McCain Palin Have Inspired Racist Attacks

McCain and Palin's lead in attacking Obama's character has inspired racists to come out of hiding. Palin is close to wearing a white hood. We shouldn't be tolerating this.
From one of McCain's own organizers in Virginia:

Swamp: "The column by Bobby May appeared in a southwestern Virginia newspaper, The Voice, and drew attention after it was cited in a Sunday Los Angeles Times report about how voters in that mostly white region were reacting to potentially electing the country's first black president,'' the Times' Peter Wallsten writes.

"May, who in July was named his county's Republican representative on the McCain statewide campaign team, offered a spoof of Obama's platfrom and plans in his recent column,'' Wallsten reports.

"Examples: Obama would hire the rapper Ludacris (a prominent supporter) to paint the White House black. And the Democrat's administration would divert more foreign aid to Africa so "the Obama family there can skim enough to allow them to free their goats and live the American Dream."

"May also joked that Obama would replace the 50 stars on the U.S. flag "with a star and crescent logo," an Islamic symbol, and that his policy on drugs would be to "raise taxes to pay for Obama's inner-city political base."

McCain campaign spokeswoman Gail Gitcho, issuing a written statement announcing that the campaign is dropping May from its team, called his attempts at humor "are offensive'' and "insulting. They "have no place in political discourse,'' the spokeswoman said. "Mr. May's comments in no way reflect the views or opinions held by John McCain or his campaign. The McCain campaign wholeheartedly disavows Mr. May's column."

McCain denounces it but his sidekick started it and McCain condoned it.
Here's a PDF of the column.

Here is Bobby May's email: bobbyleemay@yahoo.com.

Here's a collection of the attacks in recent days. This is in ADDITION to the constant and concerted year-long effort by the ultra conservatives to smear Obama.
At a Palin rally in Florida, Lee County sheriff uses Obama's middle name to insinuate that Obama is a terrorist.
Pro McCain group releases Obsession video that whispers Obama is a terrorist.
Palin accuses Obama of pallin around with "terrorist."
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, co-host of the View, smears Obama as hanging with terrorists.
Jerome Corsi, anti Obama author, attempts to smear Obama in Kenya and gets detained for not having a work permit.
Check this out:

WaPo: Sen. Lindsey Graham, a McCain confidant, told The Post's David Broder that the campaign would "go down in history as stupid if they don't unleash" Palin. Well, the self-identified pit bull has been unleashed -- if not unhinged.

Barack Obama, she told 8,000 fans at a rally here Monday afternoon, "launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist!" This followed her earlier accusation that the Democrat pals around with terrorists. "This is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America," she told the Clearwater crowd. "I'm afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country." The crowd replied with boos.

McCain had said that racially explosive attacks related to Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are off limits. But Palin told New York Times columnist Bill Kristol in an interview published Monday: "I don't know why that association isn't discussed more."

Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."