Comments on: McCain: Lewis' Campaign Comparison Unfair

Candidate Says Vitriol Among His Supporters Is Not Comparable To Segregationist Rhetoric

[dburfears]

McCain LIES and LIES and LIES about Annenberg "BOARD", OBAMA, and AYERS

McCain''s campaign is LYING about the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), set up by the Annenberg Foundation to reform public schools. Walter Annenberg is a well-known philanthropist and CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN.

%u201CThe idea that the Annenberg Challenge was somehow the extension of the Weather Underground of the 1960%u2019s, that is just one of the most LUNATIC CONTENTIONS I can imagine,%u201D says Mike Flannery, political editor at the CBS Chicago affiliate WBBM who covered Chicago politics for 35 years. "Those of us who have covered politics in Chicago... simply don''t recognize the caricatures and the RIDICULOUS descriptions of this group."

Flannery says the other people on the BOARD of the CAC with Obama and Ayers were "BUSINESS TYPES AND REPUBLCANS."

Obama chaired the board of the CAC but he DID NOT SERVE ON THE BOARD WITH AYERS. Ayers served on a SEPARATE advisory board.

%u201CThis was NOT the Bill Ayers and Barack Obama show,%u201D says Ken Rolling who was the Executive Director of the CAC and ran the organization, %u201CIt was created by a hundred people.%u201D

Rolling says that the CAC funded programs with the following purpose:

teacher training
music education
initiatives to strengthen parental involvement in public schools.
after school programs
improvements for literacy
arts programs
support for new school council candidates
education research

MCCAIN knows he LIES

MCCAIN HAS LOST ALL HONOR

[zhynaryll]

Dim race card - big time!! Just remember that many folks voted for Wallace in his Presidential runs - and they weren''t all motivated by racism! That aside, he had some good ideas, which we could use today!!

[fridak-2009]

"McCain was asked to name three "wise people" he would listen to. He cited Lewis as well as Gen. David Petreaus, head of U.S. troops in Iraq, and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, a top adviser to his campaign."

Guess he was wrong....

[claytonantho]

It should not be a surprise to anyone that one of these tired-old-wornout former civil rights leaders would make this stupid comparison. All of a sudden, Lewis is backtracking, because he realized how dumb of a statement it was and that it does not help Obama in anyway. Why? Because the majority of Americans are sick and tired of the race card being used. Lewis is just trying to keep the status of feeling important because his star fell a long time ago.

[claytonantho]

It should not be a surprise to anyone that one of these tired-old-wornout former civil rights leaders would make this stupid comparison. All of a sudden, Lewis is backtracking, because he realized how dumb of a statement it was and that it does not help Obama in anyway. Why? Because the majority of Americans are sick and tired of the race card being used. Lewis is just trying to keep the status of feeling important because his star fell a long time ago.

[cariboubarbi]

After 8 years of disastrous policies, all Republicans have to offer is smear and fear.

[concorde5]

McCain has run a terrible campaign

[tannerbird]

well

[miles1967-2009]

To read about the REAL John McCain, check out this link:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

To read about the REAL Sarah Palin, check out this link:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23318320/mad_dog_palin

[credibility2]

Why are all of the comments not showing at this point? There are over 240 of them. Is it because they''re factually critical or racist Lewis and the deliberately mute Obama and other Dems on this repugnant comparison and commentary by this out of touch stuck in time warp civil rights activist?

[antoniof123]

Lewis'' comments followed reported examples of anger at McCain-Palin rallies that has been aimed at Obama, the first black man to be a major party''s nominee for president. GOP supporters have shouted "traitor," "terrorist," "treason," "liar" and "off with his head."

McCain defended his audiences, saying most who attend the rallies are "good and decent and patriotic Americans."

"To somehow intimate that the overwhelming majority of those people, with rare exception, are somehow not good Americans or are motivated by anything but the most patriotic motives is insulting and I won''t accept that insult," he said.

Dear John these Americans are NOT PATRIOTIC and defense of them only shows futher proof that you can not be trusted in power for they are those that vote for you and ARE INSTILLING hate. As a swing voter I made my mind up you should hope that there are others that have not. So should the entire Republican party becasue if you continue on this venture not only will you lose but the Republicans will truly suffer massive losses in the house and senate.

[tannerbird]

I have got it most people that will vote for McCain have thicker skulls and less brain matter right.

[msimamaji]

John McCain once again doesn''t get it. He and Sarah Palin think they can get votes by demonizing Muslims and any one named Hussein. By doing so, they have put a blip in the polls above the national interests of America.
Many of our strategic interests are in the Middle East We want to negotiate a lasting peace settlement between Israel and Palestine. We want to promote democracy We want to fight terrorism. Yet every day millions of people in the Middle East and the Islamic world watch John McCain and Sarah Palin demonize their religion and trash the names they choose to give children in front of cheering multitudes who resemble KKK lynch mobs in the Deep South. How do you think these people feel about John McCain, Sarah Palin, and - America?
Furthermore, we lead by example. If McCain and Palin win an election by smearing Muslims, then we are encouraging politicians in the Middle East to adopt similar Karl Rove-style tactics. Such politicians can either smear Christians, whom most people in the Middle East regard with same sense of horror and revulsions as conservative Christians view gay marriage. Or they can adopt a hard line approach to Israel.
McCain and Palin''s smear and fear campaign is an obscene assault on everything this country values. It sends a horrible, ugly, hateful message to the rest of the world. McCain and Palin are posing a serious threat to our long-term security interests. They are unfit to run this country.

C''mon people, we understand that Lewis made no direct comparison of McCain/Palin to George C. Wallace. Palin is better looking and McCain has dropped a bomb and fired a gun, a nose cannon as a matter of fact.

Now let''s get to the nexus of this brouhaha. A climate of hate and discord killed innocent people. The climate of hate and discord was encouraged and fostered by rhetorical excesses on the part of the candidate and his surrogates. The rhetoric did not focus on record and policy. The rhetoric focused upon creating an image of the opponents that voters would mistrust, even avoid, without giving much thought to the premises or supporting evidence, without thought or debate and without hesitation once isolated in the voting booth. Frankly, that description of the Wallace Effect would appear to describe the McCain/Palin Effect. Lewis is accurate; McCain/Palin have been outed.

[tannerbird]

I have got it most people that will vote for McCain have thicker skulls and less brain matter right.

[miles1967-2009]

To read about the REAL John McCain, check out this link:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain

To read about the REAL Sarah Palin, check out this link:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/23318320/mad_dog_palin

[tannerbird]

I have got it most people that will vote for McCain have thicker skulls and less brain matter right.

[tannerbird]

I have got it most people that will vote for McCain have thicker skulls and less brain matter right.

[credibility2]

What Lewis said was repugnant and without merit and for Obama to remain totally silent in not condemning what Lewis said shows what Obama is really made of. It is rather ironic when non-blacks, Dem or Repub, make comments or criticisms against Obama, regardless of the subject matter, they are immediately pounced upon and accused of being racist. Lewis and others should be careful not spew forth their inherent hatred towards whites because it is being duly noticed and won''t serve Obama in the long run. What Lewis and others like him really want is for all non-blacks to shut up and never dare challenge or criticize any black on any matter. The hyper-sensitive and out of line individuals like Lewis are hypocrites and only happy when they have it their way and no other way.

[runningralph]

I have listened to McCain''s speeches and I don''t remember him saying anything about the black race. Racism is a factor is this election. There is a black candidate and a white one. Racial comments will be made. But McCain hasn''t made any of those comments.