From Newsweek -- Dangerous Palin rally hatred...just what DUers suspected

[tex-wyo-dem]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-we-cant-solve-globa_n_141358.html

Newsweek has released highlights of its Special Election Project, which allowed reporters to gather behind-the-scenes information on the presidential campaigns with an agreement that none of their reporting would be published until after Election Day.

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-- The Obama campaign was provided with reports from the Secret Service showing a sharp and very disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October, at the same time that the crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by the vituperative crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. "Why would they try to make people hate us?" Michelle Obama said to a top campaign aide.

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No surprise here...it seems to me there must be some law against a candidate for office whipping up so much hatred against his/her opponent to cause an increase to the threats to said opponents life. Absolutely disgusting!

edit to add link...

[ROh70]

1. Who's the real domestic terrorist, Sarah Palin?

[political_Dem]

6. Thank you. That's a question I've asked as well.

She still hasn't apologized.

[Leopolds Ghost]

28. She's a racist, secessionist, charismatic fascist.

[Doityourself]

47. Don't forget dumber than a box of hair clippings!!! n/t

[polichick]

25. My bet is she doesn't get the connection, and wouldn't even if you spelled it out.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. That stood out to me, as well...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7789002&mesg_id=7789165

Hatred ALWAYS begets hatred!:grr:

[political_Dem]

3. Did the Secret Service say whether anyone was arrested because of the threats?

That's what I want to know. I also want to know what is planned to protect Obama supporters as well as people of color. What will law enforcement do?

[political_Dem]

4. Double Post. Sorry.

[Jennicut]

5. Poor Michelle :(

[calimary]

7. Ah, thank you for the link! I was just gonna ask for it.

We ALL need to remain on guard.

We NEED this man. We NEED him in the White House, to work on our problems for us and work them out. We need him safe and healthy and unfettered so he can go to work for all of us. The job now facing him is utterly crushing.

This needs to be monitored carefully. I hope she hasn't started something, or unleashed something evil.

[RamboLiberal]

12. What I worry about is the right wing whack jobs on the radio/TV

continuing to fuel the whack jobs. We need to get on radion station managers and advertisers for the outrageous crap. How the hell can they justify it when we saw the mandate Obama got last night? And we know from KO's and Racel's ratings plus the rise of other talkers like Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz, Randi, etc that the crap they spout that liberal talk doesn't get ratings is pure BS!

[RamboLiberal]

13. McCain needs to continue to talk down his supporters

Like he started last night. And he needs to apologize to John Lewis for his false outrage over the justified concern Lewis expressed.

While I celebrate I will have a nagging fear for Obama. I had the same for Clinton as the whack jobs ratcheted the hate daily.

[tex-wyo-dem]

8. Sarah Palin, from all indications (highlighted throughout the Newsweek article)...

is at her core a despicable human being...she obviously sees no boundaries in action or behavior to realizing her ambitions of power (think of Rove or Cheney in a skirt).

[Skidmore]

19. I want this woman so completely discredited that she will never

darken the political stage in any election in the future. There is still work to be done here. She and her supporters are dangerous.

[OneGrassRoot]

42. I agree. n/t

[Rob H.]

21. There was an article on Salon called "Mean Girl" about Palin

that showed her to be a real piece of work--and that's really the most polite way I can put it. She's stabbed people in the back and stepped on people to get what she wants for her entire career and then surrounded herself with longtime cronies and sycophants and fired anyone who dared disagree with her--just like Dubya.

[YOY]

9. "Why would they try to make people hate us?" Why indeed Michelle.

Hate and fear are their MOs. She knows that.

[NashVegas]

11. I Don't Know

She should try asking people who described Hillary Clinton as "a monster," when they were campaigning for her husband.

[AspenRose]

15. And that makes this perfectly acceptable I suppose

(Oh, why even bother...)

[dionysus]

23. still bitter eh? banky will make it alllll better;

[SwampG8r]

27. maybe this will help its from the same newsweek article

On the night she officially lost the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton enjoyed a long and friendly phone conversation with McCain. Clinton was actually on better terms with McCain than she was with Obama. Clinton and McCain had downed shots together on Senate junkets; they regarded each other as grizzled veterans of the political wars and shared a certain disdain for Obama as flashy and callow.

[thoughtcrime1984]

39. What a fucking stupid thing to say

No parallel to be drawn there AT ALL. You should know that.

[Warren Stupidity]

46. psst... there is simply no comparison

oh wait, yes there is, but it is not the comparison you really want to make now, is it?

Thanks for bringing this shit back up.

[nichomachus]

10. It's what we've become

The veneer of civilization in the US is very thin. You don't have to scratch very hard to get to the grain of violence underneath.

I've seen a lot of political campaigns -- on all levels. I don't think I've seen any as vile and despicable as the McCain/Palin one. It was a disgrace to democracy.

Anyone who voted for them should hang their head in shame.

[uppityperson]

18. Racism is, will, become more overt. With thanks to Palin/Mccain. Shame on them indeed.

[dennis4868]

14. Hey Sarah...

you are the terrorist...don't pal around with yourself....FUCK YOU!!!

[jillan]

16. I worry about Obama's safety because of her and all the hatred she brought to the surface.

I hope he has the best secret service team ever.

[Dems4me]

45. Last night I was so worried about him. I just think the security couldn't fully watch everyone

at that crowd. I started thinking about JFK being shot from a
distance...so then my thought was about those tall buildings and someone
shooting him before he even got finished speaking.

[Mike Daniels]

17. And this is why Schmidt told Palin "hell, no" to her request to speak last night

McCain could barely keep his supporters muzzled when he praised Obama's victory. Palin would have gone completely rogue and not only dumped gasoline on the pile but she would have lit the match as well.

[No Elephants]

26. One thing has nothing to do with the other,. Schmidt said no bc Vp nominees do not give

concession speeches, period. Her request was inappropriate. And his loyalty is to McCain, not her sorry self. The hate she drummed up was part of McCain's campaign, though. It was not her idea. It was just like Biden getting a little rougher than Obama ever did. That is what the VP nominee does. They take the heat for the top candidate--and they take their marching orders from the top candidate and staff. If you think McCain was not thrilled with what she did while she was doing it, then I don't know what to say.

[tex-wyo-dem]

32. I agree with your statement that VP candidates typically...

get down in the dirt more than the POTUS candidate, but it doesn't sound like McCain had much control over the "maverick" Palin, not to mention, rarely spoke with her -- from the same article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/obama-we-cant-solve-globa_n_141358.html

-- McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign and aides kept him in the dark about the details of her spending on clothes because they were sure he would be offended. Palin asked to speak along with McCain at his Arizona concession speech but campaign strategist Steve Schmidt vetoed the request.

-- Palin launched her attack on Obama's association with William Ayers, the former Weather Underground bomber, before the campaign had finalized a plan to raise the issue. McCain's advisers were working on a strategy that they hoped to unveil the following week, but McCain had not signed off on it, and top adviser Mark Salter was resisting.

[apnu]

20. Oh damn do I want that book. (nt)

[RamboLiberal]

33. You talking abour the Newsweek revelations?

They have 2 chapters up today on the early days of the campaign in both the Obama and McCain camp. And will be releasing new chapters each day. Just go to their website.

It will be great reading all the revelations in the coming days. There has to be a couple of good books in there somewhere and I'll be keeping my eyes open for them.

[noonwitch]

22. McCain's own supporters booed him during his concession speech, when he made nice Obama comments

Which goes to show us that John McCain is a far better man than the people who supported him. I really felt bad for him at that point.

[dreamnightwind]

35. really?

McCain stoked the fires of anti-Obama hatred over and over again during his campaign. It was directly from the top, not just from the supporters. Then he gives his CYA kiss-up concession speech, saying all the right things, and all of a sudden he's a better man than his supporters?

He had many opportunities to see the effects of his attacks, and to quell them, during the campaign, but he kept pushing them, even after it escalated to threats on Obama's life. He never went out to his followers to make any kind of serious correction of this raging fire he had started, he instead hoped to benefit from it.

Even after it was clear he would lose, he escalated this type of campaign, knowing that it would only serve to damage and endanger the soon-to-be president elect. At some point you really do have to put country first, and he didn't.

Disgusting. Vile. Dangerous. I have no sympathy for McCain, quite the opposite. Those boos you speak of were his own attacks echoing across this nation from the mouths of his supporters.

[eridani]

40. Agrreed. His security was perfectly good as tossing people for hollering

--WE WANT PEACE, and even for the way they looked, including young Repubs who had already voted for him, but just couldn't seem to deal with the folks hollering "Kill him!" and "Terrorist!"

[Cha]

24. Yeah, so fuck john mccain and

sarah palin.

[FUCK_BUSH]

29. Because so called Conservative republicans are just nazi fascist who speak english.

[rdublue]

30. I knew it was worse than they were letting on.

[JackBeck]

31. Interesting how Palin and her ABC mouth-piece Hasselbeck

Were consistent in trying to make this election a referendum on Obama's 'associations'.

Hmm...project much?

[Overseas]

34. K&R for the GOP ethics overhaul file. John Lewis was right.

Republicans had just tossed all decency to the wind--

further evidence of their Ends Justify the Means unethical campaigning.

[DeepModem Mom]

36. K&R

[brentspeak]

37. The report suggests that McCain was trying to avoid dirty campaigning:

McCain also was reluctant to use Obama's incendiary pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue. He had set firm boundaries: no Jeremiah Wright; no attacking Michelle Obama; no attacking Obama for not serving in the military. McCain balked at an ad using images of children that suggested that Obama might not protect them from terrorism; Schmidt vetoed ads suggesting that Obama was soft on crime (no Willie Hortons); and before word even got to McCain, Schmidt and Salter scuttled a "celebrity" ad of Obama dancing with talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres (the sight of a black man dancing with a lesbian was deemed too provocative).

[firedupdem]

38. I never heard one plan they had for the US if they were to get into

office. Their speeches were all smears and insinuations! McCain knows better! Sounds like they had 2 totally different campaigns going on.

[Eurobabe]

41. "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast"

OMFG. That line, from a McCain aide was priceless.

The other serious stuff was sobering.

[Raine]

43. Sickening ... we knew this even though they lied and

denied it. :-(

[barack the house]

44. It's very worrying the type of America these 2 would of created. Thankfully we will never find out.