Just for the sake of conversation (because it appears that none is forthcoming), let me weigh in here. I am not an Obama fanatic, neither am I one who criticized McCain for what was being yelled at the rally. However, I will say that the criticism that is being leveled is that it is the rhetoric that the McCain/Palin ticket had been using that had tapped into some latent racists emotions in some of their followers. To McCain's credit, he did try to stem it when it began boiling over right in front of him, but then even he was booed by those who had come out to see and here more of the same. The criticsim is not of 1 or two people, but of whether the nature of some of the personal attacks is tapping into something deeper for some people and possibly leading to wider rifts than necessary...because at the end of the day, no matter who wins we all have to come back to being fellow Americans.
It is videos like these of McCain/Palin supporters that are making their rounds and making people wonder whether this has gone far beyond simply politics and candidates and whether the rhetoric of the campaigning has uncovered and tapped into other things. Personally, I thought the monkey was a particularly classless touch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHrExRHZnm0