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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
It is The Ugly.
The problem for us -- The American People -- is that so few know what to do about it.
-- Ché Pasa
You can be arrested in mass numbers for the crime of hanging around on the grass in a park. (Aka, The Republican Convention). But you can yell out, "Kill Him!" at a stump speech given by the Republican Vice Presidential candidate, and you can yell out, "Terrorist!" in response to the Republican Presidential candidate asking who the Democratic Presidential candidate "really is", and you will be cheered and buttressed.
http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/07/good-gravy-obama-git-this-here-ad-on-the-radio/
(YouTube -- Ralph Stanley picking The Clinch Mountain Backstep.)
Thanks, Bystander, for bringing it to my attention. I've heard Ralph Stanley's great radio ad before. Glad to see FDL picking up, building on it, and moving it on down the road.
Unleashed, Palin Makes a Pit Bull Look Tame
By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, October 7, 2008; Page A03
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602935.html
... 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." ...
If these clips get enough media attention. I don't think anyone wants to have a president who is consorting with a lynch mob, and if that's the caliber of McCain's supporters, they may not want to be affiliated.
But what I'm about to say will be branded radical by many across the political spectrum: there is going to be a terrorist attack before the election.
As the polls continue to trend strongly in favor of Obama, McCain's backers will take ever more desperate measures to avoid losing the power they've spent the last 30 years wresting from our democracy.
Expect the "Bin Laden" video shortly. Then expect a "suitcase nuke" in a city near you.
I see no alternative to another 9/11. Please, fellow progressives, tell me what other option the NeoCons have left? There are not enough rigged voting machines to pull off another coup. The Rezko/Ayres stories are a wash with McCain's Keating Five. Obama's not going to pull a Kerry and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
I think you are right. I hope you are wrong. It's crazy time. We can't trust our own government.
The more they unmask themselves this way, the more smashing will be their defeat, the longer their banishment will be.
To paraphrase Lee Atwater, "as long as the enemy is self-destructing, don't interrupt."
there is going to be a terrorist attack before the election.-- ProGrocker Monday, October 6, 2008 02:31 PM
Richard Clarke's gotcha covered. He's been all over predicting this exact thing for the clear purpose of taking away the surprise and the effect.
Whatever happens now, the repugs will take the blame, both because it's been publicly predicted and they're supposed the fucking anti-terrorist experts, and because the Obama campaign had a plan for this one complete months ago.
I am certain there will be such an attack, and even more certain that far from hurting Obama, it will give him a 50-state landslide after he finishes turning it back on McCain in a perfect judo move.
In 2004, Kerry was surprised and thrown off by the bin Laden video. This time, Barack Obama is ready with a "look what happened after seven years of bush-McCain anti-terror fighting."
I really, really hope the repugs are stupid enough to try it (with a non-lethal, non-nuke surprise, please FSM.)
...someone in Palin's crowd in FL yelled "Kill Him!" in response to part of her speech.
No one said anything. Has anyone yet from the McCain/Palin campaign come out and condemned this persons words? I know they can't control the crowd, but silence condones. They're treading into dangerous territory here, almost to the level of hate speech, but not quite. They're certainly inciting the crowd to rather scary levels.
Mommy, he's sayin' ugly things!
Now that's just plain hurtful.
Lipstick.
I just watched Bruce Springsteen's concert in Philadelphia where he sung "This Land is your Land" by Woody Guthrie as the final song.
We are a country that could produce this song, a Woodie Guthrie, a Bruce Springsteen and yes, a Barak Obama. We are also a country that could produce yesterday's rally and the people that yelled that Barak Obama was a terrorist and the Sarah Palin rally that had a fellow yell "kill him" referring to Obama. We are a country that produces a John F. Kennedy and then kills him and his brother. A country that produces a Martin Luthur King and then assissinated him.
Historically, this is more than just people feeling different. What McCain/Palin is doing is not innocent and that it is just "the other side". It is increasing the differences, not shrinking them. And it is accepted because they are "losing" so you can bring the whole country down while you ironically campaign with a "Country First" slogan.
John McCain is clearly presenting himself as an expert on domestic terrorism. He is saying that knows exactly what happened in the Viet Nam era weather underground while he was a prisoner in Hanoi.
And yet with all his expertise and unparalleled insight, he was unable to see that the motive for the Anthrax attacks by Bruce Ivins on two Democaratic senators was because they were Catholics who were pro-choice. How did he know that he would not be attacked with anthrax? During the Presidential campaign of 2000, McCain was seen by his own party as weak on the abortion issue, which by their logic, would be unforgivable because he was a Catholic, and actively used the Catholic base as a political support prop. In fact, being a Republican, pro-choice candidate would be even a bigger hippocracy than being a Democratic pro-choice candidiate. McCain was clearly never concerned about terrorism against himself, or anyone else until Obama came along, who, by the way, never had his own anthrax laboratory.
How come our terrorism expert McCain oouldn't find the Catholic anti-Catholic Pro-Life terrorist in the military's own anthrax laboratory? ( in Frederick Md. )
Is it fair to question McCain about his knowledge on the anthrax case?
IT IS NOW, HE HAS MADE IT HIS ISSUE,
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