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McCain/Palin supporters let their racist roots show
It was kind of strange, dintcha think, that John McCain came to the defense of his supporters last night after Barack Obama pointed out that people at McCain/Palin rallies were shouting out "terrorist" and "kill him!" in reference to Obama. Now an Al Jazeera camera crew caught the honest ...
Report from Palin rally
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Note to the Palin crowd: Your roots are showing
Orcinus — ... I dunno, it’s just kinda… a little unnerving.” “Obama and his wife, I’m concerned that they could be anti-white. That he might hide that.” “I don’t like the fact that he thinks us white people are trash… because we’re not!” Yep, McCain must be so proud. The rest of us, well ... let's just say those polls should tell the story. [H/t to Ta-Nehisi Coates, via Spencer Ackerman.] [Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars.]

Loutocracy.
Blah3 Feed — ... and killed Americans. Robocall #4: Barack Obama and his Democrat allies in the Illinois Senate opposed a bill requiring doctors to care for babies born alive after surviving attempted abortions... The Sacramento, California Republicans had to take down materials from their web site that called for waterboarding Obama. A Republican women's group sent out a newletter with a racist depiction of Obama And last but not least, we have This bunch of racist morons. This is your modern Republican party, ...

Notes from the Final Weekend
HorsesAss.Org — ... - The increasing level of hostility that’s been seen at Republican Presidential rallies this fall reminded me of something that my old roommate at the University of Michigan experienced back in the election of 1996. She’s African-American and was taking a political science course. As part of her work for the class, she had to do exit polling at a poll location about 20 minutes from Ann Arbor in rural Washtenaw County. She came back to the house in tears at around 6 o’clock, well before the polls closed, after several hours of being called just about anything ...

VIDEO: Right-Wing Rage Cultivated At McCain-Palin Rallies Being Harnessed To Oppose Obama’s Agenda Today
Think Progress — ... ” Instead of immediately clamping down on these calls to violence and racial slurs featured at campaign events, the McCain campaign searched for ways to harness them — notably, for example, ...

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