McCain Shows He Can't Be Trusted With 'The Button'

The codes (the button) kept in a locked case to initiate 'mutual annihilation' in the 2008 Presidential Campaign were launched this past weekend by John McCain. McCain, knowing full well that his campaign's attacks on Barack Obama's associations would result in an equally powerful counter-strike, launched them without regard to human cost. Sarah Palin, out delivering one of her canned speeches on behalf of the McCain/Palin ticket, trumpeted the first blow saying that Barack Obama "pals around with terrorists". Palin was referring to Weather Underground leader William Ayers, former member of the 1960's radical Weather Underground Organization and currently a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Palin sounded the alarm to her supporters and then signed hundreds of autographs.

Barack Obama has been hanging around with terrorists and John McCain and Sarah Palin have known about it all along? Why didn't they tell Homeland Security? Why didn't they inform the public sooner? Were those not autographs and instead map routes so the folks could get to safety? We could have settled this election, for the most part, and got on with resolving the economic issues that are jeopardizing the future of the United States. This could have been handled as a security issue, but I guess that pressing 'the button' made more sense. Why, because the McCain campaign has no plan to resolve the economic crisis.

Imagine if this were an international crisis, based on their actions I would expect them to resort to the same extreme measures and press 'the button' and launch a nuclear strike. Why talk about an economic crisis when you can bombard the airwaves with mudsling nonsense? Why discuss difficult international resolutions when you can bomb your adversaries? What makes us think McCain would not use the nuclear launch codes if he felt desperate in an international crisis with Russia, China, or another country?

Americans are desperate for leadership and looking for answers. They need help as they are suffering from an economic crisis worsening each and every day with no end in sight. Instead, thanks to the McCain campaign, they have received the first battle calls of what will be a downward spiraling campaign until Election Day. The people have been made into cannon fodder in a war that could have been avoided. The threat of a retaliatory attack by Obama did not deter McCain from aggression so now we will experience what we have always feared.

The destructive path we are now on is chronicled below.
• John McCain launched William Ayers.
• Barack Obama launched Charles Keating.
• John McCain will launch Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
• Barack Obama will launch Pastor John Hagee.
• John McCain will launch Tony Rezko.
• Barack Obama will launch that John McCain sat on the board of the extremist "U.S. Council for World Freedom".

And on it will go as average folks in America lose their jobs and homes while Wall Street crashes and burns.

Thanks for the memories John McCain!

Comments

[hlp]

It's only going to get uglier until the debate. I don't think Obama, himself, can/should say/do anything to rebuke the nonsense the McCain/Palin ticket is spewing. He needs to just stay on point and keep rising above. What can help him on this mudslinging, though, is for other big shots (no pun intended) to come out and start rallying. Where are you Bill, Hillary, Kennedy's, Jim Webb, Colin Powell (pleeeaase!!!), Mayor Bloomberg, Bono, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Chuck Hagel(?), etc. Get out there! This would send the message, "Would these folks support a radical left wing, traitor, nazi, terrorist-friendly individual running for president? - Come on, of course not!" Turn their idiotic tactic around on them; it's innocence by association.

[John Achoukian - Huffpost Blogger]

One can only hope... Beyond the politics we may not have seen the worse of this as McCain and Palin are spewing hateful rhetoric towards Barack Obama. Their crowds, reported today, are now responding with shouts of “Terrorist!” and “Kill him!”. Hate speech begets violence, in July a fan of Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly walked into the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church and killed two church members, Greg McKendry and Linda Kraeger , and wounded six more. In August a man barged into the Arkansas Democratic headquarters and fatally shot Arkansas State Party Chairman Bill Gwatney.
This is frightening as McCain suporters showing up to these events also listen to the hateful rhetoric below, and now they are hearing it from him.
"I’ll tell you who should be tortured and killed at Guantanamo — every filthy Democrat in the U.S. Congress." — Sean Hannity
"To fight only the al-Qaeda scum is to miss the terrorist network operating within our own borders... Who are these traitors? Every rotten radical left-winger in this country, that's who." — Michael Savage
"Liberalism is the greatest threat this country faces." — Rush Limbaugh
"We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too." — Ann Coulter
"I don’t see any difference between [Arianna] Huffington and the Nazis." — Bill O’Reilly
I’m hoping that Barack Obama addresses this during tonight’s debate.

[SamThornton]

At his Orcinus blog http://dneiwert.blogspot.comm), journalist David Neiwert has written a fascinating series of articles documenting and analyzing the "eliminationist" rhetoric that infects the conservative movement.

[John Achoukian - Huffpost Blogger]

Thanks for the website link, those articles really capture this issue. The people showing up to these McCain and Palin events are very intolerant and getting them all hyped up is not helping our already divisive public debate. Let's see which wedge issues or 'guilt by association' talking points McCain tries to insert into tonight's debate.

[gterterian]

John . . . so true. I recall the Hillary Clinton campaign also resorted to this type of guilt by association tactic (even wondering aloud if Barack Obama was a Muslim (not that it mattered to most rational people). It did not work then. I hope the American electorate is getting smarter and more able to see through this smoke & mirrors tactic. In an argument, usually the first to lose their cool and raise their voice loses . . . in politics, the first to sling mud has run out of issues to debate. Let's hope the American electorate is hip to this tactic . . . finally.