[Vision2020] Some Respect for McCain

[keely emerinemix]

However, Chas, McCain and Palin bear responsibility for having stoked the fires that lead to insipid questions about how "frightened" someone is that "an Arab" like Obama would be President.  It's clear that McCain realizes that this trashes his already-imperiled campaign, but he has no one to blame but himself and his attack dog, the woman anointed to bring the rural religious right to his fold.

Keely
http://keely-prevailingwinds.blogspot.com/


> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:14:09 -0700
> From: chasuk at gmail.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Some Respect for McCain
> 
> I do have some respect for McCain, especially after exchanges like this:
> 
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/10/mccain-defends-his-rabid_n_133710.html
> 
> John McCain was booed by his own supporters during a rally on Friday
> after he described Barack Obama as a "decent person and a person that
> you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States."
> 
> McCain was responding to a town hall attendee who claimed he was
> concerned about raising a child under a president who "cohorts with
> domestic terrorists such as [Bill] Ayers." Despite the fact that
> McCain and his campaign have repeatedly used Ayers to hammer Obama in
> recent days, the Arizona Senator tried to calm the man.
> 
> "[Senator Obama] is a decent person and a person that you do not have
> to be scared about as President of the United States," he said, before
> adding: "If I didn't think I would be one heck of a better president I
> wouldn't be running."
> 
> The crowd groaned with disapproval.
> 
> Later, McCain was again pressed about Obama's "other-ness" and again
> he refused to play ball. "I don't trust Obama," a woman said. "I have
> read about him. He's an Arab."
> 
> "No, ma'am," McCain said several times, shaking his head in
> disagreement. "He's a decent, family man, [a] citizen that I just
> happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that's
> what this campaign is all about."
> 
> At another point, McCain declared, "If you want a fight, we will
> fight. But we will be respectful. I admire Sen. Obama and his
> accomplishments." Supporters booed then also. "I don't mean that has
> to reduce your ferocity," McCain responded. "I just mean to say you
> have to be respectful."
> 
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