Oct 10 2008
Johnny Two Face
Republican presidential nominee Johnny McCain is now trying to make it appear that he is working to put out the fires that he and his little buddy from Alaska started…
McCain booed after trying to calm anti-Obama crowd
LAKEVILLE, Minn. (AP) - The anger is getting raw at Republican rallies and John McCain is acting to tamp it down. McCain was booed by his own supporters Friday when, in an abrupt switch from raising questions about Barack Obama’s character, he described the Democrat as a “decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States.”
A sense of grievance spilling into rage has gripped some GOP events this week as McCain supporters see his presidential campaign lag against Obama. Some in the audience are making it personal, against the Democrat. Shouts of “traitor,” “terrorist,” “treason,” “liar,” and even “off with his head” have rung from the crowd at McCain and Sarah Palin rallies, and gone unchallenged by them.
McCain changed his tone Friday when supporters at a town hall pressed him to be rougher on Obama. A voter said, “The people here in Minnesota want to see a real fight.” Another said Obama would lead the U.S. into socialism. Another said he did not want his unborn child raised in a country led by Obama.
“If you want a fight, we will fight,” McCain said. “But we will be respectful. I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments.” When people booed, he cut them off.
“I don’t mean that has to reduce your ferocity,” he said. “I just mean to say you have to be respectful.”
Presidential candidates are accustomed to raucous rallies this close to Election Day and welcome the enthusiasm. But they are also traditionally monitors of sorts from the stage. Part of their job is to leaven proceedings if tempers run ragged and to rein in an out-of-bounds comment from the crowd.
Not so much this week, at GOP rallies in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and other states.
When a visibly angry McCain supporter in Waukesha, Wis., on Thursday told the candidate “I’m really mad” because of “socialists taking over the country,” McCain stoked the sentiment. “I think I got the message,” he said. “The gentleman is right.” He went on to talk about Democrats in control of Congress.
On Friday, McCain rejected the bait.
“I don’t trust Obama,” a woman said. “I have read about him. He’s an Arab.”
McCain shook his head in disagreement, and said:
“No, ma’am. He’s a decent, family man, a citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with (him) on fundamental issues and that’s what this campaign is all about.”
He had drawn boos with his comment: “I have to tell you, he is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States.”
If Johnny McCain truly feels this way and he is not (as I believe) a two-faced liar, he needs to immediately pull all the negative, inflammatory and untruthful advertising that his campaign is currently running and he needs to rein in his foul-mouthed running mate.
As it stands right now he is talking out of both sides of his mouth simultaneously. I hope nobody in the Obama campaign falls for this crap. It really is the oldest trick in the book.
P.S. Arabs can’t be decent family men?
5 Responses to “Johnny Two Face”
It’s very tragic there are people who are so uninformed (misinformed?) to believe Obama is an “Arab” or a terrorist.
@just bob : Aren’t most people who were born in Hawaii and who currently reside in Illinois Arab terrorists? Especially those who are United States Senators?
It’s sad that Arabs have been dubbed as terrorists and untrustworthy just because they are Arabic. Or dark, Egyptian, Saudi Arabian, Muslim, etc. Never mind that Obama is American and a mixed race Harvard educated Christian. Religion shouldn’t be a factor. That kind of thinking that Arabs are untrustworthy, or any religious persuasion, is idiotic. If Timothy McVay is a domestic terrorist are all domestic terrorists young, white, supposedly Christian people raised on farms who have access to fertilizer also a terrorist? Most people are good. It’s the people with ignorant predudices that scare me. We let them vote!
I don’t know about family men, but to judge from some recent comments from Americans, they think Arabs can’t be Christians. They go to absurd lengths to devend the statement that “Allah is not the God of the Bible”, fact that Allah appears as the name of God in Bibles in Arabic, Malay and several other languages.
Barack Osama for president according to N.Y. absentee ballots!