Obama hatred at McCain rallies: "Kill him!"

jawnybc asks for it again,

"Cite one example of oversight that was removed by Republicans."

Glad to oblige.

I'm sure you just disremembered the details and momentarily forgot this was 'veto proof legislation' Right?

So let's refresh your memory, K?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm-Leach-Bliley

"The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, is an Act of the United States Congress which repealed part of the Glass-Steagall Act, opening up competition among banks, securities companies and insurance companies. The Glass-Steagall Act prohibited a bank from offering investment, commercial banking, and insurance services.

"The bills were introduced in the Senate by Phil Gramm (R-TX) and in the House of Representatives by James Leach (R-IA). The bills were passed by a 54-44 vote along party lines with Republican support in the Senate and by a 343-86 vote in the House of Representatives. Nov 4, 1999:

After passing both the Senate and House the bill was moved to a conference committee to work out the differences between the Senate and House versions. The final bill resolving the differences was passed in the Senate 90-8-1 and in the House: 362-57-15. This 'veto proof legislation' was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999

The banking industry had been seeking the repeal of Glass-Steagall since at least the 1980s. In 1987 the Congressional Research Service prepared a report which explored the case for preserving Glass-Steagall and the case against preserving the act."

Now remember - run away!

XintJoyce!

A new troll joins us with an avalanche of assumptions!

You are so full of omniscient confidence that you know that the people who shot an unarmed man thousands of miles away weren't Republicans? Is that right?

So, of course - you were there?

You interviewed the shooters? They contacted you? You have hard evidence? You understand their motives? You astral traveled to investigate the scene?

And you think the whole scam - played out in the UK of all places - could have been a secret ploy of Democrats out to help their guy because he's winning in every poll, right? Winning made him more desperate to, uh, win...Funny he doesn't seem that insecure.

But those UK Democrats they just randomly targeted a black make to raise publicity here - for Obama?

You are that credulous? Interesting.

And the imbeciles who shouted "Kill Him!" at Obama those were probably just Obama supporters being sneaky, you say? Obama wasn't beating McCain enough on every issue so they had to make him look even more credible?

Then you say, "And funny, no vital organs were damaged... hmmmm ... makes me wonder.... Think people... Dont always look at the obvious...life is complicated."

For someone either paranoid or psychopathic you're right - it would look just the way you describe it!

Weren't these same guests shouting "Kill Him!" at the debate all supposed to have been screened before admittance?

Another 'Heckuva Job"!

Republicans have a problem. Like Sarah Palin they refuse to read so hence why they have such small minds.

The youtube video requires no reading just watch and listen to McCain flip and flop all over himself.

This is McCain in action not me, not you, not that one, McCain so get serious, watch and learn.

This kind of thing is no good For or against Obama when someone yells "Kill him", I think there is a clause in the Secret Service guidelines that says that people running for the office of president are protected as if they are. therefor shouldn't the one that yell it at least be escorted out or questioned. And if he were to say "I'm gonna kill Barack Obama " Shouldn't the treat it the same as saying you're gonna kill the president?

republicans just a couple of weeks ago said our economy was strong, fine, no problems ... then 700B.
This is robbery on a mass scale.
Lied us into a war costing us now over 1 Trillion and the lives of over 4000+ American servicemen and women.
People dying in our cities unable to get healthcare.
Kids not able to afford college.
People losing their homes all across the U.S.
Iran is getting The Bomb and so is N Korea.
The Chinese are heading for the moon.
The Chinese and the EU are talking about moving away from the Dollar standard (this is a big problem).
Price of fuel is through the roof - and this is only the beginning.
Patriot Act is not. You're guilty until proven innocent.
We are a nation that tortures.
No Kid Left Behind was NEVER funded - which makes sense because george is a dumbass and look how he turned out.
george "The Idiot" bush - the Uniter. Yet more bullshit.
and
Mission Accomplished !

How's that for "details" and that's just off the top of my mind.

Still wondering why we're mad ?

Talk about painting someone as a racist when they weren't even the ones who made the comment. Also, the phrase "Kill him" can be figurative. I know people are gonna give me shit for saying that, but it's true.

SUCH REDNECKS!!!!

Like I said before, white conservatives have a small penis. (therefore all the hate)

Watching Senator McCain is like watching an Episode of the Chappelle Show. I can't stop laugh my ass off!

"One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy.""

I think that sums the Rep. ticket up.

All it takes is 1 nutcase to end everything Obama has worked so hard for...and there
I personally fear for his life...and if anythin happens to him, the country will be in chaos and it'll be decades until someone like Obama (no matter what color) rises and inspires the nation like he did...
Sad...but realistic...

Did you see? Yes He didn't correct them but he also gave a kind of disgusted look and went on with the speech.. I think that if he would have answered back it would have led into something he wasn't prepared for like banter back in forth from the audience. Thats pretty crappy that people would say things like that about Obama since they obviously know nothing about him.

This is tacky, but Obama made this a race issue when he "implied" and his media friends put it out there that if they voted for anyone else it was because they were racist. Obama only himself to blame for the animosity out there now. People should not be afraid to vote because it might cause a race riot if he loses.

I'm sure there are plenty of wacko fanatics who would yell out like that in rallies... but don't be so naive to think these kinds of tactics are not on the tactical "list".

Here's my inspired guess at a tactical checklist for the McCain/Palin camp in order of ugliness.

1) Speak rhetoric to get votes.... didn't work.
2) Speak buzzwords to get votes... didn't work.
3) Find a semi-attractive naggy person to get votes (don't forget to wink a lot and speak colloquially -- redneck dialect)... didn't work.
4) Twist facts to make Obama look evil... didn't work.
5) Twist facts to make McCain/Palin look good... didn't work.
6) Avoid the press, they are seeing through the rhetoric... didn't work.
7) Avoid the light of reason in debates... didn't work.
8) Debate with rhetoric... didn't work.
9) "Surge" of attack ads... didn't work.

REACHING DESPERATION LEVEL

10) Start instigating mob behavior to reinstill fear to drive our base back to us.... in progress.

I'm sure the list just gets uglier from there.

Cheers.
Stradius

McCain and Palins hypocrisy and transparent attempt at smearing will focus back onto them. Obama was 8 years old when Ayers and his wife where charged but never convicted. His anti-war philosophy, although very radical at the time was unpopular but he was not involved in blowing up toilets in federal buildings himself. Ayers was voted as Chicago’s citizen of the year for his work on teaching school children peace and funding raising for impoverish communities in need of school supplies. I think it’s safe to say if he is a terrorist in this day and age, he’d be in Guantanamo right now.

However, the Palins have no excuse. I’m sure they wouldn’t like voters seeing video of Todd Palin’s mentor and peer member Joe Vogler founder of AIP and Governor Palin’s warm welcome to the AIP into her Governorship in her own words captured on news archives along with Vogler in his own words here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmYqRfp6-x8

"The fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government," Vogler said in the interview, in which he talked extensively about his desire for Alaskan secession, the key goal of the AIP.

"And I won't be buried under their damn flag," Vogler continued in the interview, which also touched on his disappointment with the American judicial system. "I'll be buried in Dawson. And when Alaska is an independent nation they can bring my bones home."-Joe Vogler.

We still live in a racist country. My mom was canvasing in Wisconsin for Obama and actually met someone who said to her face "I will never vote for a n*****." Like actually said the words.

Fascism is rising all over the world. look around. Also look in old news magazines of the 30's and you will discover that it was then as well. There are many within the republican party that are drawn toward fascism, many find it comforting.The Bush administration has been sidling up to it as much as they can get away with and the amount that has been tolerated is truly frightning. If don't get away from the republican temptation to drift toward and fall into fascism that is always fueled by fear, we will find ourselves in as fascist a regime as any in Europe and our country will be effectivly dead.

Shame on McCain. Shame on him for not having the decency and class to allow something so absurd to happen on his campaign quest. I have completely lost what respect I had for him.

McCain and his lil' lipstick wearing pitbull are missing 1 thing.

Their white robes.

It doesn't matter which candidate you support, this is about human decency. These people are acting like a mob with pitchforks and tar and feathers. It looks like a KKK rally.

this is really sad to see, our country is still so backwards

I don't know about McCain but I can tell you I am capable of thinking and handling more than three things at once.

I can stay focused on the economy, on healthcare, and I can focus on NON violence and the ugliness of racism.

One must truly wonder who are the enemies of our state?

above we see the typical conservative twisting words. No one WISHES death on McCain. They are pointing out a fact. He has recurring melanoma. He is 72. There is a chance that he could die in office and leave Palin who IS uneducated in office.

What YOU guys are doing is saying go out and kill Obama. Murder. BIG DIFFERENCE. Left side actually does respect McCains time overseas although most of us see no reason this would make him a better leader since he is very out of touch with the current reality.

But YOUR side is calling Obama a terrorist and calling for death out of racism and bigotry.

BESIDE... Jammer... just go away... or don't but the reality is, while I can't speak for everyone, how can anyone ever take you seriously. If you had something worth saying it wouldn't be so bad... but you are an admitted troll. You know you come on here to pick fights. To push buttons. You say nothing of substance.

McCain is inciting it. He's desperate because he knows he's losing.

Funny this community is upset over the painful comments about Obama while the majority of you state worse things about McCain and Palin.

Talk about hypocritical to the max.

People wish death upon McCain on this site with "he's going to die in office" and such....and yet it's horrible that someone shout kill Obama out right. I guess they have guts and y'all have none..since you do it in the more subtle manner. The coward manner--so to speak.

If Obama were smart he'd continue talking about the issues and not pander to these attacks. But he's not. Not right now. Obama is an idiot for falling for anything that is being tossed at him...such as Ayers and the like. He shouldn't have retorted with something from the past....as easy as it was to pull that senator five out of the ashes of hell...he should have left it alone.

He doesn't have to play nicey-nice...but he sure the hell needs to play it smarter...because right now he's being too stupid to consider smart.

I'm surprised at the restraint McCain's campaign team demonstrated.

The original idea was for McCain to literally be draped in the American flag and holding a Bible while he called Sen. Obama a Muslim terrorist funded by the Iranian military.

Congrats to McCain's handlers for showing some class and dignity while they threw handfuls of shit at Obama and the American people.

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McCain voted for and supported the massive deregulation that allowed this crisis to occur.

Every time McCain says "terrorist" we have to drag that albino sumbitch back to the issue: the economy!

They also called Obama a terrorist, and McCain just stood there and smiled.

Yes, and then we see Obama and McCain on the house floor shaking hands as they both vote to screw the American people (even those ignorant ones in the crowd) even more, or sitting together in a church for Tim Russert's funeral talking and smiling. What an act on both sides...they both must laugh their butts off after these rallies knowing how they are wrapping people around their little fingers. If I didn't know any better I would think they both went nasty now just to up ratings for their remaining debates which if anything like the first will be a real snoooooozer.

Maybe the whole point was to distract us?

McCain SUCKS on the economy....so he pulls this stunt and sudenly we all stop talking about the economy!

Obama was right about distractions and this is exactly what this is.

McCain is in a win/win situation by shifting the focus to this non-issue because he can talk about how the "media filter" is attacking him AND he can get away with ignoring the economic meltdown happening.

Maybe McCain is smarter than we give him credit for.

He was getting his ass beat on the economy -- so he starts pulling this bullshit (coordinated with his gal Friday Sarah) to change the subject.

John McCain was for the massive deregulation that created this mess and he should be held accountable for it.

We cannot allow 4 more years of Bushinomics to continue to destroy the middle class.

There....I've changed the subject back to the one McCain (and his follwers) are desperate, desperate, desperate not to talk about: the economy!

Violence cannot be condoned on any level. Never. We have lost great leaders because of the horror of a few.

Violence in Darfur cannot be condoned and we need to act with the UN to see that it is stopped.

We need to stop being a violent nation that allows children to shoot children all because some people want the right to own handguns. How incredibly stupid is that. Ask any parent who has lost a child or any sibling or friend who has lost a loved one due to handguns and racial intolerance.

I am sickened by the ugliness of this election. I am not talking about the mudslinging as I ignore that. I am talking about Palin's attacks with McCain's full approval. He is not a patriot nor an honorable individual if he does not have the balls to stand up and say NO MORE VIOLENCE OR THREATS/.

The media did not shout out Kill Obama. The media did not call him a terrorist. It is the "republican base" that bulldog Palin is inciting. She is doing it purposefully.

When racism and hatred is part of a campaign or religion then I will speak out against them. Palin is preaching hatred and it is very thinly disguised. FOX is only one media and yes they are despicable.

As to Bush, Cheney, et al yes they did manipulate and steal the election and we should have had a civil uprising when the supreme court favored bush and stopped the recount with Gore.

We better WAKE UP AMERICA or there will be no country left to live in.

As we all climb in our camps and scream
Liberal and Conservative
Democrat and Republican

We find ourselves stuck in a mob mentality where we are rationalizing bullshit.

I say this to supporters of both candidates. What are we rationalizing? How has this mob mentality taken us down. How are we stepping outside of ourselves.

This is all getting dangerous and we are showing our true colors. But maybe that's a good thing.

Look how McCain glows in the sea of such ignorance.

If you examine the policies of George W. you would realize he has put in place mechanisms which go into effect in the event of civil unrest. Is the Republican (neocon) goal to ignite civil unrest enabling them to use extreme measures against us and win the election? Bush, Cheney, McCain and Palin are from the same mold.

Do they think they can get in power using fear and racial divide? Yes, they can! They know they don’t need to worry, Americans no longer hold people accountable for their actions. Move along, nothing to see here.

I think its good they are getting people pissed at mainstream media. Mainstream media has failed America. Not by what those people think, but by enabling George W. to do the things he has done. They are going to be victims of the ones they supported. Talk about irony.

If McCain has any honor he will stand up on TV tonight and tell all his followers that he abhors violence and any thoughts of harming Obama is the most horrific thing that anyone can do and that he does not condone it.

I realize McCain cannot control those who want to vote for him yet I see him fanning the flames of racism and hatred and it sickens me.

The USA has a new chance with a new qualified and gifted man seeking the office of President. Senator Obama and his family have a right to live their lives without the ugly threat of death. We, as a nation, need to finally own that race and ethnicity is NOT a reason to be denied any job in this country.

McCain needs to stand up and say this is intolerable.

Its amazing that these two can put out this rhetoric and still have intelligent individuals back them. To back McCain at this point is to back institutionalized racism, in a way. It's not only backing the system as it stands, but its taking us several steps backward to the times of segregation not just for people of color, but for women and for children as well. To take America back to the "golden age of the 1950s" brings back all the spiteful divisions that the 60s and 70s sought to undo. Anyone with a claim to a brain ought to be against this vile hatred towards people for no other reason than their gender or skin color. That doesn't represent me nor my family, and I hope that logic and reason wins out in the end.

This is what sickens me about this election, and the Republicans. They are fueling the race card, and showing thier true colors, which arent Red White, nor blue. Well, maybe some white, like alot of white!

Division, Racism, the new talking points by the McCain campaign.

Unity, Change, and tolerance.........Obama/Biden 2008.

This is all explainable by understanding the Conservative mind, the Liberal brain is open too new ideas and understand that fear can be dealt with, on the other hand the Conservative brain needs too have
a dominate control figure telling them what to do, and are scared of change. I figure that this daddy issue that
dwells in the conservative brain has had us restrained and in fear for far too long. We as a nation have not been keeping up with the many changes occuring in our time.

If Obama is cheated or killed the streets will be engulfed in flames, mark my words. The level of disenfranchisement in this government will be beyond comprehension. You think the LA riots where bad?

mccain and palin are creating a demon they would regret later. THIS IS NOT AMERICAN AT ALL. shame on you mccain/palin

I bet I can find many examples of Obama supporter behavior that we would all find reprehensible. In fact, I already know one story of intimidation that is truly frightening.