"I sense that there's a devotion to coming up with a sense of false equivalence..."

"...the idea that bringing up John McCain's experience in the Keating 5, for example, is somehow equivalent to calling Barack Obama somebody who pals around with terrorists."

Rachel Maddow lays it out.

False equivalency.

I see some of the McCain faithful passing around a picture of four knuckleheads in t-shirts that, in giant block letters, call Sarah Palin the "C-word." (I wonder if those intellectual giants - "look how ironic we are!" - had the nerve to leave the room they're photographed in.)

I'm trying hard to recall a rally where either Obama or Biden suggested that Palin is something that rhymes with "runt." Or even "witch." No luck.

HOWEVER, I do remember hearing Sarah Palin accuse Obama of "palling around with terrorists." I heard McCain ask a crowd provocatively, "Who is the real Barack Obama?" I watched them ignore shouts of "terrorist" and "kill him" that they elicited during their rallies, not bothering to correct their rabid followers.

Meanwhile, the seed sown by the Republican candidates for President and Vice President of the United States is picked up via a classy roadside sign in West Plains, Missouri:

And a placard at a McCain rally:

 

Liberal knuckleheads are not in short supply, but they're on the fringes. Michelle Malkin makes my point by printing their pictures on her blog (a space normally reserved for screeds of conservative rage, by the way). One look at them tells you that those people may be a bit unbalanced and "not so mainstream," to say the least.

McCain/Palin, on the other hand, have sown their seeds of fear and hatred into their mainstream support, both personally and through their Karl Rove-ian organization. Housewives claiming Obama is "Arab"; soccer moms telling cameras that "terrorism is in his bloodline"; and kids saying "you need gloves to touch him."

Spare me the attempt at pleading equivalency.

Comments

[Fred Keller]

John, we can agree that there are plenty of morons and fringe-fanatics on both sides, but I don’t know that I can agree with you if you’re considering me a “McCain-faithful.” I’d have to say I’m more of an “Obama-faithless.” I may have to hold my nose and vote for McCain, but I can’t squeeze my nose hard enough to “pull the lever” for Obama.

And I assume the “terrorist-pal” Palin was referring to was William Ayers and his bride Bernadine Dohrn. I suppose Palin could have said, “domestic-terrorist,” called-out Ayers and Dohrn by name, or more rightly referred to the pair as Obama’s “Chicago, anarchist-pals.”

I did some research, too, but couldn’t find video of Obama doing something like this (see link below) on McCain’s behalf at any of his campaign rallies. Maybe you’ll have better luck…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf6YKOkfFsE

[john]

"I did some research, too, but couldn’t find video of Obama doing something like this (see link below) on McCain’s behalf at any of his campaign rallies. Maybe you’ll have better luck…"

Obama hasn't needed to. You see or hear anyone calling McCain names at Obama rallies? Did you ever hear or see Obama making suggestive remarks about McCain for the audience to feed off of?

You reap what you sow, and McCain is learning that now.