When you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas. No matter how coded, the McCain campaign has filled their recent campaign stops with overtly racist overtones. Now it's starting to boil over and the racism is coming out.
A man told today how he was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt.Dube Egwuatu was buying a mobile telephone top-up card in an off-licence when the gunman confronted him and glared at the top, which carries an image of the Democrat US presidential candidate underneath the legend 'Believe'.
The man then launched into a tirade of racist slurs, shouting 'I f***ing hate n*****s' and urging 36-year-old Mr Egwuatu to leave the shop with him.
When John McCain's spokeswoman Nancy Pfotenhauer was asked about Palin's racist overtones her reply was something to the effect of ... tell me one thing in all of Sarah Palin's record that would indicate some form of racism. I looked, and you know, maybe there might have been something, but I'm not sure if maybe there might have been a few isolated incidents, which could have been strung together to show a pattern of overt racism... well, I'm just not sure. Maybe people just weren't talking about it for some reason.
Much more on the shooting incident here.
"If these McCain people find it amusing to be sneaky about being racists, if they think it's funny to bring up Reverend Wright months after we have all finally put the issue to bed, if McCain and that damn stupid woman taking up space and air next to him find it cute that his supporters think Obama is a evil ignorant terrorist, then how on earth do people think they are going to treat US if he gets in office?!! And it's not only about Obama being black. It's about him standing up for everyone who is not rich. Who may not have the best. Who may be in the minority. Who might need a little help. McCain and his people aren't sensitive to that. They don't care about those kinds of things. And they are mad about it right now. Mad enough to stir up all kinds of evil trouble that we have fought hard to overcome. Well i'm not having it. I fought back then and i'll fight now and i'll be damned if we lose this election over ignorance."
Another example is the shooting at the Unitarian Church in Knoxville, Tennessee in July 2008.
Adkisson was the shooter.
During the interview Adkisson stated that he had targeted the church because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of major media outlets. Adkisson made statements that because he could not get to the leaders of the liberal movement that he would then target those that had voted them into office. Adkisson stated that he had held these beliefs for about the last ten years.
another diary over at DailyKos mentioned this and the diarist called John Kerry to talk about it and for him to take some action. So I emailed Webb and Warner:
Dear Senator W**: I have become increasingly concerned about the rhetoric in the current election cycle, especially with the Presidential campaigns. Most notably, yesterday a campaign implied that a sitting U.S. Senator is a terrorist. This implication was leveled during a campaign rally and participants shouted "terrorist" and "kill him".As a fellow U.S. Senator of Barack Obama's I request you join with other Senators and denounce such strident discourse. You would not serve with someone who is a terrorist and I don't believe you would want any fellow Senator characterized as such.
This would not be in any way an endorsement; only a reminder that there is too much at stake for the American people, myself included.
Thank you for considering such action.
Sincerely,
Everyone should do this.
I can barely read the accounts of Gov. Barbie (don'cha'no) at her events allowing people to shout out slurs and suggesting violence. This makes me sick.
I hope this backfires and Obama pulls off a landslide.