Political Punch

Sexism is obviously not a conservative problem. Nor is it a liberal problem. it's a problem that invades our collective conscious. I think it's very telling that the most efficient/effective way to discredit a female politician is by using a word that is the gendered equivalent of a racial slur.

No matter where you stand politically, you should stand against this shirt. This isn't just an attack on Sarah Palin; this is an attack on the integrity of women and humanity.

I've only seen one person wearing this shirt, and certainly not all liberals are thinking this way.

I think the t-shirts are funny for one reason only. What should be on their t-shirts... some rational argument? LOL.
You can't convince Sarah P. supporters that they are wrong. That is obviously not the point of the shirts.

John McCain will lose this election because of the McCain/Feingold legislation. Oh... the irony. Let me ask you this, how was that good judgment? hmmm

I'm an Obama supporter and I think these shirts are disgusting and disappointing. Where do we draw the line as decent people? What next? "Obama is a Ni***r" t-shirts? What is the main difference? The level of ignorance is amazing. This is not a Republican vs. Democrat issue. These shirts just radically cross a line regardless of your political leanings. To claim that Democrats as a whole think these shirts are acceptable is as absurd as the t-shirts themselves.

How does this type of display of the 1st Amendment prove positive to anyone? Seriously, what is their point? I can protest and be as offensive and ignorant as I want because it's my right? Let me where a shirt with the words Obama and the *-word and watch how quickly I get arrested.

I am shocked that there is anyone defending the people wearing these shirts. The hypocrisy is unbelievable. If this had been conservatives at a Hillary Clinton rally it would have been front page for days and would have lead every news program on TV. You know it's true. The media in this country should be deeply, deeply ashamed.

T-Shirts? Oh my!

This only goes to show one thing.....
it's slam 'um hard on both sides of the aisle!! It's not about what they wear or signs; it's about the racist, hate, and intolerable comments from many of the voters!!! An effegy of a hanging of a black man is not racist????
What's good for the goose is just as good for the gander!!!
Grow up people, it's bad politics, but that's the way it is!! Besides, didn't MCShame call his wife that himself??!!
Goes to show what kind of president he would be!!!!

Sexism and degradation of women is perfectly acceptable to liberals as long as it's directed at a conservative woman.

The left like to preach tolerance, they sure don't practice it.

The tee shirts of the four people are not the only ones that are no appropreiate. The others say vote bro not H-. Obama needs to come out and tell his supporters that this is not the type of campain he wants to run. Both sides have fans that have gone over the limit of accepablity. Both candadites have budgets that will put us farther into debt. However, I wonder if we elect a democrate and have control of the congress in the hands of democrates how much further than just obama's economic plan will we be in debt? We need checks and balances in government. I wish we had someone that knew how to run a business, not just borrow money to run. I feel sorry for our children and grandchildren, becuase their taxes are going to be huge. And Obama's relief for taxes last for only a short time. I'm sure McCain's is probally the same. I really fell sorry for the one who wins becuase what ever they do will be taken apart by the media.

I used to support Obama because I believed he would give us the change we needed and reform this country, but he has proven himself to be just another power hungry politician. His ties to ACORN, Tony "the shark" Rezko, Rev. Wright, forced me to look a little bit harder.

Then I found out about Bill Ayres and his radical education agenda (not to mention setting off bombs) and more. I have finally come to the sad conclusion that Obama is more concerned about becoming president then he is with having values and convictions. He will probably have some (federal) convictions in the future, but for now I must go with McCain, simply because he will keep this nation safe.

Double standard? It's okay to call someone a "s__ stain" (Sarah Silverman) if they choose to vote for McCain, it's okay to call the second woman candidate for VP a ____? I agree, it is NOT ok to be equally vile against Obama...two wrongs do not make a right, remember? However, it is clear that disgusting, "negative" behavior is reported on one side and ignored on the other in the media. Molotov cocktails thrown at McCain supporters sign in Oregon? Local news only, baby.

It is amazing to me that common sense does prevail here. This story should have been front page news across the country. However, with the media always taking the side of the LIBS/DEMS, I'm not surprised that it was hardly mentioned. If the current state of affairs is causing you major concern, just wait until the liberal media gets their way and Barrack Obama is the next President. If I had some advise for John McCain it would be take off the gloves and go to their level. If you don't you are looking at returning to the Senate for sure. The masses in this country better wake up in the next few weeks or we are doomed. That is unless you believe that all of the problems we now have were the result of the Republicans. One final thing, remember ifyou vote for Barrack you are voting for Barrack Hussein Obama?????

Reading some of the comments here, you'd think people had their heads... well, in the sand. This is way past "hateful" and "inciting" and "bigoted" and "mean-spirited." It has nothing to do with any "issues," for those of you who want to bring up the budget, or Bush, or what McCain supposedly said to his wife, or anything else.

This has to do with the media calls for McCain to stop the "negative" campaigning, yet not saying the same about Obama. The media reports some anonymous person at an open rally shouting "kill 'em" as evidence that McCain/Palin is "encouraging hatred," yet barely mentions these shirts. Obama tells supporters to "get in their faces," yet objects to questions about his past as "racist" and "distractions from the issues."

These are some examples of the Obama campaign being totally hypocritical, and the news media generally doing the same. Obama lies about his agenda, he lies about his record, he lies about his past, and he lies about his associations. Those are facts for anyone who cares to actually check them. There's nothing "hateful" or "racist" about these charges, unless you think that Obama's race gives him a pass on moral and ethical norms. I'd say THAT'S a "racist" attitude.

Any Republican who had Obama's history would have been run out of the primaries by the media's digging for these facts. OTOH, consider the media's "vetting" of Palin. Anything they found out about her was immediately spun negatively, true or not. Face it, the media is completely on the side of one candidate, and completely out to destroy the other. Hatred and lies are being used, if not by Obama, then in his name, and for his cause. Much, MUCH more than by McCain, if at all.

That should bother any "fair-minded" person, no matter which candidate you're "rooting for." This isn't a freaking football game, people. This is our country!

Jo, actually, I have heard threats shouted about McCain at Obama rallies. And just like McCain, today at a rally Obama had to shush his fans and tell them to be respectful-- as tapper wrote about here, I believe. Overheated supporters pop up near the end of the campaign-- no real surprise there. Yes, there were statments that were out of line at a handful of McCain rallies, shouted by a handful of supporters. As the picture at the head of threat reminds us, there is plenty of hate on both sides to go around and that is wrong. But to blame either Obama or McCain for the sins of the worst of their supporters is uncalled for. Please do not pretend that the vitriol is all on one side, because that simply is not true.

Hi, Josh! As promised, I'm responding to one of your questions that I just ran across. You questioned my assertion that "Obama supported Ayers." Here's what I mean by that-- NOT that Obama supported Ayers's Weather Underground terrorist activities-- but that Obama supported Ayers's work with the ABC (Alliance for Better Chicago schools), Obama wrote a blurb for Ayers' book "A Kind and Just Parent" (Wherein Ayers argues that no child should ever be tried as an adult no matter the crime or the age--among other troubling ideas) and supported Illinois legislation that reflected this philosophy of juvenile justice, and most importantly, Obama as chair of the Annenberg Foundation funnelled funding to school projects of "radical reform" supported by Ayers. Obama has repeatedly, in other words, supported and abetted Ayers in Ayers' radical education agenda. Ayers has done as much damage as an "education professor" as he did, in a very different way, as a domestic terrorist. He is still trying to change America in radical ways and Obama has supported many of the changes he advocates. That's what I meant.

Thank you for reporting on this. Gotta love how the media is slamming McCain for having one jerk at his rally but somehow can't be bothered to report on this. What kind of miserable human being puts that kind of obscenity on their shirts? Wow, that says so much about the poison in their hearts. They need prayers and tons of therapy.

Thanks for mentioning it Jake. It is appreciated but I wish you did not have to, but you do since you are just about the only sane reporter left.

has anybody heard anything about Levi Johnston ( about the black teenager who is claiming to have fathered Bristol's baby and wants to have a part in his child's life. Palin has totally ignored him and his phonecalls he is now speaking out on ? Levi dropped out of school, and is parading around with the palin family parading as a Wassila role model.

What are u all thinking? This is not a war it is a vote!! Think on your own and make your choice. Look at everythig not just one media, all media, not just one voice, all.

What the hell does the McCain know about making mortgage payments? They have so many houses, they don't know how many,,or how many cars. McCain let his first wife after an accident to chase after $cindy$$ Is he a good man? His exwife is almost poor and he doesn't want anything to do with her because she was marred from the accident. He did't have time for her after she waited for him to come home from the war. This is presidential material. think again.