Did any of you watch the news shows this weekend? And I am not talking about Troopergate because everyone saw that coming. I’m talking about the video from the McCain rallies. Clearly we now have proof postive that you shouldn’t sleep with your cousin.
My hat’s off to McCain for trying to set the record straight about Obama not being an Arab, but what does it say about his judgment that he handed a live microphone to Ma and Pa Kettle in the first place? I mean what truck and tractor pull was cancelled to make room for that stop on the Straight Talk Express?
Look. I called Governor Palin a bitch. Some of you didn’t like that word and I really don’t care. I’ve been around the block a few times. Hell, in dog years I’m already dead so a little word like bitch is hardly cause for concern in my world. But when a crowd starts yelling “terrorist”, “kill him” and “Arab”… well that is entirely different and it’s time the guys driving this Straight Talk Express started using their heads for something other than hat racks. If you watch Palin doing her little performance at those rallies you quickly realize that she is either too stupid to see or just doesn’t care that her dog sled is going down a slippery slope. We can’t put that in the White House. We just can’t.
But McCain has only himself to blame. He brought that pitt bull in lipstick down from Alaska and turned her loose on the lower 48. This is what you get when you begin to pander to the fears of the most ignorant among us. Lesson learned: if you lie down with Palin, you’ll get up with fleas.
That’s all until the debate. Thanks for stopping by. I mean it.
[...] 2008 November 1, Saturday, 16:11 — monado From Margaret & Helen’s blog: “The Straight Talk Express just drove off that Bridge to Nowhere.” I’m talking about the video from the McCain rallies. Clearly we now have proof postive [...]
By: “The Straight Talk Express just drove off that Bridge to Nowhere” « Science Notes on November 1, 2008
at 3:11 PM
McCain painted himself in the corner by spreading his lies. Kudos to him for saying Obama is a good person, but shame on him for spreading lies.
By: Jaddsy on October 31, 2008
at 3:31 PM
As some have already noted, McCain didn’t say that Obama wasn’t an Arab – he just said that he’s “a good family man.” So he didn’t just not say that he wasn’t a Muslim, he offended whatever Muslim American who wasn’t already offended by the McCain/Palin freak show.
Also, even if he did go ahead and straight talk and say “Obama isn’t a Muslim,” it’s his campaign’s tactics that have allowed him to be in this “Don’t disrespect the other guy… See, lookie here, I’m nice!” For MONTHS, the McCain campaign has been quietly propagating this fear mongering rumor that Obama is a secret Muslim extremist terrorist set out to destroy America and not one word from McCain (well, except that “well, if he had just accepted my proposal for a gazillion town hall meetings, I wouldn’t have had to get negative” nonsense). I hope people see through his attempt at being a nice guy and see him for the desperate, win-at-any-cost politician that he has become. The myth of the black rapist (from the late 19th century into the 20th) has become the myth of the Muslim extremist.
By: Leah on October 31, 2008
at 8:04 AM