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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.

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  • Monday, October 6, 2008 04:44 PM

    Glenn

    They're clearly going full-blast with their twin-pronged attack campaign against Obama and Democrats, which consists of blaming Dems and their bounbless love for shiftless blacks and illegal aliens for the mortgage meltdown, and painting Obama as a far-left America-hating exotic stealth Muslim terrorist radical. None of this should come as any surprise to anyone who's been paying attention to how the GOP, and McCain, operate (even though he's been better at hiding this for much of his surprisingly unimpressive legislative career).

    I've been more focused on the former line of attack, which has been going on for nearly two weeks now, and have put up a few short videos on YouTube showing how they've employed their surrogates to spew this nonsense in typical talking points lockstep dissembling fashion.

    Sunday's Washington Journal on CSPAN:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGJUczfsKgY

    George Will on Sunday's This Week on ABC:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URVME4v-LEs

    And, somewhat unrelated, but just to show how insane McCain appears to almost literally be at this point, here's a very short clip of him on Morning Joe last week, rambling incoherently:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGCK_379l6w

    Finally, a clip from the PBS News Hour last week in which a lifetime Florida Republican states his disgust with today's GOP and anyone who supports them in unambiguous manner:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko32F8RqNJk

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