BlackLiberalBoomer

Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin, behind in the polls and having no cohesive message to run on, have resorted to a divisive, hate-filled, smear campaign against Senator Barack Obama and the Democratic Party as a whole. As a result, in the last few weeks, several very dangerous incidents have increased against Obama campaign offices and people who just happen to support Obama for President.

It is natural for political opponents to compete, but the Republican ticket has descended into the gutter with tactics and statements that actually put people in danger. Ironically, continuing their “blame the other guy” meme, they want Obama to “repudiate” what Congressman John Lewis said about them…although the results of their statements are becoming the same as in the civil rights fights of the 60s…

Call Obama a liberal. Say his policies don’t make sense. Call him skinny. Tease him because he likes arugula and green tea. Mock his bowling score. But by calling him a terrorist and/or a socialist; saying he is a Muslim yet has a crazy Christian pastor; tieing him to ACORN which they then say is “tearing the fabric of democracy” because some voter registration cards say “Mickey Mouse” (although it is a Republican who has actually been arrested for tricking people into signing Republican cards in California); calling him “un-American” and “not quite like us”; by saying only the towns they like are “pro-America” and Democratic-leaning areas are “communist”; by doing these things,, they are stirring up hatred and fear…just to win an election. They are bringing out the worst in people instead of working with everyone to make America better. They feel that the only way they can “win” this election is through slander, fear, and fraud…yet they say that they are the “real Americans”…

A car is vandalized in Texas because it has an Obama bumper sticker.

A baby bear is shot in the head and left on a college campus with Obama signs taped to it.

Obama campaign offices have been vandalized, have had an envelope with white powder mailed to it, and have received bomb threats.

Tires have been slashed at Obama rallies.

Obama is hung in effigy in Ohio and elsewhere.

ACORN workers receive death threats .

People yell “Kill him” and “terrorist” at rallies and into the cameras of foreign news outlets.

Maybe this is the kind of America the Republicans want…only a white, Christian, erratic military man with a far-right radical unqualified running mate should be in charge. Everyone who disagrees with them should be maimed, threatened, killed, or at the very least labeled “un-American”.

Fourteen more days.  Fourteen more days to prove to America and the world that the United States is better than this. We can disagree without being disagreeable. We can work with both our friends and our enemies without starting WWIII. We can honor and value our diversity and see that we do have more in common than our differences. We can have class and style and speak fluent English and value education and show real “family values” by obviously loving our wives and children and caring for those less fortunate instead of denigrating them.

Fourteen more days until Barack Obama is elected the 44th President of the United States of America and we can start healing this nation instead trying to divide it even more with hate and fear.

Fourteen more days. We are ALL Americans…

That’s Change We Can Believe In…

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