Given the chance to disavow himself from the recent YouTube nightmares for his campaign -- and it would have been easy to do, simply requiring a "Don't paint our entire campaign with the actions of a very few people" or something like that -- McCain instead played his "angry old man" card and started getting all weirdly patriotic.
So instead of simply disavowing himself of these types of folks, he just blindly defended them without even addressing the question of what he thought of the specific actions of those who were the focus of the question in the first place.
No matter what anyone says to equivocate this away, you don't see people at Obama rallies spewing garbage that is simply mean and spiteful at best, and hateful racism and inward-looking ignorance at worst.
"Kill" the other candidate? An Obama supporter being called "nigger" on top of "terrorist" for holding up a campaign sign? I held my tongue a bit when I said to friends (but not on the blog) that the tenor of the Republican national convention reminded me of a campaign rally -- a bunch of angry white people yelling and screaming, with no people of color in sight. It's funny that people think that's "going too far" when in fact, I haven't seen more angry white folks with nary a black person in sight since...umm...a Klan rally.
Sorry to say, I wouldn't feel safe holding up an Obama campaign sign anywhere near some of these McCain (and especially Palin) rallies. I think that says a lot about the other side here.
And just to make clear -- I'm not saying voting for McCain means one is racist. But the ones who are racist seem to be voting for McCain, and seem to be emboldened to make their voices louder. Because McCain certainly ain't disavowing them in any spoken events.
