McCAIN and PALIN APPEALING TO RACISTS

I'm sitting here shaking my head at how far we still have to go in this country on the consciousness level. Ignorance mixed with bigotry is a very dangerous combination--and incredibly ugly to see. The people in the video below really believe they have the truth about Obama. They have fallen for every nasty lie put out by the right wing propagandists. It is disheartening to know that Rove, McCain and Palin are able to have so much influence over those who can be driven by hatred and fear--and willingly believe what they are told--without question, without investigation, without curiosity or intent to find the truth. It is easy to see how the German people were whipped into a frenzy against the Jews (and homosexuals and the mentally disabled) in the '30s and '40s Nazi-dominated Germany. We have that same kind of consciousness here in America--70 years later!!! Just watch the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rTps4Iau1E

What a tragedy. I wonder what intelligent Republicans are thinking about all of this. They must be terribly embarrassed and disgusted with their party, its leaders--and its ignorant members. Many prominent conservative Republicans are following Colin Powell's lead and are crossing over to the Democrats in this election.

RACISM REARS ITS UGLY HEAD
from www.crooksandliars.com

This video tells the story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rTps4Iau1E

The video from that Sarah Palin rally in Ohio last week probably said it all -- that not only are racists herding in John McCain's direction, but that previously obscured racism among mainstream conservatives is now bubbling up at an increasing rate.

A New York Observer report from Florida tells a similar kind of story:

“I don’t believe these polls,” said America Blanca, a 44-year-old small business owner from Miami who wore a red dress and was visibly pumped up by the rally. “Not one of them. Because it’s the kids answering the polls on the computers. Their parents are not home and they are answering and they will not be voting. I think if he is losing, it is only by a little spread. Very little.” She held the tip of her pointer finger about two inches from the tip of her thumb.

Asked if her business made more than $250,000 a year, the cap under which Obama has proposed cutting taxes, she said it did. Told about Obama’s proposal, she answered, “I don’t give a shit. I will never vote for a black man.”

I half-expected to hear the same thing from "Joe the Plumber" last week when it was pointed out to him that he would actually get a tax cut under Obama's plan.

It's clear that the campaign to defeat Barack Obama -- which is what the McCain campaign has rapidly devolved into, ever since it became self-evident that McCain himself couldn't give us a single good reason to vote for him, beyond his moose-in-the-headlights running mate -- is in fact creating an environment in which these kinds of sentiments not only are encouraged, but are now considered normal.

Sure enough, the neo-Nazis and white supremacists are reporting that they're making big inroads these days:

Jeff Schoep, head of the National Socialist Movement, says the government classifies his group as a domestic group of interest, not domestic terrorists. The FBI would not comment.

Interest in the group "has really spiked up," says Schoep, who would not say by how much.

"Historically, when times get tough in our nation, that's how movements like ours gain a foothold," he says. "When the economy suffers, people are looking for answers. … We are the answer for white people.

"And now this immigrant thing in the past couple of years has been the biggest boon to us," Schoep says. "The immigration issue is the biggest problem we're facing because it's changing the face of our country. We see stuff in English and Spanish. … They are turning our country into a Third World ghetto."