Comments on: Man At Palin Rally Displays Monkey Doll Donning Obama Sticker

[grant_x]

Hopefully somebody will recognize who this guy is and will spread his persona information around the internet. No way was he an Obama Plant as gbearc asserts. Why would he act so guilty when he noticed he was being filmed by a real news source?

Here''s how he acted when he thought he was being filmed by an average citizen in the line outside the rally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkFG1ebuKZU

This is a view from the radical republican "base."

[grant_x]

whiner245a,

Does your use of all caps mean you are angry and yelling like the racists at the Republican rallies?

Just another voice from the "base."

[grant_x]

I grew up in a large city, then moved to a small town for ten years. Let me tell you, half of the people were there because that''s where they were born, and the other half was there to "get away from" the Mexicans and Blacks in the cities.

This is the "base" Palin and McCain are trying to appeal to.

[grant_x]

Palin''s rallies look just like Hitler''s hate rallies he put on in 1933, and McCain inspired the same hate from the same "base" that Wallace appealed to.

Your "base" is racist, my friend.

[grant_x]

Democrats have convenient memories?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkFG1ebuKZU

Did you forget about this?

Again, your "base" appeals to white, racist ''Mericans. That''s why. Go ahead and bring up the relationship with Ayres...but not in a hateful way! Bring it up and explain why it matters. But you can''t, because it does not matter. This is where your "convenient memory" fades my friend.

If guilt by association is the best you can do then Obama is a shoe-in. McCain has plenty of "guilt by association" relationships...Keating and G. Gordon Liddy to name a few.

And Palin is flat out guilty of abusing her power, then denying it one day after she was found guilty of doing it.

Selective memory runs rampant on your side.

Racist Republicans. You all look alike to me.

[gbearc]

Oh, and by the way, people have showed up at Obama rallies with shirts calling Palin a c*nt. So, for all you dear sweet souls so offended by people at a McCain rally calling Obama a terrorist, please save the hypocrisy. Not to mention that on this board and in print, Palin has been called a Nazi and McCain has been compared to Wallace by someone we can all agree is not a plant-but a Democratic congressman. So save the insincere outrage.

[gbearc]

''Well how about that your little Nazi Be=actch has been out there getting all the other Nazis cranked
with some of the vilest rhetoric on display for a long time?''

Telling people the truth-that Obama has close working ties with an unrepentent terrorist and has repeatedly lied about it(his latest story, after denying that he knew about Ayers'' past, mind you, is that he thought Ayers had been ''rehabilitated''lol!)isn''t ''vile''. Obama''s lying through his teeth about the relationship is vile. As is the left''s penchant for calling Palin a Nazi.

[gbearc]

''Why do all the racists join the republican party, and condemn the democrats? Can you answer this?''

They don''t, of course. I love how Democrats have very convenient memories. Remember, it''s DEMOCRATS that, when polled, have said that a large portion of them will not vote for someone because of their race.

[grant_x]

gbearc,

Why do all the racists join the republican party, and condemn the democrats? Can you answer this?

[hatesthecolt]

it is more than a little suspicious that after all this time, after sooo many campaign stops- that all these things pop up suddenly, all at once?

Well how about that your little Nazi Be=actch has been out there getting all the other Nazis cranked up with some of the vilest rhetoric on display for a long time? So, you are right, it''s no COINCIDENCE, but the cause is right in front of your Aryan nose!

[gbearc]

One more thing-it is more than a little suspicious that after all this time, after sooo many campaign stops- that all these things pop up suddenly, all at once. Odd coincidence, no? Please. Conservatives have known about Ayers/Obama for many months so don''t try to suggest it''s because McCain has recently drawn attention to that. No, the whole thing stinks to high heaven of Obama plant. We know that they aren''t above this type of move.

[grant_x]

gbearc,

If your explanation of this guy being an Obama Plant is true, then why are none of your fellow republicans standing up to him?

Because they a agree...that''s why.

Tell me gbearc, why do all the racists join the republican party, and hold the democrats in contempt?

[hatesthecolt]

gbearc, that is the WORST defense I have seen... someone could actually find someone to do what this creep did? And such a good actor that he could look SO GUILTY about getting rid of the *** thing when he realized he was on national TV???? PUH-LEEEEZE!

[gbearc]

Oh, please. Plant. Obama plant. The only one in this entire campaign to bring race up has been the Obama campaign. This fact plus the Obama campaign''s truly vile tactics throughout-Obama supporters Acorn guilty of fraud in at least ten states try to steal election for their man, the organized assault on radio shows featuring Stanley Kurtz, the only jouranlist to pursue the Ayers connection to Obama, etc, etc. I guarantee you-this was an Obama plant. They have repeatedly shown that they''d do anything to win plus the fact that they were just a wee too fast to circulate such stories to an ever eager press. Wonder how what one guy yelled at a McCain rally managed to dominate the news for 3 days? Organized Obama stunt and plant.

[Vierotchka]

You can see this same man making racist comments about Obama in the queue outside of the Palin rally in Johnstown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkFG1ebuKZU

[nikokola]

I have three comments. First, I can see why white folks can''t get why calling Obama a monkey is different than calling Bush a monkey. With the president, the issue is his lack of intelligence. I don''t believe that even the racist Obama haters screaming at the Republican rallies believe that Obama is stupid. The monkey, for them, symbolizes what they perceive to be his inferior racial stock!!! Secondly, you right-wingers who are dismissing the fellow who was waving around the Obama monkey doll at the convention as an aberration are in denial. The videos of the angry Republican crowds are filled with screaming racial epithets and threats of violence to the Democratic presidential candidate. You cannot ignore the sounds and images of hateful, bigoted Republicans at rallies across the country, who are being stoked up by McCain and Palin. The strategy to paint Obama as a terrorist Muslim, based on scurrilous fabrications by the Republican right, may succeed, but thank God America is apparently proving to be more decent than that lowest common denominator. Finally, the fellow with the monkey and McCain know that what they are doing is reprehensible. As one blogger here noted, the man was visibly embarrassed when he realized he was being filmed and shamefaced, he slipped off the headband from the monkey and got rid of the toy. Similarly, McCain, after questioning Obama''s loyalty, in response to a man who screamed "terrorist!" reacted with scowl of disapproval, and then continued.

[nikokola]

I have three comments. First, I can see why white folks can''t get why calling Obama a monkey is different than calling Bush a monkey. With the president, the issue is his lack of intelligence. I don''t believe that even the racist Obama haters screaming at the Republican rallies believe that Obama is stupid. The monkey, for them, symbolizes what they perceive to be his inferior racial stock!!! Secondly, you right-wingers who are dismissing the fellow who was waving around the Obama monkey doll at the convention as an aberration are in denial. The videos of the angry Republican crowds are filled with screaming racial epithets and threats of violence to the Democratic presidential candidate. You cannot ignore the sounds and images of hateful, bigoted Republicans at rallies across the country, who are being stoked up by McCain and Palin. The strategy to paint Obama as a terrorist Muslim, based on scurrilous fabrications by the Republican right, may succeed, but thank God America is apparently proving to be more decent than that lowest common denominator. Finally, the fellow with the monkey and McCain know that what they are doing is reprehensible. As one blogger here noted, the man was visibly embarrassed when he realized he was being filmed and shamefaced, he slipped off the headband from the monkey and got rid of the toy. Similarly, McCain, after questioning Obama''s loyalty, in response to a man who screamed "terrorist!" reacted with scowl of disapproval, and then continued.

[johcroo]

This brings me to the larger question of why doesn''t Senator McCain reel in Governor Palin and publicly admonish her for the venom she spews about Senator Obama that encourages this hate and rage. Painting Obama as someone we don''t really know who has ties to former domestic terrorists is taken, I think, by Palin & McCain supporters as code to mean Obama is an Arab, a Muslim, unpatriotic, an enemy of America, someone we should be afraid, someone who needs dealt with , and on and on. I''ll give John McCain credit for taking a stand in this regard at his own rallies, but letting Governor Palin continue down this path shows Senator McCain is really letting this slide and you have to ask yourself why? Is it "Country First", Senator McCain, or will your campaign continue to tap into the growing economic uncertainty of the times and exploit it to stoke the flames of fear and distrust until they ignite in a firestorm of race and class warfare that will take on a life of its own. Sound far-fetched? I hope so, but this is my worst fear.

[johcroo]

This brings me to the larger question of why doesn''t Senator McCain reel in Governor Palin and publicly admonish her for the venom she spews about Senator Obama that encourages this hate and rage. Painting Obama as someone we don''t really know who has ties to former domestic terrorists is taken, I think, by Palin & McCain supporters as code to mean Obama is an Arab, a Muslim, unpatriotic, an enemy of America, someone we should be afraid, someone who needs dealt with , and on and on. I''ll give John McCain credit for taking a stand in this regard at his own rallies, but letting Governor Palin continue down this path shows Senator McCain is really letting this slide and you have to ask yourself why? Is it "Country First", Senator McCain, or will your campaign continue to tap into the growing economic uncertainty of the times and exploit it to stoke the flames of fear and distrust until they ignite in a firestorm of race and class warfare that will take on a life of its own. Sound far-fetched? I hope so, but this is my worst fear.

[michigal1]

The man was most likely an Obama supporter planted there by the Obama campaign to stir racism.