1) The guy talks about "socialists" taking over the country--and the crowd stood and cheered. No embarrassed silence, grumbles, from *anybody*, that I could tell. In other words, in this clip at least, the questioner appears to represent the party base, not outliers.
2) McCain answered by saying he would work "with anybody"--meaning, apparently, even with Reds [sic] like Obama and Pelosi, since he didn't refute the basic characterization. It was one of those politican's tricks where either side could take away its own meaning. But he clearly did not want to refute the speaker.
3) McCain went out of his way to go after ACORN, even though the questioner never brought them up directly (there were instead shouts from the crowd), based on "serious allegations" [sic] of vote fraud by ACORN--while to my knowledge the Obama campaign has never made such a strong promise regarding the truly serious allegations of a nationwide targeting of mostly black, working class, and student voters. The Republicans are preparing for a legal and rhetorical battle over voter eligibility and they are preparing to win it; the Democrats, it appears, are not.
Increasingly meaningless polling aside, the Republicans should still win the 2008-09 struggle for power (calling it an "election" is misleading IMO).
On 10/10/08, B. <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1K4whIv4M0
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> Creepy/scary
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