More Hatred At Rallies: "Off With His Head"

After not attacking Obama in last night's debate as forcefully as his campaign had in previous days, McCain was back on the offensive today at a rally at Lehigh University with his running mate Sarah Palin.

As seen at recent McCain events, this afternoon's crowd was vocal in their support for McCain and their anger with Senator Obama. At one point one man could be heard yelling, "Off with his head," when McCain spoke about Obama's tax plan. That enthusiasm was even more present during Palin's remarks, and as other observers have reported in the past, today there was a sizeable number of people making their way towards the exit after McCain's running mate left the podium.

Read the whole story here.

The incident follows previous outbursts at McCain-Palin rallies this week.

Yesterday, a member of the crowd at a Palin rally in Jacksonville, Florida yelled "treason!" after Palin accused Obama of criticizing U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

And on Monday, a supporter shouted "Kill him!" when Sarah Palin started attacking Obama's association with William Ayers at a rally in Clearwater, Florida.

Comments

[Muzikal203]

Okay, this is starting to bother me now, and McFailin' needs to do something about their supporters. There's no way they aren't hearing about this stuff. Once was bad enough, but now we are hearing something like this every day.

[nellie]

I find it just astounding that neither one of them stops right there in the middle of the speech to admonish the crowd. But no. That's one reason I believe it's staff. Either way—whether it's deliberate because it's a plant or whether they fail to down a random nutcase in the audience—it's bad.

[nellie]

should be "fail to shut down"

[whiteboyblues]

I hope when Barack Obama wins these hateful people are the ones that threaten to move to another country and DO IT!

[harriscrl3]

John McCain for being a POW or War hero is a COWARD. He cant look a man in the eyes and accuse him of these scurrlius attacks but he can do it on the trail. As if we dont know its happening. Thats the hallmark of a coward.

Carol

[bored2tears]

I could not agree with you more! McCain is the classic paper tiger.

[roshni]

He is not a hero. The truth is he crashed his plane when others did not. Then he ratted out his fellow soldiers.
Enough BS about his POW status. No one wants to challenge it, but he is a loser.

[kkuate]

Well said Carol... McCain has run his campaign in a dishonorable and irresponsible manner. The Maverick has no conscience and lacks the maturity to understand the possible consequences of adding fuel to the fire with their rehtoric of hatred and fearmonger­ing...