McCain and Palin get nasty... or Twenty-nine days until E-Day.

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Less than a month until election day. Scary.

Campaign is getting nasty. McCain started it with ad, Obama pushes back.
Somebody remind them both (especially McCain) that we want to hear about the issues not start a blood feud.
Starting to look like the Hatfields vs the McCoys.
Beginning to wonder what the rest of the world thinks of this nonsense our election has turned into.

From the Washington Post talking about Oct. 6 VP Palin Rally:

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." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. 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.

This is not presidential at all. Whipping up intense anger could become dangerous and they should know better.
Somebody put the pitbull back on her leash, and get her a rabies shot.

I guess despite the crisis the American Middle class is facing we have to polarize the people further and get nastier.

Well, I'll be watching the debate tomorrow with interest.
I don't suppose any questions that we really care about will get answered. I hope so.

I'm seriously concerned with all this animosity intentionally being stirred up.

Going to make hot tea, light a scented candle and finish reading "Genesis of Shannara"

G'night
I'll be back right after the debate.
Rest up everybody!


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