So CNN broadcasts a “news story” fed straight from McCain’s dirty tricksters, that tells us, falsely, that ACORN is trying to steal the election for Obama. McCain and Palin use racially loaded language everywhere they go to rile up crowds. Finally, on Saturday night, Georgia Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, D-GA, called for McCain and Palin to stop, comparing their rhetoric to that used by George Wallace in the early 1960s. Lewis himself was beaten nearly to death by Wallace’s Alabama State Troopers on the Edmund Pettus bridge. That’s him on the right in the front next to a certain Atlanta preacher, seconds before the troopers attacked the nonviolent marchers, fracturing Lewis’s skull.
That’s him on the ground, facing the camera, in this picture.
McCain responded by saying that John Lewis’s statement was “beyond the pale.” The next day in a photo op at his headquarters McCain said that he would “whip” Obama in the upcoming Wednesday debate. Today, the first weekday that the press has deigned to admit that poll after poll shows a double digit lead for Obama, he announced, illogically, that “we’ve got them right where we want them.” It’s totally inconsistent with the election situation to say this. But it’s not inconsistent with saying “beyond the pale” about a black leader, and declaring your intent to “whip” a black man.
Three weeks from today, John McCain will stop using this racist innuendo as part of his campaign, because he will lose. This is 2008, not 1965, and he’s never going to take us back there again.
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