Pat Dollard | Young Americans

Ex-fucking-cuse me, Congressman … But it IS the Obama people who have held camps to teach hateful tactics … and it is Obama supporters that are carrying them out in public, on the internet, and behind the scenes with political strong-arming and twisted ‘legal’ thuggery … He IS a dictator on the horizon.

WASHINGTON - Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and veteran of the civil rights movement, says the negative tone of the Republican presidential campaign reminds him of the hateful atmosphere that segregationist Gov. George Wallace fostered in Alabama in the 1960s.

Republican candidate John McCain on Saturday called Lewis’ remarks “shocking and beyond the pale.”

The Obama campaign said the Illinois senator doesn’t believe McCain or his policy criticism is at all comparable to Wallace and his segregationist policies.

In a statement issued Saturday, Lewis said McCain and running mate Sarah Palin were “sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.” He noted that Wallace also ran for president.

“George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights,” said Lewis, who is black.

Lewis’ remarks follow widely reported examples of anger at McCain rallies that has been aimed at Obama, the first black man to be a major party’s nominee for president. McCain himself drew boos at a town-hall meeting Friday in Minnesota when he defended Obama after a supporter said he feared what would happen if Obama were elected president. He also cut short a woman who said Obama was an Arab, and he called his rival “a decent, family man.”

On Saturday, McCain called on Obama to repudiate Lewis’ remarks. While dismissing the comparison to Wallace, Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said Lewis was on target in other ways.

“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,’” Burton said in a statement.

Me: Sounds just like Hussein’s stance on the Russian invasion of Georgia …

McCain rejected any comparison to Wallace.

“I am saddened that John Lewis, a man I’ve always admired, would make such a brazen and baseless attack on my character and the character of the thousands of hardworking Americans who come to our events to cheer for the kind of reform that will put America on the right track,” McCain said.
(AP)

Me: So, according to Hussein’s people, inside and outside the campaign, the McCain supporters should NOT get energized, excited, or fucking mad at what the hell has been going on in this election campaign ? Like hell …

Three Makes it a Trend: The Angry Left

By Stephen F. Hayes - (Weekly Standard)

Davenport, Iowa The emerging media narrative on the 2008 presidential campaign is simple, as media narratives always are. Republicans, egged on by the the McCain campaign, are angry. Maybe dangerous. With furrowed brows media big-shots are wondering allowed if John McCain should “tamp down” — new cliche alert — his supporters before they begin to physically harm their political foes.

The new media narrative was born after McCain’s town hall in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Thursday, where several voters voiced the frustration and, yes, anger in questions to McCain. And several voters shouted their criticism of Obama, echoing McCain from the stage.

And from that, we were told, Republicans are filled with “rage.” Of course, there were 5,000 people at the event; maybe two or three dozen shouted criticism of Obama. The vast majority never shouted criticism.

But in the last 36 hours, we’ve seen three examples of real anger on the left. And as the old media axiom has it, three makes a trend.

This morning at a McCain rally here, a bearded young man in the crowd responded to a McCain critique of Barack Obama by shouting: “You’re a liar John!” He then hoisted a young woman with an antiwar poster onto his shoulders and began yelling antiwar gibberish as McCain tried to continue his speech. When McCain supporters ripped up the woman’s sign, she unfolded another one and the spectacle continued.

Earlier, at a rally in Philadelphia, Obama praised John McCain’s service to America and called for a civil debate over the final days of the campaign. He was lustily booed by his angry supporters.

And yesterday, at a McCain rally in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, another angry heckler shouted “Liar” and other insults at McCain from the crowd.

Can we expect stories on this disturbing trend? Don’t bet on it.