The McCain-Palin mob in Strongsville, Ohio (Video: Blogger Interrupted)
Here is a scary piece of video and commentary from Blogger Interrupted:
My camera was rolling for literally seconds before people happily said to me, on camera, that Barack Obama is a terrorist. If I hadn’t spent most of my time at the event inside, waiting for the candidates to show up, I could have gotten dozens of these people on tape.
It appears the McCain campaign has either been told to tone it down by the Secret Service, or is toning it down themselves, because Ayers never came up in the building. Which is good, because if they had invoked Ayers, this crowd, as you will see from the YouTube, would have easily gone to the death threats we’ve heard before, keeping the Secret Service busy for weeks. Of course, Jim Trakas didn’t get the memo, saying Barack Obama supporters are “sinners” and implored the crowd to “pray for their souls.”
As if the mob mentality wasn’t frightening enough, the obvious ignorance or disregard of the facts makes this far scarier. Are these people incapable of picking up a newspaper and reading it? Or does their lack of knowledge and apparent racism derive from a steady diet of McCain-Palin’s desperate campaign-end character assaults, served up with a side of Fox News sound bites?
