McCain mob boos him...now what?

Taskr, when did Joe Biden ever accuse Palin or any member of her family of incest or infidelity? That's the proper comparison here since it was Palin who started with these allegations against Obama recently. By the way, when did anyone accuse Palin's family of incest? I sure missed that one, and it's quite disgusting, I agree. Annie

Sarah Palin and John McCain never accused Obama of being an arab or a terrorist. They accused him of poor judgment for associating with a domestic terrorist. It's a fact that he and Ayers worked together and that he held a meet the candidate event in the guy's living room in the 90s.

Taskr, you do realize the difference between a group of people gathering in a civilized manner and an angry mob, don't you? Barak Obama has never even hinted that any of the stories being circulated about Palin's family were true and, in fact, publically stated that the children were off limits. On the other hand, both Palin and McCain have attacked Obama so personally that his crowds have gone from groups of people who don't support Obama for the office of the president to groups of people who fear and hate him. My neighbors daughter, who attends college here in Florida, recently attended a Palin rally with some of her friends and they left early because, the more the crowd got worked up, the more concerned they became for their personal safety afterwards. The very fact that McCain has recognized the problem he and Palin have created and is not trying to unfan those flames of hatred speaks for itself as to the ugliness of it all.

I saw that post and agree with you completely. McCain has worked hard to divide this country and to instill fear and anger...it's too late to try to undo the damage he has done.

I think there's a big difference between the routine political attacks that opposing campaigns level against each other...and have been doing for centuries...and speaking to large groups from a platform of fear. McCain has set out to make his supporters, and anyone else who will listen, fearful of Obama and that has caused the anger and hostility that has grown to an extreme level. He and Palin fueled this fire daily until there was enough media commentary on it to finally get their attention. It's wrong, it's dangerous and it's irresponsible.

Negative campaigns do come across as angry and arrogant. I don't know if McCain will be able to swing things back in his direction but it certainly will be an interesting couple of weeks.

I've been rethinking my party affiliation, too, Zeph. The Republican party used to stand for the things I believed in but not anymore. I think I can still have my personal views without being labeled a liberal.

Know what? I think I agree with you. We'll have to see how the things go after the election but I'm pretty sure that I'll be registered as something else next time around.

It's so sad about all of this. You'll have to be an independent so you don't cross over to the dark side Just kidding. I really have a feeling that the democrats have become what the republicans use to be. But, that's just my opinion.

I've said this before, camomom, that if McCain had chosen Romney as his running mate he'd be sitting pretty right now considering how strong Romney is on the economy but he was afraid of the backlash from the Religious Right. Instead he chose to treat women like idiots by choosing a woman thinking that all those Hillary supporters were hockey moms willing to vote for anyone in a pantsuit.

You may be right but he never had my vote.