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The Gloves

Yes, folks, it, indeed, appears that the gloves are coming off in the waning hours of the 2008 race for President of the United States. These final weeks are a test of character, sort of a national Milgram experiment where we see, when given the chance and the implicit permission to do whatever needs to be done, the real ugliness comes out for all to see. All of the base and mean thoughts held at bay, in the hopes that one will be victorious at this point and therefore able to hold the victor’s pose and have no need of making a tool of one’s hatred, are let loose on the public in the hopes that those base and mean thoughts will touch on people’s fears and prejudices and so turn around one’s flagging campaign for the highest office in the land.

And so it goes in Virginia, where McCain’s campaign chair in Buchanan County, Bobby May, shows us what he, and, by extension, John McCain, are really made of. This exploitive, bigoted, ignorant and hate-filled piece, published in a local paper in Buchanan County, Virgina should have never seen the light of day but now that it has, it is easy to see why McCain represents a past we should all be happy to leave behind.

Update: Bobby May has been relieved of his post inside the McCain campaign.

8 October 2008 | Comments |