Isn't that the way it has been from the beginning with Hillary, stir the pot, call people names when they get upset and say something back. Oh how well he learned his Alinsky lessons.

"Yes we can"? Stolen slogan from ACORN of all things!!! Check out the informational video - it's that organization's chant. Move it up to the 4:00 marker in the video.

http://blog.savejersey.com/2008/10/10/acorns-informational-video.aspx

Disgraceful!

It's good to see mccain stick his head out of the gutter to say something positive.

Difference: McCain lauds Obama, his supporters BOO. Obama lauds McCain, his supporters cheer. Who is for unity, and who is for divisiveness? You decide.

McCain/Palin have thrown way too much chum in the water already. If they are not very careful, they will get somebody hurt with their hate-mongering. Secret Service, do your job.

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/the-protection-racket/

lyingobama that is correct

Barrack Obama pays Acorn $832,000 for signing up fraudulent voters, ABC, NBC, CBS, Silent!!!
Barrack Obama meets with extremist Islamic Terrorist group.. NBC, CBS, ABC, Silent!!!! Is the MSM Conspiring to Steal this election from the people?

Ariel,

My sentiments exactly. However, I believe one of the reasons McCain has tempered his attacks is that if something did happen to Obama, the "blood" would be on his (and Palin's) hands. I echo your words - SECRET SERVICE, DO YOUR JOB!

....why is the Obama group so shocked...didn't Obama tell his elitist S.F. supporters that the "fly over" country is filled with angry people clutching their bibles and guns?
We might be tad less angry if the groups like ACORN, stealing this election weren't,
being helped by the silence of the supposed media.

You reap what you sow…
What has become the Church of the Angry Base the McCain/Palin revival is showing it’s true colors. Rev. John and the Deacon of Deception (Palin) have promoted anger to advance their cause. Now the Rev. has seen the light of hate he’s exposed within the ranks of his blind followers. He needs to dim the spotlight exposing his soul!

I'm voting for Obama and the Democrats because I've lived through too many cycles of failed "Reaganomics" and do not believe Republican economics are "fiscally conservative" and the numbers (of the deficit and every stock market crash) back it up. Numbers speak louder than angry attacks which are lost on me.

I am not voting for McCain for president, but at the same time don't like the attacks on his age or anger (PTSD is something to be understood not ridiculed) and am sure he's a good Senator, but I don't agree his alignment with Reagonomics are right for this day and age. Additionally Palin is an irresponsible choice and would be detrimental should she ever become president and many GOP analysts agree.

ACORN is doing a huge disservice to the Democrats - who because of the economy should be able to win legitimately . ACORN's actions will only erode the merit of what can be a legitimate win. Republican's are right to call them out, just like the Dems are calling out the voter purging.

RE: ACORN. It's not voter fraud until somebody actually casts a vote. And you HAVE to show identification that matches your voter registration card when you vote. The problem with ACORN is they hired shady people to go out and register people to vote. These people are paid per registration form they get completed...are you following me here? Also, ACORN is required by law to submit each and every registration form they receive to the Supervisor of Elections. They did just that. They even set aside registration forms and flagged them for possible irregularites. So, if anybody is the victim of actual fraud here, it's ACORN. They were frauded by the people they HIRED to register voters.

Republicans don’t need to dress up for Halloween this year. They’re scaring the pants off Barack Obama’s followers by their mere presence. Anything they say, wear, or do provokes instant cries of “RAAAAACISM!” Wink, blink, or think critical thoughts about Obama? You’re a bigot!

How many racial bogeyman have Obama operatives and sympathetic journalists discovered lurking in “coded language” and attire? Let us count the ways:

*At Tuesday’s presidential debate, John McCain referred to Obama as “that one.” Official Obama press agitator Bill Burton sent off an e-mail blast to reporters: “Did John McCain just refer to Obama as ‘that one’?” Horrors. Taking their cue from Burton, spooked Obama supporters hyperventilated like teenagers on the set of the Blair Witch Project movie. “The racial undertones were subtle but unmistakable,” declared Maya Wiley of the leftist Center for Social Inclusion. “McCain was tapping into a current of superiority among white voters. It was an attempt to ‘otherize’ Obama.”

“Otherize?” Sounds like something you do to your car tires to prepare for winter.

UC Berkeley linguistics prof George Lakoff was also haunted by “That One:” “The phrase was meant to say, ‘You and I are in the same area, but he’s the outsider.’”

Memo to McCain: Next time, call him “The One.”

*Obama supporters on the heavily-traffic Democratic Underground website (where such mainstream Democrats as Elizabeth Edwards hang out) saw the ghost of the Ku Klux Klan in Sarah Palin’s white suit jacket. Yes, white clothes = racism.
“Palin is wearing white again, inciting the racist crowds. She should just drop all pretense and put on her white hood and light up a cross. She is a despicable human being,” fumed a DU poster. “Grand Princess of the KKK,” proclaimed another. They’re “trying to send subtle signals to their rabid base,” yet another member of Obama’s rabid base declared.

My racial decoder ring must be on the fritz. Because I’m not getting the signal. If she wears white stockings, drinks a vanilla milk shake, and refers to budgetary black holes, are those incitements, too? And what about her gorgeous white teeth? Perhaps she should drink more coffee — hold the white cream! — to avoid emitting further racial radiation.

*Such paranoia is not limited to the fever swamps of the Internet. Earlier this week, the Associated Press disseminated an “analysis” accusing Palin of injecting a “racial tinge” into the campaign because she criticized Obama for his longtime relationship with Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Palin’s comments were completely unobjectionable: “This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America.”

I saw a vice presidential candidate drawing stark philosophical differences between two tickets. The AP saw Freddy Krueger with lipstick and a noose.

“Whether intended or not by the McCain campaign, portraying Obama as ‘not like us’ is another potential appeal to racism. It suggests that the Hawaiian-born Christian is, at heart, un-American,” the AP piece frothed.

Obama is half-black. Ayers is white. One of the Weather Underground’s victims was black police officer Waverly Brown of Nyack, New York. Where do I buy a pair of the super X-ray glasses that can detect the racism in Palin’s remarks about the Obama-Ayers alliance?

*I’ll have to borrow those hysterical-colored spectacles from Time’s Karen Tumulty, who spotted racist goblins in the recent McCain ad criticizing Obama for seeking advice from Fannie Mae corruptocrat, Franklin Raines. “Sinister images of two black men, followed by one of a vulnerable-looking elderly white woman,” Tumulty balked in a blog post titled “McCain plays the race card.”

Um, “sinister?” The ad’s photos of Obama and Raines were standard shots — some with dour expressions, others smiling. The fact that Tumulty perceived them as “sinister” suggests that she should perform a self-racism exam before diagnosing anyone else.

*A parade of Congressional witch hunters for Obama also detects the specter of George Wallace behind every policy bush. Democrat New York Gov. David Paterson says conservative criticism of Obama’s community organizing days is code for “black.” Democrat Rep. Gregory Meeks complained to the New York Observer: “They are trying to throw out these codes.” In the same piece, Democrat Rep. Yvette Clark divined segregationist intent in Palin’s references to Joe Six Pack and hockey moms. “It leaves a lot of people out.”

And Democrat Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid echoed Time’s Tumulty on the McCain camp’s Obama/Raines broadsides: “The only connection that people could bring up about Raines and Barack Obama is that they both are African-American, other than that there is nothing.”

The Washington Post reported that Obama’s office phoned up Raines for housing advice and has stood by its reporting. Is the newspaper part of the McCain/Palin hooded racists’ coven, too?

Obama’s witch hunters better beware. When there’s racism in every hiccup, nobody’s air supply is safe.

Jack brought up an interesting point. The actual Obama quote from early this year was "And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

And look who McCain ended up pickin' for his runnin' mate: a woman who appeals to bitter, gun-totin', religous xenophobes.

I've had it. I'm officially done with politics. The Communists/Anarchists have won. Fifty years of lefty/Commie brain washing, fifty years of an education system watering down education, has created a voter base so ignorant that they're about to elect a man with NO qualifications, and with dubious "friends & supporters" that, if this were the WW2 years, would ensure Obama would at least be being followed around by the FBI. Now a man who shouldn't be allowed the lowest national security credentials, is about to become C in C.
Russia flexing it's muscles, China building new aircraft carriers and ballistic missile submarines, Iran building nukes for airborne detonation over the US to provide an EMP attack,
Russian Navy staging off Syria, and Muslin terrorists attacking the U.S. and the morons and their American hating lefty media are about to elect a man that BRAGS about our enemies support of him on his official website. This country is done.

Perhaps the McCain camp realized the horrible effect and the possible dangerous ramifications such hate talk and fear mongering caused. It's easy to sway people of low intellect into very scary action as seen by the rally clips. He needed to take responsibility for Palin and his insidious words before it resulted in extremely disastrous results.

Jack, I would suggest you leave the country immediately and hide somewhere noone can find you. When all is clear we will come looking for you and bring you back into the fold. I bet you fell for that one as a kid too, until it got long past bedtime and you found that noone cared enough to come looking for you. Yeah its all a commie plot. You are a true republican, I must say. You continue this silly rhetoric no matter what. I noticed you long for the "good old days" of the 50s when McCarthy (probably your hereo) and the FBI would "hunt down" commies in the shadows. Yeah times were great back then when the blacks and commies were kept in their place, eh? Back in those good old days of segregation. Like I said, why dont you split because we dont need you here.

So Jack...
what precisely was it you did in an 'official' political capacity before you mounted up and rode out of Dodge to greet Joe McCarthy in the promised land?

At least for a moment, McCain realized how despicable his campaign has become and sought to downplay the hate and violence he has been generating. But it was only a moment then the dishonorable McCain was back on a vicious lying attack. Shame on you John for what you've become.

Sometimes it's difficult for people, especially those who can't see the current election in terms of a clash between policy alternatives but who'd rather make things personal, to distinguish between disagreeing on substance and on withholding personal attacks.

When it's about caricaturing a candidate as "palling with terrorists" (on basis of no evidence or any solid grounds for suspicion whatsoever), or whether it's about thinly veiled incitement of fears of non-white Americans that are still alive among large tracts of the population, it's not about substance. It's about rhetoric. It's about smears. And it's good if that's toned down.

What people who do not think in terms of issues (e.g. the economy) may not understand is that it's perfectly possible to respectfully, fundamentally and *loudly* disagree with someone's policies without smearing his character. And that it makes no sense at all to confuse the decency to tone down the smears with giving ground on policy issues.

That's unfortunate because what the article does is to suggest that senator McCain standing up to the more ludicrous rants from the electorate should be rewarded with concessions on policy issues on part of senator Obama. That's as unfortunate as it is wrong.

Some Americans seem to treat the Presidential Election as yet another sports match. Someone ought to wake them up and gently hint that the election is about issues (or ought to be), not about prejudice hatred, or rhetoric.