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ATTACK for Fail

MattusMaximus said:
Good gawd - I just read that story. If Palin keeps this up, I'm going to start getting genuinely concerned about the rage that she's stoking. Most people will just get whipped up for a rally, but there are those who will take her words to heart and go over the edge. Yikes. :boggled:
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I know. It is kind of scary actually.

This goes COMPLETELY to Palin's inexperience. She is too experienced on the national stage to handle a crowd like that. What happens if a crowd just goes over the top and turns to actual violence?

I was not at the rally she gave today, these reports could be WAY out of proportion to what really happened but this sure does sound like a pretty charged situation to me.

The GOP thinks the media is at fault for McCain's decline, they think that Liburals are the enemy, and some of these folks already have a thing with blacks..... how does that turn out?

I don't see this as a positive for nation or the election.
 
not_so_new said:
Oh snap.... you just Godwin'ed my post.....

:p
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Well, Corp started the thread and he's had me on ignore for awhile, so I won't lose any sleep tonight.

All kidding aside, I'm starting to get creeped out by this. The Mccain of just three months ago would have torn that guy who shouted "terrorist" at his rally a new one. I gave Mccain a lot of credit for denouncing that radio host who'd used Barac's middle name. That Mccain seems to have vanished, and they're really playing with fire here. All you need is one nut who thinks he has to "protect" America from "Obama Bin Laden".
 
not_so_new;4104096[url said:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602935.html[/url]

I don't see this ending well for the country and that makes me very sad.
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Alas.

This kind of scorn heaped on the press reminds me of the silly knee-jerk gun-fondling conservative wing of the Republican Party periodically clamoring to withdraw from the United Nations, which hit its zenith recently when Bolton was nominated for UN Ambassador...

They're doing it wrong. The press is not the enemy. Nor is it a given right or a force of nature. The press is a tool. Treat it well, use it skillfully, and it can pay off handsomely. (Same goes for the UN.)

It's a poor workman who blames his tools. Or a sore loser. Surely some of the Republicans are smart enough, skilled enough see this is not the way to do business?
 
That Milbank article is quite an eye-opener. The ironic thing is, the press been quite forgiving of Palin, as this column by Richard Cohen points out.

Reading William Kristol's column in yesterday's New York Times, I discover that Sarah Palin and I have something in common. Kristol, who was once Dan Quayle's chief of staff and therefore, shall we say, has a Mister Rogers approach to certain politicians, got Palin on the phone and reported that "she doesn't have a very high opinion of the mainstream media." This is where we are in agreement. On account of Palin, neither do I.

In her debate against Joe Biden last week, she mischaracterized Barack Obama's tax plan and his offer to meet with foreign adversaries of the United States. She found whole new powers for the vice president by misreading the Constitution, if she ever read it at all. She called one moment for the federal government to virtually disappear and a moment later lamented the lack of its oversight of the financial markets. She asserted that she "may not answer the questions the way that either the moderator or you [Biden] want to hear" because, apparently, the rules don't apply to her on account of her being a hockey mom. Fer sure.

Not enough? Okay. Palin also said that she "and others in the legislature" had called for the state of Alaska to divest itself of investments in companies that do business with Sudan. But, as the indefatigable truth-hunter at The Post found out, the divestiture effort was not led by Palin. In fact, her administration opposed the initiative, and Palin herself only came around to it after the bill had died.

In spite of it all, much of the media saw a credible performance. I could quote the hosannas of some of my colleagues, but I spare them the infamy that will surely follow them to their graves. (The debate's moderator, Gwen Ifill, used the occasion to catch up on some sleep.) Many of my colleagues judged Palin simply as a performer and inferred that her performance would go over well in homes with aboveground swimming pools.
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Sounds like her claim about the "bridge to nowhere." She opposed it before she supported it.
 
There appears to be no video of the "kill him" shout, so we can give them the benefit of the doubt on that. But this is just way over the line:



This is pure hate speech, simply sickening. Isn't this borderline criminal?
 
You mean Obama is a democrat? One that votes liberal?

My, this surely is a revelation that will open the eyes of all his supporters that thought he was the second coming of ReagaN.
 
Malerin said:
All kidding aside, I'm starting to get creeped out by this. The Mccain of just three months ago would have torn that guy who shouted "terrorist" at his rally a new one. I gave Mccain a lot of credit for denouncing that radio host who'd used Barac's middle name...
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Yet the McCain of a year ago had no problem with a town hall questioner referring to Hillary Clinton as a bitch.

So he's a good guy one day, not the next. Perhaps he works on a lunar cycle.
 
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Regnad Kcin said:
Yet the McCain of a year ago had no problem with a town hall questioner referring to Hillary Clinton as a bitch.

So he's a good guy one day, not the next. Perhaps he works on a lunar cycle.
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To be fair, even her supporters know she's a bitch. Just to us, it's a compliment. Bitch:Strong Leader::Female:Male
 
Ambition

When one attack per commercial doesn't seem to be working, try throwing in an extra ambiguous, generalized non-sequitor attack on the other party. Why not? Costs the same.

 
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