McCain/Palin Rhetoric Whipping Up Fervent Anger at Rallies
Consider this an addendum to a post earlier this week about the McCain/Palin campaign’s ugly tactics.
Yesterday, the McCain/Palin “town hall” was quite the spectacle, complete with one “really mad” attendee blasting Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) as a “hooligan” and “socialist.”
Earlier today, at a rally, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) went on the attack on Senator Obama that prompted one female supporter to yell out “Traitor!”
The hate-filled rhetoric has spilled over to down-ticket races, like the senatorial debate between incumbent Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia) and the Democratic challenger, Jim Martin:
Thursday’s debate took place in front of a highly partisan crowd in the GOP stronghold of Middle Georgia.
Chambliss supporters waved “Saxby” signs and offered up a sustained “boos” when Martin mentioned Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
“Bomb Obama,” one woman hollered.
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Ron Davis
I’m no fan of McCain, and I won’t say that the race hasn’t gotten ugly (or defend his tactics), but almost everything Obama is for is nothing short of socialism.
Hooligan…maybe not. Socialist…quite definitely.
October 10, 2008
Matt Ortega
When people say that about Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, et al, it doesn’t sound like they really know what “socialism” actually is…
Broadly speaking, “socialism” is described as (per Wikipedia), “Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and the creation of an egalitarian society.”
At no point have Obama, Pelosi, or others, argued that. Barack Obama’s healthcare plan is government-sponsored healthcare, which both he and Senator McCain receive.
“Sponsorship” is not the same as “ownership.”
If Al’s Pizza sponsors your son’s little league team, they don’t effectively own it, do they?
October 10, 2008
Ron Davis
Government that purchases and provides health care for its citizens owns that system. They pay for it; they manage it; they run it; they own it.
October 10, 2008
Matt Ortega
You are not accurately describing Obama’s healthcare plan.
In fact, you are describing the thought behind Republican code words for “government-run healthcare” and “speaking to a bureaucrat instead of a doctor.”
John McCain wants to “implode” the employer-based coverage system we currently have in favor of a $5,000 tax credit per family when the average family plans are $12,000, and he wants to tax your healthcare benefits as income, for the first time in history.
By all measures, McCain’s plan is widely panned, along with his plan on taxes, mortgages, gutting Medicare and Medicaid, and privatization of Social Security. The Dow Jones has lost 5,565 points in the last 12 months — why don’t we put our Social Security on that roller coaster!
Under Barack Obama’s plan, however, you keep employer-based healthcare, you keep your own doctor. Insurance providers (which would still exist, mind you, so government wouldn’t “own” anything) cannot pick and choose who they insure, and high-risk patients would be pooled to reduce costs.
Spare me the red herrings.
October 10, 2008
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