A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
She told me she killed someone.
She wanted off of work, so she told her boss that her aunt passed away. She got a week off of work with pay and got travel down to Florida to see her favorite rapper perform during Spring Break. That wasn’t all she got, because 2 weeks later, after returning to work with a fake face of mourning she found out her aunt really did die from cancer.
She should have been more cautious of her words, because as John Addison once said “Words, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.”
Maybe someone should have told that to John McCain. In the past 2 weeks as our economy has fallen faster than Kimbo Slice in his last fight, McSame has been trying to pin Barack Obama to former domestic terrorist and current college professor Bill Ayers. With claims that Obama has been ‘pallin around with terrorists,’ rural white residents have literally been calling for Obama’s head, shouting terrorist, treason and kill him at McCain/Palin rallies.
Mr. McCain: Do you know know the history of the country you claim to love? Do you not understand that a man you have great respect for, Rep John Lewis, had his skull cracked open in a non-violent protest because of same rhetoric that your campaign is now spewing in a pathetic attempt to get yourself elected?
On Saturday, John Lewis reminded the world of the dangers of this type of rhetoric by saying. “George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights,” said Lewis, in his statement. “Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.”
Even Republicans are coming out to reject and denounce this new campaign strategy of Mr. McCain. Republicans like Frank Schaeffer who tried to get McCain elected instead of Bush in 2000 have come out to get McCain to change his tone by writing: “If your campaign does not stop equating Sen. Barack Obama with terrorism, questioning his patriotism and portraying Mr. Obama as “not one of us,” I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of our society the red meat of hate, and therefore of potentially instigating violence.”
He hit a grand slam with his piece in the Baltimore Sun adding “John McCain and Sarah Palin, you are playing with fire, and you know it. You are unleashing the monster of American hatred and prejudice, to the peril of all of us… You are doing this in a country with a history of assassinations.”
McCain: “You just got served” by your own party.
To McCain’s credit he is now trying to back away from the nasty politics of the last 2 weeks and for that I applaud him. Hopefully the rest of this election will be played on the higher ground of the politics of change, because America has an ugly history of violence that I never want to see again.
Pay Attention, and please go out to vote like you’re going to the club… with a car full of friends.
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