decision was within her authority. What say you?
Comment by JD — 10/12/2008 @ 8:41 pm
JD, it is one thing for something to be within your power to do and yet another for it to be ethical. No one is saying she had no right to fire even her whole cabinet if she so desired. The issue is did it pass the ethics test? This is the findings.
Palin “knowingly, as that term is defined in … statutes, permitted Todd Palin to use the Governor’s office and the resources of the Governor’s office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired. Her conduct violated AS 39.52.110(a) of the Ethics Act…”
That is where her problem lies.
And again this,
The report states: “I find that Governor Sarah Palin Abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act … Compliance with the code of ethics is not optional…
“The evidence supports the conclusion that Governor Palin, at the least, engaged in ‘official action’ by her inaction if not her active participation or assistance to her husband in attempting to get Trooper Wooten fired [and there is evidence of her active participation.] She knowingly, as that term is defined in the above cited statutes, permitted Todd Palin to use the Governor’s office and the resources of the Governor’s office, including access to state employees, to continue to contact subordinate state employees in an effort to find some way to get Trooper Wooten fired. Her conduct violated AS 39.52.110(a) of the Ethics Act…
“Governor Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda.”
Even though she continues to be untruthful about what the report really said. She says:
“Well, I’m very very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing,” Palin said, “any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that.”
Not true.
So my question to you is, do you think that she passed the ethics test on this issue? And do you think she has been truthful about what the report actually said?
Comment by love2008 — 10/13/2008 @ 1:34 am
#135
I am sorry Patt, they started it.
Comment by love2008 — 10/13/2008 @ 1:37 am
I heard that emotions can run high when one 1/2 of America is trying to vote for someone who promises to give them the other halfs money
Booing is one thing - threatening to kill people for their political beliefs - well…. its another line thats been crossed
Didn’t one candidate actually ask for his supports to get in the face of their opponents?
Comment by EricPWJohnson — 10/13/2008 @ 1:57 am
Love2008
If they could convict her they would have - expressing an opinion she violated an ethics law is like expressing an opinion that pink is the new orange
Comment by EricPWJohnson — 10/13/2008 @ 1:59 am
Well, the post is satire (I confess I didn’t get it till “NYT columnist Kall Prugman” hahaha) but at least two liberals upthread seriously asked for an example of a death threat toward Palin or McCain.
How does “Let’s stone her, old school” sound?
And if several of the examples from the Michelle Malkin post which Patterico links don’t constitute incitement to violence I don’t know what does. Except that several of them are being made by famous and influential liberals, not by anonymous crazies at rallies. And mass marketed bumper stickers saying “Abort Palin,” etc.
Comment by no one you know — 10/13/2008 @ 4:34 am
Didn’t Al Franken teach us that it’s OK to attack these people and beat them up?
Comment by Roscoe — 10/13/2008 @ 4:38 am
It’s Democrat plants at the Republican rallies that are spouting the hatred. Everybody knows that the Democrats have a lock on cheating (ACORN) and corruption (Freddie/Fannie) so let’s just get used to Venezuala North when Barry oozes into office.
Comment by Lars — 10/13/2008 @ 4:44 am
Palin shouldn’t be trying to get rid of troopers who drink on the job in their cruiser and use their tasers on their own kids! She should be using them to procure studly young supporters for sex, like a good Democrat Gov does.
I mean, anything else is just unethical. By that report’s standards, If the economy of Alaska was in a complete meltdown and Palin could stop it by taking some official action, it would be unethical, because preventing the meltdown would benefit her personally as well.
Comment by moptop — 10/13/2008 @ 4:48 am
#142
If they could convict her they would have - expressing an opinion she violated an ethics law is like expressing an opinion that pink is the new orange
Comment by EricPWJohnson — 10/13/2008 @ 1:59 am
Is that your opinion? How are your eyes doing with colours? Do you see what it is or do you see what your eyes tell you? How can you trust your eyes to tell you the truth about what you think you see?
Comment by love2008 — 10/13/2008 @ 5:07 am
Dear MD-As Wiki tells us….
“Under the old common law rule, to use res ipsa loquitur in the context of negligence the plaintiff must prove that:
The harm would not ordinarily have occurred without someone’s negligence
The “thing” which caused the harm was under the exclusive control of the defendant at the time of the likely negligent act
There must be an absence of a reasonable explanation as to how the harm occurred…”
In other words, as you thought…its does apply perfectly to Obama backers with Palin Derangement Syndrome. PAX
Comment by Bobbo — 10/13/2008 @ 5:28 am
“…notoriously conservative news outlets, such as MSNBC…”
Now that’s funny.
There’s another story up that idiot John is ‘restarting’ his campaign. He’s done that before. He isn’t bright enough to realize the only time his campaign did well is when he rolled out Palin and seemed to play to his conservative base. Then it was back to Dem-lite for him and he dropped in the polls. Not too bright I would say.
Comment by TomJW — 10/13/2008 @ 5:29 am
The bottom line is that hecklers and hate-mongerers, regardless of which party they support, are low-IQ mouth-breathers . The lack of respect shown in this country to those with differing viewpoints has hit an all-time high. Those that sit silently by and do nothing to dissuade the idiots are just as guilty.
Comment by scooter55 — 10/13/2008 @ 5:37 am
The financial crisis is the direct result of Democrat social engineering.
Subprime affirmative action mortgages were given to people who could not afford them because Democrats used the power of government to force lenders to make the loans in the name of “fairness”.
Bush has kept us safe since Clinton’s 9/11, his tax rate reductions got us out of Clinton’s internet bubble and the economic hit caused by 9/11, the rich now pay a larger portion of taxes than before, and the economic growth spurred by the tax rate reductions resulted in record tax revenues for the government.
The gas price fiasco and subprime mess have all hit since the Democrats took over Congress in 2006.
It was government meddling that distorted the housing markets and Obama wants to meddle even more.
Why would anyone with a brain vote for Obama whose socialist ideas are proven to fail?
He think
Comment by Mike J — 10/13/2008 @ 5:38 am
“Holy crap,” New York Times columnist Kall Prugman said in a brief phone interview. “I had no idea we were worse than the people at the McCain rallies.”
There’s something Krugman doesn’t know? “Holy crap”, stop the presses.
Comment by Mister Snitch — 10/13/2008 @ 5:43 am
Those on the left have advocated murder as an essential part of their ideology. National Socialist Germany murdered cripples, those with war wounds, those with polio, as well as politial opponents, Jews, and like Ernst Rohm, those who were political allies but who got in the way.
Soviet Socialism murdered bougeois, kulaks, as well as former allies like Trotsky.
When the overriding goal is theft, the left justifies enslavement, torture, and murder as mere means to the end. But the generation raised under the left’s government responds with perversion.
Comment by Don Meaker — 10/13/2008 @ 5:55 am
Wow. It’s getting ugly out there. And in here. And on every other political website/board. Maybe the best thing that could happen for this country is to just get this election behind us, HOWEVER it turns out.
Comment by Agoraphobic Plumber — 10/13/2008 @ 6:29 am
What makes you think that’s possible? The left hasn’t even gotten over 2000…
Comment by Scott Jacobs — 10/13/2008 @ 6:47 am
“What makes you think that’s possible? The left hasn’t even gotten over 2000…”
Well, parts of the south never got over the Civil War, either, but it hasn’t done them much good. The Left would have been better served if they had reacted to 2000 like humans. *I* would probably still be a little leftish if 2000 had been handled better (and if 9/11 hadn’t happened).
If Obama wins, I certainly hope the Right acts like something other than the cage full of chimpanzees that the modern Left has become, or they’ll follow the same route to irrelevance…though I’m not so worried about that because they seem to have a better track record there.
I guess I’ve just been shaken a bit by the vehemence on both sides this cycle. It’s not unprecedented, but it is unusual and we have an economic crisis that neither party seems to be taking very seriously. The potential consequences make Islamic extremists, Iran, and North Korea look like pikers.
How can Obama keep promising all these new, expensive programs? How could Bush have expanded Medicare with the prescription drug benefit? How can McCain keep talking about cutting taxes without gutting the entire domestic spending system and a good part of the military?
Why do people talk so much about “reducing the deficit” rather than “bringing back the surpluses we had before the 80s”? Are they interested in making the ship sink more slowly, or in making it more seaworthy again?
Economics played a major role in bringing down nearly every single civilization that ever went down (I’ll exclude those who were blown up by volcanoes (Minoans), disrupted by climate change (some Asian and Central/South American nations) and so forth). So, in most cases, did blind adherence to purist ideology, be it right, left, or otherwise.
I do *not* want to live in times that are too “interesting”.
Comment by Agoraphobic Plumber — 10/13/2008 @ 7:15 am
NYTimes has retracted their report on the booing. What is disturbing is the attempt on the left to bully into SUBMISSION (where have we heard that word before?)the right. There is no attempt at dialogue and the rhetoric from the left is gutter level (I would not insult a second grader’s intellect with comparing the left to the second grader). It should be an interesting 4 years under the rule (and Obama uses that word, not govern)of the left.
Comment by Judith — 10/13/2008 @ 7:16 am
Let’s see what happened over the weekend.
There’s the firebombing of people’s yards for daring to house a McCain sign.
There’s vandalism of GOP offices.
Doesn’t sound like it’s the GOP resorting to real thuggery.
Comment by jdb — 10/13/2008 @ 7:18 am
I watched the Philly rally
there were NOT lusty BOOS against Mccain
YOU ARE A LIAR
Comment by nlcatter — 10/13/2008 @ 7:33 am
“I am sorry Patt, they started it.”
An apology from the 3rd-grade.
Pathetic!
Comment by Another Drew — 10/13/2008 @ 7:36 am
My parents were in row 13 when Palin spoke in Florida and never heard the kooks that Millbank wrote about. So if they didn’t I’m sure she didn’t.
Comment by plutosdad — 10/13/2008 @ 7:47 am
Why does anyone accept Milbank’s representation as being true?
Comment by JD — 10/13/2008 @ 7:50 am
Philly sports fans are known as some of the most disrespectful in the country. Philly fans have pelted Santa Claus with snowballs. They did no such thing with Gov. Palin. Therefore Philly likes Palin more than Santa, and that is good enough for me.
Comment by Alex — 10/13/2008 @ 8:10 am
As a native Philadelphian who has attended more than my share of pro sporting events, the booing of Palin was to be expected for a number of reasons.
a) Philadelphians can be in general a pretty slovenly, boorish lot, and when we get in sporting events that grows exponentially.
b) Most Philadelphians are lock-step, blinders-on, slaves to the Democratic party, despite the fact that that party and its inept, corrupt leadership at the local level has driven the city into the ground.
c) Nothing that any Philadelphia fan conjures up in the realm of public displays of loutish behavior can ever compare to the bottom-of-the-barrel, knuckle-dragging, barely human, mouth-breathing, feral idiocy of your average fan of the New York Mets.
Comment by Jack Klompus — 10/13/2008 @ 8:31 am
jharp says “Governor Palin using her 7 year as a shield was a cowardly act. And aren’t we supposed to leave the children out of it, anyways?”
Yeah, that’s exactly what every politician person disliked by the left should do: isolate themselves from their family, especially young children. As though they shouldn’t be allowed to do the same things many other families do. Nope, they should just turn into shut-ins so that the uncultured swine of the left can’t shout rude, proof of base thoughtlessness at them. Get a life, Jharp.
…Bringing kids into this… what utter BS. You should be so lucky that conservatives as a group seem to have more standards and manners, and sense of decency to show the same respect to their political rivals as they would their friends.
Comment by Jennifer — 10/13/2008 @ 8:47 am
Jennifer - jharpy is the one that used Gov. Palin’s Down’s child to insult people. It is who they are, and what they do.
Jack - I went to a Colt’s game in Philly a few years back. Not a very friendly place, to be sure.
Comment by JD — 10/13/2008 @ 8:57 am
Comment by Jack Klompus — 10/13/2008 @ 8:31 am
How provincial of you Jack, to criticize your cosmopolitan betters in Queens.
ROTFLMFAO!
Comment by Another Drew — 10/13/2008 @ 9:03 am
Brotherly Love my ass…
I felt safer in Cabrini Green than I did in Philly.
Comment by Scott Jacobs — 10/13/2008 @ 9:04 am
JD - a local independent filmmaker a few years back made a low budget film called “Superphan,” about the fictional character Mike DeLuca, the most obsessed Eagles fan in Philly. It’s still the most spot-on depiction of Philly sports fans and hysterically funny if you get the jokes. The other perfect slice of Philly is AMC’s Parking Wars.
Obama just had a big rally in Philly where thousands of fawning fans showed up. I really don’t understand the logic behind spending the money and resources on appearances in a town where an inanimate carbon rod with a “D” after its name would still get 95% of the vote. This is a town that reelected insufferably inept Wilson Goode who dropped a military style bomb on a residential neighborhood, and the hideously racist and corrupt John Street to second terms as mayors. Street used Axelrod as his campaign manager who turned Street’s FBI-led corruption investigation into a “racist Republican plot” against him and he won a second term handily.
Comment by Jack Klompus — 10/13/2008 @ 9:08 am
166. Haha oh come on Drew! You’re not saying a revealed any kind of bias in my statement now, are you?
Comment by Jack Klompus — 10/13/2008 @ 9:08 am
166. Haha oh come on Drew! You’re not saying I revealed any kind of bias in my statement of love and affection for Mets fan now, are you? See that’s us. We’re up 2-1 in the NLCS but its more important to dump on the Mets than revel in our good fortune!
Comment by Jack Klompus — 10/13/2008 @ 9:09 am
Yeh, 2-1, but you’re beating up on the Dodgers, Jack.
It’s not like you’re playing another baseball team.
Plus, Mets fans will receive all that they deserves (BTW, what character/movie was it that had the line “Deserves got nothing to do with it”?).
Comment by Another Drew — 10/13/2008 @ 9:18 am
The Mets are a great team, until the last 2 weeks of the season …
I wonder if the Pillies will make it past the second inning before throwing at someone tonight.
Comment by JD — 10/13/2008 @ 9:23 am
“Governor Palin using her 7 year as a shield was a cowardly act. And aren’t we supposed to leave the children out of it, anyways?”
I don’t know, maybe she just wanted to take her 7 year old to a hockey game?
“A a tip of my hat to the Philadelphia fans for the boos.”
I recall when Michael Irving was booed off the field by Philadelphia fans after recieving a career ending injury. I don’t think patriotism has much to do with it; it’s just people from the ‘city of brotherly love’ being their usually classy selves.
Comment by celebrim — 10/13/2008 @ 9:38 am
““A a tip of my hat to the Philadelphia fans for the boos.”
You’d last five minutes walking the streets of Philadelphia.
Comment by Jack Klompus — 10/13/2008 @ 9:52 am
THIS IS SUCH A FREAKEN BIAS ARTICLE, WE KNOW WHO THIS AUTHOR IS ROOTING FOR!! OBAMA HAS ALWAYS BEEN CLEAR AT HIS RALLIES, WHICH IS DO NOT HATE BUT COME AND WORK TOGETHER. THIS ARTICLE MUST BE FROM THE MCCAIN/PALIN TEAM.
Comment by ROSIE — 10/13/2008 @ 10:08 am
Capslock, cruise control to cool.
Comment by Scott Jacobs — 10/13/2008 @ 10:13 am
Christ, you people are out of your effin’ minds….
All the sins of the GOP over the last 8 to 12 years and all the sins of the pathetic Bush administration and all the sins of the ridiculous McCAin/Palin ticket and their woefully angry audiences…you would dare to place all these ills at the foot of the DEMS and Obama. Beyond laughable and really just sad. I’ll say this again, in case you forgot it the first 30 times I said it. People are sick of these tactics, they do not buy into them anymore, yet you guys thinks it’ll work.
IT’s ABOUT THE ECONOMY. Until McCain addresses that and begins to put some real distance between himself and Bush and the whole Republican infrastraucture, He will continue to hemorrhage poll numbers. See, only problem is he doesn’t have the vision or the intelligence or the credibility OR the dedication to real economic reform that he needs to do that.
He’s just all hat and no catttle folks. He just wants to get in for the sake of power and ambition alone, like his prize for being a good company man, like Bush, and he can be a figurehead (much like Bush) and the GOP can try and rewrite history and blame it all on the Democrats.
I think on a deeper level, people understand that we need someone who goes into the office of President with a full head of steam and to begin th