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Really? Are Some Of McCain's Supporters Becoming A Torch-Wielding Mob?

Is this what the McCain camp has been reduced to?
CNN: Rage rising on the McCain campaign trail
MSNBC: Anti-Obama anger erupts at McCain events

So this is what happens when you run out of options in a campaign, you're forced to raise angry torch-wielding mobs.

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Originally Posted by the CNN article you linked

Later in Minnesota, a woman told McCain: "I don't trust Obama. I have read about him and he's an Arab."

McCain shook his head and said, "No ma'am, no ma'am. He's a decent family man...[a] citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. That's what this campaign is all about."

The audience then applauded McCain.

McCain urged his supporters to be respectful of Obama.

"We want to fight and I will fight. But we will be respectful," he said. "I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments. I will respect him and I want everyone to be respectful and let's make sure we are."

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Originally Posted by the MSNBC article you linked

Volunteers worked up chants from the crowd of "U.S.A." and "John McCain, John McCain," in an apparent attempt to drown out boos and other displays of negative energy.

I don't think the McCain campaign is especially to blame. I will note that Governor Palin is decidedly not helping maintain the respectful tone that Senators McCain and Obama would appear to want, but it really doesn't appear to me that McCain himself is actively feeding into it and he's at least trying to give the impression that he'd like the angry mobs to tone it down some.

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Originally Posted by POS Industries (Post 849911)

I'll apologize for wrongly placing blame upon the McCain campaign itself, maybe I should of phrased it as: "Is this what McCain's supporters have been reduced to?"

I think he's lost the support of the people who don't see Obama as some kind of undercover terrorist, really, so those people make up a greater part of his rallies than before.

Edit: Can you change the title of this thread? "Really?" isn't very descriptive... I thought this might be some kind of discussion on the nature of what is real.

I think mccain is above this, like others have said, blame his supporters.

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Originally Posted by Zilla (Post 849954)

Edit: Can you change the title of this thread? "Really?" isn't very descriptive... I thought this might be some kind of discussion on the nature of what is real.

I can.

Also, that's a rule violation or somesuch.

I guess.

I don't know.

I'm just in charge.

...So I guess I should be like, "Hey, Wigmund, be more descriptive with your titles," or something.

So... Hey, Wigmund, be more descriptive with your titles!

McCain is above these kind of antics, but until this moment he had done nothing to stop them, and in fact helped incite the anti-obama sentiments as recently as last week by having Palin boast of Obama's possible ties to a once-domestic-terrorist-long-since-turned-Chicago-citizen-of-the-year.

Ultimately it is the supporters who are to blame for this, but I fear it might get worse before it gets better.

I like John McCain. He's an honorable person, and I do feel sorry that I just cannot give him my support due to my standings on issues of education and the war.

McCain supporters who can't come up with a decent reason to like McCain (or just want to absolutely solidify the fact that 'McCain needs to be President') sometimes default to just slinging shit at Obama. I'm pretty sure this is based in the NeoCon ways, cause I think Bush had the same thing going? I'm not sure, I was young and it was a big blur to me.

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Originally Posted by Mirai Gen (Post 850011)

It's not based in any specific group's particular ways, it's just there are a lot of people who make very shallow, poorly thought out choices on who they'd like to be president. Whether it's because they think Obama's an Arab, McCain's in the KKK, because they like that Obama is black, because they like that McCain is white, or for plenty of other meaningless titles they want to designate the person they do or don't like.

Point.

But this specific event seems to happen more often than any other. The scale of McCain Is In The KKK doesn't hold a candle to Obama's An Arab, or what have you.