“Get him. He’s bad for our country.”
The anger at McCain’s rallies is starting to worry me.
His new tact to link Obama to William Ayers and focus on Obama’s “otherness” has ratched up the anger and frustration of his supporters. The new intensity is starting to be picked up by media outlets, such as Politico and The Washington Post.
Anger is a destructive, uncontrollalble force. McCain and Palin are playing with fire when they accuse Obama of being friends with terrorists, and remain silent while the speakers at their rallies call him Barack “Hussein” Obama and their supporters yell for his downfall.
This is different from previous campaigns. This isn’t “You’re a flip-flopper” or “You’re unintelligent”. It is bordering the incitement of violence. It doesn’t take much to get a crazy person to think he can save the country by assassinating a leader. Especially if that’s leader’s opponent helped demonize him.
(Update: This is a good overview of the situation.)
[F]oxymoron said,
October 10, 2008 @ 12:17 pm
Both ends of the bell curve use learned tactics to manipulate the masses. And that can be a problem.