The DeMSM take on this election continues to amaze. Let's get this straight - John McCain himself is responsible for what any random person in a crowd of thousands might say at one of his rallies, but any inquiry about Barack Obama's years-long, close ties to a parade of anti-American radicals is out of bounds. Amazing.
"It's easy to rile up a crowd by stoking anger and division," Obama said in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Well, he would know. Perhaps accusing anyone who criticizes Obama of racism is a bit divisive, no? Anyone considering a vote for Obama because they think he'll "bring us together" is ignoring an awful lot of evidence.
Update: Similar thoughts at Commentary.
Update 2: Without a hint of self-awareness or sense of irony,
Civil rights icon and Georgia congressman John Lewis is accusing John McCain and Sarah Palin of stoking hate, likening the atmosphere at Republican campaign events to those featuring George Wallace, the segregationist former governor of Alabama and presidential candidate.
George Wallace? Who is it who's stoking hate now, congressman?
John Lewis must be off his game lately. Usually he invokes Martin Luther King, tries to fit in the word "lynch" into at least one sentence, and mentions a burnt black church or two. Too bad because I always respected him for what he went through but now he has taken on the characteristics of his one time oppressors and invokes racial prejudice into everything. The sad thing about it is that he is playing on the decency of most of our citizens to invoke guilt. I wish he would spend his time mentoring the youth on how they can achieve as opposed to pointing out white people to blame for everything.
Comment by Dave B — October 11, 2008 @ 11:11 pm October 11, 2008