The behavior of people attending recent John McCain rallies tells us something about this country and something about John McCain.
Videos of McCain rallies in Minnesota show very angry white people, some downright out of control, demanding McCain start getting tough with Obama because they do not want to see that MUSLIM ARAB TERRORIST become president.
To McCain’s credit, he took away the microphone from a woman making those statements and said that Obama would make a good president and is a good man, implying that he is not a Muslim Arab Terrorist, at which the CROWD BOOED MCCAIN – can you believe it!
Here is the irony; McCain’s campaign managers are putting out ads that accuse Obama of befriending a terrorist and like I mentioned before, the terrorist moniker carries in today’s America, the additional, some say automatic, intimation that the terrorist is also an Arab and a Muslim.
So, on the one hand McCain does not want to be seen in the company of white, bigoted morons lest people may think that is the crowd he is reaching out to, but on the other hand he wants the American voter to see Obama in just those terms.
Obama has acknowledged McCain’s defense of him in front of such crowds but went on to challenge McCain on issues such as the economy; like honorable politicians should do.
Like I mentioned before, it is unfortunate that Americans are still hung up over race, nationality and religion (my family included) that making a choice for the office of president is not just based on who the better candidate is. It is naïve to think people will think and behave in rational ways. Obviously, the McCain campaign is counting on it and thus trying to throw more wood on the burning fire of bigotry.
Videos of McCain rallies in Minnesota show very angry white people, some downright out of control, demanding McCain start getting tough with Obama because they do not want to see that MUSLIM ARAB TERRORIST become president.
To McCain’s credit, he took away the microphone from a woman making those statements and said that Obama would make a good president and is a good man, implying that he is not a Muslim Arab Terrorist, at which the CROWD BOOED MCCAIN – can you believe it!
Here is the irony; McCain’s campaign managers are putting out ads that accuse Obama of befriending a terrorist and like I mentioned before, the terrorist moniker carries in today’s America, the additional, some say automatic, intimation that the terrorist is also an Arab and a Muslim.
So, on the one hand McCain does not want to be seen in the company of white, bigoted morons lest people may think that is the crowd he is reaching out to, but on the other hand he wants the American voter to see Obama in just those terms.
Obama has acknowledged McCain’s defense of him in front of such crowds but went on to challenge McCain on issues such as the economy; like honorable politicians should do.
Like I mentioned before, it is unfortunate that Americans are still hung up over race, nationality and religion (my family included) that making a choice for the office of president is not just based on who the better candidate is. It is naïve to think people will think and behave in rational ways. Obviously, the McCain campaign is counting on it and thus trying to throw more wood on the burning fire of bigotry.
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