Hypocritical: Guilt by Association

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by tstew

I think PA, but there are a few floating around out there. Most of the criticism that I have heard that I give any credence to is not that McCain/Palin is guilty of associating with people, but that they may be guilty of feeding into some of this...to the extent that McCain himself had to recoil when faced with the end result.

I'm not sure I could agree that they are feeding into some of it - they are asking WHO HE IS, but not saying things like these people are saying.

It would have been good to hear what the other side of the street was yelling at them too.

People have the internet, blogs, emails that are circulating with all the questions that has caused people to react like this. There are a lot of unanswered questions.

I guess it's all in who's eyes you are looking through because when I saw the monkey - I saw Curious George.....people are curious - not the monkey, but I can understand how someone else could see just the monkey.

It's sad to be so divided on such an important event as choosing our next president.

[tstew]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

I'm not sure I could agree that they are feeding into some of it - they are asking WHO HE IS, but not saying things like these people are saying.

It would have been good to hear what the other side of the street was yelling at them too.

People have the internet, blogs, emails that are circulating with all the questions that has caused people to react like this. There are a lot of unanswered questions.

I guess it's all in who's eyes you are looking through because when I saw the monkey - I saw Curious George.....people are curious - not the monkey, but I can understand how someone else could see just the monkey.

It's sad to be so divided on such an important event as choosing our next president.

I agree that a lot can be missed in interpretation, but the gentleman was not saying that the people were the curious monkey, he specifically stated several times that the monkey was Obama. There is more extensive video in other places. Personally, I don't get too worked up about all of that, I'm just stating what criticisms I have heard about the nature of the rhetoric and the nature of the response that it is generating in some people. Thinking of the big picture, I think that the worse thing that can be done is to run a campaign in such a way that after the election is over, you have created unnecessary rifts in the American people and have generated or surfaced emotions that are detrimental to our being able to be as united as we will need to be in light of some of the present and future challenges.