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Oct. 14th, 2008 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillI'm willing to take it on faith that "Kill him!" at Palin's Clearwater FL rally actually meant "Kill Ayers!" rather than "Kill Obama!"
The problem is that whipping up homicidal hatred is not okay. Even if the victim is not a presidential candidate. Maybe somebody should take Palin aside and mention that, in a mentoring sort of way.
I'm willing to accept that this is just some weirdo with no sewing experience, and this was just some crazy hankering for the good old days. McCain's and Palin's attacks on Obama are coincidental, and not related to these whack-jobs.
And in the meantime, there are the results of the investigation of Palin's conduct in office; she abused her political position to pursue a personal vendetta. And she's claiming the report says the exact opposite of what it says!
I don't know which bothers me more--the report, or her response. If she's really that out of touch with the real world it's astonishing she can get enough traction to walk. If not, she's lying. Again. On the assumption that we're either too stupid to notice or too morally dead to care..
The problem is that whipping up homicidal hatred is not okay. Even if the victim is not a presidential candidate. Maybe somebody should take Palin aside and mention that, in a mentoring sort of way.
I'm willing to accept that this is just some weirdo with no sewing experience, and this was just some crazy hankering for the good old days. McCain's and Palin's attacks on Obama are coincidental, and not related to these whack-jobs.
And in the meantime, there are the results of the investigation of Palin's conduct in office; she abused her political position to pursue a personal vendetta. And she's claiming the report says the exact opposite of what it says!
I don't know which bothers me more--the report, or her response. If she's really that out of touch with the real world it's astonishing she can get enough traction to walk. If not, she's lying. Again. On the assumption that we're either too stupid to notice or too morally dead to care..
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Date: 2008-10-15 01:49 am (UTC)Hmm. I do kind of wonder if that's one of Palin's functions.
Of course, in a larger sense, I have read that one of the functions of the Vice-Presidential candidate is to attack the opposing Presidential candidate, so the (same-side) Presidential candidate can appear to be above the fray.
Of course, the McCain campaign doesn't appear to have gotten the memo on that one; I think you're supposed to play it good-cop/bad-cop not bad-cop/worse-cop.