Sick. Sick. Sick. Sick.
‘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.
Palin went on to say that ‘Obama held one of the first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers’s living room, and they’ve worked together on various projects in Chicago.’
How soon until this is an official McCain campaign position? Anything to win.
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How long until the Secret Service needs to start collecting names and numbers at all Palin/McCain rallies?
This is beyond the pale. These people are killing our country piece by piece, and don’t even give a shit.
Big deal, it’s a virtual certainty that the guy who said it is a Republican.
In any event, I’m sure Ms. Palin will clear up any controversy at her next press conference and/or on the Sunday Morning Talk Show Circuit.
At today’s McCain Rally:
….. and McCain asked the crowd “who is Barack Obama?” Immediately you hear someone yell “terrorist.” McCain pauses, the audience laughs, and McCain cont
This is getting really disgusting.
“…A TERRORIST!!!”
“…KILL HIM!!!”
What’s next: “where’s my noose?”
a secessionist wanting an American to be killed. Count me shocked
“Kill him”!
I’d be willing to bet money that the guy who yelled that out considers himself “pro-life”.
and McCain asked the crowd “who is Barack Obama?” Immediately you hear someone yell “terrorist.” McCain pauses, the audience laughs, and McCain cont
I watched the video OW posted on another entry and I think if I hadn’t known from the description what to be listening for I could have missed it. Yeah, major shame on the guy who yelled it. But unlike the “How do we beat the bitch?” incident I don’t think this one is as clear cut that McCain necessarily heard it or that it registered with him.
Given that he did laugh at the “bitch” question I wouldn’t put it past him to respond in kind to someone calling Obama a terrorist. I just think what he did/didn’t hear isn’t as clear here.
Sean D. Martin:
Just think, in a month McCain will be a punchline because he’ll get a bigger ass kickin’ than even Goldwater got. I can’t wait for McCain’s concession speech. He’s liable to go postal or something. He won’t be a very happy man.
Olbermann beat the hell out of the Ayers/Wright meme tonight by raising the Republicans Zogler/Muthee.
What I find amusing is how it seems that Palin is either (a) ignoring the positions of John McCain on such tactics, or (b) outright attempting an in-campaign coup.
I wouldn’t link this to the McCain campaign (just yet), it’s just some random yelling c***s. Says a lot about the mentality of the remaining hardcore Republican voters though.
Calvin: He won’t be a very happy man.
No, he probably won’t. But I will be.
It’s 100% clear that the “Kill him!” reference was to Ayers. Saying it might have referred to Obama, and that it didn’t seem to matter, is 100% bullshit.
Democrats…keepin’ it classy since…NEVER.
It’s 100% clear that the “Kill him!” reference was to Ayers.
Clear to those who have a brain.
Clearly, Obama-bots don’t qualify.
Is it okay with you guys for the crowd to yell ‘Kill him’ about Sen. Obama or Bill Ayers?
That’s two of you now who have defended the latter interpretation.
Silly william, it’s only 100% clear if you were the person who was yelling it. Next time, you can avoid this kind of rally mob confusion by specifically naming who you want killed
If only wingnuts were that determined to kill the real terrorists, like the mastermind of 9/11, Osama bin Laden. Guess they don’t spend much time thinking about him. Probably because OBL is a right-wing terrorist and Ayers group was left-wing.
2 things…
1) The reporter attributes “Kill Him!” to some unnamed individual. When reporters attribute embarrassing quotes to unnamed people, you should question whether it really happened.
If you go to the YouTube video, you’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone yelling “Kill Him!”
2) Even if some idiot did say it, they were referring to Ayers, not Obama. Ayers, the guy who was involved in a terrorist organization that set bombs, killed people, and said on Sept 11, 2001 that “I wish we would have set more…” in the New York Times.
Thought this blog could use some facts.
Oh, and here’s the youtube link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKKidzgxHOM
Facts?
2) Even if some idiot did say it, they were referring to Ayers, not Obama. Ayers, the guy who was involved in a terrorist organization that set bombs, killed people,
The only people killed by weathermen bombs were weathermen.
and said on Sept 11, 2001 that “I wish we would have set more…” in the New York Times.
The comment to which you refer was reported in the Sept. 11 edition, which means it was spoken sometime before Sept. 11. And Ayers did not say ’set more;’ he said that ‘they hadn’t done enough.’ Four days later he submitted a letter to the editor claiming he’d been grossly distorted.
I’ve got no admiration for Bill Ayers, but if you need to lie in your ‘facts,’ you obviously don’t have much of an argument.
“Four days later he submitted a letter to the editor claiming he’d been grossly distorted.”
Typical lying shit-weasel. His remarks, which he thourghly believes, didn’t quite resonante that day. So he claimed to have been “taken out of comtext” in hopes that nobody noticed.
Even Ayers himself doesn’t believe this crap.
Keep trying.
If you want to not believe him, that’s your business. Fair enough. I choose to plead ignorance, because it’s not the sort of comment about which one can have any certainty. He didn’t say “I wish I’d killed some damned innocent Americans as punishment for their complicity in the Vietnam atrocity.” He said “I wish we’d done more.” If you can muster even an ounce of objectivity, you have to agree that there’s room for interpretation in that statement.
Know what’s funny? That this thread was started under the assumption that the Palins’ supporters are just as hysterical as she is.
Aaaaaaand here’s William, Jay and St. Wankler to prove just that!
I wonder how much of this unabashed fear- and hate-mongering is fueled by a smug certainty that Senator Obama — never willing to paint himself with the Angry Black Man’s brush — cannot go on the offensive the way so many of us want him to. Senator Obama’s campaign has constantly viewed their candidate not through our Hopeful eyes, not through our rose-colored but otherwise colorblind glasses, but instead through the rheumy, half-closed black-and-white prism of his opponents’ narrow vision. They have no other choice. To unleash their candidate with the sort of righteous fury deserving an opponent that basks in the adoring praises of those that would call a United States Senator and candidate for President a terrorist would be to confirm that same mob’s deepest fears; to let slip the black dogs of war on a feeble old white man and his high-heeled pit bull would substantiate the abject terror that allows an American citizen at a public rally to shout “Kill him!” without fear of sudden and terrible retribution. Senator Obama can only play it cool and bear these slings and arrows with outrageous calm, showing a more Christian charity, a more perfect moral strength, than either of his two Country First Down-Home Values opponents combined.
Imagine the frustration in these hearts of darkness stalking McCain-Palin rallies like gleeful hyenas, hurling exhausting blows that never land, punching the air to encouraging cheers while the object of their wrath turns the other cheek, climbs the narrowing mount before him, and speaks to those that long for answers. It’s this impotent frustration — this wild and constant swinging in the air, never connecting, never proving itself right or righteous — that most terrifies me. Fear and rage are poor masters; like a particularly virulent plague, they lack the longevity to spread from host to host. But impotent frustration, in the financially-castrated white male, breathes and breeds. Were I alive in the spring of 1968, I think I’d be feeling a sickening sense of déjà vu right now.
OK, we’ve established that Jay, Wendie, and william are OK with killing Mr. Ayers. Anyone else, boys?
Well said, Elvis.
“OK, we’ve established that Jay, Wendie, and william are OK with killing Mr. Ayers”.
They certainly are. Even the best-case scenario (that the screaming guy wanted Ayers, not Obama, killed) involves a call for vigilante justice.
People that live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, Palin.
Palin accuses Obama of ‘Palling around with terrorists’, when she and her husband attended multiple meetings with Alaska Independence Party. AIP encourages leaving the USA by FORCE!
In fact the movement’s leader was killed while trying to buy explosives to use against the US gov.
By Palin’s logic, she ‘Pals’ around with terrorists too.