Media & Obama Accuse McCain of Hatred & Racism

As of Today, October 12, the Real Clear Politics average of recent media polls shows Obama ahead of McCain in the popular vote 49.7% to 41.2%, and leading in the electorial college vote by landslide proportions.  This would seem to be an odd time for the media echo chamber and the Obama Campaign to coordinate bizarre, and desperate sounding charges of racism and hate on the part of John McCain and Sarah Palin.  But they are.

A typical example comes from New York Times columnist Frank Rich who just spit out a column asserting

“a violent escalation in rhetoric, especially (though not exclusively) by Sarah Palin.”

Rich cites several examples, only one of which might border on excessive, Ms. Palin’s line about “palling around with terrorists.”

Included in Rich’s list of examples of “violent escalation in rhetoric” is this from Sarah Palin’s stump speech:

Obama “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist.”

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Since Barack Obama does not deny that his first campaign event was in the home of William Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, why shouldn’t Gov. Palin mention it?

Ms. Dohrn was convicted and served a prison sentence for terrorist acts.  Charges against Ayers were dropped because evidence against him had been gathered illegally by the FBI.  But Ayers openly admits to his terrorist acts and has said in recent interviews that he does not regret them, and that he should have done more.

Another of Rich’s examples of “violent escalation in rhetoric” is the next line in Gov. Palin’s stump speech, when she says

Obama  “is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America.”

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Is this really a “violent escalation” compared to the continuous stream of invective from Obama and the Democrats charging McCain and Bush are “out of touch” with working people, that they care only about Billionaire CEOs, that they are “destroying the middle class,” that they want 100 years of bloody combat in Iraq, that they are robbing you of your health care?  What about the hundreds of leftist websites and YouTube videos claiming President Bush is directly responsible for the 9-11 attacks?  Come on Frank!  Get Real!

Rich charges that “Wielding a wildly out-of-context Obama quote, Palin slurs him as an enemy of American troops.”

Well, here’s a 15 second video of Barack Obama’s remark, that Gov. Palin quoted:

Obama regrets it, but he did say that, and it may be an indicator of his real attitude toward the American Military, that because they may not have enough resources to do execute the mission the way he thinks they should, they turn into rogue thugs who “air raid villages and kill civilians” without remorse.

Let us not forget that Obama’s great advantage in this campaign has been the nearly total lack of any publicly available information, other than two books he wrote about himself, that would give voters a sense of his character or his core beliefs. In the prologue to his second book Senator Obama wrote:

…I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.

He has used his blank screen status to maximum advantage throughout this campaign by making sure his past remains mostly a mystery.  The few publicly available character indicators voters can review are his associations with unsavory men such as convicted political fixer Tony Rezko, former terrorist William Ayers, and the Anti-American racist, Reverend Wright.

Frank Rich went on to allege “the uninhibited slinging of racial epithets,” at McCain-Palin events.  If you click on the link Rich provides to back up this allegation, you find it to be based on another opinion column by Dana Milbank, who claims that one person in the audience at one campaign event said to an African-American TV technician “sit down, boy.”  If this really happened, it’s obviously repulsive and inexcusable.  But nobody with an ounce of common sense would believe that John McCain or Sarah Palin condoned such language, or that they directly control each of the tens of thousands of people who decide to show up at a campaign event.

Are we expected to believe that nobody in any Obama audience ever said anything offensive?  Perhaps the media believes we have forgotten that Barack Obama sat in the pew for 20 years, absorbing Reverend Wright’s racist messages and wild accusations against America, including:

• The US Government introduced AIDS into the black population
• America is a terrorist nation and 9-11-01 America’s chickens came home to roost

YouTube has hundreds of videos of Reverend Wright’s incendiary sermons