Anti-Muslim? Then You're Not Pro-McCain
Every once in awhile on the campaign trail, something happens that makes you feel good.
John McCain's campaign took a big hit Sunday, when former Secretary of State Colin Powell publicly endorsed Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. Immediately after this endorsement, the radical right began to dismiss it as "a black thing," implying somehow that Powell is supporting Obama simply because they are both African Americans.
This is the kind of intolerance that is losing the election for McCain. I have my own theory about why Powell endorsed Obama and, while I believe his motives were for reasons other than those he cited, I certainly don't think it was racially motivated. Frankly, I think that Powell, just as he did in 2000, is reading the tea leaves and has decided to gamble on Obama winning the election. If he does, Powell secures himself a spot in the new administration. Simple as that.
Monday, however, I saw this video clip from a McCain/Palin rally in Woodbridge, Va. that gave me hope. It certainly dispels the myth that all McCain/Palin supporters are intolerant or anti-Muslim. And by the time it was over, I had a lump in my throat and was never more proud to be a McCain supporter.
Watch carefully as the McCain/Palin supporters take on "one of their own" and, quite literally, send him and his outrageous material packing. It is pretty plain to see that the real supporters of John McCain and Sarah Palin aren't willing to stand idly by as a few bad apples try to hijack the entire barrel.
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Certainly McCain himself likes Arabs, because when a woman at his rally said that Obama was an Arab, McCain was quick to contradict her, saying, “No ma’am, he is a decent person, a family man.” Certainly he wouldn’t say that if he thought Arabs were not decent people!
All Rupublicans are racist muslim hating bigots.
“Certainly he wouldn’t say that if he thought Arabs were not decent people! ”
Let me just preface my response to this by saying that I, in no way, believe John McCain is a racist. However, your logic is horrendously flawed if you think that just because he said that…it must mean it’s true.
Even if he WAS a huge racist, he still would have reprimanded that woman’s comments just to save face. He was in front of numerous news cameras and in front of thousands of people (including middle eastern americans and muslims). Obviously he’s not going to be like “Why yes, mam, you are so right. I feel the same way. Anybody else have a question?”
Please stop taking everything you are told to be the absolute truth.
Pinar, that sounds like a pretty hateful comment to me, more so than many so-called “hateful” comments against Obama, may of which are TRUE. (And by the way, to bring up the other topic on here, I DO think that Colin Powell endorsed Obama based on race, among other factors – such as the fact that he really isn’t a Republican anyway.)
I do not think McCain is racist or anti-Muslim as many of those who attend his rallies (even moreso at the Palin rallies) clearly seem to be. However, please watch the clip again. The anti-Muslim hawkers were welcomed at the McCain rally until the media stepped in. No one from the McCain campaign ran them off – the media did.
This is a similar repeat of Palin sitting in a church listening to anti-Semitic sermons. I doubt, given her past support of the Jewish community, she subscribes to the ideas of Brinker. But why has she not come out and state so?
NOT speaking out against something is akin to supporting it. I think that is an image McCain needs to fight harder.
In fact, when McCain did speak out, he was boo’d. That’s a sign of a need for more than a little damage control.
McCain has never spoken out at any other even. Just that one, out of all the many others where crap is yelled out.