This does not surprise me in the least. It is bad enough to hear racist comments from the GOP and now on several November ballots we have the homophobic ban on gay marriages. This emotional desire to define culture and morals and legislate them through the federal and local government is anti-American and against the Constitution. Sadly it is coming from the Republican Party.

I doubt that Senator McCain is a racist but he is a desperate man who is losing his last chance at the White House. It shows a character flaw that I do not appreciate. This attitude that the GOP must destroy the opposition at any cost is wrong and in my world, it must lose!

Senator Obama may not be the best choice (I did not vote for him) but all Americans must stop this Republican agenda of destruction. It has lost our reputation for fairness and honor and it is time the American people stamp it out. The RNC has changed the Party to suit a handful of ugly Americans called neoconservatives and they must be kicked out of our campaigns.

America is not an Empire and at this point in time, we aren't even a stable nation. The Republican party has destroyed much of what held America together and we must get this back!

Malcolm

The fact that this is coming from the Republican party is certainly not a surprise. Although the neo-con stylings of Lee Atwater/Karl Rove have fine-tuned the party line, Republicans have been in steady decline since the Nixon administration...long gone is any sense of decency, fair play or resembelnce of a positive moral center.

One would have to go back to the Eisenhower administration of a half century ago to find any genuine motivating credo, either on display overtly or implied through individual character, that could be considered honestly pursuant to the American ideal of equality and inclusivity.

John McCain is merely one more in a succession of many representitives from a political party who's idealistic center has become both un-American and anti-American. The politics of corporate greed and winning no matter the cost has destroyed the Republican party.

Believe me, I am no fan of McCain, but I have seen no evidence he is a racist. He is definitely a red-faced, angry, foul-mouthed, lying, manipulating little dolt, but probably not a racist.

His followers, however, are another story. There are still those out there who think Obama is a Muslim. The question, of course, is why that should be a factor anyway. Muslims were studying higher math, astronomy, and the works of Aristotle while most Christian Europeans were living in hovels kept warm by the farm animals they kept indoors.

Americans are now filled with more insecurity, anger, fear and hate than I can remember in my lifetime....and, I have lived through the Viet Nam war era, the Nixon years, several recessions as well as the pre-desegregation
years.

After almost eight years, of continually being lied to and misled by the inept, greedy criminal leadership emanating from the Whitehouse and Congress, people are depressed, scared and ready to ignite. Millions are now... losing their homes, watching as investments they've worked a lifetime for evaporate, fear losing their jobs, and all while paying for an unwarranted, deadly and expensive war they don't want and never needed. The security Americans have worked so long and hard for seems to have suddenly disappeared. Now is no time for anyone to play with their emotions they have had enough! Rep. John Lewis was correct when he said McCain/Palin were playing with a fire that could burn us all. John McCain acted responsibly when he told the woman who was afraid of Obama she should not be. Now, if he could get Palin to quit lighting matches in the dry tinder of her audiences, it would be a grand feat.

No person should be feeding the embers of fear and hatered that exist, especially politicians. Those of us who read and post here at CHB are basicly singing to the choir, but our attitudes and knowledge can go a long way in toning down the hate and fear we all know exists. By writing to politiians, media venues, encouraging them to act responsibly in this time of crisis.
We all have a desire of wanting America to regain her strength and pride, even though our methods of getting them back may be quite different. If the politicians won't do it, we can...we can each be ambassadors in our own seemingly small but very important ways. There are damned few days when I don't wish some of the people who's articles and posts I read here at CHB were not at their computers but running the country

"Hate is a result of fear...negativity breeds via fear"

No one has to ask me to leave more than once. It's been great while it lasted.

Malcolm

Stick around Malcolm, you are probably one of those JudyB alluded to.

McCain says that Obama is a nice guy, but that is far and away not a repudiation of the criminals that shouted "kill obama". Until he makes an official repudiation of those thugs he has no complaint. I hope that the secret service has been taking the names of those people that made the threats on obama's life.

"Until he makes an official repudiation of those thugs he has no complaint"

He risks losing 3/4 of his vote if he goes that route and that'sa chance he cant take at this late stage. Without the racist haters McCain could be trailing by 20+ % pts in every state, not just the blue ones.

McCain may risk losing 3/4 of his votes without the racist, but Obama risks losing his life at the hands of just one of these nuts.

“Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of
hatred for a minimum of reason.”