Expect pitchforks and torches should Obama get elected.
quote: 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."
And Sarah Palin is stoking the fires:
quote: "One of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," she said. ("Boooo!" said the crowd.) "And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,' " she continued. ("Boooo!" the crowd repeated.)
"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.
quote: Barack Obama, she told 8,000 fans at a rally here Monday afternoon, "launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist!" This followed her earlier accusation that the Democrat pals around with terrorists. "This is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America," she told the Clearwater crowd. "I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country." The crowd replied with boos.
And McCain may be powerless to stop it:
quote: McCain had said that racially explosive attacks related to Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are off limits. But Palin told New York Times columnist Bill Kristol in an interview published Monday: "I don't know why that association isn't discussed more."
Watch McCain react to an audience member replying "terrorist" to his question "Who is Barack Obama?" as the crowd roars it's approval. See how he recoils, as if he didn't expect an answer that his running mate has been labelling Obama.
All this after stories (wish I could find the link) that people with Obama bumper stickers are getting their brakes cut.
Finally, Palin was introduced by a edit: sheriff, who happened to have shaved all his hair off,/edit who denounced what might happen on election day if "Barack Hussein Obama" is elected. I'm afraid of what might happen to anyone who goes to the polls with the intention of voting Obama.
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there's a dude in my town who drives around with a homemade "White guilt is no reason to vote for Obama -- Wake up Librals" sign on the drivers door of his truck.
quote: Originally posted by Zkribbler
See the story I quoted in the Obama thread about a man being shot 3 thimes for wearing an Obama t-shirt.
I was considering linking that too, but that happened in the UK. And I do have a link to another story about brake slashing, but it happened to a Liberal Party Chairman in Canada.
Patroklos
Emperor
Charleston, SC No more ships! A lot more drinking!
One of our neighbor's house was egged last weekend.
The McCain/Palin sign in the front yard had BIGOT spray painted on it. Both sides showing tons of class here.
All that stuff about "in the mud ... and get dirty" would be funny if it weren't so dangerous. Tell enough true believers that a man is a traitor and one of them (or more) will try and kill him. Same goes for saying a man is directly, personally responsible for you losing your home and having your life ruined. I honestly think the repubs went down this course first (maybe out of desperation due to the trend in the polls) but both of them are playing a very dangerous game.
quote: Originally posted by rah
One of our neighbor's house was egged last weekend.
The McCain/Palin sign in the front yard had BIGOT spray painted on it. Both sides showing tons of class here.
It's so sad that so many are willing to trample American freedoms, thinking that somehow it will help their side win.
Sign of the times. I don't know that the nation has been so divided in my lifetime.
I truly hope Obama wins, but also, I fear for him if he does. This will not stop me from voting in what I believe to be a pivotally important election, but Fabulous is right. With weeks to go, it sure is starting to turn ugly out there.
-=Vel=-
(and despite my comments in other threads, I have not, and would not commit an act of violence in support of a political candidate...mostly that's me venting my frustrations and feeling my years...I turned 40 not long ago... )
quote: Originally posted by Velociryx
Sign of the times. I don't know that the nation has been so divided in my lifetime.
Bah, this is nothing. You should have been here during Vietnam. Ohio National Guardsmen shooting students at Kent State. Jackson State students being shot by cops for swearing. Cops being assassinated while patrolling. Government buildings being bombed. Patty Hearst being kidnapped, radicalized and joining her captors in robbing banks.
Unfortunately, there are no clean hands these days, and no outcomes without severe bitterness from one group or the other. Ah well, maybe in 2012, if only for the end of the world.
Dems were crazed in 00 and 04, I can't imagine the froth if they blow this one.
Bah, this is nothing. You should have been here during Vietnam. Ohio National Guardsmen shooting students at Kent State. Jackson State students being shot by cops for swearing. Cops being assassinated while patrolling. Government buildings being bombed. Patty Hearst being kidnapped, radicalized and joining her captors in robbing banks.
In my mind, harrasing people over election, vandalizing and attacking them because of who they are going to vote is a crime that shoudl be punished with mandatory jail time. Voter intimidation is very very very serious IMO and should not be taken lightly.
Seeing some of the crowds that the McCain campaign talks to is really starting to worry me, it seems nothing short of Nazi rallies with a mid west or southern twist. Scares the heck out of me.
What a moran!
It's so sad that so many are willing to trample American freedoms, thinking that somehow it will help their side win.
