The Red Brick Times

From Crooks and Liars:

It was kind of strange, dintcha think, that John McCain came to the defense of his supporters last night after Barack Obama pointed out that people at McCain/Palin rallies were shouting out "terrorist" and "kill him!" in reference to Obama.

Now an Al Jazeera camera crew caught the honest sentiments of McCain/Palin supporters at an Ohio rally:

"I'm afraid if he wins, the blacks will take over. He's not a Christian! This is a Christian nation! What is our country gonna end up like?"

"When you got a Negra running for president, you need a first stringer. He's definitely a second stringer."

"He seems like a sheep - or a wolf in sheep's clothing to be honest with you. And I believe Palin - she's filled with the Holy Spirit, and I believe she's gonna bring honesty and integrity to the White House."

"He's related to a known terrorist, for one."

"He is friends with a terrorist of this country!"

"He must support terrorists! You know, uh, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. And that to me is Obama."

"Just the whole, Muslim thing, and everything, and everybody's still kinda = a lot of people have forgotten about 9/11, but... dunno, it's just kinda... little unnerving."

"Obama and his wife, I'm concerned that they could be anti-white. That he might hide that."

"I don't like the fact that he thinks us white people are trash... because we're not!"

Yep, McCain must be so proud.

Posted 4:34 AM by whatley (3) comments

       Comments:

Yes, unfortunately. "Anti-me" is still a blindly held human habit. It takes mental work to make space for those who are not me. I feel that the underlying motivation is the animal whose territory is threatened by too many others moving in. That basic reaction is overlain with generations of "committees to make it all better in the neighborhood" that mask and justify such sociopathic behavior. The tension between individual animal survival and social grouping to increase the survival odds has been writ small, smaller, smallest, to the point that children in school join to torture someone because she is "too different". Easier than understanding. Understanding takes too much work, and thinking puts one outside the mainstream of the animal herd. And of course, to be different is to be shunned to death. After all, if evolution gave rise to the general flock of average beasts, it cannot be wrong, right? Viva vanilla, no matter what flavor it represents.

# posted by  Andy : October 17, 2008 6:58 AM
 
Not me? Different? Hmm... That sounds a lot like, um, you!

I shun thee. Not to death though. Maybe just a mild cough.

# posted by  whatley : October 17, 2008 3:18 PM
 
Whattya know- sinus trouble.

# posted by  Andy : October 19, 2008 7:15 AM
 
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