Hatred & Racial Fires


by Ernie Fitzpatrick - Date: 2008-10-11 - Word Count: 517 Share This!

John McCain has been a man of honor. He has also accused Obama of doing anything to win the presidency- even losing the war to do so. However, in this past week, McCain has seemingly lost his honor and is doing what he's accused Obama of doing- anything to get elected. With negative ads accounting for 85% of his TV budget for last week, if McCain loses, he will have contributed to his own downfall by failing to live up to his personal standard of honor.

As Maureen Dowd recently wrote, "John McCain has long been torn between wanting to succeed and serving a higher cause. Right now, the drive to succeed is trumping any loftier aspirations. He cynically picked a running mate with less care than theater directors give to picking a leading actor's understudy. And he has been running a seamy campaign originally designed by the bad seed of conservative politics, Lee Atwater".

It's not only sad to see, but also potentially highly inflammatory!

Last week, John and Sara Barracuda stoked the fires of hatred: purposefully and strongly. After all, desperate people do desperate things. With several of the battleground sttes now leaning or strongly tilting to Obama, it's desperation time. Everyone was in Pennsylvania this past weekend as polls showed Obama with a strong lead.

In Wisconsin last week, there were shouts of "Nobama" and "Socialist" at the mention of the Democratic presidential nominee. There were boos, middle fingers turned up and thumbs turned down as a media caravan moved through the crowd Thursday for a midday town hall gathering featuring John McCain and Sarah Palin.

In recent days, a campaign that once put forth the mantra of "Country First" but is flagging in the polls and scrambling for a way to close the gap as the nation's economy slides into shambles has found itself at the center of an outpouring of raw emotion rare in a presidential race. "There's 26 days and people are looking at the very serious possibility that there's a chance that Obama might get in, and they don't like that," said Ian Eltrich, 28, as he filed out of the crowded sports complex.

Hatred is now the atmosphere at McCain political events with racial shouts getting louder and John McCain doing nothing but fueling the fires. McCain spends most of his time at his rallies and town hall meetings lambasting his rival, often calling him a "co-conspirator" with congressional Democrats in what he argues are the seeds of the financial crisis at mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And he was so frustrated in the last debate that he could even call Obama by his name, but in a moment that takes one back to Bill Clinton's "that woman", McCain called Obama "that one".

McCain needs to regain his honor and not let winning the office cause him to forsake what he's spent 70 years to earn- his honor. It's not worth it and it just might be one of the reasons the polls are moving to Obama currently. People can smell hatred as well as racial undertones!


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As a spiritual-futurist, I interpret current events in light of possible macro-universal forces at play leading up to 2012, but not limited to it.

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