Beware the Bogey Man: A new low, even for McCain and his ignorant supporters!

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http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/editorial/reggies-commentary/4898-beware-the-bogey-man-a-new-low-even-for-mccain-and-his-ignorant-supporters.html

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Beware the Bogey Man: A new low, even for McCain and his ignorant supporters!

n Friday, as he rallied his bigoted, small-minded followers in a suburb of Minneapolis, John McCain made a most bizarre attempt to reverse the fear mongering and bigoted tone of his faltering campaign

The incident involved a brief exchange between a pathetic McCain supporter and her increasingly desperate candidate. What happened was this: during a rally at Lakeville South High School, McCain handed his microphone to a woman who expressed her concerns about Barack Obama "I don't trust Obama,” she said. “I have read about him. He's an Arab."

Just then, for just one unrealistic nanosecond, I naively hoped that John McCain would take the high road and reject such a bigoted attack from someone in his painfully ignorant audience. Instead, my heart sank in disbelief as I heard the response to this ethnic slur from a man who would be our national leader.

“No, ma’am” offered John {our hero) McCain, “He’s a decent, family man, citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign is all about."

Implicit, of course, in that response was another message: Don’t worry, ma’am, Barack Obama is NOT an Arab. Unlike Arabs, he’s a decent, family man.
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[grannie4peace]

1. i didn't see it like that

[madaboutharry]

2. I heard it that way too.

I actually think that woman wanted to call Obama something else. Maybe I am too cynical.

[Frisbee]

3. Nah, you just know his base... eom

[honkydonkey]

4. The woman seemed off to say the least....

and I agree with the person who said that she wanted to call him something else. I think she chickened out and Arab was the first thing that came to her little pea brain that, in her mind, would be a step below the "n" word. No McCain, not all "arabs" are trying to crash planes into the pentagon. ugh. I'm surrounded by people like this woman every day and I am very frightened for Barack. If I were him I would walk around with a redneck/bulletproof shield around me and my family. It's sad but there are so many wackos out there...God protect this man.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. If McCain hadn't taken the mike away from her,

she'd have gone further and the "n word" surely would have come out of her stupid mouth. I think McCain caught that possibility immediately - his face, just before he grabbed the microphone, was a giveaway - and shut her down.

Sure, she's nuts. Arthur Bremer was nuts. So was Sirhan Sirhan and Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray. Sane people don't murder politicians. Whackjobs do. And McCain and Palin have done an admirable job of encouraging the headcases.

Now, they're trying to backtrack from it. I heard Palin today - she was bleating about "the unborn." Thanks a lot, Sarah - as the economy crashes into nothingness, you are taking on Roe v. Wade.

Can you say "I'm a craven, pandering whore, just like that wrinkled old guy who found me"?

[Tansy_Gold]

6. I saw it, too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3538464&mesg_id=3538498


Again --

Piece
of
shit.