Week of Hate: Keith Olbermann slams Mccain/Palin sleaze

"Are you going to get any better or is this it?" With, mercifully, only one debate to go, that is the question about John McCain's campaign. In the closing days of his 10-year quest for the presidency, McCain finds it galling that Barack Obama is winning the first serious campaign he has ever run against a Republican. Before Tuesday night's uneventful event, gall was fueling what might be the McCain-Palin campaign's closing argument. It is less that Obama has bad ideas than that Obama is a bad person.

This, McCain and his female Sancho Panza say, is demonstrated by bad associations Obama had in Chicago, such as with William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist. But the McCain-Palin charges have come just as the Obama campaign is benefiting from a mass mailing it is not paying for. Many millions of American households are gingerly opening envelopes containing reports of the third-quarter losses in their 401(k) and other retirement accounts -- telling each household its portion of the nearly $2 trillion that Americans' accounts have recently shed. In this context, the McCain-Palin campaign's attempt to get Americans to focus on Obama's Chicago associations seem surreal -- or, as a British politician once said about criticism he was receiving, "like being savaged by a dead sheep."

Recently Obama noted -- perhaps to torment and provoke conservatives -- that McCain's rhetoric about Wall Street's "greed" and "casino culture" amounted to "talking like Jesse Jackson." What fun: one African-American Chicago politician distancing himself from another African-American Chicago politician by associating McCain with him.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/a_landslide_coming.html
Seems like almost every day now there's a McCain-Palin rally where the campaign has the candidates introduced by someone who hits on "Barack Hussein Obama". Just happened again in Bethlehem, PA. After the fifth or sixth time you pretty much know on the orders of the campaign. It is obviously with tacit approval (to believe anything else is to be a dupe at this point); and quite probably on the campaign's specific instructions.

Given the regularity of the cries of "treason" and "terrorist" and the like, and the frequency with which the screamers seem in oddly convenient proximity to the mics, we should probably be considering the possibly that these folks are campaign plants. It happens all the time. It's just that usually they don't scream out accusations of capital crimes.

Late Update: A thought. At what point do they start burning Obama in effigy at the Palin rallies?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/222875.php
Their message on Ayers is muddled, confused, and self-contradictory...Last night, a senior McCain adviser claimed that the campaign doesn't care specifically about who Ayers is per se, arguing that McCain's team is only concerned with Obama's alleged dishonesty about his relationship with the former Weatherman. Yet this morning, only 12 hours later, the McCain campaign blasted out a statement from one John Murtagh, who says he was nine years old when the Weathermen firebombed his house. In other words, half a day after saying Ayers himself isn't the issue, the McCain team directly attacked Ayers, with a detailed recital of his crimes -- an obvious effort to insinuate that Obama is in league with terrorists.

Last night's statement claiming that the McCain team isn't concerned with Ayers himself came from McCain adviser Nicole Wallace. "[N]obody in America sitting around the kitchen table trying to figure out if they're gonna be able to make the mortgage or worried about the price of groceries or price of gas, nobody cares about Mr. Ayers," Wallace told Fox News. "Neither do we...What we care about is that Barack Obama described him as a guy in his neighborhood." The reason for Wallace's statement seems obvious: She's claiming that the campaign is not trying to imply that Obama is in league with terrorists, as a way of deflecting the Obama camp's counter-argument that the McCain team is indulging in dirty negative attacks as a way of distracting voters from a discussion about the economy.

Yet this morning, the McCain team's statement from Murtagh said: "When I was 9 years-old the Weather Underground, the terrorist group founded by Barack Obama's friend William Ayers, firebombed my house. Barack Obama has dismissed concerns about his relationship with Ayers by noting that he was only a child when Ayers was planting bombs at the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol. But Ayers has never apologized for his crimes, he has reveled in them, expressing regret only for the fact that he didn't do more."
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/mccain_campaigns_mudd...

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[circlestream]

i am so glad that horrible woman isint our president! although if not for her mccain might be president.....that you god!

[tjw12]

Kisin, You are so far left you cant even see the middle. Your comments are so hypocritical of your profile. Youre full of hate and your goal is take the dignity from people that serve this country or dont agree with you. It is YOURR attitude that divides this country, not democrats and republicans. It is people like you that spew hate and divisiveness. what about treating people with dignity?

Good luck to you. Wow, I hope you can crawl out of your dark, hate filled hole one day

[Yereviltwin2]

@RyanSkolnick

HA HA I can’t wait for the day that the average American is waiting in a bread line because we are all equally poor. I’d love to give my family business to the state so they can make money on my hard work. That will make me work harder.

[Yereviltwin2]

@RyanSkolnick

Well here in America you have the freedom to leave and live in your socialist paradise, where ever that may be. When will you be leaving? Will you please bring some of your socialist friends with you?

[Yereviltwin2]

@RyanSkolnick

How far left do you want the US to go? Stop at socialism or go full tilt to communism?

[Yereviltwin2]

@RyanSkolnick

And I’m going to assume you're one of those extreme leftwing ideologues that is so left that from your perceptive BO appears to be right of center.

[Yereviltwin2]

@RyanSkolnick

Alright then, liberals are demons relative to my point of view, therefore they deserve to be demonized too.

[Yereviltwin2]

What Kieth said:

The beginning of my point, words, words, fancy words, get side tracked, longwinded tangent, political words, numbers, scary words, dramatic words, adjectives, over describe. Are you following? No? Then you are dumb and that must mean I am smart. WORDS, WORDS, WORDS, swear, demonized the right, end of point.

[thatoneguylb]

that cop HAS to be gay!!!!!!

[lilwen3]

gay police he might need the president

[daJman54]

OMG Obama is a secret Muslum!!!!!!!!!! yea right, people a so fukin STUPID!!!!!!!