McCain booed after trying to calm anti-Obama crowd

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

I don't think what they said was McCain's fault. And if you watch the video the first time he got those responses he was shocked. But he didn't speak up.

Now he's spoken up and I give him credit for that, but it might not be enough. And Palin is NOT speaking up. Some of the things that were yelled at those rallies aren't just insensitive or racist, they're threatening a presidential candidate... and the Secret Service isn't exactly cool with that.
Palin and McCain are only responsible for their actions, but it's fair to think that their reactions to the events are poor.


As for the death threats, we don't get to know if Palin's receiving any, but we know that thus far, there haven't been any yelled, on camera, at an Obama rally. (There's not much to say about "alleged" here UGAalum. You can hear it even on poorer quality videos. It saddens me. )

Where? I've seen the "terrorist" one, but where can you find the "kill him" one?

I don't think it's a big reflection on either of the candidates, unless we want to do a similar kind of association with some of the nuttier Obama supporters, and they are out there.

How about the comedienne who sort of expressed a wish that Palin get ganged raped? Is that Obama's fault?

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Where? I've seen the "terrorist" one, but where can you find the "kill him" one?

I don't think it's a big reflection on either of the candidates, unless we want to do a similar kind of association with some of the nuttier Obama supporters, and they are out there.

How about the comedienne who sort of expressed a wish that Palin get ganged raped? Is that Obama's fault?

The fault isn't in what was said but the candidate's response to the words. If this was at an Obama event I expect that the candidate would say something. From the word "sort of" I'd need more information.

No one expects a candidate to be responsible for everything a supporter says.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

The fault isn't in what was said but the candidate's response to the words. If this was at an Obama event I expect that the candidate would say something. From the word "sort of" I'd need more information.

No one expects a candidate to be responsible for everything a supporter says.

Sandra Bernhard said some crap about Palin getting gang raped by her black brothers if Palin came to Manhattan, and Bernhard got dropped from a violence against women benefit as a result.

I don't expect Obama to say anything nor do I consider it a reflection on him really, but I'm not sure that Leslie Ann's "well at least she's not getting death threats because if it" is actually accurate. Palin's getting rape threats (there's another really weird Margaret Cho comment out there; what's up with Palin affecting bisexuals so much?), and I wouldn't be surprised by death threats. People out there are nuts.