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Rick of Winslow, ME
Oct 10, 2008 4:02 AM
People think they're going to be better off under McCain and will find that after one major medical crisis, they've lost everything.report abuse
fishin of Waterville, ME
Oct 9, 2008 10:55 PM
And if you want to call that socialism, so be it. I call it morally right.report abuse
fishin of Waterville, ME
Oct 9, 2008 10:54 PM
Redsox, just for your information, I do believe that everyone has a right to medical care and ought not go bankrupt or hungry to get it. Furthermore, as far as a tax increase for those with large incomes that I support? I'm one of those people and yes we can afford it. If it's a question of taking from the rich and giving to the poor or taking from the poor to give to the rich, I'm for taking from the rich every time.report abuse
VivaBushoooo of Waterville, ME
Oct 9, 2008 6:16 PM
I'm not sure what it would take to convince Palin and McCain that insinuating another candidate for the presidency might somehow be a secret terrorist is a very, very bad idea. America has had plenty of experience with right-wing militia nuts and paranoid loners over the last few decades; it should be transparently obvious that sneeringly inciting crowds to such an extent is a dangerous game for Palin and McCain to be playing. Palin, especially, should be damn well aware of it, given her and her husband's past uncomfortable closeness to militia figures in Alaska.

To put it plainly, inciting right wing crowds to consider an American presidential candidate a "terrorist" isn't merely dirty politics or otherwise unseemly -- it comes uncomfortably close to implicitly encouraging actual violence. And that "uncomfortably close" part is putting the most charitable possible face on it.report abuse

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