McCain's Innuendo Campaign

[GoS]

This was a discussion that we started to have in the All Political Posts thread that I wanted to follow up on.

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

These campaigns are keen on innuendo - all of them. Every single black person I heard talking about the debate today and some white people took "that one" to be a racial jab. That is too much coicidence for me no matter the sentence stuture. Also, notice McCain said "that one" but then said "me" instead of "this one" to refer to himself, which would have been the consistent phrasing At best, it should how culturally ignorant, out of touch and completely unaware McCain is. But, IMO, it was intentional and played into the hands of Palin, who is implying in no uncertain terms that Obama is a Black Muslim Extremist/Terrorist.

And another McCain quote that furthers his use of the innuendo:

Woman at rally: I don't trust Obama. I have read about him and he's an Arab.

Sen. John McCain: No ma'am, no ma'am. He's a decent family man, citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. That's what this campaign is all about. He's not, thank you.

Never mind that he got booed for saying that, he only addressed the fact that she called Obama a bad person, not that he's and Arab. He knows that this is one of the reasons that he is still alive in the race and if he addresses it he would only hurt himself.

[ajmccarrell]

If campaigns were judges by what their supporters do, which is what it looks like that you're doing with McCain, they'd all be in prison. Recall the Obama supporters that set the display on fire and put the old man in the hospital after assaulting him with bleach?

It seems more fair to judge the candidates on what they do themselves, rather than the idiots that spout stuff that attend their rallies. Remember, most people work during the day, so unless you're taking time off work, you're getting the dregs of society, who can say just about anything.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by GoS

. . . Never mind that he got booed for saying that, he only addressed the fact that she called Obama a bad person, not that he's and Arab. He knows that this is one of the reasons that he is still alive in the race and if he addresses it he would only hurt himself.

McCain is full of shiitte when he alleges he is not trying to smear Obama by raising the raceism and bigotry flags. McCainwould have to be a complete idiot not to have known that Palin's baseless attacks were inciting hatred in people. Evidence of this general knowledge is that just about every crdible news source reported that was the effect. Moreover, anyone who thinks the McCain campaign does not screen every single speech given before the main speaker is living in la la land. Yet, they let cr*p like this go on:



I MEAN WTF

I get that McCain stopped that one idiot, but I submit that was for show and a day late and a dollar short:



I base this on McCain's allowance of the same kind of thing to continue unchallenged other than this one time. When people scream "KILL HIM" at what appears to be tge vast majority of your rallies loud enough to be picked up by the mic. - McCain and Palin certainly can hear that. Yet, they let it slide - they say nothing. They let it slide because it is the last hope they have to cling to. That hope is the bigots and racists whose thoughts that Obama was a Muslim extremist, much less, to use their words, a uppity n*gger, just cannot be the leader of America, which they see as white and Christian and anyone who thinks differently is unAmerican. I was in a rest. last weekend and this table of men in suits in their fifties were calling this "Sambo's Recession" (the thought of a black "Smabo" in the Oval Office sent the world wide markets into a tailspin) and then went on to say that they knew Obama was a Muslim who was funded by Osama bin Laden. These men appeared to be well educated businessmen. I was horrified.

This is a profoundly sad day for McCain, who just a year or so ago, was an honorable man.

Palin, on the other hand, has never had h0nor.