OK, McCain puts ads out that effectively say "Vote for us or you will die".
But the threat in those ads is an external one. Some foreign entity will be the culprit, and Obama will have either inexplicably invited them or just unable to handle them.
But this new line of attack that Palin came up with really made me feel sick.
She is effectively saying Obama will take away our freedom. Not a foreign entity, Obama himself will do that. And she claims he will not stop at stealing your freedom... He will take your property, income, investments, ability to take decisions... You name it!
Here's the youtube video. It is not the whole speech, but this is what I found. Watch it for yourself, and be ready to collect your jaw after it splatters on the floor:
I'll try to put it in black and white for you:
See, under a big government, more tax agenda, what you thought was yours would really start belonging to somebody else, to everybody else. If you thought your income, your property, your inventory, your investments were, were yours, they would really collectively belong to everybody. Obama, Barack Obama has an ideological commitment to higher taxes...
So far, what she is spewing here is the whole socialist crap they've been throwing out for a week or so.
But it gets a whole lot worse. First, let's tug on the strings of "what we teach our children", shall we:
... The lessons I believe that we have taught our kids would start to erode; those lessons about work ethic, hard work being rewarded, and productivity being rewarded; and... and lessons about um, the virtues of freedom and independence while being generous and compassionate with others
And now with the zinger... Connecting the alleged socialism, with, you guessed it: Communism or totalitarianism:
Higher taxes, more government, misusing the power to tax leads to government moving into the role of some believing that government then has to take care of us. [Crowd boos loudly] And government kind of moving into the role as the other half of our family, making decisions for us. Now, they do this in other countries where the people are not free.
That does it for me. First she was the one that came up with the insinuation that he is a terrorist or terrorist sympathizer. Now, it is "out in your face" blatent McCarthyism. I don't think people will see this as an insinuation, or a simple tangential "guilt-by-association" type of attack. This felt like a direct accusation. This was not left to our imagination. She basically created the step-by-step narrative by which Obama will be taking away your freedom.
I'm not a lawyer, but this can't be legal. If this is not a direct accusation, I do not know what is.
The last part of the video is where she says that McCain and her are the saviors:
Let us fight for what is right. John McCain and I, we will put our trust in you and not in governement. We will let you keep more of what you earn and produce [crowd cheers loudly] so that you can grow and thrive and prosper. We will fight for you. We will put our country first.
To borrow a line from Rachel Maddow: Someone needs to talk me down on this one. I am working very hard to contain my rage...
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[UPDATE#1] I've decided that the best remedy for rage, is ACTION:
* Let's
donate to the Obama campaign.
* Let's
donate to the DNC, and/or to any of the organizations that will advocate for Obama or attack McCain (see
this diary for links)
* Let's use Obama's online voter contact (phonebanking) tool,
Neighbor to Neighbor, to talk to people in our community.
* Let's
volunteer with the official campaign organization in our area.
* Let's host a
grassroots event.
* Let's read Obama's
Grassroots Action Guide to learn about more ways we can help.
* Let's
GET OUT THE VOTE.
* Let's tell our personal and professional networks about Obama's online voter registration resource center,
VoteForChange.com. (Also see
DeclareYourSelf.Com)
* Let's
volunteer to join the Obama Voter Protection Program , or other
election protection programs, or to work at the polls.
* Let's fight back against rumors and political attacks, and have our networks do the same on
FightTheSmears.com.
* Let's
write letters to the editors of newspapers in our region.
* Let's email viral videos to all our email contacts. Choose from great videos such as
this,
this,
this,
this,
this,
this, and
this.
Please rec this up, let's answer this "malarky" with real action! It is not over yet!
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[UPDATE#2] Please DIGG it up! (h/t Loose Fur)