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The past month, Sarah Palin, then John McCain went down a dangerous roda, that they cannot back out of now. They employed the tactic of anger, hate and demonizing. They started tying Obama to terrorists. They told their supporters to fear an Obama Presidency. They called him a Socialist. They called him the "other". They referred to his supporters as anti-American, or not real Americans.
While, this is a losing campaign strategy, it is not benign. It didn't and won't win over any Independents, Undecideds and actual drives away moderates, like Colin Powell.
The real danger in demonizing an opponent is that you cannot tolerate them. You cannot compromise with them. You can no longer see them a human. They have trained their supporters into seeing Obama as not only un-American, but non-human. Limpballs openly says this, now. This is the kind of rhetoric used to send people to war. Hyper-nationalism depends on seeing the other as less than you, as less than human. That is the only way to get what would be rational people so afraid that they would be willing to kill or be killed.
The McCain campaign has been training their base for bloodshed. And, this is something that they cannot undo. Every attack on an Obama supporter, comes from them. Just this week we have read about dead cub bears wearing Obama signs. Tires slashed at rallies. Volunteers being attacked, working door-to-door. Angry mobs yelling at citizens exercising their right to vote. Effigies hanged. Signs burned. Cars smashed.
The McCain Mob will self perpetuate, now. McCain and Palin are SOLELY to blame. As things get worse, and they will, they should be held responsible.
As I said before, I am not worried about Obama's safety. But, rather the safety of his supporters, who live in the neighborhood of the rabid mob, who have been enticed to violence.
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