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While I empathized with their desperation, I disagreed with the actions of the Weathermen, even though they went out of their way to avoid harm to anyone. In the last few years we have had tens of thousands of people getting out to demonstrate and the media focus instead on a handful of masked anarchists breaking store windows. They are assisted in their never ending quest to miss the point.
The media also missed the obvious: If anyone was associating with terrorists, it was McCain, who took a great deal of money from his friend G. Gordon Liddy, a convicted Watergate criminal, who had McCain appear on his radio show. The founder of the party which Sarah welcomed and to which Todd belonged, was murdered in a deal for explosives gone bad.
When the media endlessly took the cues and direction of the RNC, and made Jeremiah Wright the issue, they left out McCain and Palin ministerial associates such as Pat Robertson, who advocated killing a head of state in this hemisphere, Rod Parsley, John Hagee, David Brickner, and similar secular professional homophobes, racists and anti-Semites such as Pat Buchanan and Tony Perkins.
I was surprised to see both Obama and Ayers holding their tongues when faced with this torrent of demagoguery. Obviously Obama's campaign survived this flood of unwarranted vitriol: I can't gauge if it would have done better or worse had it confronted the lunacy head on.
A disturbing issue to me is that Palin has willingly chosen to hitch her political fortunes to this disgusting rhetoric. There are credible sources that report her personal racism. Her rallies were hard to distinguish from the KKK's save for the presence of women and absence of white sheets and burning crosses. She consorted with the same Alaskan criminals whom the FBI have been getting indicted. I live with the hope that Americans will quickly realize who she is and more importantly, what she stands for.
Even Alaskans are rapidly catching on. Her ticket is expected to get less than 60% of the vote in an overwhelmingly Republican state and thousands have attended anti-Palin rallies there. Let's hope that it's the harbinger of the death of hatred.
