It would appear that John McCain is being drawn into Sarah Palin's black hole of negativity and nastiness as personal attacks against Obama are increasingly getting out of control; Obama it would seem is a genuine hate object for many Republicans in a way that no other Democrat could be and I wonder why and while Palin whips the crowds up to a point where we can even hear shouts of, "kill, kill, kill" and "terrorist, terrorist, terrorist", John "did I ever tell you that I was in Vietnam" McCain still appears to have some moral fibre and tells a lady who maintains that Obama is an Arab, "no Ma'am , he is a decent family man."1 The implication, perhaps, being that Arabs cannot be decent family men. Of course, you and I know that Arabs can be decent family men, but do they? Obama does, I am sure and as far as McCain is concerned, while his lapse of judgement here wasn't as big as it was when he nominated Palin as his running mate, I am sure also knows that Arabs can be good family men. Now with Palin we have a different kettle of fish. What we have is someone who represents and embodies that lowest common denominator that is now in control of the Republican Party and it will be gutsy, spunky Sarah that will be jockeying for their presidential nomination in 2012. This is actually quite frightening. Or is it, I mean, she couldn't possibly become President of the United States, could she? And we really thought that with George W Bush and Dick Cheney it couldn't get any worse and here my mind turns to the "German Catastrophe". Dehumanising whole sections of society and, indeed, whole races is a "good" place to start and this is what appears to be happening in America and with the Republicans already having attached the "terrorist" tag to all of their opponents it is only a logical step to put them under "protective custody" (the Nazis called it "Schutzhaft") should they win the election in 2012. No it is cannot happen, can it?
1 http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,583584,00.html
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