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it’s all that’s left for mccain to conjure up the votes he needs to win the swing states: call obama dangerous. suggest he’s a terrorst; use outdated and since-disproved rumors to support these claims you can’t admit to on television but can be heard clearly as mimiced by ‘your friends,’ interviewed after a Palin speech in ohio:

outrageous. not only has mccain emboldened the racist, ignorant masses to come out of the woodwork and into a public forum, but by doing so he’s ALREADY setting public thought and social progress back by half a century. THIS is his campaign strategy? watching the videos of these ’supporters,’ i feel like i’m watching a white supremacist convention. no, i’m not trying to sound dramatic.

don’t be fooled that this is just another wacky, ill-fated ploy by the GOP to win one election, either. repercussions from this nasty fire the mccain camp has been stoking will persist. imagine if obama does win for a moment…what happens to all that anger and distrust in the supporters he’s wriling up now? chances are, some of them will look past the policies and logistics (as they must, now) and resort to physical violence. while i want barack to win, i worry that his entire term will be fraught with assassination attempts and that america itself will remain even further divided due to the ugliness this election has seen awake; a side effect of the desperate, petty, enormously irresponsible, pathetic, and dangerous campaign the republicans have been fronting.

i am beyond livid for so many reasons. i knew that the republicans had always been able to shamelessly draw on more support by tapping into pool of ignorant, uninformed voters; that’s always upset me. but propagating, feeding off of and allowing ignorant and racist propaganda to fly during a presidential election is more than vile. i’m quite sure we’re seeing history; both being made and relived - and it scares the shit out of me.