DLarge's Journal

Conservative right-wing commentators and bloggers are in a frantic mode with less than a month until the election to smear Barak Obama. With accusations that his relationship with Weatherman Underground extremist Bill Ayers make him not only a supporter of terrorism but by implication Mr. Obama is a terrorist. I'm not going to waste my time repudiating this ridiculous charge. But I am going to remind those liars, who like to wrap themselves in the American flag, that the first US homegrown terrorist group the Klu Klux Klan is still active and operating in the country. Their history of brutal violence in lynchings and firebombings is unmatched by any modern day democratic society. Conservatives like to throw around the word terrorist only because it excites fear and intolerance in its supporters. Yesterdays display of unpatriotic zeal at a Sarah Palin rally where someone shouted, "kill him", is yet another example of the derisive racial and political polarization that is gripping the party. In these waning days of the election John McCain and his staff have decided to unleash Palin to stir up the dregs in the melting pot to incite some misfit to commit a violent act on the opposition party leader. Their script has all the makings to encourage some blinded superpatriot to have his 15 minutes of fame. The country is in two protracted wars, a failing economy and a republican campaign to propagandize hate to its supporters. That is a dangerous mix. What republicans do not understand is that this is not 1930's in Germany or the 1950's in America. What has republicans in such a frenzy is that they realize that most Americans have finally placed some perspective on their dirty campaign tricks. No longer will the rule of fear influence their political choices. Watching the McCain campaign has helped us all understand the dark side. And the results on November 4th will show the public has moved beyond the politics of fear. A republican riddle that was not hard to unravel.