[Updated] McFailin Supporters "Terrorist!" "Kill Him!"

If you were watching MSNBC as I was this afternoon, you heard a McCain supporter scream "a terrorist!" when McCain asked the questions, "Who is Obama?"




Transcript:


McCain: What, what does he plan for America?

Crowd: Nothing!

McCain: In short, who is the real Barack Obama?

McCain Supporter: A Terrorist! [Crowd laughs, cheers]

McCain: But my friends, you ask such questions, and all you get in response is an angry barrage of insults.

Ironic much?

This is a very dangerous path McCain and Palin have decided to take.  Their new strategy of linking Obama with terrorists has appeared to pay off with the wing-nuttiest of the wingnuts.  There are people who really do believe the crap these two spew, and it could very realistically end...not well.

Update via Washington Post:

Palin "goes on" after supporter yells, "Kill him!"

"Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin 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.

Palin went on to say that "Obama held one of the first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers's living room, and they've worked together on various projects in Chicago."

What. The. Hell?!?

I know the answer, but for rhetoric's sake, do these people have *no* shame? This is serious stuff. People who are willing to scream this shit in public are willing to do things in private.

It was one thing for Hillary to say, "What about Ayers?" It's an entirely different matter to link a black man with a Muslim name to "terrorists." These two know exactly what they're doing, but I'm not entirely sure they understand the ramifications of their present actions.

Un-friggin-believable.



Display:


Nice... (2.00 / 2)

Way to be a "Maverick" John.


John McCain smells like mothballs.
by asherrem on Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 05:16:14 PM EST

Re: Nice... (none / 0)

when obama wins I will be a democrat. I will launch fireworks into the sky.

I will close my eyes and see old glory turning quietly in the wind.  the broken down british, with their corrupt east india tea turning the harbor black as night.. on the run back to their good king george.

I promise you. I will light off fireworks, when on that night in November, Barack Obama wins.

I will not wave my flag in the front yard, or set out yard signs or snicker when people make nasty comments. I will be a democrat.

Life's too short. It will be time for women wine and song.

The Bush republicans will be too busy chasing young boys around congress naked in their underwear.

We will party like savages.
I  promise you.


by Trey Rentz on Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 11:00:31 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Well he smiled when someone called Senator Clinton (2.00 / 2)

a Bitch, didn't he?

He's just a tower of class, that John Sidney McCain.


On Nov 4th, we elected "the smart guy" and the world celebrated!
by WashStateBlue on Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 05:16:38 PM EST

can't hear (none / 0)

He didn't hear that, he's too old.


by soyousay on Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 05:53:10 PM EST

Cognitive dissonance. (2.00 / 2)

I've been trying to remember that phrase for about a week.  It's what the McCain campaign is depending on and what the Republican party has been fueled by the past 8 years.


Change has come to America.
by the mystical vortexes of sedona on Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 06:00:43 PM EST

"Terrorist" (2.00 / 2)

It's their last ditch effort at maintaining power over the office of POTUS, so don't be at all surprised when the GOP backs these types of actions.  It's all they have, there's nothing, and I repeat, nothing, that the GOP can possibly offer America in light of their house of cards falling apart before their eyes. The Emperor's new clothes have fallen away and folks finally see the GOP for what they are "the greedy old party".  McCain can only hope to continue the smear thru fear tactic to regain a vote or two.


Hell's bells, even the GOP didn't have to crucify Eisenhower's record in order to make Reagan their 'saint'. We can have two great ones, you know?
by emsprater on Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 06:47:32 PM EST

There is ONE place further they are dying to go (2.00 / 2)

you know the word they are dying to scream at the top of their lungs to their southern voters...

I can just see that audience thinking it:

"I don't want no ------ in the WhiteHouse."

Terrorist is OK with that crowd, if you're Timothy McViegh.  

That's not what KIND of terrorist they mean.


On Nov 4th, we elected "the smart guy" and the world celebrated!
by WashStateBlue on Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 06:58:10 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: There is ONE place further they are dying to g (2.00 / 1)

And the secessionist, anti-government militias of the 90s were just fine by them, but criticism of Bush is the same as treason.


Change has come to America.
by the mystical vortexes of sedona on Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 07:48:42 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Exactly (none / 0)

That's not what KIND of terrorist they mean.

Exactly.  She backtracked a little adding "domestic" to terrorist after she got called on it, but that's little consolation when we all know what she's really saying.


John McCain smells like mothballs.
by asherrem on Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 10:31:49 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: There is ONE place furthe (none / 0)

Ironically, I've heard that phrase you cite from my very own mother, a woman in her mid 70's born and raised in rural Alabama.  It often pains me, and we argue politely about it, but I have to remember something that Obama himself spoke of when he called his grandmother a 'typical white woman'.  My Mom is like that, and ironically also has a biracial great grandchild, my only grandson.  It's nothing for her to speak that way 'about' people, but if someone spoke that way about my grandson, she'd be all over them like a duck on a june bug.  By the way, she's one of those who has never voted, having been a working woman all her life she didn't want the concurrent obligation of the possibility of jury duty.  Just as well, I suppose.

I think the tide is changing.


Hell's bells, even the GOP didn't have to crucify Eisenhower's record in order to make Reagan their 'saint'. We can have two great ones, you know?
by emsprater on Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 11:20:54 AM EST
[ Parent ]

When will she don her hood? (none / 0)

She wore white for her speech in FL - just waiting for the head gear.


Anthropologists for human diversity; opposing racism,sexism,homophobism, ageism and ethnocentrism.
by NeciVelez on Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 09:58:27 AM EST

McCain is endagering national security (none / 0)

Could somebody please ask McCain what effect would labeling the first Afircan-American nominee for president as a terrorist have on the morale of the thousands of African-Americans serving in the military?


by ann0nymous on Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 11:07:26 AM EST

The far right - in its final ugly throes (none / 0)

Welcome to the trash heap of history - soon all you will have left is the unfortunately named Ronald Reagan National Airport and other monuments to the leader of your failed movement.


by activatedbybush on Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 11:32:34 AM EST

National Airport (none / 0)

I lived in DC for 8 years and never once referred to the airport as Ronald Reagan National Airport.  I refuse.  It will always be National Airport to me.  Maybe I will call it Barack Obama National Airport someday.  =)


by Scope441 on Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 12:07:19 PM EST


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