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Monday, October 6, 2008 12:00 AM

John McCain's unprecedentedly ugly speech today

The increasingly petty and ugly attacks on Barack Obama by a desperate, dying movement are a microcosm of the last eight years.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Monday, October 6, 2008 06:53 PM

    1995 revisited

    I just received an e-mail from a friend in Israel who worked for Israeli prime minister Rabin in 1995 and witnessed his assassination. He watched the McCain and Palin incendiary speeches as well as their crowd's reaction with great alarm. He mentioned that their speeches were eerily similar to the inciting speeches Right Wingers such as Netanyahu, Sharon(before he became a centrist) and others used against Rabin and other Labor leaders. To him McCain is a fascist who isn't going to except defeat and he's extremely concerned about Obama's safety and about election day.

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