NYT: McCAIN/Palin "Runnin One Of The Most Appalling Campaigns We Can Remember"

[kpete]

It is a sorry fact of American political life that campaigns get ugly, often in their final weeks. But Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin have been running one of the most appalling campaigns we can remember.

Ms. Palin, in particular, revels in the attack. Her campaign rallies have become spectacles of anger and insult. "This is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see America," Ms. Palin has taken to saying.

Her demagoguery has elicited some frightening, intolerable responses. A recent Washington Post report said at a rally in Florida this week a man yelled "kill him!" as Ms. Palin delivered that line and others shouted epithets at an African-American member of a TV crew.

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In a way, we should not be surprised that Mr. McCain has stooped so low, since the debate showed once again that he has little else to talk about. He long ago abandoned his signature issues of immigration reform and global warming; his talk of “victory” in Iraq has little to offer a war-weary nation; and his Reagan-inspired ideology of starving government and shredding regulation lies in tatters on Wall Street.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/opinion/08wed1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

[Doityourself]

1. Nail. Head.

thanks

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. you forgot the hammer.

Because, if I had a hammer, I'd use it on peter, paul and mary.

[SidDithers]

7. Unless it was a silver hammer...

in which case you'd creep up from behind.

Sid

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. LOL.

greatest response ever.

To be honest, PPM grind on my ears almost as much as banjo-based bluegrass or C&W.

[Essene]

2. wow... NY Times not pulling punches on the hate mongering. BRAVO

[Wolfies Revenge]

3. go home, Sarah

Love,
America

[54anickel]

5. Nice piece, I won't hold my breath waiting for a response, much less an apology from the McCain camp

[SIMPLYB1980]

6. Glad this is being reported. Sad it had to be this way.

[trudyco]

8. So why is NYT telling it like it is for McSame but didn't for Shrub?nt

[glitch]

11. McCain doesn't have the "friends" that the Bushes have.

Has to do with the relative power and ruthlessness of different crime families.

[City Lights]

10. Take that, Cindy Lou!

Go NYTimes. :thumbsup:

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