"Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin said.
"Boooo!" said the crowd.
"And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,'" she continued.
"Boooo!" the crowd repeated.
"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/06/in_fla_palin_goes_for_the_roug.htmlMcCain needs to be asked if this is the way he intends to conduct himself in office. Right now, he's no better than some Klan leader at the weekly bonfire. This is truly something to fear for anyone who would be subject to this type of hatemongering and fueling of divisions in the country. His running-mate is worse.
I don't believe we've come so far as a nation that there's no possibility of this sort of top-down encouragement of us-and-them divisiveness catching fire and igniting in our communities around the nation. I've lived through the effects of such divisiveness in the Reagan era. It had devastating economic and social effects on generations of Americans who were scapegoated and abandoned by a trickle-down, 'I've got mine, you get yours,' 'With us or against us,' strategy orchestrated from the White House.
These displays by McCain and Palin make it clear that they would seek to divide the nation to accomplish their agenda, rather than work to bring and keep us productively together. That's an extremely dangerous tactic which threatens our ability to interact and relate to each other with respect and comity, but more importantly, threatens to perpetuate the same types of distractions which have kept the nation from effectively resolving our most pressing problems and reversing our nation's eight-year decline.
The new McCain/Palin tactic of divide and distract is dangerous for America.
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