McCain rallies inciting rage - on purpose.

[sunsally]

And this makes me sick!!!

Gov. Milliken of Michigan was the governor during most of my youth, a RESPECTED Republican - and he nailed it!!

I'll give McCain props for setting the record straight - once. But as an American - he has to stop himself and stop Palin from inciting violence - they will have blood on their hands if anything happens to Barack Obama!! As will their "supporters" who have tried to do the same - including posters on this website.




http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/...owd/index.html


With recent polls showing Sen. Barack Obama's lead increasing nationwide and in several GOP-leaning states, some Republicans attending McCain-Palin campaign rallies are showing a new emotion: Rage. An angry supporter confronts Sen. John McCain at a rally in Wisconsin on Thursday.




1 of 2






"When you have an Obama, [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and the rest of the hooligans up there going to run this country, we have got to have our head examined. It's time that you two are representing us, and we are mad. So, go get them," one man told Sen. John McCain at a town hall meeting in Waukesha, Wisconsin.


Another man was more pointed.
"And we're all wondering why that Obama is where he's at, how he got here. I mean, everybody in this room is stunned that we're in this position," another man said at a rally.
"I'm mad. I'm really mad. And what's going to surprise you, it's not the economy. It's the socialists taking over our country," one said. Watch more of the anger at the rallies »


Later in Minnesota, a woman told McCain: "I don't trust Obama. I have read about him and he's an Arab."
McCain shook his head and said, "No ma'am, no ma'am. He's a decent family man...[a] citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. That's what this campaign is all about."
The audience then applauded McCain.
Don't Miss

• McCain to voters: 'Who is the real Sen. Obama?'
• Second debate comes amid nasty campaigning
• Election Center 2008

McCain urged his supporters to be respectful of Obama.
"We want to fight and I will fight. But we will be respectful," he said. "I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments. I will respect him and I want everyone to be respectful, and let's make sure we are." Watch McCain address attacks on Obama »


CNN contributor David Gergen, who has advised Democratic and Republican presidential administrations, said Thursday that the negative tone of these rallies is "incendiary" and could lead to violence.


"There is this free floating sort of whipping around anger that could really lead to some violence. I think we're not far from that," he said. "I think it's really imperative that the candidates try to calm people down."


On Friday, Obama said the "barrage of nasty insinuations and attacks" was a result of the Republican nominee's failed economic ideas.


"They can run misleading ads, they can pursue the politics of anything goes. It will not work. Not this time. I think that folks are looking for something different this time. It's easy to rile up a crowd, nothing's easier than riling up a crowd by stoking anger and division. But that's not what we need right now in the United States. The times are too serious," Obama said at a rally in Chillicothe, Ohio.


Recently, McCain's campaign launched a string of ads that question Obama's judgment and character.


The McCain campaign calls Obama "too risky for America" in a new Web ad that focuses on his political relationship with Bill Ayers, a founding member of the radical Weather Underground.
"Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. They've worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it," the announcer said in the 90-second ad.


The now-defunct Weather Underground was involved in bombings in the early 1970s, including attacks on the Pentagon and the Capitol. Obama was a young child at the time of the bombings.
Obama and Ayers, now a university professor, met in 1995, when both worked with a nonprofit group trying to raise funds for a school improvement project and a charitable foundation. CNN's review of project records found nothing to suggest anything inappropriate in the volunteer projects in which the two men were involved. CNN Fact Check: Is Obama 'palling around with terrorists'?


Obama, in an April debate during the primaries, called Ayers "somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8."


At a rally Tuesday in Clearwater, Florida, Sarah Palin said Obama was being "less than truthful" about his ties to Ayers. "His own top adviser said they were 'certainly friendly.' ... I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way that you and I see America -- as the greatest source for good in this world," she said.


Palin told the crowd that she sees "a pattern in how our opponent has talked about one of his most troubling associations." Watch more of Palin's comments »


One member of the Palin audience in Jacksonville, Florida, Tuesday shouted out "treason." And at another rally in the state Monday, Palin's mention of the Obama-Ayers tie caused one member to yell out: "kill him" -- though it was unclear if it was targeted at Obama or Ayers.


At several recent rallies, Palin has stirred up crowds by mentioning the "liberal media." Routinely, there are boos at every mention of The New York Times and the "mainstream media," both of which are staples of Palin's stump speech.


Some audience members are openly hostile to members of the traveling press covering Palin; one crowd member hurled a racial epithet at an African-American member of the press in Clearwater, Florida, on Monday.


And at a McCain rally in New Mexico on Monday, one supporter yelled out "terrorist" when McCain asked, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" McCain didn't respond. Watch as McCain ramps up his criticism of Obama »


Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, on Friday told voters that the McCain-Palin campaign "would want you to be afraid of Barack Obama."


Some Republicans have also been critical of the McCain campaign.
Former Michigan Gov. William Milliken, a Republican, told the Grand Rapids Press he was "disappointed in the tenor and the personal attacks on the part of the McCain campaign."
"He is not the McCain I endorsed," Milliken said Thursday.
Some anger found at McCain-Palin rallies is directed at McCain for a different reason. Watch analysts weigh in on the recent attacks »


"I am begging you, sir, I am begging you, take it to him," another supporter said to the Arizona senator at the Wisconsin rally.
McCain, however, seems torn. On one hand, he is going negative on the Ayers controversy.


"The point is, Sen. Obama said he was just a guy in the neighborhood. We know that's not true," he said at the rally in Wisconsin. "We need to know the full extent of the relationship because of whether Sen. Obama is telling the truth to the American people or not."


On the other hand, McCain is trying to focus on the economic downturn plaguing the country.
"But I also, my friends, want to address the greatest financial challenge of our lifetime with a positive plan for action," he added.


Also, the McCains said months ago they didn't want their son Jimmy -- a Marine serving in Iraq -- dragged into the campaign.
But on Thursday, Cindy McCain brought up her son.
She criticized the Illinois senator for voting against a bill to fund troops in Iraq, a regular line of attack from her husband's campaign.
"The day that Sen. Obama cast a vote not to fund my son when he was serving sent a cold chill through my body, let me tell you," she told a Pennsylvania crowd before introducing her husband and his No. 2.




The vote Cindy McCain is referencing came in May 2007, when Obama was one of 14 senators who voted against a war-spending plan that would have provided emergency funds for American troops overseas.


A CNN fact check deemed the charge that Obama voted against troop funding "misleading." Obama supported a different version of the troop-funding plan -- one that McCain spoke against. Fact Check: Did Obama vote to cut funds for the troops?

[solarmeter]

Republicans don't condone "violence"... like some liberal groups have over the years - here and worldwide. Of all the many and varied "riots" you've seen on TV... how many of them were populated by upper middle class people? Zero.

Class "war"fare is invented and propogated by liberal socialists... not the people who actually produce things of value in return for a good income. But these same people are getting "mad" as helll and aren't going to take it any more IF the socialists win and try to take even MORE of their hard earned money for re-distribution to the unproductive.

The upper 50% already pay something like 90% of income taxes. That isn't enough???

Now we get to bail out the lower 25%'s bad mortgages too. Hopefully no bad tanning bed leases need taxpayer bailouts! Enough IS enough... and there's nothing wrong in being MAD or ANGRY about this deplorable situation which was brought to us primarily by the likes of B. Frank, C. Dodd, and yes B. Obama in bed with Fanny/Freddy shysters.

[unity]

Republicans like to fight... duh.

[engfant]

CLINTON NEWS NETWORK????? Why don't you just ask the "SS" for their take! All neonazi russian liberal kennedy lovers.

[solarmeter]

Whatever turned Megatanman into a kook seems to have affected Ann too. CNN is what it is... just like DNC-TV (PMSNBC). Stop posting their junk SunSally. I don't post Fox News links.

Egg has been a kook forever... so he's excused. At least he knows what CNN really is.

[Ezliving_Jim]

I'm guessing outraged Dems have no concerns about the years of hate-speech from Daily Kos and MoveOn against our President and the Republican candidates.

Most of the country is angry about something and half the country wants no part of Obama. One can not blame McCain for that.

I have not heard anything from McCain - Palin or their supporters that has the appearance of inciting violence. The same can not be said for Obama supporters, some of which have suggested riots if he loses.

[unity]

"I have not heard anything from McCain - Palin or their supporters that has the appearance of inciting violence."

Must be watching too much FOX.

[engfant]

"I'm guessing outraged Dems have no concerns about the years of hate-speech from Daily Kos and MoveOn against our President and the Republican candidates."

Just like you had no concerns of Bush's successes in bankrupting companies one after another. Amazing how the country is now bankrupt. Who would have guessed?

[megatanman]

Originally Posted by solarmeter

Whatever turned Megatanman into a kook seems to have affected Ann too. CNN is what it is... just like DNC-TV (PMSNBC). Stop posting their junk SunSally. I don't post Fox News links.

Egg has been a kook forever... so he's excused. At least he knows what CNN really is.

So you agree that fox leans wayy to the right.

Palin and Mccain have perpetrated this violent activity with their careless slandering and mudslinging.

Now finally Mccain has seen the damage and support that it has costed him.He begged people in Minnesota to "not" discredit Obama as a person.They were even Booing him.

Every news channel including Fox has run this piece.Too bad for McCain the negative press he recieved from it is irreversible,
Now the liberal media has went from that to Sarah palins questionable ethics violation.

You idiots fail to realize your candidates campaign is fueling Obamas support.
Your not going to put out a fire by dousing it with gas.

[megatanman]

Originally Posted by engfant

Just like you had no concerns of Bush's successes in bankrupting companies one after another. Amazing how the country is now bankrupt. Who would have guessed?

Republicans will never call a spade a spade egg