that River Daughter wrote about. It was totally scientific but revealing nonetheless. I googled the words Palin + c+nt and got around 308,000 hits. This is interesting because Palin's only been in the public eye about 6 weeks and of course, some of those entries have nothing to do with her. I should add the top his that came was Jessica's post about how Palin fills her with blind fury and that a feminist friend of hers felt like she wanted to "merk that idiotic c+nt". Obama does bring out the hate. Then I googled Hillary + c+nt and got around 900,000 - interesting because she's been getting called that for over a decade. Then I googled Obama - n+gger, and I got 500,000 hits. So, Palin has racked up more than half of the hits with namecalling in six weeks that Obama has racked up in almost two years.

No one is uglier than Obama supporters this year - they are as angry and hateful as Bush supporters after 9/11.

...they are just edited to look bad.

One wonders whether there was provocation involved as well. The presence of "protestors" across the street certainly increases that possibility, doesn't it?

including anything stupid or hateful. So I'd say they're probably for real, but that it doesn't mean much in terms of voting since I doubt most of these people ever vote for Dems.

The main fear I have is that Obama should win and will win, but will he be declared the winner? The focus on all those allegedly racist blue collar workers will give the media an excuse for some weird vote outcomes. It's not Diebold or GOP fraud, it's voter racism that didn't show up in all those polls. Now, don't get me wrong, there will be people who won't vote for Obama because he's black and there may even be people who lie about that (although do you really think any of these folks in the video wouldn't tell a pollster that they were voting for McCain), but given Obama's current lead, I think the only way he will lose is through voter fraud. It's just now the media will have its storyline to explain the fraud away. Like the surge of evangelical voters in rural Ohio in 2004.

A lot of them are wearing sunglasses, etc. If they are real, they are using standard fringe right-wing talking points.
The "Get a Job" stuff seemed odd and so dated.

Also, a few of them seemed to be using satire...

they are inciting violence, and once Obama wins it is going to get worse. No matter what you think of Obama and his fan base, the hysterical nature of the current Republican campaign cannot be ignored. It is creating a very dangerous atmostphere in the country and I had hopped that CorrenteWire would have raised its voice against it.

it's so easy for some to mock or make fun or impersonate others of the voters. Some voters, though well-meaning, listen to biased sources. (Not all are well-meaning.)
But this kind of filming (if real) is not designed to create conversations or correct impressions. If you are out there, protesting and having your say, what not say the truth and let some of these voters know the facts? Why not try to find some common ground? (hint: the economy!) What was the purpose other than to say to others via youtube that these PA voters were ignorant, ugly low information voters?(as some other blogs referred to the vid--sorry I refuse to link.)

What do you think incites violence the worst in this video?

Can people in these two situations talk?

Filmer/protesters and angry people waiting to hear other party.

they keeping screaming terrorist, terrorist, terrorist at every opportunity, they know the consequences that has.

No they Obama campaign is not stirring this up, this has real consequences for them, like violence. It is not just against Obama, it could be against anyone who supports him. A man was shot just for wearing an Obama T Shirt.

There are a lot of very nasty racsist who cannot deal with the fact that the next American President is going to be black. Remember when that insane guy crashed his plane into the White House to kill Clinton? Well it is going to be even worse with Obama.

And McCain and Palin are doing all they can to fan the flames. Just because Obama cried wolf in the primary doesn't mean there isn't REALLY a wolf this time.

this is not new--and it's not because of Obama--no matter who the nominee is, they do it.

ever since Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion hate is the only thing they ever had.

...when bloggers I liked and trusted started to accuse me and my cobloggers of being racists. Even among the non-obamaphiles, you can get thrown out to the vultures.
It would be nice if we could stop defining this race through the lens of racism. Why don't we focus on the rampant corruption of the Obama campaign? Why don't we talk about the slimy psychological warfare and peer pressure of Obama's DFA wing?
Now, even Krugman has joined the bandwagon. Apparently, if you don't like Obama it's because you long for the good old days of Ronald Reagan. That one shocked me. I was a student during the Reagan years, from a working class family, first in my college to go to college and relying on grants and loans to get through it. I have NOTHING good to say about Reagan and have no desire to go back to those days. But do I blame McCain supporters for being angry about the media shoving another inexperienced lightweight down my throat during a period of economic crisis? You'd have to be crazy *not* to be angry about that.
Yeah, we can't trust our own side. It sucks.
Come together at The Confluence

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/a...

It's not incitement to violence, per se, but it's rather ominously playing the race card, implying that Obama is a dangerous urban radical who forced banks to make minority loans ... the same kind of loans that, it says, brought on the current financial crisis.

Pretty fucking scurrilous.

Phaaaat!

I can keep going.

i shouldn't. but if you're asking me: what strikes me about this? um? the phat, white, soft, conformity of these unthinking slaves? well, it's that they're um, old. and unhealthily fat.

just sayin.

there are a lot of Cambell's calories that won't be there, in the next, say, ten years and one generation, if you take my meaning. march now, while you still can (heh). don't think your meth addictied streetwalking nephew is going to rush back from boston or chicago to whore out the $ to pay for your care, now that the "evil" gummit won't, and that she-male is all you have left in the world. ya dig?

I've yet to read everyone elses responses, but I've been watching some of McCain's rally's on television, and maybe it's because the media is only showing controversial ones, but they are starting to get scarier and scarier and it's really been bothering me. Many of them do have very real racial and nationalistic overtones.

Of the ones I've seen, McCain, if anything, has been trying to calm these angry crowds. Of the ones I've seen, he looks visibly uncomfortable and embarrassed.

Again, I'm not sure if it's editing, but it really doesn't matter. The fact of the matter is that the GOP are very disappointed in McCain's campaign, and they should be, although for obviously different reasons than they are.

Am I the only one that sees the correlation between the hippie generation nearing retirement age and the resurgence of a manufactured "going back to the glory days" of stirring things up.
it seems as if that generation(hipsters) cling to racial stereotyping as if 50 years later this generation of Americans know what the hell anyone is talking about except 1 thing...it is a tool to get what you want

Women are still on the low road with looks keeping us from being able to rise in ranks, or allowing us to rise in ranks. Either way, not everyone is designed to be Angeline Jolie.
This web site of a traditionally female job : librarianship offers us female stereotyping at its best:

http://www.msdewey.com/

I have nothing against good looking women... just like I have nothing against people...I just happen to like a greater proportion of plain folk and trees. More interesting to talk to and gives great shade.

Maybe toss in a few dudes wearing codpieces while you are at it.

This quote sums up what I've been thinking about this whole election:

"The great divide in this country is not by race or even income, it's by those who think they are better than everyone else and think they should play by a different set of rules," --Bill Clinton