The GOP Reaps What It Sows, Part The Double Infinity

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7. it's a replay of that election town hall where the lady called Barack Obama an Arab

. . . and McCain had to talk her down.

"I have to tell you. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don’t have to be scared of as president of the United States," McCain told a supporter at a town hall meeting in Minnesota who said he was “scared” of the prospect of an Obama presidency and of who the Democrat would appoint to the Supreme Court.

“Come on, John!” one audience member yelled out as the Republican crowd expressed dismay at their nominee. Others yelled "liar," and "terrorist," referring to Obama.

McCain passed his wireless microphone to one woman who said, "I can't trust Obama. I have read about him and he's not, he's not uh — he's an Arab. He's not — " before McCain retook the microphone and replied:

"No, ma'am. He's a decent family man [and] citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign's all about. He's not an Arab."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14479.html


McCain has never come to grips with the racist rabble he and Palin attracted and encouraged to vote for them. That's the republican party that Romney inherited in his campaign and tried (in an unprecedented way) to exploit for a victory. That's the republican party that we face today; a nutty band of malcontents and scapegoating throwbacks to the days of Jim Crow and Wallace.