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McCain's attacks fuel dangerous hatred (Frank Schaeffer barf alert)
www.baltimoresun.com ^ | October 10, 2008 | Frank Schaeffer

Posted on 10/10/2008 1:07:11 PM PDT by lowbridge

John McCain: If your campaign does not stop equating Sen. Barack Obama with terrorism, questioning his patriotism and portraying Mr. Obama as "not one of us," I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate, and therefore of potentially instigating violence.

At a Sarah Palin rally, someone called out, "Kill him!" At one of your rallies, someone called out, "Terrorist!" Neither was answered or denounced by you or your running mate, as the crowd laughed and cheered. At your campaign event Wednesday in Bethlehem, Pa., the crowd was seething with hatred for the Democratic nominee - an attitude encouraged in speeches there by you, your running mate, your wife and the local Republican chairman.

Shame!

John McCain: In 2000, as a lifelong Republican, I worked to get you elected instead of George W. Bush. In return, you wrote an endorsement of one of my books about military service. You seemed to be a man who put principle ahead of mere political gain.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: frankschaeffer; johnmccain; mccain; schaeffer; usefulidiot
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To: lowbridge

A lot of these wishy-washy Republican types who are defending and supporting Obama are going to be in for a big surprise, and I can only hope they have the good graces to apologize for their dimwittedness. One thing is for certain. The mean things being said about Barack Hussein Obama now are nothing compared to what will be said about him after he is in office for awhile. If he is truly too sensitive to take it, he should get out now. The insults being lodged against him are nothing compared to what McCain has endured, and the insults against Barack are probably true.


41 posted on 10/10/2008 2:23:19 PM PDT by pallis
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To: truthingod

Yes, Demonrats are just sweetness and light./s I suppose we are not to take notice of their treatment of Gov. Sarah Palin and Pres. Bush?? The two camps supporters are completely different and the only violent, threatening people happen to belong to the thug Demonrats, ACORN and every other leftist organization.


42 posted on 10/10/2008 2:28:40 PM PDT by bushfamfan (Palin is America's Thatcher, Obama is America's Chamberlain with beliefs of Lenin)
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To: lowbridge

Wow, so this is how the MSM will attempt to shame McCain into not attacking Obama (ACORN Ad and more to come). Pitiful. Mac, the MSM is running scared, hit the bastard even harder!


43 posted on 10/10/2008 2:35:39 PM PDT by moose2004 (Drill, Drill, Drill, Drill, Drill, Drill And Then Drill Some More)
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To: lowbridge
"Life-long Republican." (laughing) That's the MSM/Driveby telltale line to hearing a liberal denounce a Republican. And here's an agitated liberal playing the Race Card TM!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

44 posted on 10/10/2008 2:35:53 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: PleaseNoMore

“The left demonstrates, protests, etc. and it’s called what?”

Patriotism, sick isn’t it?


45 posted on 10/10/2008 2:37:31 PM PDT by moose2004 (Drill, Drill, Drill, Drill, Drill, Drill And Then Drill Some More)
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To: lowbridge

I have to admit it makes me feel a little hinky when we hope for a “Bradley effect,” and embrace or encourage racism as a means of winning votes. “Hinky” is not the right word. Dishonorable. It feels dishonorable. We should be better than that. And it feels like it dishonors John McCain, who has based his whole career on honor.


46 posted on 10/10/2008 2:38:07 PM PDT by teethodore
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To: WVNan
By their works shall ye know them and by the people they surround themselves with. Now……compare Obama with McCain. The answer is obvious and the American people are just now seeing it.

Obama and his ilk are socialists, and now when they talk about nationalizing banks, they won’t need to tax us, they’ll already our money.

WAKE UP AMERICA! Soon the train will be leaving the station.

47 posted on 10/10/2008 2:39:07 PM PDT by Dream Warrior (Will someone wake up Senator McCain!)
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To: teethodore

Do they stamp you guys out of cow flop with a brick mold?


48 posted on 10/10/2008 2:40:47 PM PDT by Stentor (Obama is Bill Ayers' Renfield.)
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To: teethodore

Good grief, troll. I can smell your DU stink clear here to the UP. I bet you’re still upset that Che got venitilated, the Berlin Wall fell and you’re not in the same cell with your Irish buddy kwame kilpatrick.

Go back to your babbling Marxist professors at Ann Arbor and ask for passage to a ChiCom re-education camp. You flunked your attempt to infiltrate FR with your racist garbage.


49 posted on 10/10/2008 4:39:37 PM PDT by sergeantdave (We are entering the Age of the Idiot)
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To: Stentor

Do they stamp you guys out of cow flop with a brick mold?

LOL!

You stomped that little troll before he could exit his rat hole. His Marxist professor in Ann Arbor will comfort him with an extra tampon to dry his tears.


50 posted on 10/10/2008 4:46:28 PM PDT by sergeantdave (We are entering the Age of the Idiot)
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To: Rapunzel; teethodore
Good point.

Nixon knew he Dims cheated in 1961 in Chicago but thought contesting the election would harm the nation. DumocRATS like teethadore have no trouble with the concept of harming the nation if it will let them have tgheir way.

Similarly with the bozos at ACRAP and the like: What they don't people put down their weapons for HONEST elections, but if the elections are manifestly dishonest things get ugly.

They're not interested in peace. They're interested in power. Sure, some of the bozo rank and file may think it's about peace. It's not. What man of peace would hesitate to support a law to prevent the murder of neonates by malpractice and neglect?

51 posted on 10/10/2008 6:51:29 PM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: lowbridge
Frank Schaeffer has lost sight of very important facts and truths in this matter. Or, perhaps may have never had these alongside his selective observations. Most unfortunate.

Would Mr. Schaeffer consider those who bombed the WTC on 9-11 as "one of us"? IF so, his view of America and Americans is not good nor sound nor right.

Keep on Trucking, in tide with timing, Senator McCain.

Stay focused. The hysteria and herds will swirl faster and hotter. You've been in the eye before and survived, you know what this all is about.

52 posted on 10/11/2008 5:02:17 AM PDT by Alia
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To: moose2004
The Dems and MSM can't shame John McCain; he's been through all but the ultimate shaming treatment. Obama can talk about "slavery" and "oppression" while never having come anywhere near it; John McCain can go chapter and verse on such matters; he lived it.

The author's point is to make "readers" feel shamed. That's his target audience. His question? "Don't you wanna be like me? Sane, civil, I love God the most?"

Mr. Schaeffer has never known oppression and tyranny. He's been raised inside an elite, if you will, bubble. A selective one. Seems to me. Mr. Schaeffer's early Calvinist strains are rearing, big time cadged with just a tincture of "evangelism".

53 posted on 10/11/2008 5:08:55 AM PDT by Alia
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To: lowbridge

So, Franky is getting the daily talking points from the Obama campagn. Something cracked in his head, I think. I did not read his latest book, in which, I hear, he savages his family and his former friends; but, his book about his son in the Marines was written by a different man.


54 posted on 10/11/2008 5:23:14 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben, reports to Parris Island on October 13)
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To: Alia
He's been raised inside an elite, if you will, bubble.

The perplexing thing is, that in his book about his son joining the Marines, he seemed to come to terms with that. A great deal of that book was about his former wrong headed opinion of our military and his new understanding the value of military service and the nobility of sacrifice.

I wonder what else is going on in his life these days

55 posted on 10/11/2008 5:27:39 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben, reports to Parris Island on October 13)
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To: The_Reader_David

ping

for your comment, please.


56 posted on 10/11/2008 5:29:00 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben, reports to Parris Island on October 13)
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To: don-o

Very possibly he’s most upset about the coarsening of social and public dialectics. And so he’s found a way to tie a coarsening to what took place at a John McCain rally; transference, if you will. If he had sermonized upon just that, the coarsening, he’d have made a far better point. Instead, he comes across as well, terrified, and pointing his finger at the right person to “do something”; when instead, he should be using his shaming stick at the very people who’ve wrought American crises - the Democrats. It’s unfortunate; but certainly he’s not at all exempt in acting upon this so very human foil and folly.


57 posted on 10/11/2008 5:40:29 AM PDT by Alia
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To: don-o

Congratulations to your son. And thank you.


58 posted on 10/11/2008 5:42:34 AM PDT by Alia
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To: Alia
The timing of this renewed "call to civility" is somewhat interesting. More interesting is the full throated chorus with which it comes.

Rush actually does a very good job of this when he plays the exact same phrases and ideas coming from multiple talking heads.

date correction in tagline and thanks for the good wishes

59 posted on 10/11/2008 6:07:07 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben, reports to Parris Island on October 20)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

ping

You shared with me some of the things That One’s crowds are screaming about Palin. Care to share?


60 posted on 10/11/2008 6:08:24 AM PDT by don-o (My son, Ben, reports to Parris Island on October 20)
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