I am not really shocked about this. Not anymore.
I thought that McCain was allowing this to happen but had no proof until now.
See below for article link to time and huffPO
JUMP...
I truly did not want to believe this of McCain.
Seems like years ago now, but I used to look up to him and even admire him.
He is running a two-faced campaign. This man wants to win so badly that he will do anything. He really thinks he is entitled to win this office of Prez and is going all out to get it.
I am very worried about what is going on out there. It is not pretty.
Palin is living in propaganda world and McCain is...hell I don't know where the heck he is but he is not grounded in this election for sure.
The man is now unhinged.
I do not know where he is going to go from here.
How can the media allow this stuff to go where it is going and still act like if they have to balance everything?
Where is the freaking outrage?
Am I and people here at Kos and in the blogosphere going batshit crazy? I freaking well feel as if things are getting totally out of control and uncontrollable.
Where are the fracking grownups for crying out loud?!!!
Please read on below about what McCain campaign is pushing out there. The effort is co-ordinated and planned. What we are seeing out there is no accident. They want to cause a freaking riot by throwing race, like lit match into gasoline, into this dangerously unstable environment with the fear of economic crisis etc. This is beyond selfish, cynical and is just not putting 'country first'.
McCain is putting he, himself and him first. You. Bectcha!
McCain Volunteers Taught to Accuse Obama of Terrorism
Jeffrey Feldman HuffPO
According to Time, McCain campaign staffers in Virginia are teaching volunteers to see Barack Obama as having terrorist 'friends,' and then providing these volunteers with arguments for persuading voters that Sen. Obama, like Osama Bin Laden, shares responsibility for bombings of the Pentagon.
The report from inside the McCain campaign brings to light an alarming fact: while McCain tells his supporters publicly to refrain from violent rhetoric, he continues to teach his volunteers rhetoric designed to elicit violent responses.
In the article, Time's Karen Tumulty recounts her visit to a campaign training session in Gainesville, VA, a strategic center for the McCain ground game in Prince William County. What Tumulty describes is a training session hosted by by Virginia's state GOP Chairman Jeffrey M. Frederick in which volunteers were being trained to see Barack Obama as a terrorist.
Tumulty writes:
The McCain campaign invited me to visit Frederick and the Gainesville operation on Saturday morning, to get a first-hand glimpse of its ground game in Prince William County, Virginia, a fast-growing area about 30 miles from Washington, D.C.
With so much at stake, and time running short, Frederick did not feel he had the luxury of subtlety. He climbed atop a folding chair to give 30 campaign volunteers who were about to go canvassing door to door their talking points -- for instance, the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden: "Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon," he said. "That is scary." It is also not exactly true -- though that distorted reference to Obama's controversial association with William Ayers, a former 60s radical, was enough to get the volunteers stoked. "And he won't salute the flag," one woman added, repeating another myth about Obama. She was quickly topped by a man who called out, "We don't even know where Senator Obama was really born." Actually, we do; it's Hawaii...
HuffPO: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Link to TIMEstory:
http://www.time.com/...
Please read my previous diary about where McCain, his running mate and his followers are living nowadays below:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
'Alternate Reality', Palin/McCain, 'white privilege' and 'A woman's worth'