And how else could he have answered, really? “Why yes, he is an Arab, and a terrorist too!” I think the woman was really trying to say “Muslim” rather than “Arab” but got confused. What if she had said Muslim? How would have McCain responded to that? “Why no, he’s a good Christian”. Not likely. The Republicans want people to think he is Muslim, which to them is a synonym for terrorist.

Also, he said that Obama is a decent family man, juxtaposing that with Arab, implying that someone who is Arab could be a decent family man. The Daily Show did a great bit about it on the Oct 14th episode called “10,000 McCainiacs” with Aasif Mandvi, “Chief Brown Correspondant”. They basically said the Republicans created a Frankenstein monster and can’t control it (heh, oops). You can see the clip on the Comedy Network site.

I notice though (at least from what’s being shown in the press) that the McCain/Palin campaign has been crumbling lately and it’s hard for me not to be glad about that - looking at it from my outsiders’ view as a Canadian it just seems so clear what the right choice is!

I’m really looking forward to seeing the election over and the US starting to regain the image it used to have with us in Canada as well as internationally - the one that made it so great in the first place and that we all came to love, rather than the smeared image it has received from the actions of the bush administration and its supporters.

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Add that to the “boos” that greeted Palin at the Philly hockey game last night and you have a veritable zoo. I can’t believe we have to hear about this ridiculous presidential race for another month!

There is even a website up that “was created for and dedicated to all those individuals (including hockey moms) who are insulted, disappointed and just fed up with Sarah Palin.” You may want to check it out: http://puckyoupalin.com/

All of this nonsense has got to add up to Obama winning the election, although after reading this entry and being a bit paranoid by nature, any attempt at his life would be devastating…

BTW, check out the comments on youtube, yikes!

Exactly! It was a mole planted by the Obama campaign! Probably to cover up the Acorn attempt at ballet box stuffing! Control the News Cycle; Control the Election!!! : )

Wow..I actually started feeling sorry for McCain there for a moment.

eah, I actually regained some of my lost respect for McCain when I saw those clips

That my friends was the precise reason “The Arab” thing was said in my opinion. This seems to be nothing more than pure political engineering from start to finish. It was a calculated event, along with The Angry “Not-the-economy-it’s-the-SOCIALISTS!” Guy incident of the day before.

Take this all with a grain of salt. It’s October of an election year.

The other thing that may have occurred to McCain is that the way things are now, Obama is likely to win. And even if they disagree on policy, having the next president assassinated by some deluded redneck would be worse for the US than a democrat in the White House (and even then you’d just have Biden as president, then Pelosi, then Byrd… it’s a long way down to a Republican if McCain loses). Sadly enough, I figure Obama already has about a 50-50 shot of surviving his first term, even without Palin et al’s rabble rousing. Could be McCain actually -is- putting country first.