Crazy: "Sit down, boy"

Let's take a look at McCain and Winky Palin's hate-filled and dangerous campaign over the last couple of days.

From a Washington Post article from today...

• Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media."

• One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."

• The reception had been better in Clearwater, where Palin, speaking to a sea of "Palin Power" and "Sarahcuda" T-shirts, tried to link Obama to the 1960s Weather Underground. "One of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," she 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.

From tonight's debate, "That one"...



Stoking the flames of fear and hatred as McCain and Palin are doing inevitably lead to potentially dangerous reactions by their followers...


And they have the nerve to say this...

The Nashville Tennessean reports that at a children's hospital today, Cindy McCain -- the wife of GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. -- said her husband's opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has "waged the dirtiest campaign in American history."

Update: Fortunately the main stream press is taking notice of the ugly side of McCain's cross burning campaign. This from an Op-Ed in today's NYT's...

It is a sorry fact of American political life that campaigns get ugly, often in their final weeks. But Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin have been running one of the most appalling campaigns we can remember. They have gone far beyond the usual fare of quotes taken out of context and distortions of an opponent’s record — into the dark territory of race-baiting and xenophobia.