John McCain Defends Obama at Campaign Event

At a campaign event today, John McCain had to defend Barack Obama when one person in the audience says, and I quote loosely "I don't... I don't trust this Barack Obama...  I have read about him, he is....  He is an arab."

McCain make a grimace and starts shaking his head no.  He takes the microphone back from her and says, and I quote "No, ma'am. He's a decent, family man, citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with (him) on fundamental issues and that's what this campaign is all about."

Now at this point people in the crowd start to boo him.  They actually boo him for this, what is wrong with the people at this event?

I think it is deplorable that John McCain ever started people down this path.  Now that it looks like the S.S. McCain is sinking, he has had to resort to attack ads that border on being completely racist.  If you put out ads implying Obama is a terrorist, and you have people shouting Barack Hussein Obama at campaign rallies, people are going to connect the two and think "OH MY GOD OBAMA IS A TERRORIST, HE IS ONE OF THEM ARABS!"

Now before anyone starts disagreeing, just go find some clips from his past few campaign events.  There are several that you can clearly hear people shouting "TERRORIST" from the audience.  There was one that came out this morning where someone is shouting "TRAITOR"

And let me follow up by saying that I realize that not everyone feels this way, because I like think that some people have more common sense than that.  But it is obviously working because people are showing up to campaign events, and people are shouting "TERRORIST"

Some people on TV are giving McCain Kudos for how he responded to these people, and I am, to a certain extent, glad he did as well.  However I am not going to give John McCain for this, he is telling people that Barack Obama is not an arab, when his ads are the ones implying this in the first place.  The only reason that John McCain responded the way he did, is because he realized his ads are just digging the hole he is already in, even deeper.

My biggest complaint about all of this, is that I can't believe how ignorant people are.  Let's not mince words here.  If you think Barack Obama is a terrorist, or think that he is an arab, you are ignorant.  If you don't want to vote for Barack Obama because you disagree with his policies, that is fine.  You have that right, and I will be the last person to ever say that you are wrong for voting for someone else.  But when you start saying that you won't vote for someone because of the color of their skin, or because you saw a TV ad that implied that he "might be an arab" then that is just disgraceful.