Zzzzzz.

Hahaha. We're going to have a black president, and there's not a goddamn thing they can do about it!

Racist idiots.

Just wait until McCain/Palin rallies start featuring huge screens with images of Emmanuel Goldst....I mean Barak Obama for the people to throw things and yell at for two minutes. Now that will be compelling television.

Did the person screaming "Kill Him" get taken into custody by the Secret Service? And why not?

Obama is under Secret Service protection and that was a threat. The same would apply if the circumstances were reversed at an Obama rally and someone made a threat towards McCain or Palin.

It is a violation of Federal Law, and spare me the crap about free speech. If McCain/Palin campaign rallies continue to incite this type of behavior, anyone care to imagine the resultant media/legal circus that will ensue?

What is a thunderstick?

@5 imagine a basketball game where they have those 2 foam things they slap together.

Unfortunately it isn't Christopher Firzzelle's enormous peen

This isn't news unless gays are involved.

Maybe this is the real endgame. The south & Alaska secede with Palin the Fuhrer of this new region.

I will now hold McCain and Palin at least partially responsible if some ignorant nutbar on meth tries to take a shot at Obama on inauguration day. This is utterly shameful, and they have to know deep down that it isn't likely to win them the presidency.

Alaska wouldn't last out a week without the federal tax subsidies from the rest of us.

@5- long, plastic balloons that make a boomy noise when slapped together. i also think that hicks refer to their muskets as thunder sticks. or maybe that was the native american word for gun. oh wait, that was boom stick.

Again, I still hold my argument that she's Hitler with a pretty face in a dress.

@4: The "Kill him" yell was directed at Ayers, not Obama. ...Not that it's okay in that case, but it does change the story a bit. (Context: Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank)

This kind of stuff is really disgusting

Perhaps the Republican party should be classified as a hate group.

You had to know it would come to this.

Amen Jen.

It's mob mentality. Their forebears yelled Seig Heil at Nuremberg and Crucify! Crucify! at Golgotha. There have always been ignorant people in every time and nation who have been stirred to hatred and violence by demagogues. Hopefully a month from now intelligent and rational people will overcome.

@13, it's not at all clear to me that that's true. I think it's very ambiguous, and frightening. Here's a major-party candidate smirking at death threats. That's a new low, lower than anything I've ever seen in politics. Ugly and evil.

I want to see more of it, too. I want to see Palin and McCain on TV leading rallies where the audience is rioting and shouting about n*ggers. He might lose all fifty states if that happens.

You all have got to realize that this won't work on most people who have made up their minds already. The people at these rallies new they'd be voting for a republican months ago and certainly would not be there if they were undecided at this point.

In 2000 and 2004, the polls showed erratic behavior as the sampling pool dipped in and out of independents, but pollsters were able to safely call it for Bush in 2004 pretty early on, saying that over 95% of voters had made up their minds by the end of September.

This is not good press for McCain, so let's not do anything more than point it out.

Truly sickening to see the smug looks and winks they dole out, as if to say "You and I know what I'm really saying here."

The only reason he was allowed to get this far is so we could expose the members of the Weather terror network.

Once Barry loses, he'll go back to scarfing cheeseburgers until he reaches his "rest weight" of 350 lbs.

seeing as she realizes it's her job to launch the smears, whether she understands how it will play in alabama vs. alaska is irrelevant.

what's she going to do, say no? her only talent is ambition.

Wow, another story about 'Yahoos for Palin!' Must be a slow day up there in the city.

I'd rather see discussion on something actually relevant, like the strange delays in Mr Obama's acquaintance Tony Rezko sentenced.

Correction @ 24 ... "in GETTING Mr Obama's, etc."

@2 There is something they can do about it. I believe that he'll win the election. I'm still deeply afraid that he won't survive inauguration.

I have never, for even a moment, believed that Obama would survive his first term if elected.

There are two racists in Florida? Really? Is that all you could come up with?

@27

And should that prove to be the case. . . man. . . I know this sounds like hyperbole, but I think it would be the greatest heartbreak in this country's history, and probably mark the end of an empire in the history books.

@24-
I'm sorry, but if Palin is going to use her identity as Scarycuda Sixpack to connect with voters, then we should also examine the identity of the voters that support her. Two-way street. The public that supports the candidates deserves just as much scrutiny as the candidates themselves.

The Republican candidates are drawing heavily on differences between cultures, classes and beliefs to make their arguments for why you should vote for them...so unfortunately (or fortunately? perhaps we need to to this?) this has forced US to examine, and ponder our differences and similarities.
Just as when someone demanded that Hilary iron his shirt, the behavior of the crowd is important, and revealing of truths that we have found a little too easy to ignore.

And by emphasizing class and culture differences at every campaign turn, just WHO here has distracted us from more "relevant" discussion? Not the "elites" doggone it. *wink*

Oh, I see where SeeJay got his little talking points and is coming in here to rile all us big, bad liberals.

Victimization: It's not a lifestyle, it's a life.

How come 90% of African Americans refusing to vote for McCain Palin is not racist?

@32

Because they aren't voting against McCain due to his whiteness. They're voting for Obama due to his blackness (and the progress that his candidacy represents). It's not about being anti-white.

Though, if you hold up the Stephen Colbert model of race relations, where you must be "colorblind" to avoid being a racist. . . well. . . right, there are a lot of us who are excited to vote for a black guy, and by that definition, we are racists. :-/

@32

Because they have reasons other than race to vote against that ticket.

c.f. The GOP in the 20th Century and, specifically, this

they are so done. mccain is going to go down in history as a misty turd.

As someone who will leave my safe confines of college within the next president's term, this sort of thing is scary. I live in Ohio and people aren't like that.

@22: What the hell are you talking about? You and PC drinking the same kool-aid? Jebus.

@32: Also, as would be obvious if you'd bothered to spend more than 2 seconds thinking about it, nearly every black non-first-time voter has supported whites in the past (simply because there aren't enough black candidates running for anyone to have an "all-black" voting history). The converse is by definition not the case for whites voting against Obama because he's black.

The public now feels Obama can do the best job of getting us out of the growing fiscal mess - that is as much intuition as party or campaign. Strangely, a big break for Obama and Dems. everywhere.

It trumps all other issues, even more with each passing days.

He will win, Palina and Mc Cain are doing can't win last minute dithering. Palin is projecting her own poltical future, yes, she has that among Rs.

Predictions of assassination are morbid and cynical. Obama will protect himself and his family to the max.

Need a bit of trust and faith, and, a cadre of top notch bodyguards.

McCain is not the white candidate. He is the anti-black candidate. There is a difference.

Did you catch the segment on Jon Stewart last night? Interviews with a bunch of folks in Wasilla, at a debate watching party.

The racism and homophobia wasn't even thinly veiled. One guy promised a "white out" on election day, and used the term "colored." Another dude used "gay" as an insult.

Real nice hometown values there, Sarah Palin. You fucking piece of garbage.

@32:

FOAD.

Thanks.

This is the scariest thing I've read in a long time.

The terms Joe Six-Pack and Hockey Moms refer to white people. The subtle racism of this campaign is starting to be exposed.

Al least Hillary had the courage to say outright that she had the support of hard-working white people.

Dear @37 O.M.:
I am sorry that you seem incapable of understanding my point of view. As stated repeatedly, I am basically a social democrat type of person, in general anything they do in Sweden or Western Europe is a pretty good model for us. However, in assessing how we get there I resist cheerleading and hype, so when Obama nad his most ardent supporters are full of it, I note that. I usually also make tactical suggestions on how he can do better. Recently I have pointed out that (a) he should focus on the economy, then (b) due to the economic tsunami he did, and (c) this results in his taking what is now a solid lead that will hold up thru November, and this is a good thing.

Um, what's your problem with that? Too stupid to understand the nuances?

Meanwhile I also have suggested that this whole economic meltdown coudl be the event that lets us and Pres. Obama reframe the whole ideology of US politics which has been dominated by the right wing for the last 50 years and their mantra of small govt low taxes more freedom. Plus villianizing us Dems.

I have suggested the Dems ned a short and sweet message that is equally focused on connecting with core economic issues and equally villianizing of the GOP -- because in fat, THEY ARE villains.

For example, recently Lord Basil or Bailo or some idiot brought up Ayers or something so I repsonded that the GOP including McCAin is well known for consorting with criminals who subvert our nation and its ideals-- like Nixon. That this was unpatriotic and in effect treasonous.

Got a problem with that, or just too lazy and cheerleaderish for OBama to actually read or understand anyone who diverges at any time with any move he makes, even if just tactially?

For those who spoke of unity, like many Obama fans, you do not practice it.

Pls make a note of it.

Btw the reason we need it is you do need to unite (a) all the Obama fans, and (b) all the originally-for-some-other-D fans, and (c) some independents, to (d) win a massive electoral colelge victory and (e) a huge majority in the undemocratic Senate, to (f) actually pass the legislation and programs for that sweeping change MOST OF US HERE ON SLOG want.

This part is basic math.
Hopefully along the way we will also have Obama regrame the whole debate so that the frame going forward is more "socialist" (ie we need the govt. to take decisive leadership action in various sectors of the economy).

Sometimes I'm on your left; sometimes I'm on what you perceive to be your right, but that's usually tactical or pragmatic; sometimes I'm just expressing a view about something and it does not happen to be what everyone else believes in a sort of cultlike or tribalist fashion, like when everyone on Slogs totally gets off laghing at rural people and acting like a perfect set of arrogant coastal snobs. I mean come on, the urbanhipster set is just as much a tribe as the mullet haired trailer park set or the Christian rightist set--anyone qestioning the tribal dogma and inherent-view-we-are-superior is roundly ostracized, as you do by linking me with Mr. Bailo, and as others have attempted to do by calling me names like "GOP" or "troll" for pointing out things like Obama actually didn't win most of the last primaries.....or in all polls at the end of that contest Hillary was doing better in matchups against McCain.....or saying what should be the most nondebatable and fairminded points like, "Obama is a great leader but he has his flaws and limitations, too."

Wow, what heresy that was.

Capiche?

Unity y'all--

Wasilla is a shithole, but not much more of a shithole than any other small American town with a repressive culture. I think that's why Palin connects so well with these racist piece of shit excuses for people - she knows the code words.

Do you think she winked when she said "This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America"?

Of course, if you actually try to argue with these folks, they will just respond with the same kind of tortured circular reasoning that Palin did in the debate.

As Jews it is Tikkun Olam to attack the Christian Pig Sarah Palin. Comedianne Sandra Bernherd was correct is saying "Sarah Palin needs to be gang raped by a group of black thugs."

All Christians sould be gang raped.

I am so fed up with the intolerance and bigotry of Bush. We need a black presidient now!

Palin has created this hostility to the press as a cover for her own ineptitude during interviews. The press should stop covering her speeches if she is going to create an unsafe environment for them by inciting the crowds to bad behavior. Let's then see how long she bad-mouths tmem after total media silence.

If I was at the "Town Hall Meeting" tonight an could ask John McCain a question it would be this "If Senator Obama and his ideas are so dangerous to the country, which you said, if he is elected president, should he be assassinated for the good of the country?"

It's a stupid question and McCain would say "Of course not," but I get a sense that Sarah Palin, at least in her heart, would have a different answer.

@47 Uhhh... l'shana tovah umetukah? Then again, you can't even spell "comedienne" or even Sandra Bernhard, so I'm pretty sure you're not one of us.

pc, sometimes you're on the left, sometimes you're on the right, almost always you go on and on and on. you often do make good point, imo, but i think at least some of the shit you get here is for being a lecturing windbag.

A riot ees un ooogly thing...und I think eet ees time ve had vun!

God forbid someone takes a shot at someone who blows people up.

And... how exactly was that comment racist? Violent, for sure, but why racist?