Racism, Wall Street Bailout Define McCain Campaign
Christian Church
October 11, 2008
Last weekend, Republican John McCain's top advisers announced their plans to stop engaging in a debate over the economy and "turn the page" to more direct, personal attacks on Barack Obama. The result of this strategy has been a sharp and venomous frenzy of race-baiting and name-calling by McCain supporters. These attacks – on America's first African American presidential nominee – have followed a flurry of television ads by McCain calling Obama's character into question. According to reports on CNN and elsewhere on the Internet, the McCain rallies and fundraisers have featured the following:
>> A woman claimed that Barack Obama is an Arab and a Muslim. (Senator Obama is not an Arab; he is a Christian.)
>> A man called Senator Obama a "hooligan."
>> Gov. Sarah Palin told her audience that Senator Obama "…tried to influence negotiations with Iraqi leaders in a way that would set back America´s cause there while advancing his campaign here. …" See NYT article.
>> Supporters called Senator Obama a "terrorist" while others yelled, "Kill him!"
>> At a recent McCain-Palin rally a supporter caught on camera held up monkey doll man with an Obama sticker around its head. He crumpled the sticker and handed the racist monkey doll to a young boy when the man noticed cameras were pointed at him. The parents of the boy did not know the man.
Few, if any, of these attacks went unchallenged by McCain and when McCain sheepishly tried to "tone down" the vitriol, he was booed and screeched at by his own supporters. The vitriol aimed at Obama is not surprising given the characteristics of the Republican Congressional Caucus. Note the following:
>> There are 435 elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives; not one is both Black and Republican.
>> There are 100 members of the U.S. Senate; not one is both Black and Republican.
In order to be elected to the United States Congress, a candidate must first be nominated by his political party. Only Republicans vote in Republican Party primaries.
Another Repugnant Republican
John McCain knows his voting base well, and he´s calling them to the polls in a desperate and despicable attempt to win the Presidency in the most hideous of ways. The majority of Americans believe that the race-baiting, name-calling, and physical threats perpetrated against Obama by McCain and his supporters is revolting.
This is one of the many reasons why most Americans are not voting Republican this election cycle.
Shockingly, in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, John McCain wants to change the subject from the central question of this election. Perhaps because the George Bush policies that John McCain supported for the last eight years, and wants to continue, are impossible to defend. The Bush McCain economic plan today called for the nationalization of American banks.
According to David Plouffe, Senator Obama's campaign manager, "It's not just McCain's role in the current crisis that they're avoiding. The backward economic philosophy and culture of corruption that helped create the current crisis are looking more and more like the other major financial crisis of our time."
"During the savings and loan crisis of the late '80s and early '90s, McCain's political favors and aggressive support for deregulation put him at the center of the fall of Lincoln Savings and Loan, one of the largest in the country," Plouffe continued. "More than 23,000 investors lost their savings. Overall, the savings and loan crisis required the federal government to bail out the savings of hundreds of thousands of families and ultimately cost American taxpayers $124 billion."
According to sources, in that crisis John McCain and his political patron, Charles Keating, played central roles that ultimately landed Keating in jail for fraud. McCain was called in front of the Senate Ethics Committee. The McCain campaign has tried to avoid talking about the scandal, but with so many parallels to the current crisis, McCain's Keating history is relevant and voters deserve to know the facts -- and see for themselves the pattern of poor judgment by John McCain.
An objective 13-minute documentary has been released about the scandal called "Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis" and is available for viewing at KeatingEconomics.com, along with background information that every voter should know.
Watch a preview right now and share it with your friends.
To be sure, John McCain would rather spend the last month of this election smearing Barack Obama's character instead of talking about the issues important to voters.
On the Net:
>> McCain: http://www.johnmccain.com
>> Obama: http://www.barackobama.com
>> A woman claimed that Barack Obama is an Arab and a Muslim. (Senator Obama is not an Arab; he is a Christian.)
>> A man called Senator Obama a "hooligan."
>> Gov. Sarah Palin told her audience that Senator Obama "…tried to influence negotiations with Iraqi leaders in a way that would set back America´s cause there while advancing his campaign here. …" See NYT article.
>> Supporters called Senator Obama a "terrorist" while others yelled, "Kill him!"
>> At a recent McCain-Palin rally a supporter caught on camera held up monkey doll man with an Obama sticker around its head. He crumpled the sticker and handed the racist monkey doll to a young boy when the man noticed cameras were pointed at him. The parents of the boy did not know the man.
Few, if any, of these attacks went unchallenged by McCain and when McCain sheepishly tried to "tone down" the vitriol, he was booed and screeched at by his own supporters. The vitriol aimed at Obama is not surprising given the characteristics of the Republican Congressional Caucus. Note the following:
>> There are 435 elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives; not one is both Black and Republican.
>> There are 100 members of the U.S. Senate; not one is both Black and Republican.
In order to be elected to the United States Congress, a candidate must first be nominated by his political party. Only Republicans vote in Republican Party primaries.
Another Repugnant Republican
John McCain knows his voting base well, and he´s calling them to the polls in a desperate and despicable attempt to win the Presidency in the most hideous of ways. The majority of Americans believe that the race-baiting, name-calling, and physical threats perpetrated against Obama by McCain and his supporters is revolting.
This is one of the many reasons why most Americans are not voting Republican this election cycle.
Shockingly, in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, John McCain wants to change the subject from the central question of this election. Perhaps because the George Bush policies that John McCain supported for the last eight years, and wants to continue, are impossible to defend. The Bush McCain economic plan today called for the nationalization of American banks.
According to David Plouffe, Senator Obama's campaign manager, "It's not just McCain's role in the current crisis that they're avoiding. The backward economic philosophy and culture of corruption that helped create the current crisis are looking more and more like the other major financial crisis of our time."
"During the savings and loan crisis of the late '80s and early '90s, McCain's political favors and aggressive support for deregulation put him at the center of the fall of Lincoln Savings and Loan, one of the largest in the country," Plouffe continued. "More than 23,000 investors lost their savings. Overall, the savings and loan crisis required the federal government to bail out the savings of hundreds of thousands of families and ultimately cost American taxpayers $124 billion."
According to sources, in that crisis John McCain and his political patron, Charles Keating, played central roles that ultimately landed Keating in jail for fraud. McCain was called in front of the Senate Ethics Committee. The McCain campaign has tried to avoid talking about the scandal, but with so many parallels to the current crisis, McCain's Keating history is relevant and voters deserve to know the facts -- and see for themselves the pattern of poor judgment by John McCain.
An objective 13-minute documentary has been released about the scandal called "Keating Economics: John McCain and the Making of a Financial Crisis" and is available for viewing at KeatingEconomics.com, along with background information that every voter should know.
Watch a preview right now and share it with your friends.
To be sure, John McCain would rather spend the last month of this election smearing Barack Obama's character instead of talking about the issues important to voters.
On the Net:
>> McCain: http://www.johnmccain.com
>> Obama: http://www.barackobama.com
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