Magnetic wrote:October 5, 2008By TheImproper.com
John McCain, Sarah Palin
With about a month to go before the November general election, the campaign of Republican John McCain is getting desperate. In revealing moment, McCain showed just how low he is ready to go to wrest votes from Democrat Barack Obama.
On the campaign trail over the weekend, GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin assailed Obama for “palling around with terrorists.” The effort was patently racist and clearly tried to tie Obama to Middle Eastern terrorists, when nothing could be further from the truth.
Palin’s attack, unsubstantiated and racially tinged, showed a clear change in direction for the campaign and a potentially changing role for her. In this election, where voters seem to be particularly intolerant of mud-slinging, McCain may come to regret the move. But it seems clear, at least at the moment, that Palin has taken up the same role as former Maryland Gov. Spiro Agnew, the vice presidential running mate of former President Richard Nixon, the GOP's godfather of dirty campaign tricks.
Agnew was used as a vicious campaign attack dog smearing Nixon’s opponents, the press and anyone else to play on the prejudices of voters. Meanwhile, Nixon was allowed to remain above the fray.
Since then, Republicans have become known for dirty personal attacks. George H.W. Bush criticized Democrat Michael Dukakis over the furlough granted to Willie Horton, a black convicted murderer who raped a woman and stabbed her companion after his release. The Vietnam-era Swift Boat attack Democrat John Kerry created a cloud around Kerry’s war record, enough to off-set the fact that George W. Bush dodged the war in the Texas National Guard. After the election, too late to help Kerry, the Swift Boat attack was widely discredited.
It worked back then, but it could easily backfire now. The time and the mood of the public are clearly different.
Here's how Palin recently tried to paint Obama: "Our opponent ... is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country," she told a group of donors in Englewood, Colo.
The attempt to smear Obama was deliberate. Palin repeated the line at three separate events Saturday (Oct 4). "This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America," she said. "We see America as a force of good in this world. We see an America of exceptionalism."
, a member of the Weather Underground, who blew up government buildings and thereatened judges in the 60's. That's why she said "terrrorists who would target their own country".
. He is unpenitent and was quoted as saying 'he wish he'd done more' in an article that ran on 9/11. He lives near Obama and they have had close ties for years. I think it's racist NOT to hold Sen Obama accountable for his associations and the judgements he's made in the past, when he's running for our nation's highest office. For me, Senator Obama just hasn't done enough good to offset his negatives. He is an excellent speaker, but what has he done?