I'm worried about my former home state.
We've all seen yesterday's YouTube clip of the two angry old men. Here's more:
"I’m mad," one man declared, when handed the microphone. "I’m really mad, and what may surprise you is it’s not the economy." He paused, a hand on his hip, amid cheers. "It’s the socialists taking over our country."
Here's more from that McCain-Palin rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin:
Teri Adlam, 50, of Waukesha said she had been on the fence about the election. After the event, however, she said she was fairly committed to McCain.
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"I was impressed," Adlam said. "I think he answered some questions that I have."
Wow, Teri. What a ringing endorsement. A candidate for President who you think answered some of your questions.
And still more, this time from an undecided voter:
Tara Felten, 41, of Waukesha was undecided about the election when she arrived. She came, she said, to help see through "the slams and slander."
"If it were my way, you wouldn’t know who they were, what they were, it would be the issues," she said.
She said she was won over by experience, that of McCain in office and that of Palin as the mother of a child with special needs.
I seriously don’t know how to respond here. That Palin has a child with special needs gives her the necessary experience to be Vice President?
Scariest quote in the whole piece:
"John McCain has the facts," said Gloyeck, of Delafield, who turns 18 five days before election day.
Okay, my head hurts now . . . How about some "fair and balanced" assessment of McCain-Palin? Apparently we won’t get it from this newspaper today:
Lede on the front page of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel online today:
Waukesha - John McCain and Sarah Palin let Barack Obama have it Thursday, ripping his record on taxes, spending, abortion and defense, painting him as a slippery, inexperienced flip-flopper with radical ideas and dangerous associations.
Furthermore, JSonline’s editorial page is silent, and the AP’s story "Sensitive Palin Ethics Report Kept Secret, For Now" is linked to in tiny print near the bottom left corner of the front page.
I’m sure all this has nothing to do with polling in the last week that has Obama up by 8-10% in Wisconsin! (See Nate Silver's 538 for confirmation.)
Finally, in other wingnut news, a Kansas hate group targets one Milwaukee public school’s gay-straight alliance:
http://www.todaystmj4.com/...
Aaaarrgghhh. . . make it stop, please!