A McCain Palin “march” through the Upper West Side.
When will the Obama campaign denounce all this hatred being unleashed by its negative rhetoric?
Update: Attention incredibly earnest, humorless liberal readers: I was being sarcastic. My goodness.
But just so I’m clear, I think the McCain fomenting hatred and violence story is bunk. And I just love that the claims otherwise mostly come from the same folks who scream bloody murder about “guilt by association.” Note: McCain has virtually no ties to the tiny handful of hothead idiots shouting this stuff at his rallies. I doubt he knows any of their names. And he’s told them to cut it out. Meanwhile, Obama has long and abiding ties with, you know, murderers (or at least accomplices to murder) like Ayers and Dohrn, hate-mongers like Jeremiah Wright, quasi-criminal outfits like Acorn (and the Chicago machine) and whacko groups like the New Party. Besides, if all it takes to be guilty of fomenting hatred is to have hate-filled supporters, you should read some of my email from Obamaphiles some time.
Update II: Clarification:
From a reader:
I think you pride yourself on knowing about the history of the American left. If so, you ought to know that the New Party is about as “whacko” as the German Social Democrats–and about as humorless, too. It’s an offshoot of DSA–Michael Harrington was behind it all, Bill Buckley’s old sparring partner on Firing Line. Harrington was non-violent and his politics would have fit comfortably into that of any left or labor party in Europe, and, in this country, wasn’t any different than Ted Kennedy’s.
So, sure, conservatives would and should oppose that. But to call it “whacko”, let alone imply it was dangerous or “radical” is both absurd and deeply ignorant.
Well, we can argue about how to define radical and dangerous but I think the reader is basically right on the point that it’s not a “whacko” party in the way I made it sound. It’s not La Rouchian or Fulani-ish or the stuff of Cynthia McKinney. I regret the overstatement.
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