MUDSLINGING IS THE NEW BLACK
Oct. 11th, 2008 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogRemember when people used to complain about political campaigns being too negative?
Those days are over.
Which would be worrying enough if it was just the one meeting. But it seems for the past week, every McCain rally has been populated by Angry White People who openly fear Barry HUSSEIN Obama. He is obviously an agent of al Qaeda and McCain must do whatever it takes to stop him. And incidentally, I seriously doubt this is a recent phenomenon. (See: O’Reilly, Hannity, Coulter, Malkin, Savage and other drama queens.)
The irony, of course, is that McCain really has no one to blame but himself – or at least his running mate. When you go around claiming Obama “pals around with terrorists”, you can’t act all surprised and dismayed when yr fans take that insinuation and extrapolate it to “He supports al Qaeda” – especially when many of them already believe he’s a Muslim (and we all know what THEY’RE like).
Imagine how these people are going to take the news if Obama wins. Imagine what it will say about the state of America if that anger spreads and Obama loses as a result. You might as well hang a sign on the White House door: “No blacks, no Muslims, no dogs.”
I don’t think it will come to that. I’d still like to think these dingbats are in the minority. But it’s still a very ugly sign of the times.
If you listen to fools, the mob rules,
This is dF
Those days are over.
Which would be worrying enough if it was just the one meeting. But it seems for the past week, every McCain rally has been populated by Angry White People who openly fear Barry HUSSEIN Obama. He is obviously an agent of al Qaeda and McCain must do whatever it takes to stop him. And incidentally, I seriously doubt this is a recent phenomenon. (See: O’Reilly, Hannity, Coulter, Malkin, Savage and other drama queens.)
The irony, of course, is that McCain really has no one to blame but himself – or at least his running mate. When you go around claiming Obama “pals around with terrorists”, you can’t act all surprised and dismayed when yr fans take that insinuation and extrapolate it to “He supports al Qaeda” – especially when many of them already believe he’s a Muslim (and we all know what THEY’RE like).
Imagine how these people are going to take the news if Obama wins. Imagine what it will say about the state of America if that anger spreads and Obama loses as a result. You might as well hang a sign on the White House door: “No blacks, no Muslims, no dogs.”
I don’t think it will come to that. I’d still like to think these dingbats are in the minority. But it’s still a very ugly sign of the times.
If you listen to fools, the mob rules,
This is dF
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on 2008-10-11 02:11 pm (UTC)If I was a Secret Service agent assigned to guard Obama I would double my life insurance cause you know some racist is going to try it.