If McCain wins this way he will have the WORST presidency of his life. Democrats will overwhelming have the House and the Senate and they block everything that McCain puts out simply because he was an ASSHOLE these last few weeks.

LMAO at the picture of Ayers on the side with the caption "Political Ties".

FOX is going to make a killing smearing Obama for the next eight years. I secretly think both Limbaugh and Hannity want him to win so they can have something talk about other than defending Bush at every time.

Here's the bigger problem with this.

It wasn't some young rambling wingnut. It wasn't a toothless redneck hick. This was some older fellow going on a rant.

The sad reality is that it plays to a certain chunk of the country. *We* may think that's a old crank rambling, but to a chunk of the country he's "one of us" who is "concerned" or "angry". :/

This is one of the more fightening, troubling aspects of what Rove is pushing McCain to tap into.

John

Another thing about this clip.

It again demonstrates what McCain is:

A coward: http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=12056

He is obviously a little uncomfortable with the crazy ranter here, but he doesn't have the guts to take him on.

He has allowed his campaign to be taken over by Rove, Palin, and Hannity.

He's a coward.

Tena, a commenter at Sadly, No! mentioned that he had aqttended a talk by Seymour Hersch in Berkely and Hersch opined that Secret Service is already concerned and may have spoken to campaign aides.
http://joemax93.blogspot.com/ for post.

The local and national media is now picking up on these McCain-Palin 'Hate' Rallies. CNN and a local news affiliate in my home state where talking about this story all day.

What a bunch of damn dogs chasing cars! If they get there, and perhaps get ahold of the Obama motorcade, what they hell are they gonna do with it once that happens?

Oh yeah, that's right, continue the same blessed policies that have proven to work so efficiently. By the end of this administration, not even the rich will have prospered!

Damn it! Face the facts and truth!

"When is the unhinged frenzy gripping crowds at McCain-Palin gatherings -- not to mention McCain-Palin's own role in stoking that frenzy -- going to become a big story?"

When some heads get bashed in by the roving bands of crazed nutjobs supporting McShame/Failin. Maybe then. Probably not before, because it wouldn't be fair to "The Maverick."

Yes, the pot is boiling. It seems that Obama has decided to confront the nonsense by calling out McCain on Ayers, daring him to raise it at the debate next week. The right-wingers are reacting to the dare with predictable lunacy, but the interesting point is that McCain may very well HAVE TO bring it up now, just to save face with the 20% he's got behind him. This is a fascinating maneuver by Obama and, frankly, if I didn't have so much confidence in Team Obama I'd be alarmed. As it is, I'm really looking forward to the dramatics. Should drive up the ratings for the debate, that's for sure.

Looks like McCain/Palin rallies are starting to turn into weekly klan meetings.

i just watched those blogger interrupted videos talking to mccain/palin supporters outside their rallies yesterday, it's absolutely frightening. these rallies have become a weird mix of evangelical prayer singing and race baiting. john mccain, sarah palin and everyone working for them are disgusting people, they know exactly what they are doing and i hate that the media won't have the balls to say anything about it until it's too late. i'm so angry about it that it's got me tearing up.

Obama is not just taking on McCain, he is taking on the entire Republican ideology that has dominated the country for the past 28 years. The ideology has enriched and empowered the select few and they will not go down with out scratching, clawing, and biting to the death.

All pretenses of civility and respect for the traditions and public institutions of this country will be pushed aside for the sole cause of maintaining power.

It is dangerous and irresponsible. But did you honestly expect anything different from these people?

There's a big disconnect here. The guy in the audience is going off on a purely partisan rant, and then McCain says he's right and makes a dig about the Democrats having majorities for the last two years, and then he tries to play bipartisan by saying he'll work with anyone to solve our problems. There's no logical consistency here.

And of course, the audience reaction to his promise to work with "anyone" was tepid and nowhere near the reaction to the red meat rantings.

"That's news, and you'd think it would get some serious and aggressive treatment from the big news orgs."

You'd think so. My god, we're "this" close to McCain or Palin asking one of these mobs: "Who will rid us of this dingy terrorist sympathizer?!" I don't recall ever witnessing such mindless demagoguery by the leaders of a major party ticket in my lifetime, and I have seen a lot of elections. The truly scary thing is, this virulence will outlast McCain-Palin's defeat in November. McCain and Palin are creating and unleashing a creature they cannot control, and they should have the good sense to know that. But apparently they don't know that -- or worse yet, they do know it but truly don't care. That should be closely examined by the media. The media should be asking point blank: Are McCain and Palin aware that they may be endangering the life of the next President of the United States?

I just saw this on CNN and came here to see if you would talk about it...there you go.

The hatred right now is astounding by the Republicans. It goes with something I said that they feel it is the end for them...at least for a while.

Crowds can lose control, but that McCain consents to it is disturbing.

When McCain first unveiled his campaign logo, someone (I think from this site) said it looked as if McCain were running for Führer. Back then I thought it was a joke.

Hooligans 'R Us!

You cannot control a mob.

Looks like McCain is well aware of Obama's statement to Gibson yesterday: "Why doesn't he say it to my face?"

Near the very end of his speech today, McCain said this to the audience: 'Let me look you straight in the face -- I'll never let you down."

Tell me that's a coincidence.

If Obama is such a terrorist and hooligan, I don't see how McCain can be "pallin' around" with him at these debates, shaking his hand, patting his arm.

Good grief, man, that's no way to treat a terrorist.

i just don't know why, other than Olbermann and Maddow, no one in the press is talking about the AIP or Trooper-gate!
They've got too much to lose by making a big deal about Ayres.

Ode to Sean Hannity
by John Cleese

Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You’re a profanity
Hannity

I don't believe for one moment this was spontaneous. Bet it's a plant, just like the idiots who scream "treason" and "kill him"....this way, McCain can look completely innocent while getting his real message out. i don't believe a word this little man says.

I think he is such a poor leader he doesn't even recognize that they are running off the rails, let alone how to put them back on track. Look at him. He thought all that applause was for him.

WE now know that when McCain said he looked-up to civil rights & MLK' friend ,John Lewis,McCain was lie-ing just like he has done all along.He (McCain)has never had any diginity.Even Joe Klein nows that now.

Yes.. he did the same things when a woman in his audience talked about how stretched thin our military is and that she didn't see any way for McCain to 'chase Bin Laden to the gates of hell' without reinstating the draft. He said I agree with everything you just said.

The manner in which McCain/Palin are inciting hatred and voilent threats is outrageous. The only thing I could think of that might actually work to tone them down is to get some of their own religious leaders involved. How can this be in alignment with their 'values'?

As far as I am concerned the fact that they have not rerimanded the shouts of 'terrorist' and 'kill him' in reference to their opponent demostrates their poor judgement, lack of morals/ethics/values, and the lowest form of leadership. This behavior alone proves that they are unworthy of ANY public office. I have been disturbed that the media and our leaders have not reprimanded them severely and expressed more shock and outrage. McCain/Palin are certainly not putting their country first...they are willing to use the darkest ugliest side of human nature to win.

How can a 72-year old man can be that irresponsible?! They are really playing with fire. All what it takes is for one of those idiots to take a gun and shoot somebody and all hell gets loose. Is there any adult in the republican party? I am not worried about the election, I think most people will see this ranting from home and run the other way. I am worried about the future, and the possibility of violence coming back to Ameriocan politics

Let us not forget what happened to Bill Gwatney. McCain should be ashamed of himself.

There might even be a bit more stabiity in the international markets if this country wasn't controlled by lunatics.

This is so very fascist of them--demonizing the press, whipping up mobs into a xenophobic hysteria...I know that there are crazies out there, but to have a major party candidate stirring all this up is absolutely appalling. I wonder how long it will be before they start burning books? I'm sure Palin would approve.

Normally Palin is a source of great amusement to me, but this just makes me feel sick and scared.

Things are going to get real ugly if Son of Great Depression actually hits.

The way McCain is acting only leads me to this conclusion. This is McCain's last dance politically. He wont seek re-election as Senator either.
After this election we wont hear from him until 2012 when Gov Plain runs for office. He will come out to endorse her and then he will be off into the sunlight for good.

Such hollow words from John McCain. "it is one country, indivisible and I will do that"

First off that is not really close to being a complete thought, but W has proven most Americans do not care about that.

Secondly, by validating the hate filled response to his own divisive campaign how does he expect to rally the American people?

He is basically saying that half of the country is vile, evil and stupid when he knows that is not true. Leaders bring people together.

Remember this election is about us, McCain does not think highly of most of us...

If it wasn't scary, it would be actually SILLY.

My prediction: that after Obama wins, he will (pragmatically and inclusively) bring this country together in a way that has not been seen in a long long time.

I say this because of many things I have read: outright racists voting for Obama because our country is in trouble and he has the only viable plan they've heard: wu-wu hippies hooked on hope: middle of the roaders understanding that we are, in fact, all in this together, and....I could go on and on, but you get it. And so does Obama.

George H.W. Bush --- He's a former President, damnit, and this is his party!!

(Or, for that matter, our current President might be seen as having some responsibility for keeping peace in the nation .... but given the circumstances, that's just a belated, novel thought.)

Americans are looking for a way to be proud again. Please see this poem by Audre Lorde:

Bicentennial Poem # 21,000,000

I know
the boundaries of my nation lie
within myself
but when I see old movies
of the final liberation of Paris
with french tanks rumbling over land
that is their own again
and old french men weeping
hats over their hearts
singing a triumphant national anthem

My eyes fill up with muddy tears
that have no earth to fall upon.

So, this emboldened, radical, "take no prisoners" approach has given license to road rage attacks in my part of the world. I have a simple "Obama/Biden 08" bumper sticker. No slurs, no insults. Just a show of support for my candidate. This gets me flashed from the rear, tailgated, honked at, yelled obscenities, the finger, cut me off and run off the road. It's always someone in a big, gas guzzling SUV or pickup truck. These folks are always crazy and agressive, but now the McCain camp has given their blessings. It isn't new; we experienced the same behavior in 2000 and 2004. New name for Republicans: Bully Party.

In regards to Obama, yes he's voicing the Dem message effectively and remarkable skilled and bright. But keep in mind that Bill Clinton was also a remarkably skilled and bright candidate, but espoused a very different message.

Why?

During Clinton's era laissez faire had been so popularized during a period of great prosperity and intellectual complacency (call it the strip mall era) during which time we exploited the benefits of our developed infrastructure (universities, skilled labor, transportation, etc) while becoming intellectually lazy and running enormous debts.

Anti-government and anti-tax rhetoric is always appealing so long as one believes the country will remain magically prosperous and honest due to invisible hands and such.

Now, it's become undeniable all that was a lot of nonsense, and in fact we've squandered much of our global advantage by destroying our institutions while allowing corruption and predatory economics to run rampant.

So, I give enormous credit to Obama as the best person to deliver this message at this time. But he or anyone is only able to because the times and the national zeitgeist have fundamentally changed, due to the inevitable failure of the garbage ideology Republicans have popularized over decades and many Democrats, particularly the DLC, signed on to.

I can give you that...

half just easier to type than three quarters....

Aside from that, you also raise a good point. One of my coworkers, a little longer in the tooth than I, actually sees this as sort of a good thing. Not good in that people are saying these nasty things and trying to win through fear and hate, but rather, good because they, the rabid right, the ideologues that have taken the Republicans from conservative to right wing are returning to the status of the John Birch society.

Sure the john Birch Society built the framewrok for the modern ideology that has lead us to near disaster, but back when they were a functioning group, spouting their hatred, most people in the country ignored them.

While politically engaged folks like us need to keep our attention on them so that brand of conservatism does not rise up again, it is good that they are putting themselves in that box in mainstream voters minds.

Through McCain's campaign, he would argue, they are marginalizing themselves rather nicely...

Buckeye, hope you are right. My parents have bought into this shit and that's scary. Hope others are smarter.

Didn't Nixon say the ends justifies the means?

Shame on McCain-Palin. If anyone had respect for McCain before (like myself) all that respect is GONE. Shame on him and his ignorant running-mate. Shame on the people they have paid to be hooligans themselves. And shame on George Bush and Karl Rove for turning the United States into a country paralyzed with fear.

that guy has just been on the o'reilly factor on fox on the pin head patriot section guess which he was yea the patriot but they did not show all what this guy said just the part where he said will you 2 work for us

check this shows the kind of people at these rallys

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/09/mccain-palin-rally-attend_n_133240.html

When will McCain have his Joseph Welch moment? And who will play Joseph Welch this time?

"Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty, or your recklessness. . . .

Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html