Comments on: Missouri voter sues over McCain campaign “hate speech”

By: Henry Flynn

Henry Flynn — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:35:04 +0000

Again, the president seems to think that everyone will accept his ideas because he is the “Messiah”. However, if he were to ask the leaders of the states in which he wants to place the terrorists from Cuba, if they would permit such, he would find out that few leaders of any states are willing to accept them. After the president states that he wants to put them in a particular state, he finds out that the terrorists are not wanted there. It would seem to be, to avoid the embarrassement, he would ask first, but his ego will not permit him to ask, he assumes that everyone will agree with him because, after all, he is the “Messiah”, therefore, he knows what is best! He doesn’t think rationally, therefore, he keeps stepping on his own toes and wonder why that hurts!

By: Eda Bates

Eda Bates — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:13:41 +0000

Greene, are you related to Cynthia McKinney? Why don’t you try to ‘moveon.org’, get a real life and quit wasting the courts already overburdened schedules with your dribble!!!!

By: Betty

Betty — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:41:13 +0000

Reminds me of the song ” It’s been a long time coming”.
Applause for you Mary Kay. I can’t understand why this hasn’t been done before. Only the un educated and mis informed could fault you. Not the sharpest tacks in the box. Best of luck !

By: kathy

kathy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:46:56 +0000

This lady is absolutley right, somebody has to have the courage to stop this undeserved abuse and character assassination. If any one of us said these horrible and untrue things about another human being –and said that in such a way that people feel driven to threaten to assassinate a presidential candidate, we would be in jail. We wouldn’t allow the KKK to blatantly encourage murdering people. Why should a Presidential or Vice presidential candidite be allowed to do it? Not only is this sort of behavior very shallow; it just encourages someone who is a little bit “off” or fanatical to do something crazy.
McCain and Pailin are depending on Christian Evangelicals and Conservatives to get them elected. But I can’t think of anything more Un-Christian than attacking people, lying and hate mongering. All the claims that McCain and Pailin make have been investigated and found false. If Obama really was a terrorist, he never would have passed the background and security checks that are conducted before a person has access to classified government information.
Personally, I think this is a situation of “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones”. All we have to do it look at the personal lives and records of McCain and Pailin to see that both have been involved in very public scandals, their spouses have been involved in scandals, and neither of them is fit to serve in any public capacity. They belong in jail for racial and ethnic hate crimes; not in public office.

By: George A. kiser

George A. kiser — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:17:50 +0000

I am an attorney too, and in my opinion this lawsuit is frivolous, ridiculous and a complete waste of the Federal Court’s resources where it is filed. I hope the Federal Judge uses the Federal Rules at his disposal to sanction this plaintiff and member of the bar (who should know better) for wasting his or her court’s time.

By: Alaska Non Partisan

Alaska Non Partisan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:44:54 +0000

All of you McCain supporters ought to get a grip. Although I have not yet decided who to vote for, Taxes always represent a redistribution of wealth. The most recent, extreme example of this is the appropriation of 750 Billion to bail out banks and Wall Street, which we as Taxpayers are going to pay for in the end. Those of you who do not believe that’s a redistribution of wealth are living in a dream world. I lean towards the Democrats this year because of the negative attitude of the Replublicans. We should all be upset with the way the campaign has been going because to overcome the economic crisis and put this country back on track, we will all have to get along and work together. We should condemn demagoguery and unite to solve common problems and to reach common goals.

By: AntiPalinRepublican

AntiPalinRepublican — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 15:22:48 +0000

Inciting violence is not protected by the first amendment. I’m glad that someone is standing up to McCain’s deplorable tactics.

By: Idris

Idris — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:24:03 +0000

Blatant assault on free speech.

Luckily for us the 9th Circuit has already ruled that it’s OK for politicians to outright lie during their campaigns, not that the ruling would be needed anyway.

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:15:52 +0000

It is distressing to hear one presidential candidate call another a terrorist. Yes, you might say no one said so, but the only reasoning for such repeated statements is that you get that image into your head.
McCain might equally be called by association a Nazi sympathiser (how does that go down with the Jewish voters?), but that too would be nonsense!
Such statements are however the tactics of Neo-Nazis and other fascists banging the fear drum, and evidence of a disrespectful attitude towards others.
The McCain tacticians must believe we are all (or enough of us) dumb cattle driven mainly by instincts rather than critical thought. (Let’s hope we have evolved a bit.) This is for me the only logical conclusion from having heard this terrorist thing again and again.
(By all means similar does speak true for many such messages used in campaigning. After all, too long and complete a message could fry your brain, so keep it short, radical and sticky.)
This is a game at the lowest level…

Please do not vote for any candidate using, what I call, fascist like rhetoric.

By: slf

slf — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:20:38 +0000

Oh it’s rich watching the same members of the left who have spent the last eight years joking about presidential assasination crying “hate speech” about an incident that from all accounts tell us a reporter made up.