McCain Supporter Rants About "Hooligan" Obama And "Socialist" Takeover -- And McCain Agrees »
Posted By Wil 1 year, 2 months ago in Political NewsWhen is the unhinged frenzy gripping crowds at McCain-Palin gatherings -- not to mention McCain-Palin's own role in stoking that frenzy -- going to become a big story?
Today in Wisconsin, a McCain supporter unleashed a long, unhinged rant in which he blasted the "socialists taking over our country" and referred to Obama and Nancy Pelosi as "hooligans." McCain didn't utter one syllable of objection. In fact, he nodded bemusedly at the "socialist" mention.
And at the end of the man's rant, McCain said that the man was "right."
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leftylemn1 year, 2 months ago
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RIGHT ON !!! GET MAD...BE MAD AS HELL....BARRY IS A SOCIALIST PIG. WE SHOULD BE VERY ANGRY...BARRY WILL RUIN AMERICA. THAT PI SSES ME OFF. KEEP GOING STRONG MCCAIN AND PALIN WILL WIN...SORRY LIBERALS, I GUESS YOU GET TO B!TCH AND MOAN ANOTHER 4 YEARS. WAH ! WAH ! THEY STOLE THE ELECTION.
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awongscreen1 year, 2 months ago
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Scary? Not scary enough. I just posted a news article I read about Republicans in their rally shouting "kill him (guess kill who?)"
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http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/10/10/kill-you...
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willottica1 year, 2 months ago
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McCain has demonstrated his instability in public. Flying off the handle into a rage at the least provokation, singing a little ditty about Bombing Iran (way to go with foreign relations - THAT'll make the Iranians want to listen).
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And then he compares him to the President of the USA. Shouldn't that be a good thing? Isn't that a man who was voted into office twice? Whose father was also a US President? If you ask me, people shouldn't be upset that McCain is being compared to Bush, because the comparison, quite frankly, is extremely flattering to McCain.
Bush never demonstrated the recklessness, disregard for his colleagues, or insane temper that McCain does regularly. -
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Tangent0011 year, 2 months ago
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I do wish you would get your facts straight. It was Romney who called McCain 'unstable'. Yes, Obama has said a McCain administration would be 4 more years of Bush policies, because McCain has yet to differentiate himself from Bush, other than claiming he's a 'maverick'.
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In recent statements, Obama has referred to McCain's plan to buy bad mortgages as 'risky' and referred to McCain as 'erratic' and 'uncertain'. But this hasn't been going on 'from day one'. -
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sinophil491 year, 2 months ago
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MTig - You are either lying or in a permanent state of denial.
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Barack Obama has never engaged in the hateful name-calling that McCain & Palin have embarked on.
Obama has talked about McCain's age and his being out of touch with modern society.
But remember, McCain himself has said he is "older than dirt and has more scars than Frankenstein." And McCain always uses his age as the proof of his "greater experience."
Further, McCain has openly acknowledged he knows nothing about computers. His wife, Cindy, has to do his email for him.
I used to like the old McCain. He was a maverick from the Republican party. Kerry even considered him for running mate until Mccain turned him down.
I am thoroughly disappointed about the person McCain has devoved into now. He has had to tow the neoconservative/arch-Christian line. He was besmirched by Bush whose campaign falsely accused McCain of fathering a black child. In reality the McCains had simply adopted a Sri Lankan child. I repeat, I liked the old McCain.
It seems that McCain learned the wrong lesson from his past campaigns. He has learned that dirty politics is the way to win elections. Rather than elevating elections into a noble and necessary civic responsibility, he has turned into a cow-chip throwing contest.
From a maverick politician, he has turned into a smirky, sleazy, and mob-pandering demagogue. Years from now, if they make a movie of McCain's life, it will be a story of a political Greek tragedy of a good man succumbing to the lures of power, a hero being seduced by the dark side. -
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david_nwpa1 year, 2 months ago
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If I ran into a room and yelled, I am going to quit working until the national economy is fixed, people would expect me to put down my cell phone, my extraneous papers, and put aside partisan politics to complete the job of righting the economy. Instead, John McCain ran ads, kept his offices open and continued running his campaign, despite all his bluster to the contrary. If I did those things, I would be deemed unstable. Barack Obama was being kind when he called McCain erratic. I would use "unhinged, mentally unstable, morally bankrupt, and ideologically bankrupt." Thank goodness I am not in politics.
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fishifanb1 year, 2 months ago
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These rants reveal the vicious pettiness of McCain's core supporters. The Socialists are Coming! they scream even though it is clearly not so.
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Calling for violence against and disenfranchisement of those with whom they imagine they disagree without actually taking time to evaluate alternatives.
It's all about creating mass hysteria akin to fans at a football game. There's often not much difference between the two teams but they will rabidly support their side as if the others are somehow evil.
I sure hope this isn't the ethic that continues to guide our nation over the next eight years. -
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toph19731 year, 2 months ago
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Is it me or does the Republican party pander to the idiots in this country? This whole mess is Bush/McCain's fault and somehow, their constituents are either completely ignorant about what's gone on the past 8 years or they really, truly believe the lies their party tells them. When did the Republican party become a party of complete Morons?
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abntv1 year, 2 months ago
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Maybe you could explain just how this is Bush/McCains fault.
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There has been ample proof put out that McCain warned the Congress two years ago and the Dems put him off as just attacking Freddie and Fannie for no reason. McCain warned them again this year and they ignored him again. Barney Frank is on tape several times telling the American people there was and is nothing wrong. -
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awongscreen1 year, 2 months ago
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Toph. I agree with you that the Republicans mess up the country, and the world. That is the nature of their ideology. However, lets not forget the democrats failed to oppose this administration. Lets not forget the people erred in voting this administration in for 8 years. Lets not forget that there are still a lot of people who still blindly side with the conservatives.
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abntv1 year, 2 months ago
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I notice the words like ranting and unhinged frenzy..
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I have seen this video several times and I dont see any ranting or unhinged frenzy..what I see is an American citizen that is fed up with the way things are not working in Washington.-
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Beau78901 year, 2 months ago
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You say "redtomato," I say "karlyc."
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What's the difference between a man so fed up with the government he's pacing and yelling, and one who's ranting?
If you saw a man that worked up and didn't know why, you'd want to avoid him. You'd call him "unhinged." And you'd fear violence.
McCain (and particularly, Palin) feed that anger without a care for the consequences.
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smithichie1 year, 2 months ago
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Funny how McCain signed the 700 billion dollar deal if he is against socialist take overs, not to mention additional 300 billion government mortgage bail out he called for in Tuesday's debate.
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I do have to wonder how all these people complaining about the evils of socialism would feel about each road, street, highway and byway becoming toll roads? Do they feel 'dirty' just using those socialist breeding grounds for government dependency, we call public roads? Why should the government take pennies from each gallon of gas I buy when I can pay some corporation dollars each time I drive?-
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frctm51 year, 2 months ago
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These supply side weenies don't really know what socialism is. Its just a pejorative label that they use because they don't understand the importance of government and how it is essential for prosperity and stability.
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Here is a list of frivolous things the government does.
Provide education
Build infrastructure,
Keep bad and dangerous people behind bars
Ensure that competition is fair and free.
Create rules for handing and processing food, chemicals, and dangerous substances,
Create long term resource policies that take into account sustainability.
Protect the environment
Provide coordinated disaster relief, at least that is what they are supposed to do.
Conduct foreign policy.
Create legal protections for intellectual property
Monitor and regulate prescription drugs so we don't have bogus ineffective medicines.
License professionals to ensure minimum levels of competence in certain trades.
Health codes in restaurants
Fire safety codes in public gather places
All this damn socialism.
It would be much better if we lived in a country with belching smoke stacks like London of the 19th century or China of today and rivers full of chemicals pesticides. We have to stop bringing potable water to people's homes. If people want clean water, they can boil it on a stove.
Why should we crash test cars? Or direct airline traffic? Why should anyone have to have a license or insurance to drive? Anarchy on our highways would be so much better. Every man for himself. We don't need zoning laws either. If I want to build a hip hop music club in your sleepy bedroom community and blast rap to 4 in the morning, I should be allowed to do that as long as I can pay for it. The problem with Republicans is that they know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. Small government was possible when America was an agrarian society and farmers were largely independent and self sufficient and the population was small. Today, government is essential for managing our collective affairs and more so as time progresses, resources diminish, and the pressures of population create issues that affect our quality of life. No one likes regulations or bureaucracy, but they are a necessary and the lesser of two evils.
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frctm51 year, 2 months ago
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Republicans have the emotional stability of five year olds. If you're a Democrat, you have to prove your patriotism. If you're a Republican, its a given that you love your country, you just hate half the people living here. The cacophony of Republicans will reach a fever pitch when Obama wins in November and the Democrats sweep more seats in the house and senate. They'll all turn on Rush Limbaugh, their father figure, and have a pity party and a bitch fest.
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