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- tcbishop12, on 10/11/2008, -14/+231Without the support of the racists, the stupid, the undereducated and the perpetually paranoid McCain doesn't stand a chance. This election is a moral test of our national character. Anger and intolerance have always been the enemies of intelligence and understanding. Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
- merelywatching, on 10/11/2008, -15/+79McCain and Palin have now proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that thier only concern is their blind, ignorant and greedy ambition! They care not a whit for the state of our union, nor the security and safety of it's people - they blatantly continue to put us ALL at risk with their obscene greed and desire for power with complete disregard for the safety our country and it's people.
- kismetropolis, on 10/12/2008, -8/+53Here it is from Associated press for all those who protest content comes only from HuffPost:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iOKWLjhw3wplpT1 ...
And here it is from the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/us/politics/12le ... - angrykeyboarder, on 10/12/2008, -7/+46What the McCain campaign doesn't get is this:
There are serious wackos out there.. some of which have been very vocal at McCain rallies. Some of them are pretty scary and are reminiscent of KKK-type people in a number of ways.
McCain is no George Wallace but he's bringing out the Wallace in a lot of people. And that frightens me. - lettruthout, on 10/12/2008, -7/+34FTA:
"The criticism from Lewis is especially sharp considering McCain has called him one of the "wisest" men he knows, one whose advice he would seek should he win the presidency." - Murdats, on 10/12/2008, -9/+34this election is your chance to prove to the world that most of your population is not totally retarded.
we already know a lot of you are, this will give us a better idea of how many of you are, we all pray that enough of you are not. - Tyroc65, on 10/12/2008, -7/+30Thank you absentee balloting...I am so happy I won't have to go down and vote Nov. 4 and deal with the stupidity...
- Dndlion, on 10/12/2008, -6/+28And McCain denies it all and says *he* is now offended.
- Laminarcissus, on 10/12/2008, -3/+23
In a statement, Obama-Biden spokesman Bill Burton writes that:
“Senator Obama does not believe that John McCain or his policy criticism is in any way comparable to George Wallace or his segregationist policies. But John Lewis was right to condemn some of the hateful rhetoric that John McCain himself personally rebuked just last night, as well as the baseless and profoundly irresponsible charges from his own running mate that the Democratic nominee for President of the United States ‘pals around with terrorists.’ As Barack Obama has said himself, the last thing we need from either party is the kind of angry, divisive rhetoric that tears us apart at a time of crisis when we desperately need to come together. That is the kind of campaign Senator Obama will continue to run in the weeks ahead,” said Obama-Biden spokesman Bill Burton." - inactive, on 10/12/2008, -2/+21WTF!? Way to generalize. Obviously there are plenty of McCain supporters that aren't racist - what he's saying is that racists make up enough of his base right now that he can't win without them. I mean, we all saw the rally footage where McCain got booed by a crowd of his own supporters for being respectful toward Obama. When a little old woman calls Obama an Arab and McCain gets booed for sticking up for Obama, I don't know how else to explain that other than to say that the crowd was full of bigots.
And certainly, no one's accusing McCain himself of being a bigot. I don't even know why he tried to win these's people's votes in the first place. They've always hated him, and now he's in this horribly awkward situation because obviously he wants nothing to do with them now.
And I'm sorry you got caught up in this - certainly, going into this election, McCain's biggest base were not bigots at all, but were rather true conservatives. So it's unfair that now this other group has come in and taken over McCain's base, and now you're associated with that group. And I will say, though I do partially blame McCain for this, I don't think he realized what he was getting himself into. I mean, watch the rally footage - there is a man who was caught completely off-guard by the ignorance and hatred of his own supporters. - richirwin, on 10/12/2008, -5/+23John McCain would divide a country to win an election.
Seriously. - belebih, on 10/12/2008, -8/+24FTA: McCain camp - "I call on Senator Obama to immediately and personally repudiate these outrageous and divisive comments..."
It takes a lot of balls to call Lewis' comments condemning the current climate of hate and hostility "outrageous and divisive" with all the horrible things being said in the McCain rallies that are barely even acknowledged by their campaign. - pushmouse, on 10/12/2008, -1/+16Excuse me? No one ever said McCain was the cause of racism in America. Not unless you think he's over 200 years old. But he certainly has allowed his campaign to stir up racism and use it as a political tool.
- inactive, on 10/12/2008, -2/+16If you think Obama is a communist, or indeed that any politician could survive more than a week in the US political system as a true communist, then not only are you woefully ignorant of politics, but probably a ***** moron into the bargain.
There are no communists in popular US politics. There are not even any real socialists. Learn about political systems before you open your mouth, because not only do you make yourself look like a fool when you make such extraordinarily stupid statements, but you make the rest of the Republican supporters look like fools too. - nick1971, on 10/12/2008, -2/+15I live outside the US in the world of Europe - probably a reason t DIGG me down as an of itself.
Obabma is a great candidate and you should be associated for changing you vote against choleric attacks from the opposition.
Wake up America we need our partner who strives for good. - heystoopid, on 10/12/2008, -3/+15The saddest part it has already become reality and was also previously reported on digg
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/28/203016/697 ...
So after that incident , it would only be a matter of time when the unleashed dogs of hate start to terrorize and kill the innocent .
Marked as inaccurate in 10,9,8,7,6,5............. ? - HopeMonger, on 10/12/2008, -3/+15In August John McCain listed John Lewis as one of the top three people he would listen to in a McCain Adminstration. Perhaps he should do so?
- Sakinah, on 10/12/2008, -8/+19I as a White Female American Muslim Disabled Navy Veteran born in Columbus Ohio, raised in West Virginia and living in Virginia hate the ignorance that this sign represents...is this guy saying all Muslims are bad? And does he not realize that there is a religion called "Sikh" that originated in India that wear these turbans also? Guess he is proud to show his ignorance...so sad...If he would do an indept study of religions like I did, for over 7 years, looking at many many types of religions, he would find they have some common issues with the basics of Christianity, Judism and Islam. there are more similarities between these three major religions, than differences...Please people look at the heart of the person instead of what they wear on their head, or the name they call themselves due to their religion..this is best!!
Very few Muslims are terrorists, very few Christians are terrorist (even though McCain and Palin are coming close in my eyes to being terrorist, after all look at the hate they allow in their rallies! disgusting!!!), a few bad people make it hard on the good people...so be careful here people!!!
Obama/Biden 2008 May God bless them and help them win so they can rule this country!!! - SSUK, on 10/12/2008, -1/+12No, you're not a racist if you vote McCain. But quite frankly, the party you're going to vote for has gone completely off the wall. You may not agree with what Obama is peddling, however you have to ask yourself if you like where your party is right now. If you do, then all power to you, vote for McCain. However, if you feel your party has lost the plot and needs reform, you need to stand in protest, don't vote for them this time, even if it kills you [morally] to do so.
It's only when they loose do they take account of what's happened and why they failed. Hopefully, they'll see *where* they went wrong and correct it, actually competing to be a party which speaks for what you see in them or what you expect from them. You can moan and whine about the party all you want, but if you vote for them, your argument will fall on deaf ears.
tl;dr: britfag, pay no attention. - johndi, on 10/12/2008, -2/+13I wish people would wise up and and submit from news sites instead of the inflammatory source hops.
Oh wait, someone did and they did it before this one.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Civil_rights_ico ... - winmywii, on 10/12/2008, -1/+11I think pinchduck's comment just dropped my IQ
- david76, on 10/12/2008, -4/+14Didn't McCain say something about how he would rather win the war in Iraq than win the election? Wouldn't he rather lose with dignity and respect than go down as a hate-mongering fool?
- morphkons, on 10/12/2008, -0/+9"With any luck when he is elected he will be powerless". Hello, whoever is elected president will have the closest thing to dictatorial powers this country has ever seen. You can thank Dick and W and the entire AIPAC approved US Congress for that. Do you feel safer now?
- zenbud, on 10/12/2008, -2/+11Here it is from Associated press for all those who protest content comes only from HuffPost:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iOKWLjhw3wplpT1 ...
And here it is from the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes - liuite, on 10/12/2008, -1/+10there are intelligent people who aren't smart. lots of die hard Republicans are highly intelligent, but we have a struggle here because of the successful scare tactics of the Republicans spread message of hate, intolerance, and distorting empathy as a move toward socialism. these intelligent people need to realize that ensuring health care and education for the working families will help the society as a whole. I support Obama because I want to make sure the hard working families will have health care and education opportunity. I truly believe that under McCain medical insurance will be less affordable even with tax rebate because most employers will no longer offer it. I believe Obama will champion education reform, which is badly needed. Can you imagine if McCain dies in office and Palin takes over...there will be a conflict between her religious beliefs and what this country needs.
- plumcider, on 10/12/2008, -0/+8Apparently not.
- inactive, on 10/12/2008, -6/+14Frankly, this is not helpful from Lewis. The last thing Barack needs is any kind of "us versus them" discussion. He does not want this to become a Jesse Jackson/Al Sharpton style campaign, or anything close to it, where blacks are calling whites racists (even if they are in the case of McShame and Faillin's rallies).
Stick to the game plan - change & the economy. - doctorgrim, on 10/12/2008, -4/+12This is exactly why McCain and company have made a grave mistake in their campaign. They got their people fired up and realized...oh *****...we have an angry mob on our hands. Now their campaign of hatred is exposed for what it is. They made the bed, now they must lie in it.
- Albumen, on 10/12/2008, -1/+9So you are going to throw the Bush presidency out the window in this argument? Were we striving for good when we invaded Iraq despite a complete lack of reliable intel on the WMDs? Were Bush and Cheney striving for the good when they ignored intel that said there was no link between Iraq and Al-Queda? What this man is saying is that we have not been very good global citizens. Now I know you have a hard-on for us "One-Worlders," but the fact is that there is only one world and we don't own all of it. Nor are we its moral police force.
Another fact is that the Executive branch of the government, i.e. the President, is responsible for foreign policy in addition to being Commander-in-Chief of the military. So, in fact, as Bush has demonstrated, one man has a great deal of control over how America impacts the rest of the world.
Given McCain's life long track record of reacting in the extreme, I have no confidence in him with that kind of power. Obama for all of his faults is a thinker, and as we have seen in his debates, he is respectful even to his enemies. He is not the sort to result to name-calling and labeling or the other playground ***** of which Bush, Cheney, McCain and Palin are so fond. (Axis of Evill = Poopie doo doo head)
You go Nick!! - inactive, on 10/12/2008, -1/+9STFU twerp.
- Albumen, on 10/12/2008, -1/+9Ask McCain how he feel about gooks.
- an0nymous, on 10/12/2008, -0/+7In McCain's defense (ugh), I don't think he was expecting this to get quite so ugly. I mean, yeah, he was saying some pretty ***** stuff, but he wasn't expecting the fervor to be quite so high.
- cwm9, on 10/12/2008, -4/+11No, but you're all fools for voting for either of them.
Both the republicans and democrats, McCain and Obama, have been standing on the train tracks for the last 10 years, watching the freight train of American Foreign Debt barrel down the tracks.
McCain admitted he didn't see this crisis coming.
Obama said he talked to the Fed Chief, but it turns out he only did this after the problems were obvious to everyone.
This all while people like Ron Paul, though I disagree with some of his stance, have been jumping up and down for the last decade yelling and screaming that we were destroying our country.
Now that we are in this mess, Ron Paul should be shouting, "I told you so," but there's no point.
It's too late. That's what you all don't get. We're headed for a nasty, nasty, NASTY depression, and it's been a long time coming. There's no "fixing" this. Any politician that tells you that they can painlessly fix this is lying.
What this nation needs isn't heavy handed regulation, it's SMART regulation. Sarbanes Oxley was a horrible law. It didn't stop AIG, didn't actually fix anything. All it did was add a mountain of paperwork and stupid rules.
We need MINIMAL but SMART regulation of industry, LIMITS on credit leveraging, and good USERY laws in this country.
But mostly we need to understand that true "savings" is having robust industry -- because otherwise all that paper money is worthless -- and that shipping our jobs overseas is tantamount to self destruction, and (in MY opinion), treasonous. - EnnuiStudent, on 10/12/2008, -1/+8This is the second time you've posted about the alarming rise of "left-wing propaganda" in articles that condemn racism.
McCain needs to show that he's a leader, and that he'll lead by example by publicly condemning the racial slurs and epithets chanted at his rallies. By merely smiling meekly and looking down, he agrees by omission. - inactive, on 10/12/2008, -6/+13"If you don't agree with their POV your character is attacked."
yeah, like you've never done that, you ***** right wing hypocritical *****. - an0nymous, on 10/12/2008, -0/+6Well, yeah. But what else is the guy going to say?
"Whoops, sorry, yeah. Things are getting a little crazy. Who knew I had so many klan supporters?" - Misinformant, on 10/12/2008, -2/+8Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
Despite 9/11, New York City and Washington DC remain 2 of the most liberal cities in the country which tells you who they think is "more American." Most of the victims were probably liberals themselves so shouldn't despicable, conservative slime like you be jumping for joy over their death?
Disqualify someone over there name! How "American" of you. Why not ***** on the Constitution while you're at it. And we can disqualify redneck country bumpkin hillfolk like yourself by banning and Jimbo, Billy Bob, Betty Sue (or Sarah Palin) idiot yokels from running for office too.
Loves his country? McCain loves money and himself above all else. Did you actually fall for that "Country First" ***** slogan of his? It's "Campaign First" and campaign only.
He loves to talk about how much he loves veterans but he votes against every veteran's care bill presented to him and he cost taxpayers billions with his role in the Keating 5 scandal where he essentially stole from the poor to give to the already-rich.
***** that senile, schizophrenic lunatic, John McCain. The sooner he loses his battle with old age, the better. - radicalchaos, on 10/12/2008, -4/+10That's their game – divide and conquer.
- DestroyFascism, on 10/12/2008, -3/+9mebbe that's what they want? Civil war, fear this fear that, hate the Muslim, hate the Blackman, financial fear, trouble ahead. I swear its a broken record with politicians..
- Wryly, on 10/12/2008, -4/+9It just goes to show how blinding racism can be. All this fervor and for what? To support the consummate Washington insider who's voted w/Bush 90% of the time? Yeah, let's have 4 more years of what is now the worst president in U.S. history. ***** me. I want lobbyists and oil companies to continue to get the breaks. Yeah! Why should everyday Americans have jobs and stuff, when so many oil lobbyists might run the risk of fewer high-priced hookers on their yachts. For ***** sake, wake the ***** up!
- inactive, on 10/12/2008, -0/+5buried for right-wing spam comments.
- StarlessKnight, on 10/12/2008, -0/+5"If you don't agree with their POV your character is attacked."
"They" and "their." I'll assume you mean DIGGers. So the DIGGers are really the fascist because they attack other DIGGers character while accusing others of being fascists. Possible, though I'd be slightly more concerned about the government acting fascist than I would a few people on a website. Remember the first few years following 9/11? No, no, I don't mean the PATRIOT ACT and all that. Let's bring up a few nuggets... "Freedom fries," and Dixie Chicks. A time where questioning the country line was a very, very naughty thing to do.
Still, there are people on DIGG that seem to have a very pronounced character best identified in little snippets rather than long expository. I'm afraid, norman619, that while you have a point about not attacking character and being independent, you're not one of the less well known people and your points are, at times, not...agreeable.
"Maybe to the satisfaction of the blind Obama faithful but to the rest of the THINKING populace that's not even close to being true."
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/John_Lewis_Warns ...
"Nice piece of stupidity you have there. I guess we can say w/o the support of the epically ignorant Obama doesn't have a chance. You do know full of ***** you are right?"
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/John_Lewis_Warns ... (this would be in this thread as a reply to the parent post) - hangtown2004, on 10/12/2008, -2/+6Yes but they BOTH still need to try and reverse this hatred crap. I know they wont, Palin is too drunk with power.
- inactive, on 10/12/2008, -0/+4I support Obama and even I think you're a moron.
- dd12101, on 10/12/2008, -0/+4it has been for weeks now....
- doctorgrim, on 10/12/2008, -2/+6"I want you to argue with them and get in their face."
I agree completely. You can't deal with neo-cons by sticking your head in the sand. You have to get up in their angry little faces and tell them to shove it. - babylonian, on 10/12/2008, -0/+4Absentee ballots are typically only counted when the actual votes submitted are too close to tell. If you want to ensure that your vote matters to its fullest potential, actually go out and vote on Election Day.
- shig, on 10/12/2008, -2/+6"That word pale has nothing to do with the adjective for something light in colour except that both come from Latin roots. The one referring to colour is from the Latin verb pallere, to be pale, whilst our one is from palus, a stake."
"A classic example is in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, dated 1837: “I look upon you, sir, as a man who has placed himself beyond the pale of society, by his most audacious, disgraceful, and abominable public conduct”. The earliest example known is from A Compleat History of Rogues of 1720."
"A pale is an old name for a pointed stake driven into the ground and — by an obvious-enough extension — to a barrier made of such stakes, a fence (our modern word pole is from the same source, as are impale and paling). This meaning has been around in English since the fourteenth century."
Took 2 minutes to find out everything about the phrase.
The time it takes to get the foot out of your mouth will vary upon the amount of rational thought in your head. - JoeMondo, on 10/12/2008, -5/+9McCain wants Obama to "repudiate" Lewis, even as his own surrogates are out there implying that Obama is a TERRORIST?
What a joke. -
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