Posted on 11/08/2008 11:24:05 PM PST by Pinkbell
The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of "palling around with terrorists", citing his association with the sixties radical William Ayers.
The attacks provoked a near lynch mob atmosphere at her rallies, with supporters yelling "terrorist" and "kill him" until the McCain campaign ordered her to tone down the rhetoric.
But it has now emerged that her demagogic tone may have unintentionally encouraged white supremacists to go even further.
The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mid October that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Mrs Palin's attacks.
Michelle Obama, the future First Lady, was so upset that she turned to her friend and campaign adviser Valerie Jarrett and said: "Why would they try to make people hate us?"
The revelations, contained in a Newsweek history of the campaign, are likely to further damage Mrs Palin's credentials as a future presidential candidate. She is already a frontrunner, with Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, to take on Mr Obama in four years time.
Details of the spike in threats to Mr Obama come as a report last week by security and intelligence analysts Stratfor, warned that he is a high risk target for racist gunmen. It concluded: "Two plots to assassinate Obama were broken up during the campaign season, and several more remain under investigation. We would expect federal authorities to uncover many more plots to attack the president that have been hatched by white supremacist ideologues."
Irate John McCain aides, who blame Mrs Palin for losing the election, claim Mrs Palin took it upon herself to question Mr Obama's patriotism, before the line of attack had been cleared by Mr McCain.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I have my doubts that the Secret Service tried to connect the increase in threats to Sarah Palin. It sounds like this hack reporter is making that connection taking his cues from NewsWeak. And why would the SS share any info with the Telegraph? Then this idiot reporter takes it one step further and turns it from the threats coinciding with Sarah’s campaign rhetoric to the SS “blaming” her. I wish these ridiculous European “journalists” would stay out of our business and start enlightening people of the dangers of the Islamization of Europe.
Nobody is investigating the yahoos who yelled “Obama!” and then ripped my McCain/Palin signs off my lawn Tuesday night.
Serves me right for supporting McLiberal. Maybe I had it coming.
Perhaps you are right.
“This is all our fault for failing devote ourselves fully to the glorification of President-Elect Obama.”
Ugh. I need a shower.
They’ll never make it stick. In 4 years everyone will have forgotten.
Blaming Gov. Palin for what white supremacists do naturally is pretty desperate. Why wouldn’t they get more active/vocal as Election Day drew nearer? They were probably paying some attention to Obama’s questionable credentials and getting overly frustrated about the delays.
The kill him comment was a lie. The terrorist one is real, Alan Colmes played the terrorist clip on Fox News
These are separate incidents..
I clearly heard “kill him” and “terrorist” yelled out when she was talking about AYRES at one rally...this was twisted into a threat against obama...
again ..I heard that one with my own ears...
The other incident....where “kill him’ was referenced to obama...didnt happen...the only person that heard that was a reporter and obama supporter...
That incident was made up...
the first wasnt...but clearly refered to ayres.
It is our beliefs.
Sometimes, you can tell the strength of a candidate by the strength of the campaign against them. Sarah must be huge, or they wouldn’t waste the energy to destroy her now.
All this attempt to smear her will be made known for exactly what it is and whom propagated it. Sarah Palin will come out of it more even more popular than she now is.
Note that the foreign leaders, and their staff, who met her have said only complimentary things about her.
I certainly hope that I’m NOT right. I guess we’ll see how it goes.
But why use a flattering pic of McKinney? lol
This article reads like they expect someone to succeed, and it (and the ensuing riots and breakdown of civilization) will be Sarah Palin's fault, and the fault of her supporters.
If I were a cynic, I'd think that a racist media and racist demoncrat machine have propelled The One to the top, in order to make him a target, thereby ensuring perpetual ratings and revenue when "it" happens, and forever after that. It would explain why Hillary was tossed under the bus. She couldn't complete with that. The One offers so much more.
I have athletes foot...it’s all George Bush’s fault....damn that Bush!
Why anybody would want the job of POTUS is beyond me. You have to be an egomaniac or so power hungry that you are oblivious to criticism.
Half your own citizens will hate you and the rest of the planet Earth’s citizens will burn you in effigy.
No thanks.
Or, you have to love your country enough to try to do the right thing, whether you get ridiculed for it or not. I don’t really know if I’d have the intestinal fortitude to do that.
Agree....100% !
William Ayers is who he is ....a murdering terrorist and Obama’s friend and mentor............
Makes em both a domestic enemy to these formally United States.
MSM continues to create the noooze with their seditious propaganda and ignore the facts and real dangers to this republic ! Presstitutes are !
Doom on em !!
Stay safe and keep the faith young lady !
Golly gee, Michelle Obama, I think about the toxic cesspool of racist hate in which you and your husband chose to be immersed for so many years, and I ask the same question.
For the record, I have never (personally) known ANY whites who think or speak in anything like the vile terms that Wright, Pfleger, Ayers, and pals use, because no one in my family is remotely like that and I would never befriend or “pal around” with anyone remotely like the vicious haters that YOU, Michelle and Barack Obama, chose to pal around with. You chose to raise your daughters in that church!!!!!
Don’t start whining about “hate” you scumbags — you have it all over me, my family, and my friends when it comes to embracing the flames of racial hatred.
I hope the Obamas have learned a few things and will be better in the WH, but their past record sure does not prove them to be exemplars of good citizenship and anti-racism.
Reporters of this ilk don’t make their contact information readily available. It is YOUR responsibility to seek it out and ACT. It is not the poster’s responsibility to set the table for you. Even as you insist the poster should act, you are waiting. Unfortunate. Now, follow your own advice: ACT!
“The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of “palling around with terrorists”, citing his association with the sixties radical William Ayers”
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Not only DID Obambi pal around with terrorists, he is a terrorism supporter himself. Obambi has every long list of terrorist pals, not just Bill Ayers.
Gov Palin was exactly right.
Its not Gov Palins fault that Obambi spent most of his life strongly associating with terrorists.
They know Obama is going the be a complete disaster.
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