More madness from the McCain-Palin mobs.
These people are sick.
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October 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Scenes from a McCain Rally — Munich, 1923?
October 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I never thought fascism could or would come to this country. But I watch scenes like this one, and others from McCain rallies and supporters I've posted here, and you have to wonder.
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Barack Obama: Indianapolis, Indiana
October 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment
People of Strongsville, Ohio (in the preceding clip) and everywhere else, this is what real, inspirational and intelligent leadership looks like.
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Breathtaking Ignorance Captured on Film at McCain/Palin Strongsville, Ohio Rally
October 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I’ve encountered these kinds of folks out canvassing for Obama, but seeing them in a mob like this is eye-opening. Sarah Palin does not bring out the best in America, that’s for sure.
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Why Obama Won — No, Crushed — McCain Tonight, and Why It’s Not Over
October 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I've obsessively watched all the coverage, and read the pertinent blogs. And I think they almost all miss this most important, very simple thing: Obama is winning these debates because he seems calm, confident, level-headed. And McCain seems unsteady, odd, old. It's that simple, and it's very powerful.
This difference in manner, composure, appearance is absolutely huge right now because, as a Nation, we are freaked out. Panicked. Child-like, in our fears (rational and irrational). And we want a leader who is comforting, inspires confidence, makes us feel less afraid. We want, essentially, a Dad to tell us everything will be all right.
Obama is providing that for many, many people right now, even people who didn't initially like him, who don't want to vote for an African-American, or who may even secretly worry he's really a Muslim. And just as a child feels a combination of reverence and protectiveness towards a parent, so many folks are now adopting those feelings towards Obama.
You see it in the dials used by the networks to monitor reactions of focus groups. I noticed it first in the debate between Palin and Biden. Any time Palin went on the attack against Democrats in Washington, the dials went up, in approval. But when she personally attacked Obama, the dials instantly plummeted. Attack the Democrats, these folks seemed to say, but not our man Obama. (Conversely, Biden didn't get such negative reactions when he attacked McCain).
Same thing tonight. Whenever McCain launched into an attack on Obama — they were fewer tonight than the last debate — the dials went south.
The reason Obama's victory was so overwhelming tonight is that people are making — have made — the leap towards accepting him as their President. Because he makes them feel safer in these economically perilous times. Once you make that leap, you feel pride in your choice, and protective of him. I think McCain and Palin will have a very hard time reversing that.
I would say nearly impossible but for this one, huge, and ominous issue — race. As anyone who has door-knocked or made phone calls for Obama can tell you, there is no shortage of folks, sadly, who will slam a door in your face or angrily hang up the phone after muttering something like "Damned Muslim" or "N——-r".
Even in supposedly progressive, liberal places like San Francisco. I had one, seemingly intelligent elderly man come up to me as I was canvassing for Obama in San Francisco and ask: "Have you looked at Obama's web site? He's a radical Muslim who supports terrorists." A middle aged Asian man drove by as I waved an Obama sign and shouted, almost irrationally a series of obscenities and epithets that I won't reprint here. Scarily, he came back a second time to do it again.
The point is, no matter where you live or what kind of family you have, you probably know someone — a cousin, an Aunt, a neighbor or your Grandfather — who just can't get over the fact that Obama is black. And we don't know how that will play out, ultimately. And as the McCain-Palin camp gets more desperate, it seems likely they will try to tap into this toxic brew.
We got a preview of it yesterday.
UPDATE: I wrote the above before reading this piece over at Time.com about Stan Greenberg's focus group in Denver tonight. Seems to confirm my hunches above.
Obama’s Man Robert Gibbs Shows Hannity to be the Twit He Is
October 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
So nice to see a Democratic operative throwing it right back at Hannity, that ass.
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October 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Real classy folks up there in Wasilla.
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Barack Obama in Asheville, North Carolina
October 6, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Staying calm and cool, while everyone else panics.
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Sarah Palin = Dick Nixon
October 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment
If you’ve read the terrific book Nixonland, you’ll definitely recognize what Palin is doing here.
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Sarah Palin: Just as Inarticulate as George Bush
October 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Today, David Brooks, quite predictably, announces the triumph that was Sarah Palin last night:
When nervous, Palin has a tendency to over-enunciate her words like a
graduate of the George W. Bush School of Oratory, but Thursday night
she spoke like a normal person. It took her about 15 seconds to define
her persona — the straight-talking mom from regular America — and it
was immediately clear that the night would be filled with tales of
soccer moms, hockey moms, Joe Sixpacks, main-streeters, “you betchas”
and “darn rights.” Somewhere in heaven Norman Rockwell is smiling.
graduate of the George W. Bush School of Oratory, but Thursday night
she spoke like a normal person. It took her about 15 seconds to define
her persona — the straight-talking mom from regular America — and it
was immediately clear that the night would be filled with tales of
soccer moms, hockey moms, Joe Sixpacks, main-streeters, “you betchas”
and “darn rights.” Somewhere in heaven Norman Rockwell is smiling.
Here's the kind of answer he and other conservative pundits are celebrating:
You mentioned education and I'm glad you did. I know education you are
passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and god
bless her. Her reward is in heaven, right? I say, too, with education,
America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools
have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are
deserving.
passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and god
bless her. Her reward is in heaven, right? I say, too, with education,
America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools
have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are
deserving.
I'm sorry, but I can't even follow what she's saying. Awshucks six-pack Joe vernacular is fine (hey, my people are from West Virginia by God!), as long as it's part of a coherent sentence. Sarah Palin's mangled English reminds me of no one more than George Bush. And if she ever becomes President, I have no doubt she'd be as terrible a President as he has been.
I continue to be surprised anyone is buying this hokum.
