She says they lost because they 'represented too much of the status quo.' See also: Palin to appear at RGA

She has signaled she has no intention of fading quietly from the national scene back into arctic anonymity.

Obama, Biden, McCain and Palin address crowds in the final hours of campaigning.

Canadian radio station CKOI's "The Masked Avengers" fake out Gov. Palin.

Late-night TV host riffs on the classic Halloween "Peanuts" cartoon.

The GOP vice presidential candidate addresses attacks made on the senator.

But if she is so awful, why did McCain put her on the ticket? See also: Pre-game

Filed under: BlackSpin, Elections, News

The presidential election is just days away and everything is a talking point. With one campaign thoroughly entrenched in desperation tactics and another engaged in maintaining a widening lead, the rhetoric has been decidedly one-sided over the last few months.

Most recently, the favorite and most convenient issue the McCain-Palin campaign has vanguarded has been Barack Obama's connection to former domestic terrorist William Ayers. His alleged association continues to be brought up despite evidence to the contrary. The irony is that the Ayers topic continues to trudge along while McCain's friendship with G. Gordon Liddy is treated as an afterthought by his campaign as well as the media.

Earlier in the campaign season, a more effective attack on Obama was his connection to Jeremiah Wright, which was fairly substantial. Of course, with economic issues so prominent on the American mind, those sub-issues have become less relevant.

So with time winding down in a bitter election, the McCain-Palin ticket are going to ride their scare tactics until the wheels falls off; whether that be Joe the Plumber, Bill Ayers, or Ashley Todd. The question is where do you draw the line on the connection game when you have people at your own rallies shouting everything from "terrorist" to "kill him" to the n-word.



Where's the repudiation or apology from McCain or Palin? More than anything this shows the triviality of holding candidates responsible for other people's actions when there's no accountability within your own campaign.

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Gov. Palin campaigns with "Tito the Builder" at a rally in battleground Va.

Filed under: BlackSpin, Elections, Barack Obama, News

Two Neo-Nazi skinheads were reportedly arrested in a plot uncovered by The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to assassinate Barack Obama and kill 88 blacks high school students in Tennessee.

I hope this is not a symptom of a greater ill.

I was asked recently by a very prominent attorney what did I think would happen after Obama won. I told him there would be a rise in overt racism in this country, perhaps something like we haven't seen since the 1950s.
While race has obviously become less of a factor in this country, which seems to be heading toward its first African-American president, there are still pockets and factions in this country that are still very much stuck in the past.

And while many of us are rightfully focusing on the economy or perhaps an assault by terrorists from another country, history tells me we have to check the terrorists within. ...

This latest Neo-Nazi plot is a symptom of a cancer that exists in this country. And I believe it will grow uglier if and when Obama wins. There have a been a few indicators: During some McCain/Palin campaign rallies there have been shouts of "kill him!" and "off with his head!" referring to Obama.

There have been references to "fried chicken and watermelon" and other derogatory ads. There was even a McCain "volunteer" from Pennsylvania who claimed that a 6-foot-4 black man assaulted her outside of an ATM, fondling her breasts and carving a B for Barack into her cheek.

That one turned out to be a hoax (I knew it was when I heard it...but we can discuss that later). But there's history here.

Susan Smith accused a black man of carjacking her and stealing her two kids. We later found out that she drowned her own children in a South Carolina lake. In 1989 in Boston, Charles Stuart sent police on a statewide chase of a black who he claimed stopped them at a light, demanded money and then shot his pregnant wife in the stomach. We later found out he had his own pregnant wife and unborn child killed.

When the going gets tough, people look for a scapegoat. Blacks have filled that role for some in past.
This week vandals tore down a sign marking the site where Emmet Till's brutally battered body was dragged from the Tallahatchie River in Mississippi. In Texas, just last month a 24-year-old Texas man, Brandon McClelland, was going on a beer run across the state line into Oklahoma when he was hit and run over by a truck and dragged for 70 feet under the truck, his body parts shredded along the way. One of the attackers is part of a white supremacist group.

Sound familiar? In Texas in 1998, James Byrd was dragged behind a pickup truck by a gang of white supremacists until his torso came off.

I believe we have a very short memory. If we fail to remember our history, we are doomed to repeat it.
It was not so long ago-less than 50 years ago-when blacks were forced to sit on the back of buses, couldn't vote, couldn't go to schools alongside whites, couldn't eat at lunch counters and were relegates to second-class citizenship. When blacks fought for equality, there was a reign of terror unleashed on them that included lynches, burnings alive, castrations, bombings of churches with little girls inside, and a host of horrific acts.

In "Without Sanctuary" there is picture of picture of lynchings of blacks and others in this country. In these pictures you see white folks with their children on their shoulders, pointing and smiling. It's chilling to think that human beings would bring their children to witness such horrific acts and do so with glee, sending post cards with pieces of the remains of the victims attached.

But it happened. And those children are now adults in America somewhere.

As we attempt to turn the page on all of that, we must also be careful, watchful and vigilant to not let a few evil, hateful, ignorant beings ruin the possibility and the hope of what American can be. To borrow a phrase, we must never forget.

United we stand. But the other part of that is real: Divided we fall. Just as those planes didn¹t distinguish white from black, Republican from Democrat, rich from poor on September 11th, nor will the next terrorist attack or this current economic crisis choose sides.

 

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A McCain-Palin/RNC ad claims Obama 'rewards his friends with your tax dollars.' It's off the mark.

McCain said that 'some third of that money is given back.' See also: McCain-Palin tension?

McCain came to his veep's defense, saying that a third of the controversial $150K had been given back. See also: McCain-Palin tension?

Filed under: BlackSpin, Elections, John McCain

The woman who says a Barack Obama supporter attacked her and carved the letter "B" on her face has confessed to making it all up!!

Even the Pittsburgh police department had doubts about Ashley Todd's outrageous story of being attacked and mutilated by a mugger who resented her McCain/Palin bumper sticker. It turns out Todd was NOT even at the ATM at the time she claims the attack occurred. Via TMZ:

The PD has released a statement saying "We have received photos from the ATM machine at the Citizens Bank and the photographs was (sic) verified as NOT being the victim making the transaction." ...

Thursday I read this story on Drudge and immediately thought "Tawana Brawley." It did not make sense that this "victim" would not be bruised in the face (only sporting smeared eye make-up), that the assault took place away from the ATM cameras, and that her "attacker" would stand over her face and "carve," without actually tearing the skin, a backwards "B." And further, why would you refuse any medical treatment?

I was feeling a little guilty about my skepticism until I looked at the "victim's" Twitter page courtesy of Malkin. MM says exactly what I was thinking:

"If I'm wrong, I'll apologize. If I'm right, will this woman? It needs to be said - and since it is not said often enough by those on the other side of the political aisle, I'll say it again: We have enough low-lifes and thugs in the world running loose and causing campaign chaos and fomenting hatred without having to make them up. I've been blowing the whistle on the real, left-wing rage not on the front page and in-your-face tactics throughout the election season. Hate crimes hoaxes - by anyone, of any political persuasion, and of any color - diminish us all." -- Michelle Malkin. Nice post.

 

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McCain defended the RNC’s spending $150,000 on Palin's clothes. See also: Stylists approve

Governor Ed Rendell has called for Senator Barack Obama to return to Pennsylvania soon as the McCain-Palin campaign pours resources into the battleground state. But with polls showing Obama holding a double-digit lead in the Keystone state, is Pennsylvania is out of reach for the GOP?

Fashion consultants say her transformation was done well. See also: Pre-game

"I’d like my money back – he can still have my vote,” one donor says of his contribution to McCain's campaign. See also: RNC shells out $150K for Palin fashion