Oh, Ive been making fun of McCain on these boards too, calling him everything under the sun for my own amusement. I am in no way offended by your use of categorizing Obama as Obamessiah, just somewhat puzzled. Don’t worry, Im not so sensitive, but because I like you, thought I might give you some food for thought, think of it as reflections, and perceptions. But since you never asked for my advice, feel free to discard it and ignore it completely.
Most of your posts, I give a solid thumbs up. In one other thread you were talking about the group most likely to cause Obama a loss due to racism, was the working class whites, who traditionally voted Democratic and this time would opt for the white candidate, I agree with you. Although you did forget to also mention, Republican supporters, fully aware of this demographic aspect, in some cases have targeted, exploited and stoked this groups fears.
Recently, McCain rallies have been increasingly been associated with hate to such an extent many have been expressing deep concern. From a new youk times article, [quote] Until now. At McCain-Palin rallies, the raucous and insistent cries of “Treason!” and “Terrorist!” and “Kill him!” and “Off with his head!” as well as the uninhibited slinging of racial epithets, are actually something new in a campaign that has seen almost every conceivable twist. [/quote] Then goes on to conclude. [quote] The McCain campaign has crossed the line between tough negative campaigning and inciting vigilantism, and each day the mob howls louder. [/quote] nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opini … xprod=digg
It was my belief , that you being an intelligent chap, would wish to distance yourself from the Republican crowd that is beginning to look like a lynch mob, focus on the issues and policy differences. Another clip here discusses this recent development, [youtube.com/watch?v=yBmO6YAszGU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBmO6YAszGU) , it makes the very relevant point. That McCain’s campaign is now acknowledging a lot of the energy in the rallies was not just excitement about the candidates campaign, there was energy being generated by hate and goes on to note, given Americas history of assassinations, this needed to be stamped out immediately. Which it looks like McCain is now doing.
The two candidates have some major differences in policy, Iraq is one. Another would be that Obama would encourage a policy of engaging talks with whoever, with no preconditions as long as he thought there was benefit in it for the US people, I agree, but understand what McCain is saying as well. Its possible to disagree on policies without calling anyone who has a different view a moron. Yet this is the implication of calling people Obamessiah or Obamatrons. I wonder if you would agree that continually calling those with which you would like to have a discussion with idiots, is not conducive to a intelligent debate. To which I feel you generally add more than most.