VIDEO: The McCain-Palin mob in Strongsville, Ohio
Wed, Oct 8, 2008
UPDATE – THANK KOS & WONKETTE & DIGG!! Please donate to keep my camera charged and the gas tank filled for more Ohio fun!
It’s no wonder that the slightest incitement from Sarah Palin or John McCain will turn one of their rallies into a lynch mob. Just talk to the folks who attend.
My camera was rolling for literally seconds before people happily said to me, on camera, that Barack Obama is a terrorist. If I hadn’t spent most of my time at the event inside, waiting for the candidates to show up, I could have gotten dozens of these people on tape.
It appears the McCain campaign has either been told to tone it down by the Secret Service, or is toning it down themselves, because Ayers never came up in the building. Which is good, because if they had invoked Ayers, this crowd, as you will see from the YouTube, would have easily gone to the death threats we’ve heard before, keeping the Secret Service busy for weeks. Of course, Jim Trakas didn’t get the memo, saying Barack Obama supporters are “sinners” and implored the crowd to “pray for their souls.”
Bonus footage of people claiming they know Sarah Palin better than they know Barack, and in fact, never heard of Barack.
I’ve been doing blog video for a while, and presidential rallies a lot longer. And this is the most strange, ignorant, uninformed, angry, up-to-no-good, and gullible group of people I’ve ever seen at a political rally.
Ever.
Tags: mccain palin strongsville ohio, obama ayers, obama terrorists
October 8th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Kudos for getting that video. Very important. Hope a lot of people see this.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
These people are not ignorant. Please don’t assume they are. They have strong feelings about how slanted the media is and they are. I grew up in Strongsville and the people are not backwards or anything different then many across the country. take a look at your candidate and you can fins many folks out there that have much more crazy, hate filled omments. Please. remember all the coverage and hate she recd and all the comments made back then? Slant..come on.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Go McCain-Palin! Go Strongsville!
October 8th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
oh dear…. how i really want to try to congugate janet’s sentence and correct her spelling and… and ….
sigh.
okay, janet. we aren’t assuming the people on that tape are ignorant. they ARE ignorant… which is different than stupid.
stupid is a measure of intelligence. ignorance is a measure of a lack of education and knowledge. ignorance can be fixed. unfortunately, for these people, they don’t seem to WANT to correct their ignorance. they revel in it – they proudly shout it out – they wallow in it.
i feel really and truly sorry for those on that tape, especially the narcissistic blonde who kept jumping in front of the camera to proudly display her lack of knowledge. i also feel very sorry for the bigotted woman who tried to insinuate that “bloodline” and “name” meant “terrorist”. the real terror from this clip comes from the blatant racism, ugly hatred and blind stupi…. no, ignorance so proudly displayed to the rest of the world.
i know there are good people in strongsville and i am sure they will cast their educated vote in november – and put an intelligent, competent, qualified and dignified barack obama in office!
October 8th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Janet–I applaud you for avoiding poisonous rhetoric in your own post. As someone who grew up in Strongville, you may well have had an experience that does not align with what we see in this video. However, I must correct you in regards to your assertion that “these people are not ignorant.” The people interviewed on camera are wilfully ignorant. The Oxford English Dictionary defines “ignorant” as “Destitute of knowledge, either in general or with respect to a particular fact or subject; unknowing, uninformed, unlearned.” The subjects interviewed are destitute of knowledge in respect to Obama and related issues. One woman admitted that she had only learned of ACORN that very same day, although she initially introduced the subject into conversation and used it to support her opposition to Obama; she could not define it properly, or connect the dots to explain why it was offensive. The subjects interviewed who claimed that Obama was a terrorist could not back up their assertions. I admire your willingness to engage in civil debate. As for those interviewed on film, I shall call hate-filled–yes, hate-filled–discourse as I see it. Perhaps you can spread your healthful message of compassion to your townspeople–if so, I would be glad to help.
By the way, I do not support Palin because she could not answer in a coherent manner in interviews, because she opposed divestment from the Sudan (despite her claims to the contrary in her speech), because she advocates for increased vice-presidential power when that has been shown not to have a salutary effect on politics, and because she favors a black-and-white worldview where we don’t make considered, well-thought-out decisions–instead, we “don’t blink” and “don’t second-guess” (her own words in separate interviews. I defend her and McCain against any comments based solely on gender. Likewise, I shall defend to the last the first amendment rights of the people of Strongville, but I shall defend my countervailing right to the same–to call out and protest vicious, unproductive rhetoric.
Thanks, bloggerinterrupted, for opening this up for public viewing. We need sunshine as a disinfectant! You are brave, sir, and we need more such courage to unveil hatred that goes against our great American potential.
Signed,
Church-goin’ (every single Sunday!), family-valuin’ Christian NO LONGER supporting McCain
October 8th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
This is truly frightening and unfortunately reflective of the absolute hatred towards liberals in general. What is sad is even some of these folks realize themselves what they are saying is ridiculous by the looks on their faces. They look embarassed (except the blonde yelling in your lense there at the end). They are so deluded that they cannot face the fact that they are losing or are somehow WRONG. God protect Obama because these people scare the hell out of me.
PS to Janet, give it a rest, no one has done anything to your precious Palin, the woman is a mockery to women everywhere.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Wow, what a bunch of delusional, hateful, whackjobs! That psycho woman is particularly disturbing. It’s interesting that she claims that three years ago, she heard of someone who at the time was an unemployed Alaskan, before she started running for Governor, but had yet to hear of a sitting Senator of the 5th largest state, who had previously given a famous keynot address. Completely believable!
October 8th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Wow, gullible, uninformed, and yes, ignorant people really don’t need much to get riled up do they? There has definitely been an order to tone it down, or maybe McCain actually became frightened upon seeing what his bullshit attacks from this weekend wrought. What I wonder is. where are all of these people going to be in a year when we’re in seriously shitty shape and the only person they are going to be blaming is the current administration (most likely the democrats)?
October 8th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
I grew up in northwest Ohio and I am appalled, but not surprised, by the ignorant racist crowd captured in this video. I have sent this to almost everyone I know as an example of how dangerous the McCain-Palin ticket is for America.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
What you did was seriously dangerous. Mobs can be easily incited to commit violence and even kill. It’s a good thing and I don’t say this to dissuade you. But do be careful.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
This is the 21st century manifestation of a George Wallace campaign. John McCain, I do not believe, is racist. But he is willing to exploit racism, to use racism to further his own political career. That is the difference. He doesn’t have to utter a word of overt racism. He just needs to instill the ideas of terrorist, and treason, and Arab, and Muslim, into the heads of the willful ignorant, and they’ll gladly trumpet the message he seeks to put out there.
The lessons of the past are learned well, and evil like this rarely shows the same face twice.
This is what John McCain is reduced to: for his own personal glory, for his narcissistic ambitions, he is willing to exploit racism.
His legacy, when he finally dies, will be ruined forever by this campaign.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Thank you for this video. Be careful and keep up the great work.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
people there are not ignorant. just think about it, what kind of experience does obama really have? none. McCain clearly has more experience. people that say that he’s just like bush are wrong. McCain and bush are two completely different people.He was in the army and was held captive in war and could have been set free but to show is love for America he stayed. obama has no experience what so ever. this election is a historical election and no matter who we pick it will affect people like me that are only 15 in the future.And, people that say he’s a terrorist i personally don’t think he is to call him that would make me judgmental. Obama could be one though because he only wants power as most terrorist do. with all the gas prices going on and problems in the economy we really need to vote for someone with experience and will do good at this job.
October 8th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
I am not American but interested in your election since the persons you choose have an impact on the whole world. This video and the mob mentality at Palin’s and also McCain’s rallies are very disturbing. Stomach-churning. This is the worst face of America. I know there are other Americans who would find this offensive and shaming. This should be widely distributed. McCain and Palin and the American media should be made responsible for this hate-mongering before there are more serious consequences. Violence is lying beneath the surface in those rallies.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Well done Tim. Be careful around these wackos. Good stuff though.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
This is the STUPIDEST interview question I have ever heard! “When was the first time you heard about …” I heard about “Confucius” 20 years ago when I was 8 and I still know nothing about him!
October 8th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
In their lifetime the people in this video will eat their weight in boogers.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
To the person who posted under the nom de Web “..Says”–refer to my comment above re: the meaning of “ignorant.” By the way, you would have a better chance of persuading others that those portrayed on film are not ignorant if your sentences adhered to the rules of capitalization and were not so clotted with misspellings and grammar mistakes.
Remember, experience does not equal wisdom or good judgment. In the Bible, Pharaoh had experience, and he used it to oppress; Pontius Pilate gave in to the misguided crowd despite his experience.
As for your comment about power–McCain “only wants power”–by definition, all politicians want power. Check his own words as motives:
“I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president… I had had the ambition for a long time.”
These are McCain’s own words, from McCain’s 2002 published memoir, _Worth Fighting For_ (one of several memoirs). He’s power-hungry, and he admits it.
Signed,
Church-goin’ (every single Sunday!), family-valuin’ Christian NO LONGER supporting McCain
P.S.
Confidential to “a”: The cure for ignorance is dispensed at your local library. I recommend _The Authentic Confucius: A Life of Thought and Politics_
by Annping Chin. I take issue with certain Confucian tenets, but believe that we in the West would do well to familiarize ourselves with other traditions.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
I congratulate you on your bravery to not only capture this post rally fervor, but to challenge people to their beliefs about what they know about each candidate.
I spent many years living in rural Southern West Virginia and there is a certain ignorance and, sometimes, hatred that comes from group of people that are afraid of change or anything that is not recognizable to them.
Nonetheless, there is also a popluation in those communities that are willing to accept new ideas and plainly know when it’s raining and when people are pissing on their heads. These people I am sure stayed home and decided to have their voice heard on November 4th.
But again, kudos to you on this footage. If anything, let’s hope that it changes the McCain camp campaign tactics.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Next time do yourself, and our cause, a favor and don’t mock them and intimidate them(asking for their full name). It makes you look like someone out to start a fight. They didn’t need any instigation, just press record and let their word and thoughts spew forth. Daily Show does it right.
Just a thought.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
This video is a joke right? Kind of like a “SNL-on-the-street”?
October 8th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
This should be re-titled “Heavy Republican Parking Lot.” Great job.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Talk about ignorance and xenophobia! “It’s in his bloodline.” “Look at his name.” Wow, so anyone with a name they’re not familiar with is probably a terrorist?? Obama’s Kenyan blood make him a terrorist?? Or is it his Kansan blood? (It must be the Kenyan because isn’t that like in a different country that’s sooooo scary).
Obama certainly should have turned down helping improve education because a University Professor who did terrible things to protest the war when Obama was a child was also on the board (the guy appointed by a friend of noted terrorist Ronald Reagan; a guy who works with the terrorist Mayor Daley).
The question is if it it hypocritical for the serial killers in this video to hate terrorists (Jeffrey Dahmer grew up in Ohio, so these people must also be serial killers by osmosis).
October 8th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
This kind of ignorance is incomprehensible. What is wrong with these people??
October 8th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
ignorance is bliss????????????????????
terrifying!
October 8th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
They’re not ignorant, just intolerant of anyone who isn’t just like them.
And quite possibly brainwashed to be that way by their local church and hate radio jocks like Limbaugh and Hannity.
This is brainstem tribal B.S., like a football rivalry gone berserk. Nobody is immune to it, no matter how good their education. Hell, if you want to see football rivalries gone berserk, go visit Old Europe. Hooo boy…
October 9th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Growing up in Berea, and having spent a few unfortunate weeks in Strongsville, I’m not surprised by this video or the incredible display of willful ignorance among those who attended this rally. That said, I find it disturbing that so many people in Ohio and Pennsylvania are willing to embrace the politics of hate and to ignore truth and reason in an effort to keep those who are “different” from them from the White House. Racism? Perhaps. But I think that for many of these voters it is quite simply the fear of the “other” — a fear of those who turn to intellectual thought and discourse rather than a literal reading of the Bible — a fear those who recognize that world is filled with complex situations that require solutions that may not fit within a simple, black and white/good and evil analysis. They reject leaders who have this capability for complex thought, who can examine things with a critical eye just as they reject anything that is from the East or the West Coast or from academia as evil. They are the willfully ignorant — the scourge of progressive society — and they rejoice in their lack of knowledge and despise and dismiss those who dare to challenge their worldview. That Sen. Obama’s skin color isn’t lilly white and that his name isn’t of Anglo Saxon origin are just a few other reasons for them to fear and loath him. I weep for my children if these agents of ignorance get another four years in power. (There should be a basic knowledge test that everyone needs to take before they can vote!)
October 9th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Could everyone please please PLEASE send the link to this to Keith Olberman/CBS News/NBC News/NPR/PBS…
If enough people send it, maybe someone’ll do an editorial piece on it?
Better yet, also send it to someone you know who is “on the fence” and ask them, “Are these the people you want to be lumped in with?”
Post the link to this on the boards where you post.
EVERYONE needs to see this.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Amazing, not only the levels of willful ignorance (to rationalize hate-speech), but the lack of critical thinking skills.
There is no excuse for this kind of stupidity.
And people wonder why Republicans have such a bad rep? Why Americans are loathed globally? Just click “play” again.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:33 am
These inbreds should not be allowed to vote.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:49 am
As I’m sure we’ve all heard by now, as reported by the traveling press corps, the McCain/Palin handlers will not allow credentialed press to leave their corral to go out and interview supporters at rallies.
I think we know why.
I guess they forgot about citizen journalists, and YouTube. Thank you for this, Tim. I look forward to the Obama Rally in Cincinnati tomorrow, but seeing my own fellow Buckeyes behave like this breaks my heart just a little.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:52 am
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1667389
Not to make these poor, ignorant souls look like victims, but when you’ve been manipulated for lifetimes (or even generations)…. I was expecting someone to just start shouting “Four legs good, two legs baaaa’d.”
Also, if Obama’s name makes him a terrorist, then are half of these people’s names Idiot, Gullible, Blindasabat?
October 9th, 2008 at 3:22 am
I think this video and the attitude you take adds to the ideological canyon that divides America. You do no justice to progressive causes by stirring the pot in this way.
To be fair to the people in the video, a camera has a habit of pulling out the ignorance in people. Jackass comes to mind. Add to it that you come off as liberal-baiting people, I expect them to say ridiculous things or act like morons as does the woman jumping in front of the camera demanding you say when the first time you heard of Obama. Not that ignorance is excusable but this is a crowd of people who blindly follow a party based on an ideology they neither understand nor check the policies of. Sadly, the policies of the Republican leadership do more to hurt many of these people more than many of them comprehend or care to check. These are the type of people I grew up with.
Sadder yet is that there are equal numbers of people like this on both sides. 
Your current methods are not effective and come off as contemptuous. I suggest providing constructive forums for debating people and providing educational material and resources to help explain your positions. For example, you can direct people to FactCheck.org which is equally scathing of both campaigns/parties for their inaccurate statements and portrayals of the other. You can also provide information about McCain’s role in the S&L crisis, deregulation of the financial services industry, and recent comments about the economy. Provide independent sources for your material. Direct people to use Internet searches and educate themselves. You may not convince everyone (like the guy who thinks Obama was raised from 1-6 by islamists) but I think you can convince a few outliers or centrists who can go either way. Each and every person who decides on Obama may in turn bring another one or two to their viewpoint.
BTW: Obama gets my vote because I think his team will manage the country much better and respect the Constitution more than McCain and the Republicans.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:54 am
I am from Toledo and Janet, you folks are backwards. Now go buy a dictionary and thesaurus.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:58 am
Read Rolling Stone’s recent article “Make-Believe Maverick” about McCain. Quite possibly the best insight into a McCain presidency that I’ve read in recent years. He’s a selfish little man who will do and say whatever he must to become President.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:33 am
Unfortunately for me, I’ve known about Sarah longer than Barack.
But I’ve know about him since he announced for US Senator from Illinois, and who doesn’t remember his keynote speech at the Dem Convention in 2004?
What has just amazed me in the 6 weeks the rest of the country has known about Sarah is just how the wingers accepted her without being able to spell Palin or Wasilla correctly, but still kept on with the “we don’t know who Obama is” meme.
She is a dangerous woman, do not vote for her.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:32 am
DO you guys really think Janet even cares what you think. There have always been people who are like this. Actually, I would feel better if they simply talked about McCain’s own merits rather than resorting to ad hominem attacks. They CHOOSE not to argue IDEAS. I don’t know why this is.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Good video but could have been conducted with more objectivity which puts you less on the defensive and allows them to speak freely and show their true colors.
Confrontation brings the worst out in people, and you don’t want that when your viewpoints are grossly outnumbered.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:39 am
McCain – and especially Palin – are playing to the worst passions of ignorant rural whites. They are trying to make them think that Obama is Willie Horton or something.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:40 am
What in gods name are these people smoking??? I need to know so i can see out of their rose colored lenses?? what have the republicans done right in the last 8 years??? get our great nation on the verge of a depression and ruin our reputation overseas… these people need a reality check!!!!!
God help us and not let this country fall victim to another 4 years of the same bs. policies that we have been in for the last 8 years because as god as my witness we can not handle it!!!
October 9th, 2008 at 8:52 am
I live in Ohio (Brunswick) and am truly ashamed of the level of ignorance that is displayed by people at this McCain rally. But guess what…maybe this is why Ohio still hasn’t recovered from the plant closings in the 70/80’s. I think once in-breeding takes place, the effects are permanent.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:59 am
Nice job Tim.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:26 am
We’ve seen this before. These rallies need to be monitored and exposed lest we witness a repeat of history. Good job – keep up the good work.
(And BE CAREFUL!)
October 9th, 2008 at 9:36 am
Bloodline? Does that mean that all these germanic Buckeyes are related to Hitler. Maybe somebody should set up a war crimes tribunal in Strongville.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:38 am
I was at the McCain – Palin rally. I was told that there was an estimated crowd of around seven thousand people there to see McCain and Palin. So Russo went there and agitated a few people who should not have spoken while a camera was rolling. Now somehow the entire crowd is painted with a broad brush and described as racist, ignorant, hate filled, intolerant, etc, etc? All those nice buzzwords. I saw a few of the protesters also. How would you describe their behavior, Mr Russo? A few of them were real gems.
I learned something important a few years back. Instead of bashing the opponant of my preferred candidate I expound on the merits of my candidate. I get in a lot less arguments that way. Perhaps a few Democrats here and there could try that same philosophy.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Goodness me, it’s like Dawn of the Dead
October 9th, 2008 at 9:54 am
No, they’re not ignorant. They’re morons. Nazis. Haters. Lynch mob types. But the are not ignorant. They know exactly what they are saying.
I hope each one of them loses his/her job (not that some of them look like they work much between hits of crystal meth), can’t get unemployment insurance, and winds up diseased and starving and begging for change on the NYC subway.
Screw them. They are an embarrassment to rednecks (I am one).
October 9th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Keep up the good work.
Keep your cool.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:01 am
There are stupid people EVERYWHERE! Like George Carlin said.. it’s not the politicians who suck.. it’s THE PUBLIC. We wonder why we’re in 2 wars and the economy is in the toilet? Because mouth-breathing morons like these people get to choose our leaders!
For being the “most powerful nation on earth” collectively we sure have an ignorant populace. Kind of says a lot about the state of affairs today.
I think we’re doomed.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:06 am
These people aren’t even the worst example of ignorance that Ohio has to offer…hailing from the Cincinnati area – a bastion of conservatism that approaches a level indicative of fascist-sympathizers – I can honestly tell you that it could have been a lot worse…a LOT worse…around here, the rumor and whisper campaigns have so thoroughly saturated the populace, that it is common-place for even the most independently minded people to state that Barack Obama is an Arab…just the other day a fellow student of mine at Miami University took note of my Obama for President shirt and told me that his father was an Arab terrorist…yes…you heard correctly…a COLLEGE student…apparently the whole “critical thinking” aspect of college never really sank in for her…
October 9th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Wow. I guess I’d never want to get a blowout here. What a bunch of braindead psychos.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:08 am
this showeds me bad people really are. i think their problem is that they dont want a black president. What i cant understand is why.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:09 am
This explains why Republicans won’t fund education–sadly, it ensures them enough ignorant voters to keep them in office.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Explain to me how this is different from the BusHitler theme that permeates the Left (and even some comments in this thread) and maybe I’ll get a little more worked up about it. Cherry-picking a few folks out of thousands and then broad-brushing them, while ensuring some web traffic, is pretty disingenuous.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Explain to me how this is different from the BusHitler theme that permeates the Left (and even some comments in this thread) and maybe I’ll get a little more worked up about it. Cherry-picking a few folks out of thousands and then broad-brushing them is pretty disingenuous.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:23 am
I say God damn America!
October 9th, 2008 at 10:32 am
what really does everyone expect? the McCain/Palin ticket is tailor-made for these “typical” Americans. Particularly Palin…she is anti-thought and anti-ideas and really caters to them. Canada, here i come.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Only Democrats are allowed to have angry mobs! Nominating this blog post for most idiotic left wing post of the day.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:45 am
I grew up in Strongsville and this video doesn’t surprise me at all. I was in high school when the first Gulf War broke out and was shocked by all the teens who knew nothing about the Middle East and were suddenly screaming things like “kill them all.” I left that horrible town the second I could and I’ll never go back.
People in Strongsville are so sheltered from any kind of diversity, poverty, culture, etc. All they know is how to shop at malls and spend money on consumer goods and they’ve had it pounded into their heads from their parents that Democrat will try to take away their money.
If people like this come out ahead in this election again we’ll be in even more trouble than we are now.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Wow. Strongsville must be proud. What’s amazing is if you look at the demographics of the city and it just doesn’t jibe with the level of stupidity you see on that tape. It’s sad people like this exist. My only consolation is that they’ll be weeping on 11/4.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Keep up the good work man.
It’s important to illustrate the danger of these statements.
They’re a hair from inciting violence.
Keep up the good work Tim.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:58 am
This is funny. Ask people a leading question as people are walking to a rally, “Is Obama a terrorist?”. They answer, “yeah, whatever.” and you call them a lynch mob.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Hi
Am a Brit and am fascinated by US politics.
The video is very scary indeed.
I have seen this sort of cultural pathology before – in Yugoslavia between Tito’s death in 1982 to the outbreak of civil war in 1992 – ethnic division, polarising media and economic problems all lead inexorably to conflict. Someone like Palin isn’t far from the sort of personality types that asserted themselves and shamelessly took advantage of the situation then.
The American Right needs to chill and take a long long hard look at itself. Ditto the (much smaller) loony bit of the Left.
I worry about your future if not.
Anyway, good luck to Obama! Much of the World is rooting for you!
Godspeed
Neil
October 9th, 2008 at 11:01 am
These people.. are 5 miles from my house..Even my neighborhood is FILLED with McCain Palin signs.. Gotta love it. Wowzer.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:03 am
There is a danger in the way that McCain & Palin have chosen to go after Barack Obama. By inciting paranoia, fear and anger in their followers, they increasingly put Barack Obama, his family, and potentially his supporters in danger. I’m sure McCain and (hopefully) Palin do not wish Obama harm, but the extreme reaches of their supporters most certainly do. Listen to the recent rallies, during which McCain and Palin associate Obama with domestic terrorists. Cries of “treason!”, “kill him!” and “terrorist!” can clearly be heard in the audience. In one such rally, McCain himself seems momentarily rattled by the viscous outburst from the crowd. But yet, he does nothing to bring civility to the affair. Show me an Obama rally where this occurs in parallel. It’s just not there, because it’s not the nature of the Obama campaign. There is no need to stir up fear and hatred when you can argue and win on issues. Obama has shown McCain respect, while questioning his judgment and policies. McCain, on the other hand, refers to Obama as “that one”.
Ask yourself this…if Barack Obama had refered to John McCain as “that one” during the debate, what type of response would that have generated on the right?
October 9th, 2008 at 11:06 am
There is a danger in the way that McCain & Palin have chosen to go after Barack Obama. By inciting paranoia, fear and anger in their followers, they increasingly put Barack Obama, his family, and potentially his supporters in danger. I’m sure McCain and (hopefully) Palin do not wish Obama harm, but the extreme reaches of their supporters most certainly do. Listen to the recent rallies, during which McCain and Palin associate Obama with domestic terrorists. Cries of “treason!”, “kill him!” and “terrorist!” can clearly be heard in the audience. In one such rally, McCain himself seems momentarily rattled by the viscous outburst from the crowd. But yet, he does nothing to bring civility to the affair. Show me an Obama rally where this occurs in parallel. It’s just not there, because it’s not the nature of the Obama campaign. There is no need to stir up fear and hatred when you can argue and win on issues. Obama has shown McCain respect, while questioning his judgment and policies. McCain, on the other hand, refers to Obama as “that one”.
Ask yourself this…if Barack Obama had referred to John McCain as “that one” during the debate, what type of response would that have generated on the right?
October 9th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Ignorance is not bliss, it is blinding and scary.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:14 am
As an 85 year old woman, video like this makes me very sad. While the video can not be seen as true journalism, as it did have a biased objective, that does not dismiss the pure anger that resonated from many of the people featured. I continue to hold on to hope that a majority of our population will continue to pride themselves on freeing their minds of such backwards thinking and continue to learn and grow. These are scared and angry people and it is a less full and joyful life they will lead if they continue to let those fears guide them. And frankly – if those are the supporters the republican party is going to embrace – they can have them!
October 9th, 2008 at 11:25 am
The mob mentality is something to witness. There surely is a mob mentality to the rallies for Obama, but it is truly remarkable to note the differences between the crowds. The McCain rallies are full of people who are inspired by hate, fear and ignorance. The Obama rallies are littered with people who have hope for the future. McCain and his campaign are pouring kerosene on the political fires. It is irresponsible and dangerous. They’re not alone, of course, they have enablers in the media, particularly the imbeciles at Fox News whose ill-informed and intemperate remarks continue to amp up the uninformed hatred. Prefer McCain and his woefully unqualified but personally pleasant running mate if you will. But to support them because you think their opponent is a muslim terrorist is to reveal yourself as a moron.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:26 am
My favorite part is the idiot who says, “Don’t answer questions unless he gives them to you in writing.” LMAO This was great, keep it up.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Thank you for capturing this video. It made me smile and more importantly it captures the fact that the current talking points McCain/Palin are saying are aimed at low informed voters and they take the words to heart as truth. This leads to a division of people. Sadly if Obama wins, McCain’s hate rhetoric will thrive in these people and we as a country will be further split apart.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:35 am
god, i hate when one side tries to claim they’re smarter than the other side. i encountered a fellow homo that told me that if we elect mccain, i could be thrown in jail for having sexual relationship with my man. please, let’s get real – there are idiots on both sides.
that being said: hillary 2012, mccain 2008.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:39 am
WOW!!! These people are sick, and a bit racist; they’re just trying to hide it. Anyone who believes Obama is a terrorist, you’re a complete idiot! This is truly funny people throughout the entire country are suffering, and the best McCain and Palin can do is go negative. It shows the lack of integrity and issues they can’t offer.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Good job – next time follow up by asking if they think Muhammad Ali is a terrorist … by their logic, if the name says it all, then he must be a terrorist as well.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:56 am
yes, these people are absolutely, completely and reprehensibly ignorant. they do not know better and we can absolutely fault them for that. if they bothered to investigate all of these claims for themselves they would see that what they are saying is absurdly untrue. mccain/palin are banking on the their thought that the american people are idiots and it’s actually working.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:56 am
This is very brave of you. The psychology of fear and hatred that is so prevelant in these people is soooo apparent and to walk into the belly of the beast. A nation of Sean Hannitys and Bill o’Reilly talking points is at the same time funny as it is scarey. Good job!
October 9th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Great job on this vid. Big kudos to you for having the balls to do this.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
fascinating. scary. was worried for your safety.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
wowie. if democrats in ohio did not have such a massive lead in voter registration i would actually be concerned. but, they do, so instead i am entertained by this. is she stupid? probably not. misguided? who can say. is she a bit of a psycho stalking a guy with a camera at a political event? yes, yes she is and god bless her for it.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Register to vote before your state deadline, find your polling location and get out to vote on 11/4.
If you were wondering who would vote for McCain at this point, wonder no more.
As you can see from the comments, McCain supporters have even convinced themselves that McCain’s association in the Keating Five scandal is somehow not relevant to current events, that McCain is somehow better suited to fix our economy. McCain was seduced by Keating in the 1980s, enough to willingly prevent regulatory laws from passing and will no doubt be seduced again into getting in bed with policies favorable to Wall Street instead of Main Street.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I wish I could say that this behavior is shocking. I would love to be completely caught off guard by this level of ignorant fear and hatred.
Unfortunately it is not surprising— merely sad. I grew up in a military family, and was thinking this morning how lucky I was to have been indoctrinated to multiculturalism and internationalism as a child. I pity people who have not had the opportunity to experience the word and to understand what it is to be human.
I hope that this election is a turning point for the Republican Party. I hope they realize that most of America is tired of this divisive mentality, and that appealing to zealots takes them in the wrong direction.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Register to vote before your state deadline, find your polling location and get out to vote on 11/4.
If you were wondering who would vote for McCain at this point, wonder no more.
As you can see from the comments, McCain supporters have even convinced themselves that McCain’s association in the Keating Five scandal is somehow not relevant to current events, that McCain is somehow better suited to fix our economy. McCain was seduced by Keating in the 1980s, enough to willingly prevent regulatory laws from passing and will no doubt be seduced again into getting in bed with policies favorable to Wall Street instead of Main Street.
McCain’s been operating in the interests of Wall Street his entire political career, why would he suddenly help Main Street as President?
October 9th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Well, Jose, your “ignorant” friend might not be that far from the truth if McCain gets elected, appoints ultra-conservative supreme court justices, and Lawrence gets overturned. Really, not that big of a stretch. You’d be safe in California, but good luck to gay people in Texas.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Enjoyed the video, but it frightened me terribly. There are a lot of out of touch extremists shouting ‘kill him’ and the N-bomb when Palin mentions Obama’s name. The question i would ask the mob at the next McCain-Palin rally is, “how will you feel if Obama becomes our next president? What will you do?” I want to see if people will dare to say, on camera, “kill him.” Disgraceful….oh, and by the way, ILLEGAL.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
This is the STUPIDEST interview question I have ever heard! “When was the first time you heard about …” I heard about “Confucius” 20 years ago when I was 8 and I still know nothing about him!
LOL! I think I just broke a rib laughing. Here is a suggestion. You may want to read about and investigate the things you don’t know much about. Who knows, you may walk away with an independent and informed opinion, unlike a lot of the people in this interview.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Whats the over / under that this footage finds it’s way onto a cable network report by this evening?
My money is on MSNBC, either Countdown or the Rachel Maddow show.
Keep up the good work man.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
hey, dave – “… don’t mock them and intimidate them…” – what the fuck are you talking about? I replayed the video to try to understand where you’re coming from and didn’t hear anyone asked their full name until 2 minutes in – and it hardly seemed like an act of intimidation. As for mockery, I think b.i. was rather respectful considering how these wingnuts think Obama is or “could be” a terrorist.
and dave, I don’t believe you’re an Obama supporter. you can drop the “our cause” bullshit.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
I grew up in Southeastern Ohio and like the other posters with rural Ohio connections, am not at all shocked by the commentary in this video. Frightened by it, yes, but shocked? No. The problem is the undereducated masses in many parts of Ohio are so pervasive that most of us that are more liberal an/or open-minded leave and settle elsewhere, in effect giving more power to ignorant right wing crazies. And these people are really difficult to reason with, also evidenced in the video. Even in my mid-thirties, I still tread lightly on subjects of religion and politics with my family in Ohio. They’re entrenched in this outdated philosophy about politics that’s jaw droppingly infuriating when you try to discuss it with them. And when you present facts, it’s like you just strangled a kitten in front of them and they stomp off, unwilling to listen or engage in any real discourse. What’s more is these are the same people that all shop at Walmart then scratch their heads when all the shops on their local Main Street close up and go out of business – slowly killing their own jobs and local economy in the process.
Unfortunately, I think the people at this rally think like many Americans in rural and suburban parts of the Midwest. Makes me wish I was casting my Obama vote in rural Ohio instead of rural New York this year.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Interesting you neglect to point out that leftist Obama supporters ran roughshod over Denver and Saint Paul. I don’t recall any outrage when cops were being assaulted and forced to use pepper spray and tear gas.
I further don’t recall any McCain/Palin supporters actually inciting any violence.
So we have a group that did commit acts of violence and support a man who associates with a man who committed acts of violence compared to political supporters who’ve not committed any acts of violence.
I see the truth now.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
“I see the truth now.”
No, scott, you’d have to get your head out of your ass first.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
If anyone is wondering why it is so important to get out and vote on 11/4, wonder no more.
Register to vote before your state deadline, find your polling location and get out to vote on 11/4.
As evidenced by the some of the comments here, McCain followers have convinced themselves that McCain would somehow be a better fit for fixing the economy. In McCain you are dealing with someone who has always sided with Wall Street–why would he suddenly side with Main Street as President?
McCain was seduced by Keating in the 1980s and as President he will be seduced again into siding with legislation and policy that will get the American economy driven into the ditch again.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I live and grew up in Strongsville. And I am ashamed of what I heard in that video. Though, I am not surprised. I overheard a man in that very gym, on the cardio machine next to me, say, “I will never vote for some guy with the name ‘Obama.’” Unfortunately, theyARE ignorant people. On the outside they seem intelligent with their white-collar jobs and McMansions. But they are truly ignorant. They are America though, fools who are so separated from reality. The people of Strongsville won’t pass school levies. They tear down every tree to put up malls and other pointless shops (not locally owned). They are self-interested and I fear their attitude is echoed by much of this country. My hometown is an embarrassment.
October 9th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Oh boy!
I am even afraid of saying that I am a Kenyan lest I be lynched in Ohio.
I don’t believe that these people represent America.I have yet to meet anyone like this since I came here.It was probably good I never went to their town.
Take a page from the Obama man. They are still Americans and all that they lack is a bit of education.It just shows how repubs have been using cheap politics to divide this great nation.
It’s also sad but those are the very same tactics used in poor african countries. Tell everyone that the boogey man is coming and his name is the opposing candidate. They are just scared and all they need is just a bit of education and they too will see the light.
If that doesn’t work, the coming economic crisis surely will.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
I was born and raised in strongsville ohio. Today I serve in the marine corps and I am in iraq right now. How dare you call these people ignorant, they merely care about their country and for the future of their children. Do any of you know anything about obama’s policies and positions on issues? He may not be a terrorist but he is more dangerous to the welfare of this country than any terrorist could be. Over here in iraq I am stress free and relaxed, if you havn’t noticed we have won the war in iraq, however, I will fear for my life if Obama gets elected. If you really support the troops, then you’ll vote for McCain and Palin.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Have any of them yet blown up the pentagn?
October 9th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Like Gateway Pundit says:
When radical leftist loons called Bush a terrorist the Left said nothing. When socialists, like those who supported Obama, called Bush a terrorist, the Left said nothing. Maybe if Barack Obama was more honest about his terrorist ties, his close Pro-Palestinian associates, his radical anti-AmeriKKKan pastor or his Marxist support in the ’90’s AmeriKKKans wouldn’t have this problem.
Enjoy the Bush = terrorist pics at the link you stupid hypocrites.
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/10/well-g-d-amerikkka-libs-sickened-by.html
October 9th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
It is frightening! Grateful for your work. Next time please ask the morons, if they heard of the Alaska Independence Party (AIP) that is advocating the secession of Alaska from the USA. Todd Palin was a member from 1995-2002. The Party said, if a Federal official bothers them, they will run him over with a caterpillar and turn mosquitoes loose on him while he dies. Sarah Palin was sleeping with the “enemy” for 7 years. Gov. Palin sent a greeting to the AIG in the spring of 2008.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
sigh: let us know when obama orders bombs dropped on people to instigate “regime change”.
until then, you’re just a boring fanatic who’s too stupid to know what “stupid” is.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Run-DMS, your non-reply is telling. Perhaps you ignored the link because you couldn’t rebut the charge. No surprise.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
“let us know when obama orders bombs dropped on people to instigate “regime change”.”
Cute. You only support regime change when it’s Obama’s buddy Ayers dropping bombs on US citizens.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Obama is not a terrorist, he just hangs out with them. I have seen more ignorance on the floor of Congress than in this video. Nice try though. What really makes me fearful is the far left of this country controlling the Congress, Senate, and Presidency with no checks and balances.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Run-DMS Says:
October 9th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
sigh: let us know when obama orders bombs dropped on people to instigate “regime change”.
until then, you’re just a boring fanatic who’s too stupid to know what “stupid” is.
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So your response is “Bush is a terrorist because I say so.” Nice comeback! Dropping bombs on people to support regime change? Are you describing Obama’s buddy Ayers killing US citizens? Oh wait, you actually support that kind of regime change. Keep up the good work hypocrite.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
rednecks
October 9th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Obama is not a terrorist, he just hangs out with them. I have seen more ignorance on the floor of Congress than in this video. Nice try though. What really makes me fearful is the far left of this country controlling the Congress, Senate, and Presidency with no checks and balances.
Ignorance definition: Anyone who has an opinion that differs in any way from the far left agenda.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
@Janet:
If you can claim, with a straight face, that you never heard of Barack Obama until a week ago, but you heard of Palin 3 years ago, or that there have been more personal interviews with Palin than Obama, or that Barack Obama “is a terrorist…well, I’m very sorry, but that qualifies you prima facie as ignorant.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Run-DMS Says:
October 9th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
sigh: let us know when obama orders bombs dropped on people to instigate “regime change”.
until then, you’re just a boring fanatic who’s too stupid to know what “stupid” is.
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So your response is “Bush is a terrorist because I say so.” and then you feign outrage about a McCain rally. Nice comeback! Dropping bombs on people to support regime change? Are you describing Obama’s buddy Ayers killing US citizens? Oh wait, you actually support that kind of regime change. Keep up the good work hypocrite.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Great job. Thanks.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
More of the same Hillbilly Madness brought on by the daily propaganda from the Conservatives bloggers, Talk Radio. These are the same uninformed and easily-led/manipulated walk-in-lockstep morons that voted for Bush and caused all the problems this country is facing now.
They should all be held responsible and they should not be allowed to vote or pro-create, period.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck suffers from the same syndrome.
The best part – Obama is going to kick Grandpaw’s and Mayella Violet Ewell’s ass all over God’s little acre and it will look good…real good.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
October 9, 2008
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Gallup Poll Daily Tracking: Obama 52% McCain 41%
Swing States: Obama 157 McCain 11
Solid Blue States: Obama 153
Solid Red States: McCain 139
Leading Blue States: Obama 54
Leading Red States: McCain 24
Electoral Votes: Obama 364 McCain 174
This must hurt to the fear mongers (McCain/Palin) and ignorant racist crowd.
Obama/Biden 2008-2012
October 9th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Andrew Sullivan has the video up at his site, The Daily Dish, too. Getting some traction out of this one. Nice.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Like I said on youtube, I’m disappointed with a lot of the comments I’ve been reading from “liberals.” Calling people racist and stupid for their misinformed opinions doesn’t solve the problem.
True, it’s appalling to listen to some of the stuff coming out of their mouths in this video, but if we don’t remain in the position of the “better” man, woman, or non-specific gender noun, we can’t consider ourselves any more righteous than we consider them to be.
Choose to inform. With facts. Even if they have to be sifted out and highlighted from Fox News stories (they do post snippets of the truth here and there before they start biasing it). If we instead choose to sit back and call our opponents “stupid,” we continue the Bush policy of polarization which only hurts our country.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
More of the same Hillbilly Madness brought on by the daily propaganda from the Conservatives bloggers, Talk Radio. These are the same uninformed and easily-led/manipulated walk-in-lockstep morons that voted for Bush and caused all the problems this country is facing now.
They should all be held responsible and they should not be allowed to vote or pro-create, period.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck suffers from the same syndrome.
The best part – Obama is going to kick Grandpaw’s and Mayella Violet Ewell’s ass all over God’s little acre and it will look good…real good.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Tim Russo at Blogger Interrupted should be Tim Russo at BloggerImportuning. Check out State of Ohio v. Timothy J. Russo, case id# CR-01-414621-ZA.
Claims he’s inactive in the BAR assoc. Don’t they revoke your membership for Sexual Importuning with a Minor? I think so!
October 9th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Wow…I grew up in Akron, Ohio and I cannot believe the anger of the people in Strongsville. Whether they actually believe what they are saying or not, they come across as incredibly ignorant. If you don’t know the issues learn them. Supporting a candidate just because you like them or their party does is a disservice to both candidates who are trying to get real votes. Obama has been properly vetted over the years, and there is plenty of dirt on Palin. She is under investigation, and she even spoke to the Alaska Secessionist part last year. She cannot speak about the real issues. What about the economy? What about foreign policy? What about domestic policy? She resorts to school yard antics that many people in this country and the world we live in find shameful. If she is so honest, what is with the investigation that started before she was picked as a VP candidate? What about Todd Palin’s ties to the Alaskan Secessionist Party? Why did she tell them to keep up the good work? Why are we talking about silly stuff when there is real work to be done. I am disappointed in Strongsville.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI
October 9th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
great video! keep up the great work!
October 9th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
some of these folks just are not that well informed, kinda scary….they get to vote
October 9th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
This is the result of 12yrs of uninterrupted “liberal” hate by the GOP, media, hate radio, and hate tv (a.k.a. FOX).
Hate radio motivated people to genocide in Rwanda, and is now being used here. A small percentage of people incited to hatred can do a lot of harm. Hitler used very similar rallies to get the people of Germany roused against ethnic and religious minorities.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
John McCain sold his soul in order to pander to these cretinous hobos
who live in a bubble of ignorance that is impervious to reason. They wouldn’t last five minutes talking this way in New York City. Bloodlines? Will the Rapture please hurry up and suck all these “Christians” into the sky.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
The people in this video do nothing but give a bad name Americans. I am currently abroad and I almost cringe every time I speak English in public and people around me notice. I am not ashamed of my country, but I am ashamed of people who have succumb to such ignorance. Clearly the people interviewed here know little or nothing about the issues that matter in this election and will cast their vote simply because of their prejudice attitudes. These are the people that give Americans a bad name in foreign countries.
Although anything can happen between now and election time the way things are going it is looking good for Obama. Hopefully when he is elected the angry group that is anti-Obama will not do anything rash. I am confident that with time even the most ignorant will not be able to deny the good Obama is sure to do for our country. However, in the event McCain achieves a miracle and pulls ahead, I predict the pro-McCain collective will suffer the same regret Bush supporters surely feel today.
A sure way to help Obama is to encourage everyone to vote. It is likely the biggest obstacle to his campaign could be vote turnout.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Great another liberal simpleton “gothca” video
How cliched. Yet another through the roof left wing guy with a camcorder trying so hard to get his soundbites to stroke everything from racism to anything not democrat is somehow evil uncivil, ignorant, etc. Dude you’re a coward. I dare you to go to ANY anti war rally and randomly pic from the psychotics who are there with THEIR nutty conspiracy theories, lack of facts, or plain hatred and bigotry. I’ve been to them and stuff said there beats this all to hell. If you somehow think doing your little self rigtheous camcorder b.s. shows how vile one side is when it is in fact EVERYWHERE you’re either hopelessly stupid or simply so narcissistic with your own painfully obvious partishanship that you’re as corrupt as any politician. Interview me with your little gothcha questions coward.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Great another liberal simpleton “gothca” video
How cliched. Yet another through the roof left wing guy with a camcorder trying so hard to get his soundbites to stroke everything from racism to anything not democrat is somehow evil uncivil, ignorant, etc. Dude you’re a coward. I dare you to go to ANY anti war rally and randomly pic from the psychotics who are there with THEIR nutty conspiracy theories, lack of facts, or plain hatred and bigotry. I’ve been to them and stuff said there beats this all to hell. If you somehow think doing your little self righteous camcorder b.s. shows how vile one side is when it is in fact EVERYWHERE you’re either hopelessly stupid or simply so narcissistic with your own painfully obvious partishanship that you’re as corrupt as any politician. Interview me with your little gothcha questions coward.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Wow this comment system is utter crap. Times out every time so you’re not sure if the reply went through or not.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
videos like this are terrible. anyone could take a camera, go to an obama rally or even bob barr rally and get video clips like this. you’re capitalizing on a select group of people that might not have their facts straight, or might not be making the most informed decision about their presidential candidate of choice. i personally have met a number of people voting for obama simply because he is part black or because mccain is old, and they don’t want the risk of palin in office if he dies, because she’s a woman…no matter what party you pick, there will be uninformed voters, it’s the way life goes…for you to exploit a handful of people to make mccain supporters as a whole look like uninformed hate mongers is disgusting. i’m sure if you go back in time and take some sound bites from the less informed obama supporters, you could get some really juicy anti-woman (ahem Hillary) sound bites.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
“So your response is ‘Bush is a terrorist because I say so.’ …”
No, sigh, that’s not my response.
You clearly have reading-comprehension problems. Find an adult to read my comment and explain it to you.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
I think they’re just stupid and not so much ignorant. I don’t want to give them credit for ignorance. The true information is out there.
Ignorance isn’t a perjorative.
I’d rather use a perjorative.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
What is very revealing is their body language. They know that what they think and what they’re about to say is ignorant and irrational, but they still think it.
Notice when confronted with what they’re saying or when confronted with facts they look away, shift their eyes a lot, start walking backwards, and have difficulty answering simple questions. One woman, when confronted with the fact that Obama has had way more interviews that Palin, just shrugged her shoulders. Many turned away, not wanting to be caught on camera, why?
Because they know what they feel, what they believe is not based on fact, on real issues, on anything important or substantive. “He has the bloodline”? “Just look at his name”? I learned these weren’t logical arguments back in 3rd grade. I guess these folks were sick that day.
When confronted, when challenged, they backpeddle to fear-based arguments and willful ignorance. The reason they look away, back up, shift their eyes, tilt their heads down, or just walk away is because they don’t want to be challenged. They made up their minds when they found out Barack wasn’t white. They know they can’t say that, so they look for anything that sounds better than the obvious truth. Or they try to escape the conversation.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
These people are just a bunch of dumbass Ohio rednecks- loaded with ignorance and racism. They are much mnore dangerous to America than the terrorists. All great nations rot from the inside out- these people are definitely the beginning of the internal rot.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
A great site showing the left’s lunacy on full display in pics and vids is here:
http://www.zombietime.com/
The faux outrage over this issue is a joke.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
What sort of video would you get if you asked people at an Obama rally if Bush was a terrorist? Or McCain? Or Palin?
How would the ‘better side’ look? Intolerant? Hateful? Angry?
Oh, but it’s all JUSTIFIED, you think. There’s a REASON you’re so angry!
You don’t persuade people from anger. You don’t call them frothing, redneck morons and expect to get reasonable discourse. Sure, you’re making YOURSELF feel better, feel justified in your actions – and just convincing THEM you’re hateful, intolerant, and unwilling to compromise.
Keep up the good work, party of ‘tolerance’. You sure show how dedicated you are to that concept here.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
“So your response is “Bush is a terrorist because I say so.’”
No, sigh, that was not my response.
You clearly have reading comprehension problems. Get an adult to read my comment and explain it to you.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
people know sarah better than barack because we live with and grew up with people like her.
we did not grow up with people like barack:
the son of an african marxist and a teenage american marxists who grew up in indonesia and can still recite parts the koran from heart (as he did in a kristof interview). a man who since 1987 – at least 1987!- has consorted with avowed and unapologetic terrorists.
a man who ran on the SOCIALIST party line as recently as 1995.
a disloyal man who reneged on his literary contract with jane dystel.
a secretive man who has yet to release his college transcripts or his medical records or his actual birth certificate (NOT THE COLB!).
a “worldly” man who made his first independent trip overseas to PAKISTAN at a time it was off limits to mist us citizens.
a man who admires alinsky.
a man who never EVER took on the Cook County Machine or the Chicago Machine or the Illinois Combine – which means he’s either a corrupt politician himself or a COWARD.
a man who has not written ONE SINGLE MAJOR BILL OR LAW.
not while a PART-TIME state senator and not as a US Senator.
all these things add up, and they present a puzzling picture.
the puzzle: why the democrats would nominate someone so LEFT-WING and so inexperienced who makeup/bio is so weird.
i’ve been a registered democrat – since 1974.
i am proudly voting McCain-Plain.
you should too.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
I loved the one comment — Obama is a terrorist because of his name. What a bunch of racist, paranoidm xenophobic hicks. Vote with these people? I’d be ashamed to be associated with this group.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I see the sniveling scum sack deleted the post…
Truth and facts hurt, don’t they?
October 9th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Keep up the good work and expose these folks for the absolute idiots that they are. Reminds me of “Maccaca.” There should be video bloggers at all of the Palin-McCain events.
I love reading the comments of concern trolls; it smells like Victory.
October 9th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
An angry man running for President because of deep self-interest will attract people of the same ilk. I agree with Mike. If Senator McCain is “ringing the dinner bell” and the these people are the ones running up to the table, it might just look like a scene out of the LORD OF THE RINGS… “We want meat… where’s the meat…” And Senator McCain just may be calling on all those ugly creatures and outcast men to help him defeat the Elves and Men of Honor.
I’m sorry as I recall… the good guys in the film called on good guys to assist in the defeat of evil not those picture here.
God bless their souls and the souls of those who were not videotaped or may not have shared those fews folks’ opinions, but did share their ignorance and deep rooted pain.
Thank you, brother for your work and be careful…
October 9th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Northeastern Ohio typically votes Democratic. Ohio gets its bad name from the rural areas in the other parts of the State. I am surprised that this video was shot in Strongsville… Oh well.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Why Palin is a Danger to Us All
If we are to succeed as a nation, we all must be in utter agreement about who Sarah Palin is as a person; she is stunningly uninformed and breathtakingly overconfident. Orwellian with an outward, Machiavellian patina is an aptly just description of Palin.
However, her unconcealed, overt certitude is potentially the biggest problem of all. She has mastered the art of flowery platitudes and sneering contempt. All of which, to the low-information, Neanderthal voters we are all unfortunately witnessing first hand from the right wing political spectrum, combined with her tacky, sophomoric charm, actually makes her very attractive, in a very spine-chilling kind of way. She uses blatantly appealing demagoguery to create eerie exultations among a fringe fraction and faction of Americans (shown in this blog video) – the visceral, not cerebral coterie that follows her with frightening credulity.
It is this set of events and actions that concerns me the most. She is a glib, authoritarian person who has a Manichean mindset – a dualist – one who only sees the world as good or evil; no nuance, nothing abstract or ever vague. Moreover, after judiciously studying authoritarian personalities for over two years, I can tell you they are loose with facts but stridently persuasive. They are charming, disarming, almost irresistible, yet completely morally bankrupt and amoral. They are hostile toward intellectuals, takes pleasure in deriding academia, liberals and immense pride in their willful ignorance.
The problem here is they are masters at using base intellect, not intelligence, to plead to people’s pathos. (Many grisly dictators of the past were all “gifted” experts at this tactic.) In essence, they are scheming, devious and capable of anything in order to subvert the will of other people in order to achieve their objectives. And their objectives are not inline or in step with a progressive, balanced America – they are wholly recalcitrant reactionaries.
Here, with Palin, we see the pathology and pattern of someone infatuated and fixated on one’s identity to the exclusion of others – an inborn need for social dominance (often overlooked as merely being “spirited”), personal ambition bereft of circumspection, outrageously aggrandized bragging, arrogant immodesty, and total insensitivity. It is these sophistry skills and nefarious guile that disturbs me greatly. All of these traits are markers identified in one of only two groups of maladaptive, narcissistic personalities – authoritarians and sociopaths.
Do I make these indictments lightly, no, but it has become increasingly clear that Sarah Palin’s confrontational convictions are more than a benign personality tick; it is a deeper insight into how she would govern a nation in every respect: Unflinchingly autocratic.
As to the people interviewed, there is only one description: Deluded and dangerous!
October 9th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
That’s wild – the type of people Palin/McCain are going to attract – would be in the end – the kind from the thuggish group – low on facts – high on rhetoric – and filled with hate.
Romney was right – McCain is not looking at what he is doing to the Party.
And more how it will recover -
October 9th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I have some intelligent, well-informed friends and acquaintances who support McCain-Palin. I question their judgment, but at least I know they will be voting from a place of thoughtful consideration. What is terrifying about the mob scene here is not just their total lack of awareness, but their seeming conviction that they do know all they need to know to make a good decision on Election day.
I don’t understand this mob mentality at all. How inflammatory should the question “When did you first hear of Palin?” really be? It’s not complex. If you support Palin, fine. Say why. If you think Obama has ties to terrorism, why not speak confidently and explain the basis for your belief? What’s that you say? Oh, you can’t explain? There is no basis? Hmmm…
October 9th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Why Palin is a Danger to Us All (And her followers)
If we are to succeed as a nation, we all must be in utter agreement about who Sarah Palin is as a person; she is stunningly uninformed and breathtakingly overconfident. Orwellian with an outward, Machiavellian patina is an aptly just description of Palin.
However, her unconcealed, overt certitude is potentially the biggest problem of all. She has mastered the art of flowery platitudes and sneering contempt. All of which, to the low-information, Neanderthal voters we are all unfortunately witnessing first hand from the right wing political spectrum, combined with her tacky, sophomoric charm, actually makes her very attractive, in a very spine-chilling kind of way. She uses blatantly appealing demagoguery to create eerie exultations among a fringe fraction and faction of Americans (shown in this blog video) – the visceral, not cerebral coterie that follows her with frightening credulity.
It is this set of events and actions that concerns me the most. She is a glib, authoritarian person who has a Manichean mindset – a dualist – one who only sees the world as good or evil; no nuance, nothing abstract or ever vague. Moreover, after judiciously studying authoritarian personalities for over two years, I can tell you they are loose with facts but stridently persuasive. They are charming, disarming, almost irresistible, yet completely morally bankrupt and amoral. They are hostile toward intellectuals, takes pleasure in deriding academia, liberals and immense pride in their willful ignorance.
The problem here is they are masters at using base intellect, not intelligence, to plead to people’s pathos. (Many grisly dictators of the past were all “gifted” experts at this tactic.) In essence, they are scheming, devious and capable of anything in order to subvert the will of other people in order to achieve their objectives. And their objectives are not inline or in step with a progressive, balanced America – they are wholly recalcitrant reactionaries.
Here, with Palin, we see the pathology and pattern of someone infatuated and fixated on one’s identity to the exclusion of others – an inborn need for social dominance (often overlooked as merely being “spirited”), personal ambition bereft of circumspection, outrageously aggrandized bragging, arrogant immodesty, and total insensitivity. It is these sophistry skills and nefarious guile that disturbs me greatly. All of these traits are markers identified in one of only two groups of maladaptive, narcissistic personalities – authoritarians and sociopaths.
Do I make these indictments lightly, no, but it has become increasingly clear that Sarah Palin’s confrontational convictions are more than a benign personality tick; it is a deeper insight into how she would govern a nation in every respect: Unflinchingly autocratic.
As to the people interviewed, there is only one description: Deluded and dangerous!
October 9th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Wow, I don’t think I’ve ever read so much drivel in one collection. Now I really know where all the idiots congregate.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
How in the world could these people not hear about Obama, even if all they listen to is Fox News? The only conclusion I can come to after viewing this clip is that these people do not take the time to research anything for themselves, and they don’t seem to care. Ignorance and apathy. Nice…..
October 9th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
It’s embarrassing that these people used to be my neighbors.
Nice video. This is my first time on your blog, won’t be my last.
Obama/Biden ‘08.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Wow… these people have no issue calling Bush a terrorist but can’t take it when this is directed to their lord and savior who is at least sympathetic to the enemies’ grievances.
Any group of Republicans is a mob? God help us, the great American dumb-down has succeeded thanks to 40 years of liberal dominated ‘education’. Unfortunately they have left their victims with just enough skill to type and post their ignorance.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Who knew such simple questions could ignite that much fury?
October 9th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
wow. these people scare me so badly. can they not see that THEY are the terrorists? they are simply obsessed with fear. obsessed with the idea of terror. they can’t see that the rest of the world feels BAD for us because they see how stupid and childish we act.
wow. im scared.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
So all you people were vehemently denying the innumerable placards and slogans that Bush and Cheney were terrorists, right? Oh let me guess, you’ve ‘conveniently’ forgot these attacks I bet.
Jesus Christ you Obamatons are morons of the highest caliber, no one is falling for your bullshit and faux indignation.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
I’d call these people drooling morons, but that would be rather insensitive to actual drooling morons. These people literally have no critical thinking skills.
This is what we end up with when education fails. THIS is why I personally stepped back from a more limited government ideology. Government does have a function – to me, this video is more than enough evidence that education is absolutely crucial to maintaining a free and just society. Without education, these cretins will call the shots.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Let’s be realistic here. I know that there were some nutcases in the crowd, but to generalize that to all McCain supporters is wrong. To further generalize to the population of Strongsville as a whole or, even better as someone does above, to the entire state of Ohio is ridiculous and dare I say “ignorant”.
The fact of the matter is that just because you see it on a video doesn’t mean that you are seeing a live feed. This video was edited to get rid of the moderates in order to get the biggest affect.
Just for the record, I do not support McCain.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
If McCain is going to win, why are he and his execrable running mate holding rallies in Republican strongholds like this hellhole? Clearly, they’re playing defense, not offense.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Wow. So there are racists outside of the South.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
I have to agree with FromCleveland. It is shocking that this video was taped in Strongsville, Ohio, just outside of Cleveland. Northeast Ohio as a whole have been ground zero for the economic downturn of this country, long before the stock market did the 777 one-day drop, the bailout package, or any of this CNN-level, Issue #1 economic coverage. The economy has always, unfortunately, been Issue #1 in this part of America.
This shows me how out-of-touch and forgetful people are. Seeing how not one of those people could provide any factual evidence or reference to “terror” connections with Barack says it all! They don’t know Palin’s history either .. hell, she doesn’t have one. They are blind and uninformed supporters. I don’t mind a McCain supporter, but I always ask that people come to the table with supporting facts.
And WTF is a “domestic terrorist”?? Haven’t we been governed by one at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the last 8 years? Anybody like illegal war? What about the ones that ran FEMA and watched the people of New Orleans drown? Or, the Attorney General who was complicit in the Justice Department firings? Or, the Vice President whose fingerprints are all over the Iraq (Oil) war, Valerie Plame CIA leak case, and the wipeout of checks and balances? What about the oil speculators ($4.00/gal gas anyone?), the investment bankers, and fradulent lenders that helped create the crisis we’re in. I could go on and on.
These folks in Strongsville are more out-of-touch with themselves and basic reality than anything. McCain has thrown his unending support behind Bush at some of the worst times of this country. Get real!
October 9th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I just want to say that your inflammatory statements are a lynchpin of your party. I mean, c’mon… “will turn one of their rallies into a lynch mob”? A lynch mob?
1) Play race card – check
“My camera was rolling for literally seconds before people happily said to me, on camera, that Barack Obama is a terrorist.”
2) Make false claims – check (you asked,no goaded, they didn’t offer it)
“would have easily gone to the death threats we’ve heard before”
3) Play the fear for personal safety card – check
You have all of the necessary makings of a full-on democrat. Good thing you’re a part of their party. Close-minded sheeping will get you nowhere in life.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Well, I expected to see a “mob” of rabble-rousers and rampaging anti-Obama loonies. But instead, it’s one-on-one interviews in what appears to be a section of a line waiting to get into the building. And just to understand this correctly: you got people to respond to you on-camera because you made them think you were a journalist — and you did this with what credentials? Journalists carry press passes that hang on their chests to identify them, which are not as easy to get as people outside the news industry think they are. So does this mean you lied to them about your credentials?
October 9th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
This is the most frightening, disgusting thing I’ve ever seen. Do these people live in the same country as me?? What is the matter with them and McCain-Palin for inciting the dangerous biogtry and anger!
October 9th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Thank FUCK i am not an American – you country is doomed! and it is not by terrorists it will by your ignorant folk
bawahahahahahahaha
October 9th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Great stuff, well thought out and damn funny (but scary) all at the same time.
Damn good Job
October 9th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Very nicely done and very courageous. I attended a Bush rally and a Kerry rally in Minneapolis in 2004 and neither one was anything like this. What’s really very sad is that the McCain campaign is egging these people on.
October 9th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
This is proof that our education system has been failing for quite some time.
Less regurgitation of material and more on the understanding, the analytical side of information, please.
October 9th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
You know what you need to ask them next time..
“Do you believe John McCain is so weak on National Security that he would not actively stand up and tell the world that Obama was a terrorist.
Do you believe our CIA/FBI is so weak that they would let a potential terrorist become a Senator and a President”?
October 9th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
that is one of the most frightening videos I have ever seen -
that gives me a chill up my spine
This is NOT representative of the people of Ohio or the people of this country
If these people were not so scary and ill informed you could feel sorry for them– but it appears they don’t even know how sick they are
Their anger is channeled to the wrong place
I feel sorry for the country if this type of person can direct the electorate
Lets pray they will not and cannot
October 9th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Astounded. This shows us that we have miles to go as a people. The people at this event were not against Obama the Candidate, they were against Obama the man. I have heard black people claim that race is still an issue and I’ve tried to defend McCain, in spite of all his attack ads, inability to talk about THE ISSUES, and the constant condescention and fear mongering (Barack HUSSEIN Obama) of his campaign’s supporters. And Palin? Seriously, I don’t even have enough time to go here.
All I can say is this: I have watched and listened to it all, and have seen Barack Obama handle all of this with grace and dignity. I have been a Republican ever since I could vote, but that will end this year. Obama/Biden may not be perfect, but at least they’re better than McCain/Palin.
I will cast my vote for Obama to lead these great United States.
Doc Smith
Gulf War Vet
October 9th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I’m originally from Ohio and grew up not far from Strongsville (my high school played against Strongsville high school). I left Ohio after I married a man from Iran when I was 30 and have lived in California ever since. My very soul withers at the idea of going back there to live.
I have been to Iran four times — with my very young twins — and loved each visit where I was treated with great warmth and respect. I could never EVER ever go back to live in that very provincial state of Ohio (or most states south, southeast, and south central of Ohio). First of all, my husband experienced humiliating discrimination there (refer to that woman who referred to Barack Obama’s “bloodlines” and name — OMG). Second of all, I find the people there dull, uninformed, and singularly ignorant of the world outside of their little towns and their fundamentalist churches. These are the people who, like Sarah Palin, edit the sentences of others to suit their own personal beliefs. They couldn’t live in a world where people don’t think like they do. God Bless the World, but God Bless the Worldly Even More.
October 9th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I don’t disagree that some McCain/Palin supporters — especially the Palin supporters — are scary and alarming,but I think a lot of these folks were playing with you. Not that they were’t belligerant and hostile about it; they were definitely playing for your camera, though.
October 9th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
This is scary! What a stark contrast to all the Obama-rallies through out USA. I always try not to belive all these bad prejudice about Americans, like being ’stupid’ or ‘racist’. Unfortunately, there’s some white folks in rural America who want their president to be a white person, regardless of being dumb or incompetent. My only hope is that these people are the past and that America elects a president who can draw crouds like in Berlin. For us in Europe, McCain is Bush 3 and Palin is beyond Bush… If McCain wins, I as an atheist, will pray for him being alive 4 more years. If McCain wins, all the magic around Obama will disappear and it will look phoney or hugely overblown. I hope America writes history! And hopefully not Sarah Dumblin as the first female president due to McCains sudden destiny. Please, Americans, make Strongsville a Weaksville.
Go’bama!
October 9th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
We have certainly backslid into the segregationist 50’s and 60’s where I used to hear this hate spewed weekly. Some things do not change; only a new crop of stooges that swing the previous generations noose without knowing why they do. Knee jerk reactionaries, if you need a name. Ignorance with venom, thy name is bigot. They reveal themselves with a frequency of late not seen in generations. A pity, for certain.
They only await the dustbin of history.
October 9th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Beautiful Job. It takes Palin 30 days for the public to “Get to know her.” It takes 2 yrs to “get to know” Obama. Strange.
http://yestodemocracy.com
October 9th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
My, My, My. Thanks for your work. It’s important that we see this up close, warts n’ all. OhmiGod, but I do fear for my country. I’m not sure what’s more unsettling, that such unvarnished willful ignorance exists or that those attitudes are promoted and exploited by people who should know better. People in the media need to actually do their work and drag these people kicking and screamimg into the 21st century! Keep up the good work. I wish that I could help you. I mean, the ugliness of this campaign coupled with the economic meltdown makes it seem like the universe is tilting on it’s axis.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
This video shows how ignorant McCain Palin supporters are. they have no clue about anything.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Insta had me going until the “You should too.” Can’t believe I fell for the parody.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Congratulations for doing some kick-ass reporting! Every person in American and the world should see this video, it is SHOCKING and disgusting. Keep it up! Best wishes from NYC!
p.s. Andrew Sullivan sent me!!!
October 9th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Okay, maybe this is obvious, but I think it needs to be said:
The more angry and fearful people are, the more they readily adopt stereotypes to cope with their feelings. Beliefs that guide their lives become increasingly rooted in sterotypes as reasoning is not satisfying. That human behavior is understandable.
Demogogues feed sterotypes designed to further anger angry people. And the spiral continues — until an irrational act.
For a generation the REPUBLICAN PARTY has nurtured sterotypes and, in particular, ANTI-SOCIAL, divisive sterotypes.
Here comes Sarah Palin whose only talent is her gift as a demagogue. She will convince a lot of people to irrationally vote against their own interest.
The Republican Party is an intentionally and powerfully anti-social organization whose success depends on fear and irrational behavior.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
MR. Obama, associates with terrorists, racists, liers, cheaters…hmmm birds of a feather fly together.
Michelle Obama is a racist.
October 9th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I applaud your patience getting this footage. It is incredible the degree of ignorance, xenophobia, and mindless hatred these people have for Obama. It’s very disturbing.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
You left wingers kill me! All you do is pump out insults with no coherent thought and then call others ignorant … I guess you believe in freedom of speech as long as the person speaking agrees with you, if not they are morons, ignorant etc.. As soon as you have no leg to stand on, here come the insults. Congratulations to the intellectual left wing.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Anyone that truthfully, honestly believes that a person’s name has anything to do with terrorist ties *IS* an idiot.
They’re not gullible.
They’re not ignorant.
They’re just flat-out stupid. Borderline retarded, even.
Do the intelligent thing and vote Obama, you goddamn idiots.
October 9th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
“I’ve been doing blog video for a while, and presidential rallies a lot longer. And this is the most strange, ignorant, uninformed, angry, up-to-no-good, and gullible group of people I’ve ever seen at a political rally.
Ever.”
So you’ve been to one rally. Big deal.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
The saddest aspect of this video is the fact that every person interviewed was so proud of their ignorance, but more to the point, they are very people that are getting screwed the worst in this bailout and what is more scary is that they are so white and racist. They look like so many people in our own neighborhoods.
Please send this video to people in the media. This is a dangerous slope of ugly white trash/truth. These white people give all white people a bad name. God help us and save us from these ignorant asses. I am not sure what is worse, the fact that they are so stupid and proud of it or the saddness that McCain and Palin are exploiting them without really caring for them!
October 9th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Send this video to rachel@msnbc.com as soon as you can.
God help us and keep us safe from these idiots. They call themselve Christians!? Wow!
October 9th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Janet asked us to believe these people aren’t ignorant. I suggest she looks up what the word means… this is the definition of ignorance. It’s fine for people to disagree with his politics, but I would be surprised if any of them understand a single issue in this campaign.
Maybe these people will figure them out when their jobs are outsourced to China / India and they can’t afford health care if McCain becomes president. Yes, those are facts: McCain has no plans to give companies incentives for keeping jobs in America… it’s deregulation and the free market, baby! And $2500 will not cover a year of health insurance, that’s for sure. Honestly, why do they think that someone whose biggest supporters is big business would give anything to “Joe Sixpack” and those making minimum wage?
The attacks being made on Obama are nothing like the attacks made on Sarah Palin. I don’t like that so much was made about Palin’s daughter, it’s not right even if her platform is supposed to be family values. The only real attack about Sarah Palin that should matter is that she is incompetent. Regardless that I disagree with her politics, I wouldn’t mind her lack of experience if she were able to intelligently answer questions and was knowledgeable about the issues. This is very, very scary.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Next time, try showing up in a McCain / Palin T-shit and Navy Jet fighter hat, and tell people you want to show how much support McCain and Palin really have. This will get them to open up about what they like.
Next, ask if they’ve got reasons they can share about why others shouldn’t vote for Obama. Then you can just stand back and let the stupid start.
Just be sure you’re not wearing a pair of Birkenstocks while you’re doing this, or you’ll end up getting ripped limb from limb.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
These inbred folks make a good case for pro-choice . See what happens to those born out of rape and incest in this horrifying chronicle . I can see the tattered American flags stuffed into their dyng flower pots…..pepsi cans strewn in a yard with beaten grass and a barking dog with mange tied to a dying tree .
October 9th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Dude that was totally horrifying…and yet you are being called out or “enticing” or provoking these fine folks to repond with their vitriole…Any smart, self-censoring wingnut was absent from that lineup … I can’t wait til their smiling filth-spewing faces are larger than life on their big flat screen tv and someone they know sees them for the hatemongers they pretend not to be!
October 9th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
These people are what inbreeding looks like. At least these people should know there facts. I guess I could look at the women with the blond hair and just say ” she is a dumb blond.” That is a stero type right.
The redneck can’t even speak, he is why he should hope that Obama gets in. He is why no child behind doesn’t work.
October 9th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I can see it now….tattered flags stuffed into the dying flower pots,a dead tree with a barking dog on a chain…. maybe a confederate flag flying from a dillapidated porch , a couple of babies born out of rape or incest or worst crying in soiled diapers . And Cooder and Bubba drinking some beers before dragging the whole sorry ass bunch offto the Mccain / Palin rally in Ohio .
October 9th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Man…I was blown away by this vid. & Loved your cool questioning, refusing to get drawn in. I put a link to it on my blog just now (http://susanthegreat.com/) where I know it’ll get passed on. Thanks!
October 9th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
I can see it now….tattered flags stuffed into the dying flower pots,a dead tree with a barking dog on a chain…. maybe a confederate flag flying from a dillapidated porch , a couple of babies born out of rape or incest or worst crying in soiled diapers . And Cooder and Bubba drinking some beers before dragging the whole sorry ass bunch off to the Mccain / Palin rally in Ohio .
October 9th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
It is very unfortunate that this video from Obama supporters only showed clips of ignorant sounding McCain supporters. Think about it… Would they really show clips of McCain supporters that knew what they were talking about? People that actually knew the issues? No. Why would they? But I’m confused about a couple of things.
Why are they comparing Obama and Palin? That just doesn’t make much sense to me. Palin isn’t running for president… Sure if something did happen to McCain the country would be in her hands, I understand that.
And souldn’t the question be “When did you first hear of John McCain and when did you first hear of Barack Obama?”
These questions coming from a 24 year old, birkenstock-wearing, pro-choice MCCAIN supporter that doesn’t want to watch the structures of our economy crumble even more.
Obama supporters need to stop focusing on Sarah Palin and her flaws (like Obama doesn’t have any) and start giving people REAL reasons why we should vote for Obama. Because those of us that think for ourselves and don’t let the media hype brainwash us need actual answers, not just stupid stabs at republicans saying we are inbred.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Wow, as a native Clevelander now living in California, I am appalled and embarrassed to say I’m from Ohio.
Thanks, Strongsville, for showing the rest of the world your willful ignorance and racism. I’d have more respect for you if you’d just be honest and call Obama a n****r.
I hope those of you interviewed will save this video record for your children and grandchildren so they will one day understand the shallow end of the gene pool they came from.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Thanks so much for the video. How can I digg it?
It is simply amazing to me the little we have gotten to see of the inside of this campaign. Reporters can’t ask questions of Sarah, no Meet the Press, nothing but Fox News for them now… there has NEVER been a VP so sheltered from the public.
I posted your link and comment below at http://www.jedreport.com on the Joe B video thread and hope it goes VIRAL. I hate to say I have friends that might see themselves watching this. IOTBAR and vote for Obama.
The only people people paying any attention to Ayers at this point is the low information voters.
If you want to see what they sound like (you prob’ly already have heard it)
http://bloggerinterrupted.com/2008/10/video-the... these people are scary, and McCain/Palin are creating the atmosphere.
The blond who keeps getting her face in the camera she is scary. The gal who kept repeating Sarah had given more interviews than Obama. And you were WHERE duing the primaries??? The ones that said they have known Sarah longer than Obama. Those people are just NOW paying any attention, most of them social conservatives who didn’t like McCain but now love him because he picked Sarah. Obama will NEVER get these folks, if for no other reason than he’s black and is pro-choice, the only difference is they would have stayed home but now they will go, with lust, and pull the lever for Sarah.
Obama can win without them.
Ayers who? Informed voters are just getting pissed off by it. McCain proposes a NEW 300 Billion spending at the debate. Rewrote the rules the next day in huge favor to the banks, and isn’t even talking about it at the events, he is talking about Obama and Ayers and bullshit on who voted for the troops, ear marks and dna bear study (which McCain voted FOR). and hey did you hear it, John brought up the bridge to no-where today, with Sarah standing by his side.
Fiscal conservatives, vets and independents are running from John faster every day.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Wow, as a native Clevelander now living in California, I am appalled and embarrassed to say I’m from Ohio.
Thanks, Strongsville, for showing the rest of the world the shallow end of the gene pool you come from.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Thanks for having the courage to go to these rallies and expose the uneducated hatred. To think that someone could honestly believe that Barack is a muslim, or a terrorist is just insane. And I don’t mean in a funny way.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
This video makes me ashamed to be from Ohio, but keep in mind Strongsville is up towards Cleveland, lol.
I will proudly cast my Ohio ballet for Barack.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
It’s never hard–and never wise–to find a moron who disagrees with you, point at them and say, “Now there’s a prime example.” The morons don’t need your help proving that they are morons, and it just makes you look like a dick.
Almost four years ago, I wrote a piece called It’s the Derision, Stupid based on my experiences among Kerry-Edwards supporters.
This video (sadly) inspired me to republish it.
October 9th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
It’s all about education and knowledge of the issues. This should serve as a lesson to all of you to constantly question and justify your beliefs. If you can’t rationally defend your beliefs, why have them? It’s sick watching these people when they get cornered…like a wild animal. They just resort to the no-brainer responses like “he’s a terrorist!” etc.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
God help the world. These people shouldn’t open their mouths, it goes to show just how foolish and ignorant they are. If they MUST talk then they should at least back up their beliefs and with reasonable answers.
Thanks for the video
October 9th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
I grew up in Strongsville and some in my family still live there. I’m sure many with Strongsville ties are very embarrassed right now (by this video and the follow-up one I saw on Wonkette) and wish they could explain to you that this rally crowd doesn’t reflect all of Strongsville. But of course that’s the case anywhere. My siblings and I grew up with parents who were Democrats, and there was a time when Strongsville, along with the other older south-of-Cleveland suburbs, was filled with blue-collar Dems. Some pretty conservative Dems, yes, but also the kind of Dems I see and hear whenever I’m watching Joe Biden. Strongsville once felt, believe it or not, like an enlightened place– still kind of rural but filled with open-minded people, and you’d see plenty of yard signs for Dem candidates back then. When developments started springing up and Strongsville became known as a more well-to-do place, you could feel the city becoming Republican. But it never quite became like such suburbs as Brecksville. Strongsville was, for all its build-up, still reflective of its blue-collar roots (we moved there from Parma, for example). I think McCain/Palin went to Strongsville because it’s a city that’s not, like other suburbs to the east, as filled with fiscally-conservative Republicans but with people who still–no matter what you see in that video—very well may not vote because they’re not thrilled with McCain. And there are, I’m sure, still many Dems there, and some that McCain thinks won’t vote Dem this time around. McCain didn’t need to go to the suburbs that always remind me–I live in CA now–of Orange County, but needed to work on on-the-fence voters, and Strongsville, geographically and politically pretty much in the middle of that group of south suburbs, was the perfect place for the GOP to come. It represented the Republicans’ hope for possibly winning Cuyahoga County—more realistically, for limiting their Cuya. losses. I think some of those sheepish people in the video just may stay hoe on election day—a conscience won’t let them go through with a McCain vote. As for the bizarre blond woman in the video, I’d love to know where she actually lives—she seemed very out-of-place to me, even among the other recorded attendees.
October 9th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
This is the most ignorant thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life.
These people are the people that are making our country suffer…
From stupidity.
I’m personally voting for Obama, because I KNOW who he is, what he stands for, and what he can do for our country.
These people who claim that they’ve never even HEARD Of Obama obviously don’t know anything about politics.
They’re so blindsided by the McCain campaign.
If they’ve never even heard of Obama, then how do they know what they COULD be voting for???
And that one blond lady is a huge bitch.
I guess what they say is true…
Ignorance IS bliss!
<3Megan
October 9th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
The same type of people can be found on the Obama side. Yawn. Nothing new to see here…just more liberal garbage.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Okay, first off, this video is such a waste of time and effort. Who cares WHEN you heard of a candidate. So what if Barack Obama has been trying to run for two years? What does it matter? He wasn’t really known till recent times, and you aren’t going to know a candidate till they are more recognized.
“Kudos for getting that video. Very important.” WHAT IS?! The fact that some people recently heard of Sarah Palin while others haven’t, or the fact that some radical ignorant republicans think he’s a terrorist? FINE! I’ll admit it’s horrible if they want to vote on ignorance, but there are people with both parties voting on ignorance. How many Obama fans have just been spouting “CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE” and nothing else. Whether you want to admit or not, there has been many. Not every Obama supporter is like this I know, but the bottom line is you can get any propaganda you want by talking to cognitive inferiors.
Don’t play into these morons reasons. Who cares? This video will just rally other idiotic McCain supporters. You can just hear them, “well, yeah. that’s true. His name is Hussein you know.” They won’t see the humility if they already have a lower-class of intellect. So do something productive with your life please, instead of opening old wounds. Just let them believe their bullshit. No one that matters cares anymore.
October 9th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
To respond to an earlier question “Why vote for Obama?”
I am an independent voter.
I am voting for Obama because:
Of the two candidates, Obama is more likely to not provoke an attack on Iran or actively engage in another war of aggression.
Of the two candidates, Obama is more likely to resolve the Iraq war. It is sadly doubtful that he will endorse a withdrawal of troops for political reasons, but this is a war that should not have been started and a war we can no longer afford.
Obama’s solution to the economic crisis is to tax the rich. Tax cuts for the rich endorsed by Bush and McCain failed to stimulate the economy back when it was still healthy. McCain’s proposed solution is a spending freeze on everything but national defense. This is not a sound policy. To stop payment to social security, medicare, federal education funding and federal regulatory agencies is stupid. If the nation is heading for economic conditions similar to the Great Depression, the de-facto dissolution of the programs enacted to alleviate the worst social conditions of that era would be absolutely inhuman in what is still one of the world’s strongest economies.
Lastly (though more could be said) the character of the candidates is shown in their campaign styles. Obama’s camp has raised the level of the debate and for the most part focused on the issues. McCain’s camp has lowered the level of the debate trying to discredit the candidate rather than debating the issues. Obama could pull some really low blows by dredging up McCain’s past as a silver-spoon f***up, but the closest they have come is mentioning McCain’s relation to the Keating savings and Loan scandal and then only in response to a complete non-sequitur focus on Obama’s tenuous connection to William Ayer.
That said, I don’t care for the video. The ‘interviewer’ is going for a gotcha quote with pre-scripted questions against people who (while they obviously didn’t show up to a Palin rally to think critically) could probably have gone point-for-point in a less confrontational setting.
Of course you’re going to get an extreme reaction when you go in looking to provoke one. Do you think it would be different at a Democratic rally? Get people who feel strongly about anything, then contradict them and see what happens.
October 10th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Thank you so much for posting this video. I think it’s important to realize the reason for asking the question, “when did you first hear about ___ candidate?” That reason being: do you follow the news enough to be aware of the candidates who ran during the Primary? Have you kept up with information from impartial sources or a variety of sources–or do you stick to political pundits (ex., Rush Limbaugh/Fox News ["conservative"] vs. Keith Olbermann/MSNBC ["liberal"]) solely?
If you didn’t follow the Primaries, you might not know that Obama has run for over 20 months, and you might not know that Sarah Palin had no personal initiative to become the next leader-in-waiting of the free world. If you didn’t keep yourself informed, and have just now gotten yourself excited over a VP candidate to a Presidential nominee you didn’t really have any passion to vote for, then you are quite likely to appear ignorant when you’re asked the questions posed in this video.
The reality is, unless you have some talking points based on the issues, being passionate about the Veep nominee isn’t going to make you appear intelligent. Quite the opposite.
Thanks again for this video.
October 10th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Nigger lover!
October 10th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Bleeding heart liberal
Nigger lover!
October 10th, 2008 at 12:30 am
Could you be any more smug?
October 10th, 2008 at 12:32 am
it’s not my country so it’s none of my business
but if mccain-palin wins god help us all
October 10th, 2008 at 12:41 am
I have never been overly politically active before.. and I have been a registered Republican all my life. After the last 8 years of this nonsense, I have had enough!
I am stunned by the ignorance of the girl in this video who is convinced Obama is a terrorist simply because of his name.. after all what the hell are we supposed to be fighting for overseas!
Unfortunately.. what this video shows is the recipe for how you end up in a war in Iraq against people that had nothing to do with 9/11. Take the uninformed electorate and scare the living crap out of them by feeding them information albeit non-true information. Then appeal to their ignorance and rally them into a fake patriotic frenzy! This is VERY, VERY scary stuff! Fortunately, I do not believe this is representative of Ohio at all…. I believe this year most are too smart to fall for this propaganda again! Personally, I am sick and tired of FAKE patriotism by those who really don’t know the first thing about supporting the troops, and I am tired of the manufactured Karl Rove tactics. We need a change.. we need a focus on returning to the things that really matter!
October 10th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Mindy Green
Akron,OH
(330) 644-9772
October 10th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Janet,
By suggesting that the people interviewed in this, who willingly voiced their opinions, are somehow NOT ignorant because theere are people in this country that are worse than the people depicted in this video, is equally troublesome as the folks in the video. There are people that find fault with the middle name Hussein. My guess is, many of the people in the video were not even familiar with Saddam even in the first gulf war, much less the start of the second war in Iraq.
Secondly, these are probably the same 25%ish of the population who still thinks the Iraq war is a good idea. Hell, even Bush doesn’t think it was a good idea at this point.
Strong feelings are not wrong. They are encouraged in America. But these people are not voicing strong feelings. They are not even displaying ignorance. Ignorance is when you go ‘right on red’ in a foreign city that doesn’t allow it – but you weren’t aware because your city does allow it.
What these people display is stupidity and a blind, unbalanced attitude. Similar to that of 19 men who flew planes into the World Trade Center (in my hometown – killing friends of mine). These are attitudes of racism (btw – racism does not have to be black and white – it can be as simple as the commonality linking of a name…). These are attitudes biased propaganda. These are attitudes that keep this country down and prevent other countries from ever having respect for us. As far progressed as we are.
And when attitudes are projected into (as you suggest) feelings without any evidence of the facts, that is not ignorance. that is blind stupidity. And I am embarrassed that these people have the same equal vote that have.
I am a proud independent. I do not believe a two party system works (and I don’t think I am a genius by figuring this out). This is one of things that may allow me to be “fair”. And when I witness the crap shown on this video – and the crap spewed by someone like you defending these idiots – it is no wonder I have less and less faith in America.
As great as we are… just imagine how much more amazing this country would be if we did not have people with this level of stupidity actually voting for one of the most powerful rulers in the world…
October 10th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Great post man. You did your country a great service by making this video. Hopefully this will shed a light on the type of people supporting McCain/Palin. This is pure ignorance and racism. I am even more prod to be an Obama supporter. Win or loose you cannot have this type of attitude. I think God I am not like those people. They should be ashamed of themselves.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:55 am
This is truly the most hateful thing I’ve ever seen. Do these people realise that the entire world is at this point in shock as to how ignorant, backward and racist Americans are? People as moronic as these are a disgrace to your entire nation.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:44 am
I went to school with the girl that has blonde hair in the video at Richmond Heights High School. There is nothing wrong for voting for McCain, but please make educated statements on why you are voting for someone, repeating the other candidates multiple time is unusual. I would think you are doing that because you are trying you memorize it or you are trying to note he does not have an American name. Also this girl is right off the boat, she is 1st generation American. I love how she states Obama’s name many times and all I know is her last name starts with a P but after the P it makes Obama look WASPY. The funny thing is she is a real-estate agent for a living, I wonder how many homes she sold to people that she knew they could not afford it so her commission would go up just a little bit. And this should be a lesson to everyone out their on the World Wide Web….it is not as large as you would think and you could run into someone at your 20th reunion.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:58 am
How lame…..some uni punk comparing the DMS nominee to the RNC VP??? How is this supposed to score political points….dumb
October 10th, 2008 at 8:02 am
far from setting a “straw man” fallacy, the interviewer solicits many respondents to proclaim arguments that have been refuted exhaustively. the questions are direct and simple; the responses are utter nonsense and slanderous. the “blood line” response is the most disturbing and hateful.
“The key-word here is blackwhite.” Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:21 am
the “blood line” response is the most disturbing and hateful. far from setting a “straw man” fallacy, the interviewer solicits many respondents to proclaim arguments that have been refuted exhaustively. the questions are direct and simple; the responses are utter nonsense and slanderous.
“The key-word here is blackwhite.” Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:44 am
I have no comment other than to say please leave the Secret Service out of this. I have worked extensively with them and they DO NOT tell the candidate or their staff what or what not to say. Please respect this highly professional organization and leave them out of your assumptions.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:55 am
You know here is the problem, noticeably on this video, the same few people are interviewed. Go to an Obama/Biden rally and you could interview the whole crowd and guaranteed more than 70% can not answer questions that matter, like “Why did your candidate support Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?” “Why did your candidate try to undermine the troops and the president by asking Iraqi officials to hold off on making deals with President Bush about troop withdrawal?” Oh and best of all, “Your candidate says he will lower taxes for 95% of Americans, do you realize that 50-60% of Americans don’t even pay taxes?” So Mr. Interviewer anytime you would like to come to Georgia and have a real conversation about the real issues, please let me know. And oh by the way, just to answer your question, I first heard of Sarah Palin in June when Newt Gringrich brought her name. I, unlike so many others, began my research immediately and found that this is the true conservative on the ticket. PS, go to an Obama/Biden rally and ask “Do you think 9/11 was an inside job?” I am sure you would be amazed how many “whackjobs”(stealing a quote from other commentors” are supporting the Obama/Biden ticket.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:10 am
For all of those who say the same can be found anywhere, I’d ask that you go to an Obama rally and ask people if they believe if:
(1) John McCain is a terrorist because he wasn’t born in the United States and has never presented his birth certificate.
(2) John McCain is a muslim because he has never been baptized in the church he attends.
If you find an Obama supporter who claims that McCain is a terrorist or a Muslim because of these *true* facts about John McCain (and false claims about Obama though it seems the people on this video believe it), then you can tell me that there is the exact same stuff on both sides.
Yes, people on both sides have dumb reasons for voting. But that’s not the same as saying that a national politician is a “terrorist” because of his “bloodline.”
No one ever claimed George Bush was a terrorist because of his “blood.”
Not every McCain supporter is a racist–not even the majority. But this isn’t a poll. This video is an attempt to show what some people in our nation really believe. And when someone claims that terrorism is a factor of the blood? Well, that is the definition of racism.
I think it’s worth reminding our citizens that these beliefs still exist, and it’s important that we call them out as wrong.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:11 am
It was striking that the people in the video were so vacant and almost mocking of the cameraperson. This was not fiery hate, but after the election could easily become so.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I cannot believe that people watching this video believe it to be REAL! HELLO??? This guy took the footage he wanted, edited what he wanted & posted it to You Tube to make these people look as stupid as he could. It is complete bullshit. Kind of like the entire liberal viewpoint. He’s on the path to joining the ranks of media slander everywhere. Disgusting.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:40 am
oh man… I’m telling you… There is a quiet storm that is building up. The ignorant racist people of this nation are forming a silent alliance. The next Nazi revolution. I am so scared that this will happen one day because of all the extreme religious people and their speaking in tongues. It’s so easy to be stupid that it’s bound to happen.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:54 am
I’m black and I grew up in Strongsville. There’s nothing surprising there. But rest assured the city DOES have some intelligent, reasonable people. Granted most of them move away when they graduate high school but some remain and they vote too.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Your an idiot! Why don’t you sit down and try to come up with some good questions? The questions aren’t even comparing apples to apples! Who cares if people have known Barrack (pesidential candidate) longer than Palin (vp candidate)? They have known him long enough to know they don’t like him . Stop trying to persuade people into your beliefs and shut the hell up! Worry about who your voting for, shut your mouth and let every one else have their equal right to vote for the person they want to vote for. JACKASS!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Do you guys honestly think this is any different than the rhetoric thats been put in Obama’s ears for the last so many years he’s been going to his church? If I hear his REVEREND spouting off against DAMN WHITE AMERICA or THE DAMN WHITES THAT ARE RUNNING THE COUNTRY or THE UNITED STATES OF WHITE AMERICA I give up. On one hand you guys are saying their ignorant for thinking Obama’s a terrorist (which their parents/neighbors/friends have told them) and on the other hand, you guys think that Obama doesn’t think differently since he’s been listening to his REVEREND spouting off RACIST comments about WHITE America? COME ON PEOPLE GET A CLUE!
October 10th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Palin was a unkhown before Mccain came along. I dont know what these people are thinking. I think there quite arrogant and I hate sarah palin.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:33 am
The sad thing is that these people know that they are relying on fear and hatred. You can see them searching for a way to rationalize their choices, and when that fails, they just resort to anger speech. You can see the words “because he’s black” just below the surface; the pressure building as they are pushed with each question. So many of them are so close to just blurting it out. That’s probably the worst part, because they know they shouldn’t be racist, that’s why they resist saying it. Yet they act on that racism and find ways to follow their fear without having to admit it. Very sad.
October 10th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I don’t know why posters keep referring the people in this video as “ignorant.” Ignorance is a lack of knowledge. It implies that the people had no access to the information necessary to help them make an informed decision. That simply isn’t the case here. All the information anyone could ever hope for on both candidates is out there. What these people are is stupid. Willfully so, perhaps, but stupid nonetheless.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
I applaud your efforts to get footage like this but be careful, dude. Some of these people are seriously scary.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Great video. Keep up the good work.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
This is scary! McCain wants to be the leader of the free world but yet his rallies are leading people into doom & hate. Where would he take our Country if he is given the opportunity? Is he going to assume every Muslim-American is a terroist? If he is president, is he going to not meet with world leaders whose names may be strange or is he going to divide our country and continue promoting hate? McCain/Palin give Republicans a bad name and not all of them are bad.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
I can’t view this at work, but I’ll definitely watch it when I get home. I can only imagine what I’m going to see, and if I’m right, it will validate one of the many reasons that it was so easy for my family to leave the Cleveland area 2 years ago (aside from the horrible economy in NE Ohio). I was raised in Cleveland, and still have a lot of family there. I graduated from a Cleveland public HS, went into the Air Force at age 17, followed my civilian career around the country, got a bachelor’s degree in Georgia, moved BACK to Cleveland in my mid 30’s, got a master’s degree from Cleveland State, then left again (for good) after two years of job hunting and unfulfilling employment opportunities to a state with a far better economy. BTW, paid for BOTH of those degrees by working full time and taking classes at night.
Strongsville is the suburb directly to the west of where we lived up until 2007. Lots of out-of work, under-employed, or retired blue-collar people. Lots of former enlisted military, especially Viet Nam era. Strongsville was basically “built by Ford and GM” in the 60’s and 70’s due to the proximity to their plants. The Cleveland metro area is extremely diverse, but many people never seem to be proud of the wonderful advances for people of color that have been born in or promoted through the Cleveland area, whether it be in politics, industry, or professional sports. There has ALWAYS been an underlying distrust and hatred (by some whites) for people of color – Blacks first, then Asians, then Hispanics/Latinos.
These are the same people that bought homes in the suburbs that were WAY beyond their means because they spent that 10-20 hours of overtime they were clocking every week like it was regular pay, never to disappear. When I worked at Ford, it wasn’t hard for a tradesman with a GED or High School education to make $100k or more if they wanted to work 7 days a week. These same people called me “college boy” and constantly inferred that I was making “the big bucks” even though my final salary was $55k with NO benefits as a contractor. These are the people with the $50k gas guzzling, 12 MPG pick-up trucks to use for commuting (yet they bitch about the price of gas), a $40k full-size SUV, a $20k Harley, a trailered bass boat or cabin-cruiser docked at a marina in Lake Erie, two jet skis, a four-wheeler and more hunting and fishing gear than anyone would ever need, and probably a couple of teenagers that are spoiled punks with no interest in going to college because “Dad didn’t need it.” They’re “patriotic” for some reason because they’re suffering the thought of having to give up the toys they can’t afford anymore. Somehow, they’re being deprived of living the good life. How can you expect these people to be interested in anything beyond their own selfish needs?
Oh, I forgot the most important trait – they’re long-suffering, anger-filled Cleveland sports fans that can never be happy about anything in life because “their” precious sports teams have never won a championship for them to celebrate. Their sad character allows them to believe that all the ills in their life would be cured if “we” could only win a championship. Pretty pathetic. There’s the foul-mouthed scum at the sporting events that get so drunk that they’ll pick a fight with ANYONE, even children, if “their” Cleveland team is losing. Then they’re upset if they get ejected or arrested, because the “yuppies” and “dinks” ratted them out to the ushers. They are self-proclaimed “true fans” (whatever the hell that means). They think that just because it’s outdoors, they should be allowed to smoke pot and cigarettes in their seat at the games, and feel put-out to be forced to walk to a smoking area.
It’s the “underdog” syndrome (actually, it’s laziness) that is so pervasive in these people, and the Republicans know EXACTLY how to push that button – they have McCain referring to himself as an underdog now – to a BLACK man of all people (get your pitch forks and torches) – which is right on target for this demographic in the industrial Mid-west. Laid-off industrial workers and former union laborers that would sooner blame every person that doesn’t have white skin for their misfortunes, rather than the politicians that have lied to them, corporate leaders that have taken their work off-shore, or themselves for not saving most of that overtime money, or going back to school and bettering their education. They’re avid Limbaugh, Hannity, and O’Rielly followers, and hate mongers for anything or anyone that isn’t just like them. Got to have someone to blame, right?
So, without seeing any of the video, did I nail the stereotype??? In any case, I just needed to vent! I’m just ready for this election to end.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
I can’t view this at work, but I’ll definitely watch it when I get home. I can only imagine what I’m going to see, and if I’m right, it will validate one of the many reasons that it was so easy for my family to leave the Cleveland area 2 years ago (aside from the horrible economy in NE Ohio). I was raised in Cleveland, and still have a lot of family there. I graduated from a Cleveland public HS, went into the Air Force at age 17, followed my civilian career around the country, got a bachelor’s degree in Georgia, moved BACK to Cleveland in my mid 30’s, got a master’s degree from Cleveland State, then left again (for good) after two years of job hunting and unfulfilling employment opportunities to a state with a far better economy. BTW, paid for BOTH of those degrees by working full time and taking classes at night.
Strongsville is the suburb directly to the west of where I lived up until 2007. Lots of out-of work, under-employed, or retired blue-collar people. Lots of former enlisted military, especially Viet Nam era. Strongsville was basically “built by Ford and GM” in the 60’s and 70’s due to the proximity to their plants. The Cleveland metro area is extremely diverse, but many people never seem to be proud of the wonderful advances for people of color that have been born in or promoted through the Cleveland area, whether it be in politics, industry, or professional sports. There has ALWAYS been an underlying distrust and hatred (by some whites) for people of color – Blacks first, then Asians, then Hispanics / Latinos.
These are the same people that bought homes in the suburbs that were WAY beyond their means because they spent that 10-20 hours of overtime they were clocking every week like it was regular pay, never to disappear. When I worked at Ford, it wasn’t hard for a skilled tradesman with a GED or High School education to make $100k or more if they wanted to work 7 days a week. These same people called me “college boy” and constantly inferred that I was making “the big bucks” even though my final salary was $55k with NO benefits as a contractor. These are the people with the $50k gas guzzling, 12 MPG pick-up trucks to use for commuting (yet they bitch about the price of gas), a $40k full-size SUV, a $20k Harley, a trailered bass boat or cabin-cruiser docked at a marina in Lake Erie, two jet skis, a four-wheeler with more hunting and fishing gear than anyone would ever need, and probably a couple of teenagers that are spoiled punks with no interest in going to college because “Dad didn’t need it.” They’re “patriotic” for some reason because they’re suffering the thought of having to give up the toys they can’t afford anymore. Somehow, they’re being deprived of living the good life. How can you expect these people to be interested in anything beyond their own selfish needs? Haters are like that.
Oh, I forgot the most important trait – they’re long-suffering, anger-filled Cleveland sports fans that can never be happy about anything in life because “their” precious sports teams have never won a championship for them to celebrate. Their sad character allows them to believe that all the ills in their life would be cured if “we” could only win a championship. Pretty pathetic. They’re the foul-mouthed scum at sporting events that get so drunk that they’ll pick a fight with ANYONE, even children, if “their” Cleveland team is losing, or if you don’t look as upset as they do. They get furious if they get ejected or arrested, blaming the “yuppies” and “dinks” for ratting them out to the ushers. They are self-proclaimed “true fans” (whatever the hell that means). They think that just because it’s outdoors, they should be allowed to smoke in their seat at the games, and claim disrespect for being forced to walk to a smoking area.
It’s the “underdog” syndrome (actually, it’s laziness) that is so pervasive in these people, and the Republicans know EXACTLY how to push that button – they have McCain referring to himself as an underdog now – to a BLACK man of all people (get your pitch forks and torches) – which is right on target for this demographic in the industrial Mid-west. Laid-off industrial workers and former union laborers that would sooner blame every person that doesn’t have white skin for their misfortunes, rather than the politicians that have lied to them, corporate leaders that have taken their work off-shore, or themselves for not saving most of that overtime money, or going back to school and bettering their education. They’re avid Limbaugh, Hannity, and O’Rielly followers, and hate mongers for anything or anyone that isn’t just like them. Got to have someone to blame, right?
So, without seeing any of the video, did I nail the stereotype???
October 10th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
In your video, you keep asking about the first time people have heard of Obama or Palin. What is the point. Obama wants to be president and has made a conscious choice to try to lead the US. Palin didn’t do the same. She was asked and agreed to run as VP. The question should be “When was the first time you ever heard of Obama or McCain?” Why do you libs keep comparing Palin and Obama? No logic. Just to grab sound bites. So what, Palin is new to the scene. What is your point?????
October 10th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
The McCain-Palin mob? Nice try. But what is a real fact is the Obama-Biden Marxist/Socialist cult. There are enough days to expose that Marxist bastard for what he is. Goodbye, Hussien Obama.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
The People being interviewed in this video are some of the most ignorant people I have ever heard. Scares me to think that there are people like that, WILLING TO BE VIDEO TAPED, to show their stupidity to the world. Obama-Biden 2008!
October 10th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Why can’t we all just get along?
October 10th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
wow. great video. Tremendously scary and upsetting. It appears McCain and Palin are running a fear factory.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Wow. Can’t believe these are Americans. I live in Los Angeles, but I truly believe that there are solid and fair people in Strongsville, Ohio who don’t think Obama is a terrorist because of his name or anything else about him.
There are thousands of black Americans who don’t even know their true names. My point being, if they had not been enslaved, their last names could have sounded Muslim too. It is shameful for McCain and Palin to allow these rants to gain momentum. I have lost all respect for the pair of them and choose to express my patriotism by supporting someone with a funny name.
This is still the best country in the world. God Bless America!
October 10th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Sort of reminds you of Nazi Germany. Mob mentality. I think they want a lynching. This is very scary. Poor McCain. Is this what he wanted? He got it.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
A bunch of Archie Bunkers….lol!
October 10th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Wow. Scary people. I was most impressed with the guy holding the camera, asking questions, maintining composre. Brave. This type of documentation gives a much rounder image in people’s minds of what these Pailin/McCain rallies are like.
Keep up the good work!
October 10th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
This is slanted garbage. Do you think Obama’s supporters are all bright people? I think not. Just look at his close friends, such as Rev Wright and Bill Ayers.
Also, what does how long you’ve known someone have to do with thier level of qaulification?
This “reporter” is an idiot.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Oh Dear – you rock!! Keep up the good work!
And now – It’s too bad that there really are people in this country that want a slinky like Palin to lead it – who even believe that she is capable to! Her photos show her aiming a rifle, shooting animals on the run from the sky, and smiling next to a dying animal, blood all around. And you want her to lead this country? Are you nuts? Talk about a terrorist!
October 10th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
OBAMA & BIDEN 2008
Republicans are biased and get all of their “information” from FOX news. Calling Obama a “terrorist” is just easier for Republicans. Absolutely no thinking is involved! McCain was an honorable man before this election. He has done a lot for this country in the past. But, this election is about the future of this failing country. I love America as much as the next person. But if McCain gets in office (look at the polls, it’s not going to happen), Palin is 1 heartbeat away from the presidency and quite frankly that scares the shit out of me. She is fucking stupid and you want to talk about no experience… she’s the poster child for no experience. She’s seen Russia from her hometown?!! WTF kind of answer is that??? Well I’ve BEEN to Russia. I have more foreign policy experience than Sarah Palin!! We will lose respect from ALL OVER THE WORLD if the Republicans win. Come on people, look up the facts, not just your stupid FOX biased news. Maybe if you paid attention you will see Palin is a laughing stock and does not deserve to ever be in office. Her interviews give it away. And her not answering the questions presented to her in the debate gives it away. SHE IS NOT PREPARED TO BE IN OFFICE PEOPLE.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Wow, these people are pretty dumb and they don’t have a leg to stand on. I hope they watch this video and realize the error of their ways. Obama’s blood line is from Kenya and he has a name that reflects his heritage. McCain supporters are just angry because the Obama-Biden ticket is going to beat the McCain-Palin ticket! The sooner you realize that the happier your life will be!
October 10th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
In looking at the requirements for a security clearance from the US Government, do you think that Senator Obama would meet the rigid standards that protect our security standards?
October 10th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
They are all wrong
October 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
we can only hope there is someone out there that will pop a cap on obama, get the shit started and lets all get involved
October 10th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Wow. Just wow.
I thought that people of that level of ignorance died at birth, that it was a crippling birth defect. I guess I was wrong.
“Just look at his name”–Are you fucking kidding me?
That one blonde woman shot be shot on site. What an irritating, ignorant, loud-mouthed, uneducated moron.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
WOW!!! That was actually amusing! That self righteous retard of a blonde really brings us back to the duymb blonde jokes doesn’t she??? And she’s an organizer?? That really is indicative of the sad state of affairs in Strongsville!!! I have NEVER seen such a gathering of idiots at a political rally – ever!
I want to thank the folks of Strongsville for the hillarious display of idiocy and getting me a good laugh!!!!
I know where I would never live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Jeeeze, Sarah Palin is NOT running for President! Obama is! Why do they keep comparing those two?????? What?? They can’t compare Obama to McCain? McCain has too much experience and knowledge so… compare Obama to Palin? Hahahahhaah What a joke!
October 10th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Wow. Can’t believe these are Americans. I am from Los Angeles, but I truly believe that the majority of people in Strongsville, Ohio are fair and good folks who do not believe that Obama is a terrorist because of his name or anything else about him.
There are thousands of black Americans who do not even know their real names. Before they were enslaved, they might have had Muslim sounding names too. It’s just a name. He hasn’t committed any terrorism. Geez. People like Timothy McVeigh are terrorists, not Obama.
I fault McCain and Palin for allowing this rhetoric to run wild on their campaign trail. I have lost all respect for their tactics. Instead, I choose to exercise my patriotism and vote for the guy with the funny name, speaking about the issues that matter to me.
Regardless of a few rotten apples though, this is still the best country in the world. God bless America!
October 10th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
to Oh Dear… You are showing your ignorance here.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Who cares when you first heard someone’s name? Is that a qualification? Bloggerguy, why not talk about issues/policies instead of name recognition. In the next few weeks I hope that people who are either commited to Obama or on the fence will come to their senses and realize that this man is an empty suit (with empty promises and programs). He sells a lot of BS and there will be no $$$ to expand government interference to new, stifling levels. Granted, Bush has been a disappointment, but a wealth redistributing socialist he is not. God, please bless the USA with Barack Obama’s sound defeat.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
One guy walking around with a camera, asking people these stupid questions, and then editing it to show the ones that don’t know all of what they are talking about and you are going to criticize everyone in the town and everyone that is voting for McCain? Oh yeah, show that video to everyone, people need to see that…….give me a break. People don’t need to see someone’s one sided video to make up their mind. You want to see a video worth while… watch all 6 parts of this video and tell me who’s the scary one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_HZMD97nMw
October 10th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
thats sad… thats all
how is obama a terrorist when his father is a kenyan and his mother is from kansas.
what ij barack hussein obamas name was joe smith obama.
strongsville ohio, “joe biden is a communist!!!”
October 10th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
I feel there is absolutely a large redneck sentiment (like this) bubbling just under the surface nationwide. This is the only thing that makes me the slightest bit concerned about this election. Most educated people understand that Obama and Democratic policies are the only things that are going to get the US out of this sloppy mess Bush and his cronies created.
My only regret with this video is that you didn’t go to Wooster, Ohio. You would have been able to film much bigger Republican nut jobs there.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
That one blond woman should be a politician, she’s good at side stepping the questions and getting in people’s faces…
And bloodlines? What are those women? “Purebloods” from Harry Potter or Dog breeders? Bloodlines don’t make someone a terrorist any more than being middle eastern does.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Honestly speaking neither candidate has the experience to be president, because neither has been president of the US or any other nation.
It should not be experience that we are judging, it should be VISION.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
These are all just ignorant W.A.S.P.S they make me angry and ashamed as a God fearing, country loving Caucasian male. They do NOT represent all whites. How could you judge somebody on their name. That is Just complete IGNORNANCE town to me. And another thing nobody EVER heard of Sarah Palin before a couple of months ago. She was the govener of ALASKA for petes sake. She might of well just have been MAYOR OF THE MOON!!!!!!!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
What major news outlets are picking this up? MSNBC, CBS, we know foxnews didn’t. Wait knowing they are proud of this, Foxnews just might.
Watching these videos made me sick. I wrote a letter to local Wisconsin Republicans and right wing media outlets. You can read my letter here http://www.therealaustin.net/?p=578
October 10th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I think people are sick of the media masterbating all over themselves over Obama and anyone who doesn’t midlessly masterbate along with them is called a racist or ignorant. The guy is just a poster boy from the democratic convention of four years ago and people are angry that he has been glorified without much merit.
The anger you see is more directed at the media than it is Obama.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
I can see the left have not changed since the days of an old satirist Ashley Briliant. My favorite quote that is applicable to those frequenting and supporting this blog, “Put down prejudice, unless it is on our side.” Good day.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Wow, these people look inbred… They’re not worldly, they are so obviously local that their opinion are distorted, they think the rest of the world should be like them when meanwhile their numbers are shrinking… They have no experience with anything or anybody outside their own zip code. It’s actually scary that there are people like this that exists in this country! They’re scared because they know their time running out! Thank God…..
October 10th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Let me first say that these are the most ignorant people I have ever seen or heard in my life. They are so stupid to believe that they have heard Palin names before Obama’s. This chick lives in Alaska and plays with polar bears. What could she possibly do for this country except take her family on ski trips. She can’t even stop her young daughter from getting pregnant so how is she going to help people get jobs and better our economy. It’s funny how so many people try to come down on Obama who graduated the highest in UNIVERSITY and who is about to make history in the United States. A CHANGE was near and a CHANGE is HERE!!!!!!
I’ll be back when OBAMA IS SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT…..
October 10th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I am scared, truly scared, by what I see in this video. Obama has been attacked by viscious rumours and these people are buying them hook, line, sinker and boat. I believed them at first too but when i did my Own research the facts are mostly fabricated. I am mainly scared not of Obama but by the radicals in this video that by their own ignorance might put us in more danger than if Obama was really a “Terrorist”. If you want proof one way or another do not even listen to these people, your next door neighbor, or even me…you must do your own OBJECTIONAL reasearch and there are places you can go to do that. Just consider the source of wherever you look. You want the truth, but people of Strongsville, can you really handle it?
October 10th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Ha, This shows how narrow minded most of the republican party is. You cant say someone is a terrorist by their name.
The republican party is getting desperate and grabbing at anything they can.
John McCain is old, yes he has exp. but that exp. has come around and bit him in the butt. We need someone with an open miind to lead our country,not the narrow minded conservatives.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
WHY is it that if Republicans dislike the Democratic canadate that they are wrong ? What happenned to “FREEDOM OF CHOICE” WE don’t like OBAMA !
October 10th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Now this is typical. Everyone wants to ignore the racial over tones. When will people be able to look at someone with out seeing color. Lets call this what it is racism. How can you say that Obama will make things worst than the Reublicans. They have had eight years. There making history with the downfall of the country. This is the reason things are the way they are. The reason that the country is falling apart. The wat we call in Mississippi “The Good Ole Boy System” meaning if its white its right. These asme people call themselves Christains at the same time speaking negative racism. America enough is enough. If we are to grow as Americans and as people in God. We must learn to look past color.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Wow. Can’t believe these are Americans. I am from Nevada, but I truly believe that the majority of people in Strongsville, Ohio are fair and good folks who do not believe that Obama is a terrorist because of his name or anything else about him.
Thousands of black Americans do not even know their real names. Before they were enslaved, they might have had Muslim sounding names too. It’s just a name. He hasn’t committed terrorism. Geez. People like Timothy McVeigh are terrorists, not Obama.
I fault McCain and Palin for allowing this rhetoric to run wild on their campaign trail. I have lost all respect for their tactics. I choose to exercise my patriotism and vote for the guy with the funny name, speaking about issues that matter to me.
Regardless of a few rotten apples though, this is still the best country in the world. God bless America!
October 10th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
what a bunch of dumb ass rednecks!!!!…they dont even know why or who thier voting for…..so fuckin sad.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Wow. Can’t believe these are Americans. I am from Nevada, but I truly believe that the majority of people in Strongsville, Ohio are fair and good folks who do not believe that Obama is a terrorist because of his name or anything else about him. Thousands of black Americans do not even know their real names. Before they were enslaved, they might have had Muslim sounding names too. It’s just a name. He hasn’t committed terrorism. Geez. People like Timothy McVeigh are terrorists, not Obama.
I fault McCain and Palin for allowing this rhetoric to run wild on their campaign trail. I have lost all respect for their tactics. I choose to exercise my patriotism and vote for the guy with the funny name, speaking about issues that matter to me.
Regardless of a few rotten apples though, this is still the best country in the world. God bless America!
October 10th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
ITS ALLLLLLL THE SAME TO ME. ELECTION AFTER ELECTION EVERY 4 YEARS A NEW CROOK IS ELECTED TO OFFICE. MCCAIN OR OBAMA, DOESNT MATTER. THE WHOLE THING IS ALWAYS FIXED AND THE GOVT NEVER EVER PROVIDES FOR ITS OWN. ALWAYS SOMEONE AND SOMTHING ELSE. YOU ARE ALLLLLLLL IGNORANT
October 10th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I am confident that the McCain/Palin hockey mom team will manipulate the average Joe to vote for them.
I sleep a little better knowing that the electors in the electoral college are the ones that have the last word in presidential elections.
I hope these people are smart, prudent, and willing to vote for what is right for this country.
Thank you all.
- From a non US citizen.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
GO MCCAIN-PALIN!!! MCCAIN FOR PRESIDENT!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
This video confirms why I am pro choice…
October 10th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
How is it that so many people are living in complete ignorance? Obama will be our president and these idiots think that the next commander in chief is a terrorist? How stupid are people? Intelligence is not required to vote in our country.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
I could take a video camere to Obama/Biden supporters and come out with just as many idiots as these some of these supporters are made out to be.
Truth is…Obama ead his books…he expresses hatred to white people. All he has ever done as a Senator is run for President. Therefore, someone must be funding him….under the table. There is no way he could have jumped Hilary if he wasn’t being furnished funds from some source not mentioned.
Biden is as two faced as possible. He was opposed to Obama…saying he wasn’t ready to lead. Bringing up the fact that he was a poor choice…now he can’t help but dring the koolaid with all the other idiot Democrats.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I feel really sorry for these people in this video. They look and sound pathetic and desperate. I would hate to be this miserable.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Go ahead and vote for Barack Obama. It wont be the end of the world. Just the end of the world as you know it
October 10th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I feel very sorry for these people. They look and sound pathetic and desperate. God help them–it sounds like they need it.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Go ahead and vote for Obama. It won’tbe the end of the world. Just the end of the world as you know it.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Well these are the same yahoo’s that voted for George Bush and then re-elected him. That explains everything right there.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
WHAT THE HELL ARE U PEOPLE THINKING!!!!
JOHN MCCAIN IS ANOTHER HORRIFYING VISION OF THAT BUSH… HEY ISN”T THAT NAME MUSLIM???? HA! THIS STUPID T-REX GUY IS JUST LYING SO U PEOPLE WILL VOTE FOR HIM!!! JUST BECAUSE OBAMA WANTS WORLD PEACE AND HIS LAST NAME HAPPENS TO RHYME WITH OSAMA DOESN”T MEAN HE IS A TERROIST. IT MEANS HE IS A BLACK PERSON WHO ACTUALLY CARES FOR EVERYONE!!JOHN MCCAIN WANTS TO RAISE TAXES, WASTE MONEY ON WAR LIFE TO PUT ALL THOSE FAMILIES IN IRAQ AT A SUFFERING POINT, AND JUST MAKE OUR LIVES THE SAME IN THIS FINANCIAL DISATER PERIOD! IT WILL APPEAR TO BE LIKE THE GREAT DEPRESSION IF JOHN MCCAIN WINS!!! So just think… and think good, who do u want to vote for… a t-rex or someone who wants change throughout a peaceful way and the t-rex declares a terrorist?? Let me just tell u, u will regret it if Mccain wins, u defenitly will regret that decision. But remember…
It’s all in ur hands.
Note- I am neither a democrat or a republican, instead I deeply observe the way the people truly are. And by the way, JOHN MCCAIN WAS THE ONE WHO STARTED INSULSTING OBAMA FIRST!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
It is funny how people judge one another. I didn’t go to college, I am a terrible speller and my grammar sucks. That does not mean that I am ignorant or uniformed. I watch the news, I read news articles, I listen to interviews and I watched the debates.
In my opinion, our country is in trouble no matter who wins. I have seen and heard things that inform me that McCain is more liberal then Obama. But, Obama is openly liberal.
Neither person has a truthfully honest track record. Both will destroy this country. The only question is which one will do it faster. You can only hope who ever wins the elections isn’t fast enough and we have time to get them out of office next election. That is assuming we have someone worth voting into office next time.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Oh my goodness! Strongville, Ohio has spoken, now I know why people say freedom of speech can be a dangerous right for some people. They scare me! The fact that they think Obama is a terrorist is very troubling? Do they think blacks should be slaves still?
October 10th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
these people are retarded they should stay in rural ohio. Sarah is not qualified for the job. We need chage and Mcain is not the man for that.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
John McCain is too old to be president. IF he did won the election, he probably wouldn’t even live throughout the four years he’ll be as president. Lets just face the truth. Barack Obama would make a better president then John McCain. Don’t even deny it, you know its the truth.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Barack inspires me. I have sent him hundreds of dollars and I’m a poor white guy. He offers hope to a people who feels the Bush administration has trashed our constitutional freedoms to promote a war that is unjust and killing thousands of Americans. When the Obama campaign calls me again, I will give them another $200. We need intelligent people to solve all these problems the Republicans have gotten us into.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I also live in Brunswick, Ohio = just south of Strongsville which is the southernmost city in Cuyahoga County – and with all due respect I doubt any of the people you interviewed are from Strongsville and many did not appear to be from Northern Ohio. I also doubt they had 7k people at that rally. I was driving in the area and the traffic was no worse than usual. To be honest I was surprised they had anyone show up. We considered going up to wave Obama signs but they held it during the day when most of us are working. Friends of mine indicate that Mrs. Palin was being protested up in Cleveland today during people’s lunch hours. You know I didn’t know we had a Ritz-Carlton until she came to it…hmmm.
October 10th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
this makes me mad. no these people make me mad. im a conservative i mean im prolife i actually ya no like bush except for the whole iraq war thing which was a mistake..but..i mean…but this…this is just…people who dont know anything…i dont even have the words to describe how i feel…just fkkk them. idk
October 10th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
These people are nuts and just hateful! They make me look forward to watching Saturday Night Live this weekend to see their “Sarah” (Tina Fey) make a fool of herself yet again. I’m pretty sure she’ll be well wishin to all of them Joe six-packs including those Neanderthals on the video.
October 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
‘Oh Dear’ writes:
stupid is a measure of intelligence. ignorance is a measure of a lack of education and knowledge. ignorance can be fixed. unfortunately, for these people, they don’t seem to WANT to correct their ignorance. they revel in it – they proudly shout it out – they wallow in it.
Does anything think she needs to be educated herself? She can’t even write a simple sentence yet she’s oh so knowledgeable about current events.
October 10th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Hey Dick!! Maybe you should teach some of those people from Ohio your technique then maybe they wouldn’t look like such dumb asses on video. Don’t hate the video man, obviousely not any smarter or different then the people he spoke to… Which were quite a few that had all similar things to say so it really doesn’t matter that there were 7 thousand or whatever, at least we know where most of there heads are at. Even with that said they were all adults and to wish death upon a man that could possibly become the next president?? Yeah what are they proving? For McCain to let this behavior go on is sickening…And if you think the people blogging on here are just as dumb then maybe you shouldn’t be blogging on here as well!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
WOWWWW
October 10th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
This is all, absolutly, rediculous! Barak is not a terroist. If you think he is, where is your proof? Barak is not who I would have voted for in the first place (Hilary was my first choice), but he is better suited for the position than McCain. Barak states his whole economical plan on his website. I have read it and it seems pretty solid (although, I am no professional). I know about ACORN and all the, supposed, bad things that Barak has done or been associated with, but on thing that really hits me the wrong way is McCain siding with Bush 90% of the time. Look where we are now and who our president is. If McCain is saying he is going to create change within the government/nation, voting with Bush 90% of the time is not the best way to start. Oh, and one more thing, Palin is a first time governor, what experience does she have? If for some reason McCain died after becoming president (hopefully not) look who would become our president. Palin would be so lost, she wouldn’t know left from right! McCain’s plan was to get women voters on his side by choosing Palin. The McCain, Palin campaign is not ready for the big leagues!
October 10th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
It is sad how these people think just because someone has a diverse background that they are terrorists. The only change that we need will come from Obama and the it is sad how the Republicans are so ignorant as shown in this clip.
October 10th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
WHAT A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Dude that was awesome! These are the people that are ruining America and you got them on tape! These ignorant sluts need to get their heads out of their Bibles and guns and actually read the issues, but unfortunately they can’t read anyway. Kudos for exposing the idiocy that is the base of the Conservative movement!
October 10th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Dude that was awesome! These are the people that are ruining America and you got them on tape! These ignorant sluts need to get their heads out of their Bibles and guns and actually read the issues, but unfortunately they can’t read anyway. Kudos for exposing the idiocy that is the base of the Conservative movement!!
October 10th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
WOW. thank you for posting this. The ignorance and anger these people portray is EMBARRASSING TO AMERICA! Thank GOD I live in a more liberal state than Ohio. What does Obama’s NAME have to do with ANYTHING?? Even if he WAS Islamic, what is the difference. Not every Muslim is a terrorist, you ignorant republicans. I honestly thought that this video was a joke at first. You all just publicly humiliated yourself on camera…especially Mindy Green. I cannot BELIEVE this is actually part of America! You all need to go back to HIGH SCHOOL and 1) learn to debate and 2) learn your current events! Did you even know that Palin was going through an investigation regarding Abuse of Power. Hopefully Obama can turn around this god forsaken state (though, thank you to the democrats in Ohio who can actually see 2 sides of a situation!) I can’t think of anything else to say because I am absolutely speechless and astounded that these people live in my country.
October 10th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Let the lovely, logical, loving Mindy Green know that you appreciate her role in the racial divisiveness of this election:
Green, M
17577 Whitney Rd, Apt 426
Strongsville, OH 44136-9413
(440) 891-1565
October 10th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I love these cherry picked people from the editing room “interviews”. It happens the same on the republican side also with people asking what Obama has ever done. deer in the headlights is all you get from people so these always make me laugh that the Obamabots will state the case that these few are what republicans are all about. Most people dont start payign attention to the presidential race untill a few months before the election. These people are still educating themselves. Instead of hitting them with questions and using them as a poster child for your political gain. why not have a dialog with them and tell them what Obama is all about so you can get there vote. I guess its better to portray these peoples passion as being uneducated for political gain.
All Obama has to do is explain his past and these people that everyone wants to jump on as uneducated will become educated. Obama, just stop hiding your past and avoiding all questions to it and then people wont have to assume things. People question his name and religion because he was registered in schools as a muslim. He is deeply assosiated to Ayers who is a domestic terrorist.
People do feel they know Palin more then Obama, that is those people clinging to there guns and religion, Palin is an average american with executive experience and she comes off looking just as such. They investigated Palin and found vwery little to even accuse her of much less anything to stick. People connect with that honest person. Obama portrayes himself as an elite who doesnt connect with the average person. People dont like that he sat in Wrights church for 20 years and only left when he was forced to so he didnt have to answer all the questions about him. People dont like that Ayers is just a guy that my kids go to school with(Obamas kids 20 years younger then Ayers)
People and including myself are afraid of what he will do to our country if he is elected. His policies are scary. 95% of tax payers wont see taxes go up? only 55% of us even pay taxes which means more welfare for more people. He wants to cut military spending and make us a weaker country. Healthcare is a “right”? Since when does the “right” of one person infidge on the rights of anyother person. Because you are sick doesnt give you the right to anyones else education, time and money. The basic freedoms do not do this, speech, bear arms, religion, assembly, petition and so on. He wants to take us dont a very socialist road that many americans are simply scared of. enough of that because Obamabots wont listen anyway.
This racist stuff has got to stop. Not everyone who disagrees with Obama is a racist. 80%+ of blacks are going to vote for Obama, does this make Blacks racist? 80% of whites are not voting for McCain. Maybe these people just dont believe in his Socialist views and his horrific and unexplained background. Is there peopel who will vote for Mccain because obama is black? yes. Are there people who will vote for Obama because he is black? yes. Racism isnt dead yet but it isnt apart of the presidential race because the 2 essentially cancel each other out and maybe abit of favor towards obama if there is any at all.
October 10th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
They all look like racist lower class absolutely pure idiots. Thats why the repubs are going to get their ass kicked. I bet none of them benefited from the Bush/McCain Republican era. I think they will prefer to live in poverty then vote for a BLACK MAN. I bet you all think I’m a black man, think again.
October 10th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
These people’s ignorance is glaring. It’s scary to think that we might have another incompatent president because the republicans woo the stupidest people in our society to vote for them. The video says it all.
October 10th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
I am not sure who’s more ignorant, the one asking the questions/or the replies. Is the interviewer serious, did he expect something different at a mccain-palin rally. The question should of been addressed in a different way, like: Did you hear B.O. was a terrorist? Lets face it, the man has been a senator for how long? How long has he been campaigning. This country is screwed if he takes office…..civil war days will be repeated…..
October 10th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Dont jump on the party, because both sides have people that act that way.
I should document and film people from lets just say.. Jersey City, NJ and ask them why they are voting for Obama.. you want to see ignorance… you’ll see ignorance ?!?
Its sad that a democrat has to put this stuff to try and deter McCain votes.. is that the best you can do ?
Learn your facts before you vote for Obama..
You know whats funny…. He’s comparing Obama’s years with Palin’s.. Try Obama McCain buddy…
You guys are the ignorant people.. Maybe it’ll take Obama in office to start pointing the right finger. Be smart.. educate yourselves… thanks =)
October 10th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
this site sucks a dick!
October 10th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
What a sad day for our country and for all Americans.
October 10th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I wanna thank you for what i just watched. its a shame people like that are still around these days. they need to be civilized and finally realize we need a change for the better not a change for worse. And that video clearly shows what the worst would be. And thats john mccain and sarah palin. please do the right thing! Barack Obama!!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Mob? I don’t think so at least as compared to what? Haven’t seen too many Democrat gatherings have you?
October 10th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
This is truly one of the frightening videos I have ever seen. Have these people stepped back a few decades, or what? With all the access Americans have to information and knowledge, you’d think they would be 1,000 times more intelligent! This is racism and prejudice to the fullest, and it is disgusting.
I hope as many people as possible bear witness to this footage. I have posted the link everywhere.
Sincerely,
LZ from NYC
October 10th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
I felt it was more like a Klan meeting then a political gathering to support the candidate. The person running for could just have well been some imbecile from an asembly line and the crowd would have defended his or her rights to be president.
It says something that is true even to today, it’s a white world and a mans world.
To me it sad to think we can not recognize a huan being for what they have a ccomplished in life instead of what color they were born under.
But for all those real americans who strive to make this a better country Obama will be the president and then maybe the rest of the world will see us thru different eyes
Thank You
October 10th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
It is always refreshing and funny to stumble on the internet on a guy who loves socialism, but has never lived in a communist country. They always seem to know all about the life and progress in a socialist country. Remarkable. By the way: The people on the video sound to me like reasonable and peaceful people. For a mob you need to take a look at the behaviour of the “liberal avantguarde” in Manhattan. Now this is the ultimate disgrace,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQalRPQ8stI
Frederik (b. in former Yugoslavia in late 1960s and moved to Hungary in 1980s – both socialist countries until 1991)
October 10th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Wow. Can’t believe these are Americans. I am from Los Angeles, but I truly believe that the majority of people in Strongsville, Ohio are fair and good folks who do not believe that Obama is a terrorist because of his name or anything else about him.
Thousands of black Americans do not even know their real names. Before they were enslaved, they might have had Muslim sounding names too. It’s just a name. He hasn’t committed terrorism. Geez. People like Timothy McVeigh are terrorists, not Obama.
I fault McCain and Palin for allowing this rhetoric to run wild on their campaign trail. I have lost all respect for their tactics. I choose to exercise my patriotism and vote for the guy with the funny name, speaking about the issues that matter to me.
Regardless of a few rotten apples though, this is still the best country in the world. God bless America!
October 10th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Not everyone is ignorant and a lot of people act the way they do by what you are taught when you grow up. But it is most definitely ignorant to call someone a terrorist based on a name alone. It’s also horrible to believe everything people will tell you just cause you want to hate a person who is black! Come on! let’s get with the truth here! That’s the main reason they’re upset and they do not want to acknowledge it as a race issue.
Cat Stevens changed his name and is he now a terrorist? I think not! But hey, this video gives an appropriate example of what is wrong with this country. Truthfully, I do NOT want to vote either Obama or McCain. I believe both of them are not worthy for the presidency, but I will choose the lesser of those two evils. Being someone who is open to all opinions, this video actually made me ashamed to be an American. And as for Ms. Palin. She is not a good representation of a woman! I am a female and she makes me ashamed of that too!
October 10th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Good job!
A must watch video for all the patriot Americans!!!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Mob? I don’t think so, or at least, compared what?
Haven’t you ever seen a Democrat rally before???
October 10th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Mob? I don’t think so, or at least, compared what?
Haven’t you ever seen a Democrat rally before???
Remember Chicago of 1968? And many more since then…
October 10th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I think this makes McCain’s campaign look pretty bad. And he’s a war hero so what. He screwed up saying and i quote: “We’re going to keep the ‘Ol Boy system together.”
October 10th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
honestly, this video is retarded, i dont care what you call me, ALL those people who are calling Barack Obama a terriost, are RACIST, notice how there all white? um yeah, not tryna be rude.e. but american will never accept a black president, im rooting for Obama 100%, but its just the truth, half oa america is racist and they will NOT accept a black president
i hope McCain looses, and his lil racist possy all die asap.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
honestly, this video is retarded, i dont care what you call me, ALL those people who are calling Barack Obama a terriost, are RACIST, notice how there all white? No i am not racist for saying that, none of you know me, but im just saying, there all white and racist. um yeah, not tryna be rudee. but american will never accept a black president, im rooting for Obama 100%, but its just the truth, half oa america is racist and they will NOT accept a black president
i hope McCain looses, and his lil racist possy all die asap.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
These people really disgust me. These people are the definition of ignorance. I pray to God that Obama wins this presidental race… God help us if he doesn’t.
To McCain-Palin
Support the Troops by giving them what they all really want.. to come back home to their families!Not spend the next 100 years fighting a lie!
By the way I am a military spouse.. Ive seen and heard alot things I should know first hand
McCain= another Bush
Obama= real change!!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
What are you afraid of? Really? Obama is no terrorist and I don’t think these people honestly believe that either. What you are seeing are these individuals at their worst, which is ashame. Abigger shame; go to a Democrat rally. Your’e seeing those people AT THEIR BEST!!!
Remember Chicago 1968? And current threats of future riots???
Please get real people….
October 10th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
People are entitled to their opinions. I believe McCain is the right choice, I feel like Obama preached change for the year that he went against Hilary, I mean I didn’t know what he was going to change till the economic issues. Now my father owns his own business, should he get taxed more because he is in the higher bracket? Seeing as he puts his own money back into the business, he doesn’t see that money that puts him there. To say Obama is a terrorist is just crazy talk. I don’t care about his religion, the color of his skin, his name, or his hair color. I think that he lacks the knowledge to get things done, or at least the things that he is preaching. He doesn’t understand foriegn policy as everyone saw in the debate. I think that his VP isn’t any better. He says what he feels, and what he feels changes more than the weather in London.
If you are all going to say that these people are ignorant for supporting Obama, then maybe I am ignorant as well, but if Obama is elected you all will see who is the ignorant one.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I guess the folks causing trouble in St. Paul at the RNC were typical Obama suporters?
I wonder if you have played back all the folks recorded here or maybe just a few allowing your desired slant?
Has anyone changed their minds after seeing this?
When was the first time you heard of McCain?
October 10th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Watching this made me furious. As a democrat living in New York and experiencing the affect and effects of Republican George W bush’s idiotic decisions I would definitely not vote for a republican. We need a change! After were getting the self absorbed dumass out of office do we really need another one. Mccains behavior is erratic and after being a POW for so many years he cannot be mentally stable. He has no respect for any one. He is a pompous ass; he depicts himself as so on the television. As for Obama he is educated and respectful. Mccain only speaks of his past; NO ONE is interested in his resume we are interested in how he plans to improve the economy and he cannot even answer our questions with full dignified responses. Mccain is the epitome of arrogance and ignorance. Those who vote for him will pay and feel it in their pockets and in front of them as they witness this country fall into a vast wasteland full of poor hungry people. If Mccain comes into office we are sure to become the minorities of the world. Listen to Mccains responses and listen to Obamas responses and you be the judge.
I support Obama all the way! This country is in need of change. We tried out the republicans for 8 years! Lets see what the Democrats can do!
October 10th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Nowwwwwwwwwwwww I see how this incompetent administration got voted into office-Twice? What is wrong with these people? Anybody want to buy some stocks? Wow!
October 10th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
This video won’t matter in a month when Barack Obama is president.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
It was clear as I watched the video that the guy with the camera was trying to bait the people passing by into saying something negative about Palin and McCain. What does it matter when anyone heard about Obama? The only thing that matters is not when but, what you hear about the politicans. Also even if someone heard about Obama before Palin it doesn’t mean he is a better candidate it just means he spends more time trying to get people to see him in the press. If someone is raised in a militant household then it’s almost impossible to change, this guy is what he was raised to be, a muslim. Besides all of this crap the fact remains that obama has no idea how run this country he’s to young no nothing about foreign policy and in the end he will probably get us all killed. By playing TV star instead of politician.
October 10th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Everyone wants change. Illinois wanted it, too, and we voted in a Democrat Governor who was elected a 2nd term. Unforutnately, this is NOT the kind of change we wanted. And Obama has ties to this Governor as well. Our own legislators can’t tolerate him … and we’re stuck with CHANGE. Think about it folks … is this the kind of change we want????
“House Democrats insist on language designed to prevent the Governor from overstepping his authority in creating rules to enforce the law. Senate Democrats have been equally insistent on giving the Governor free rein. The result? More than 200 measures are locked in limbo because the party in control of state government is out of control.
Unfortunately, the fight affects real people with real problems and in the case of this particular bill, it’s the 93,000 children in Illinois who suffer from serious food allergies who are the real victims in the petty gamesmanship that preoccupies Governor Blagojevich and his fellow Democrats.”
VOTE REPUBLICAN!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
~V~
what a bunch of lost souls….. too funny
~V~
October 10th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
This is sick. The rural areas of Ohio are where the homegrown terrorists are born!!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Yahtsy, a response: Cat Stevens changing his name does not make him a terrorist. Agreed! But the ideas expressed by Yusuf Islam himself show him to be an extremist sympathizer. Witness his condoning of the fatwa against Salmon Rushdie!
October 10th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Thank you for reminding me why I left the area — a historically white supremist stronghold — as soon as I was old enough. Watch your back and keep up the good work.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I’m sorry, but isn’t it identity politics that breeds divisiveness? And doen’t this ideology come from the Democratic Left?
And how is it that those who supposedly believe in desent and now all about “Unity”? Which in reality is the elimination of desent!
October 10th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
It makes me sick that in 2008 there is so many ignorant and rascist people in this country! To call Obama a terrorist because of his name! I was born on a US army base in Germany, so I guess that makes me a nazi? You must be kidding me!!!!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Wow. I can’t believe how ignorant half our country is. You know, scratch that. Those people aren’t ignorant. They’re stupid.
Keep up the good work!
October 10th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
I never write on blogs, but this issues is dangerous.What McCain and Palin are doing is racist.What people do not realize this can carry over into the public, nieghorhood and workplace.This is a time WE as Americas need to come together as a nation.People call Obama a terrorist.We Americas are the Biggest terrorists.
The sad thing is that these people know that they are relying on fear and hatred.If Obama was WHITE would be having this same issue.
HELL NO, RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
All these people are so RED NECK! they have not idea!!!!!!!!!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, skyrocketing, Federal spending, mortgage crises, bank foreclosures, etc. etc., this is an unusually critical election year.
Let’s look at the educational background of the candidates and see what
they bring to the job:
Obama:
Occidental College – Two years.
Columbia – University – B.A. political science with a specialization in
international relations.
Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Biden:
University of Delaware – B.A. in history and B.A. in political science.
Syracuse University College of Law – Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
McCain:
United States Naval Academy – Class rank 894 out of 899!!
(Meaning tha t, like George Bush, McCain was at the bottom of his class!!! )
Palin:
Hawaii – Pacific University – 1 semester
North Idaho College – 2 semesters – General Studies
University of Idaho – 2 semesters – Journalism
Matanuska – Susitna College – 1 semester
University of Idaho – 3 semesters – B.A. in journalism
Now, which team are you going to hire to lead the most influential
nation in the world?
Please send this information to all your friends, family and colleagues who can
and will be voting!
October 10th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Are these people drunk? To me they honestly seem drunk.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Were they serving alcohol at this rally? Many of these people seem drunk.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
These people are a waste of space. Listen to that poor scared woman do anything to rally these folks. Palin said Obama needs to respect John McCain’s service? If you are following this race remotely you’d know Obama has a lot of respect for John McCain, unlike the man himself and his candidate for Obama. “that one” “he’s associated with terrorists”
wake your minds up
these people are a waste of space and need to see the world or just, jeez, bite the dust…because America has made them stale.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I am shocked that there are people freely walking the streets of this country with such ignorance and fear in their hearts. They totally resemble the cowards that make up the KKK. I pray that they evolve into the same century with the rest of us. What are they really so afraid of?
October 10th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
To Andrea, You wear your so-called shame as a cloak of pride. You are transparent!
October 10th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
I think there are ignorant people in both parties. Please don’t be judgmental of one vs the other.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
I think it is funny that people settled for two people that really don’t care about any of us. The fact that so many people actually think these wealthy people know anything about 80% of the country is sad. The people in this video are ignorant to even think a name has anyhting to do with “terrorists.” Maybe you should look at your leaders and see what they are doing to this country. You can’t trust any of them if you ask me. But what do I know… I am just another stupid human following the rest of the cattle to their death. And also…. we are the “best of the best” but we can’t find one person who is suppose to be a “terrorist”. Just remember you gov’t game them their weapons and their training…. but then again. We are the evil empire. Pushing our ways on other cultures and expecting them to believe in this “christian” society. Just remember when you can’t afford to but your kids clothes…they are wiping their asses with the money you gave them. But don’t fret…eventually we will all be dead and it won’t matter anyway.
Violent gov’t bring voilent people…. stupid gov’t seems to breed stupid people… but whatever..
October 10th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
ha ha ha Look how stupid McCain supporters are!!!!! ha ha ha
October 10th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
These People are not stupid or Ignorant about Barack Obama,he is a Muslim. remmenber 1968,1972,1979,1980,1983,1985,1988,1993,1998,9/11/2001,2002,In those years American people were blown up,airplanes and world trade center were blown up buy Muslim Males,did everybody forgetabout this. remenber Barack Obama is a male Muslim.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:00 pm
What I want to know is how can a person with the name OBAMA, after all the trauma this country has endured since 2001 with the name Osama, run for President? That is really really weird. And I think this is confusing people. And it makes you wonder. I mean on the one hand MAYBE Obama is a genuine candidate, maybe he’s not, and it’s new to us to see a multiracial candidate…so what. And McCain, you have got to be kidding, he scares me, isn’t he ready to retire? I like Palin but she’s too fresh off the plank. She reminds me of my aunt. She’s smart and smirky but no VP. What a quandry. What are we going to do? I mean seriously, everyone is in a quandry, no? Let’s think about what this really means which is that God help us whoever gets elected but I think as we roll along here we’re going to be steering our government a little more assertively than in the past and things will change. Bottom line, WE ARE AMERICA!!! Let’s have our voices heard! Ya know?
October 10th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
As a tenth-generation American whose people were among the founders of America, I am profoundly grateful for the exposure of these “ugly Americans” whose behavior is un-American! Senator McCain, once an honorable American has been diminished to the slithering level. How sad for America that we have to tolerate this visceral display by “ugly Americans!”
Those educated Americans who think cerebrally are supporting Senator Obama who has remained ‘cool” in the face of the pernicious attacks by the uneducated Americans who act and behave in a very visceral manner. They can’t help it, they are products of their environment. These tragic characters don’t deserve to live in AMERICA – HOME OF THE BRAVE AND LAND OF THE FREE!
Chagrined
October 10th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Well this video shows the type of people that will vote for McCain/Palin in November, uneducated morons! GO Obama! WE NEED THE CHANGE!!
October 10th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
What kind of question was that:”How long ago have you heard of Obama?”Well, how long ago have you heard of Osama? It doesn’t mean that it makes sense to vote for him just because he’s been around longer.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Go McCain…I’m all for poverty, $5/gal of gas, losing Social Security and Communism. Kill the poor people, Go rich, keep getting richer!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
What kind of question was that:”How long ago have you heard of Obama?”Well, how long ago have you heard of Osama? It doesn’t mean that it makes sense to vote for him just because he’s been around longer .
October 10th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
People DO NOT let the main stream media nor all of these paid pro-obama bloggers persaude you into voting for obama. He IS in fact a liar a theif a socialst and most importantly he IS Kenya born. If he were not, why does he not bring forth a certified copy of his vaulted birth certificate? His campagin posted a bogus copy of his bc on factcheck.org (which is run by obama) but too many people are starting to see the truth on this phony. Do your home work people, the truth is all over the internet you just have to look for it. NO obama NO way…. McCain/Palin 08
October 10th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Why are the people filming the video comparing Barack Obama with Sarah Palin? Palin is not running for president? Compare Presidential candidate record with Presidential candidate record! I don’t understand! Sarah Palin is not running for President. However, if she were, I would still consider her experience to Barack Obama’s because they are comparable. However, one of them is not running for President and Commander in Cheif of our Military.
Richard.
USMC. Semper Fi!
October 10th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
NEW WORLD ORDER IS HERE AMERICA WAKE UP IT BEEN IN THE PLANS FOR OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS WATCH THIS AND KNOW THE TRUTH…
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
October 10th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Commander John McCain USN, Ret. VS. Barrack Hussein Obama community organizer. If Barrack Hussein Obama is so proud of his name, why did he go by Barry, before his political days. Why is he associating with an unrepentant domestic Terrorist William Ayers? Why are the corrupt people(Franklin Rains) at Fannie Mae, his housing advisors. Your reputation isn’t any better than the company you keep?
October 10th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
The question about how long have you know Palin and how long have you known Obama is pretty dumb..seeing how one is running for PRESIDENT and one is for vice president..I would hope that you have heard of the presidential canident before the VP…bad reporter
October 10th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
First of all, why are you comparing Obama to Palin… I thought McCain was running for President.
A better question to ask is: When did you first hear about John McCain and when did you first hear about Barack Obama.
or
When did you first hear about Joe Biden and when did you first hear about Sarah Palin.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
The reason that Mcain is going after Obama at the end like this is because he is runnning out of time. He has gone as low as to basically refere to him as a terrorist. He didnt say it himself but he knew that if he put the thought in his supporters heads that they would run with it. He knows that the word terrorist scares the hell out of Americans so he’s pulling out all the stops because now he’s behind in the polls by 10%. I cant believe how dumb that blond was acting. She acted like she was on something. Everyone is entiltled to there own opinion. If you are voting for McCain so be it. If you are voting for Obama thats your choice. Thats the great thing about America. However I dont think that Obamas a terrorist and I think McCain is dirty for putting that in peoples heads.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
It never seems to amaze me at the way we cover up hatred to prevent the world around us from see who we really are. What really tickles my fancy is that most of these people are the so called Evangelical types.
GOD bless america and damn everyone elese who don’t think or act like we do. Hmmm..makes me wounder that if there is a GOD and he’s omni-pontent…then the people in this video are in a world of trouble.
Well maybe they will blame it on the devil and get a pass for there failure to see pass reason. All said and done. This is nothing new. Of course we have those same crazies on the Obama side as well. But one thing stands out from them. Racisim is not part of the equation (you have a full mix of type there Blacks, whites, hispanic, Asian etc).
This is what i get for serving my country. Now i know why the Rev Wright felt the way he does. But how do you think those same blacks from WWII must have felt when they return to this Blessed Country.
Love and Peace
October 10th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
You were obviously baiting these people. They do not think he is a terroist, but that is what you wanted them to say and egged them on to say. He DOES associate with terroists and other known radicals. What does it matter when we heard of Sarah Palin or Barack Obama? Sarah has a record and so does Barack. He associates with people of dubious character who hate America and also criminals like the land developer, Tony Rezko, in Chicago that is going to jail and helped Barack purchase his house. Bill Ayers had a party at his house for Obama when Barack began his political career. He associates and has worked with ACORN who is being investigated for voter fraud in Ohio and gave him $800,000 to distribute. Don’t you have one little worry about his background? Or is promoting the liberal agenda paramount no matter who you have to accept to get a liberal in the White House. You baited those people, the Republicans do not have a lock on naivete. You got the sound bite you wanted and baited them to say. You are very sick, my friend that you must stoop to this to try and discredit Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin by tricking maybe not the brightest people in to saying what you wanted them to and then posting it on the internet. I could get the same results at an Obama rally. You are riduculous!
October 10th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
this video makes me sad. that one lady that keeps showing up….just popping out of nowhere. like the part where she asks you how long you have heard of Barack and you say 4 years. Then she goes and says yes, exactly… that was weird, that didn’t even make sense. she scares me. where do they get their information anyways? from what mccain and palin tell them? no matter what side you’re on, the politicians are gonna lie. you gotta do your own research and not rely on the news if you don’t trust them. but seriously. i just wanna hit them upside the head cause their freaking racist. oh he’s a terrorist because of his name. they are ignorant for thinking like that. i hope mccain and palin have enough respect for themselves not to spread bull crap like that.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I believe these people are just plan ignorant dont know what they are talking about. Its ignorant people like these people who voted for Bush and now look at the country in horrible condition. Now Mccain talks about keep the same policies as Bush but states there is change and Palin is a nobody shes the govenor of Alaska who cant even answer questions correctly she only has supporters due to popuparity and not facts. I’ve Watch both debates and Democrats have slain the republicans. Half of the time Palin made wrong remarks on what is going on. I beleive the people on this video are ignorant rascist for them to say Obama is a terrorist because his name is plain stupidity so what your telling me that everyone whose name is Timothy is a terrorist because of the oklahoma bomber? I tell you ignorance is here to stay.
October 10th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
These people are idiots, and show the TRUE Republican personality. This is exactly why we need not continue their stay in the White House. Ignorant Idiots!!!!
October 10th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Sample bias at its finest. I could have easily answered the questions of the interviewer and posed a few to him! Just because you have a degree in journalism doesn’t put you in a position to pass judgement or even imply a significant level of intelligence! Believe it or not, some of us ARE intelligent AND patriotic. I would match my educational credentials with the narrator of this tripe any day of the week. Only an ignorant, misguided FOOL would support a SOCIALIST, MUSLIM, LIBERAL, INEXPERIENCED candidate for President of the United States simply because of the color of his skin! There is even doubt asw to whether he is even ELIGIBLE to run for President due to questions arising about his birth certificate, but the DNC will tie up the court’s ability to discover the truth in this matter untilo it is too late. The Romans were right when they stated “first, kill all of the lawyers”! When you are huddled in a circle around a campfire trying to find yourself something to eat and protect yourself against roving bands of predators because your “messiah” Obama and his policies have thrown this country into anarchy and total bankruptcy, enjoy being liberal and continue to mollycoddle your enemies! THOSE WHO IGNORE HISTORY ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT IT.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Hi Tim.
I’m a journalist, a blogger, and an American citizen raised in Canada. So it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that when I vote in the US, I vote Democrat, and mourn the fact that there isn’t an option further to the left.
I admire what you’re trying to do, and your guts in facing such a keyed-up crowd. However, I think that you are sabotaging yourself.
The videos you put together would be fantastic if we knew without a doubt that they had not been edited, or that the comments you included were representative of all the comments you received (rather than simply the most sensational comments).
But your word that this is the case will not be enough. Anyone who isn’t a die-hard Obama supporter will wonder.
That’s why I challenge you to post the unedited version of the video. Then, the video would truly stand for itself. Not everyone would watch it, but some would, and they could verify that you have realistically depicted the rally.
Despite your disdain for what the journalistic profession has become (a feeling shared to varying degrees by many journalists), I do not believe that the ideals of journalists and bloggers are so different from each other. You proudly call yourself a blogger in a subsequent post, but IF you are picking and choosing what you publish to give a false impression, then there is another name for what you are: a propagandist. I do not believe that a partisan blogger need be a propagandist, but clearly, the two CAN overlap. Please, vindicate the faith of your readers in you and show the world that you are more than a propagandist. Or, admit that you were picking and choosing the interviews you included in the video, tell us why, and tell us why you feel that it is a good thing to do it. Be transparent.
Good luck, in any event, with your blog. I do think that videos of this sort are extremely valuable; I’m just concerned about what your methodology may be, and would like reassurance that what you’re showing us is representative.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
You know I think its really ignorant for people to be fighting about “how long you know someone” Barack Hussien Obama is a very crooked man .. I am not a “staunch Republican” I am prolife. I can honestly tell you that since Barack is into abortions I cannot stand behind this man and his campaign. Long LIVE SARAH PALIN!!! Don’t you people have anything better to do with your time?
October 10th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Ok, we can sit here and argue back and forth about politics and weather or not Obama has ties with terrorist. Lets put this all aside and look at this from a totally different side. I will try to put it in simple terms.
If any of you owned a shoe manufacturing company and employed 25,000 people, who would you hire as the next CEO to run your company? Would you hire a head hunter to find the best CEO from within all other shoe manufacturing competitors or would you go hire a preacher lawyer who speaks well and tells all your employees what they want to her. Take into account the preacher lawyer does not even wear shoes.
I for one would seek out the very best in the shoe manufacturing industry, research his background, make sure he had a proven track record as a leader and builders of successful shoe manufacturing companies, a man with character and a man that would represent my company well. His wife and family would also play a considerable part in my decision process because as they say the apple does not fall far from the tree. This man would need to be charismatic but yet be a ruthless SOB behind closed doors. Under this mans guidance we may stand a better chance of making and selling better shoes.
Now lets look at the USA. We are nothing more than the worlds strongest and largest company. Politics and government are all about power, money and control. This company employs 300 million people and is in deep trouble. Do I hire the preacher lawyer or the ruthless, charismatic shoe manufacturing CEO from the best company out there. If you chose the preacher lawyer your shoe manufacturing days will soon be over and so will our USA company with it’s 300 million employees.
Personally I think we should all be ashamed of ourselves for having so little to choose from on both sides. At least a candidate like Romney had some business experience, he fit the profile and may have done a good job. When I hear that he failed because of his Mormon background, it brings chills down my spine. I never heard a Mormon killing others in the name of religion and the USA is not at war with Mormons.
It is clear to me that Obama and or his family have Moslem ties, maybe just a small percent but still there. I never heard another USA presidential candidate that can reside the Koran (Qur’an). Where is his money coming from? (Answer) From Middle East supporters ( but I guess that should be of no concern to any of us considering our beliefs and position in the Middle East).
I ask myself one simple question, how can this country, government and CIA sit around and be a part of this. I really have no answer. I sometimes think that they know we are in so much trouble that nobody can save it before it get’s worse. I figure they will let him take over office, finish screwing it all up over the next four years and then come in with a killer candidate in 2012 to be the heroes. I can see the advertising saying, You wanted change? well you got it but for the worse. Now lets change back to being real Americans.
My predictions are that things will get much worst. The war will not only not end but things will get worst. Other countries will get involved and the Middle East crisis will lead to the inevitable. Israel will be at risk and who knows what the outcome will be. If Middle East countries feel they have a foot in our back door they will be more aggressive and compelled to do as they please. I for one am worried about our future.
Albert
October 10th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
These people are ignorant. This is truly what ignorance looks like. Giving “Facts” that are not facts and forming strong opinions on what somebody’s mom’s cousin’s brother told you because your’e too stupid to do your own research LOL I’m from Mingo Co. WV so trust me if you want to get some good footage you should go there. It would blow these people out of the water!!!! So so sad. This is why no matter how much progress we make we’re still gonna be behind.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Great — if scary — video. Keep doing what you’re doing…
October 10th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
How can anyone defend such ignorance? Since McCain/Palin ticket is losing, they have reverted to slander thus reinforcing some “questionable” background. They keep throwing stuff out there and hoping something sticks. He + his running mate continue to add that doubt in their rhetoric. (ABC interview w/ McCain 10/9/08) If this were the 1960’s, Obama would be tagged a communist. SAME MENTALITY. Those people in that video have bought into that enemy terrorist label, republikan party reinforces it. As a world traveler, i have witnessed many ideas and cultures. Are those people gearing up for the Jerry Springer show? I AM READY FOR A WELL COMPOSED INTELLIGENT DIPLOMATIC PRESIDENT particularly after the 8 year Bush/Chaney/republican administration disaster. GO OBAMA!
October 10th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
The Blogger’s inflamatory insults towards the persons on his video are unjustified. His questions are irrelevant. Obama is running against McCain, not Palin. Most people would be able to answer that they had heard of McCain for many years before they ever heard of Obams and they would be able to state that Obama has no experience to prepare him to be President of the United States. The Blogger did not dare to ask the people about Senator McCain’s experience versus Senator Obama’s experience.
These attendees have a valid concern when a candidate for President of the United States has an admitted domestic terrorist as a supporter and associate. Bill Ayers did hold a fund raiser for Obama in his home. They did serve on boards together. Hillary Clinton raised this issue. Good judgement in selecting one’s contributor’s is key in the person who becomes President. There is no excuse which can be made for this association.
October 11th, 2008 at 12:51 am
WOW……WOW !!! So sad to see this. Yes Im black… and this has that “Get out of here N*gger” feel to it. The blonde lady realized that the guy filming this made her look like a complete fool… so she gets mad and keeps jumping in front of the camera (making herself look even more foolish) And the guy with the cardboard sign…LOL ..”When did you first hear about Obama…….NEVER” CLASSIC.
These White people sound like your modern day Lynch Mob.The thing that keeps me from getting upset at videos like these is the fact that MANY MANY MANY Whites are voting for OBAMA and looking past color.,,, AWESOME !! I wont let a few ignorant folks ruin the big picture of this Historic time. You have to really look at yourself in the mirror if the only reason you dont like a person is because of their name. WOW…. this video is priceless !
October 11th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Obama kicks McCains ass.
If you vote mccain, there is a 99.9% more chance that you will die.
October 11th, 2008 at 1:17 am
This footage assures us that hatred and violence are not too far off in the distance in 2008. Kinda looks like the Whites in the rural south during the late 40’s and 50’s just prior to the Civil Rights Movement. Better wake up America!!!! We lahd better learn to live together as friends or we will die apart as fools. Don’t you think Al Qaeda is watching all of this divisive madness????????/
October 11th, 2008 at 2:12 am
God Help us all! racism in America is still as strong as it was 50 years ago. These people on the tape should have worn white sheets. this was no political meeting more a klan rally. the neocons have done more damage to this great country in eight years than any terrorist cell or country could ever do. that poor girl sounded like a drunken highschool cheerleader who’s team has lost the big game, rallying up the rest of the drunken cheerleaders to say how there team really won the game even though the facts show other wise. and wanting to hurt,fight even kill anyone who might tell her otherwise. at least while she is safe in her gang of like minded chear leaders.
some people only see the world from behind their white picket fence, the churches they attend where everyone looks sounds and acts like them. they are frightened by the thought of people of different color and culture then theirs. and respond to that by them verses us mentality.
the republicans love to feed these people that “them” vs “us” feed these ingnorant people enough misinformation to make them dangerous.
we must learn from our past or we will be doomed to repeat it.
mcain and palin should be held to account for the propaganda and lies they are spreading. spreading these lies to people who think like this is a very dangerous thing to do.
I pray for our country and the safety of our next President….Barack Obama
October 11th, 2008 at 5:12 am
Even if it wasn’t for his race (which I see as a major issue as I do not believe I can be adequately represented by somebody who cannot understand and appreciate the ‘white experience’) I still wouldn’t vote for Obama because he is a vicious hate-monger, he will prove very divisive to the nation, and he is vehemently opposed to large sections of the Constitution (Amendments 2, 9, and 10). He will probably prove to be the worst president ever, far in excess of the horrible job that Bush has done over the last eight years, and that would require quite a bit of effort in actively bungling things.
I won’t vote for McCain because he is just another big government liberal who belongs to a different party which subscribes to an identical foreign policy and anti-Constitutional platform, with the only differences being in minor cosmetic issues. They blabber on about queer rights, people flying a flag they love, how far along into a pregnancy before it’s too far, and they totally ignore the fact that our nation is being swamped by the dregs of the Third World as our borders are open wider than a New Orleans prostitute. Not to mention the fact that we are coming up to a point where it will be eight years in Afghanistan and five in Iraq, all with basically nothing to show for the effort.
In short, our politicians are all either fiddling while the nation burns, or they are helping to fan the flames.
America doesn’t need the leadership of a race-baiting demagogue who simply spins a lot of crap about “change” in the hope that people haven’t read his trite-filled manifesto or that they won’t look into his past and see who he associates with.
Likewise, America cannot afford the leadership of a man who is a mere clone of George W Bush, accompanied by a woman who is every bit the female version of Dick Cheney. Palin is nothing more than a power hungry war-mongering evangelical, a tongue talking power-abusing Pentecostal, who believes she can help usher in the end-times by steering foreign policy in a direction of war.
The only real choice for small, responsible, and responsive government was Ron Paul, but the people rejected him because the people are so far gone they are no longer able to recognize decent and honest leadership when they see it.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Even if it wasn’t for his race (which I see as a major issue as I do not believe I can be adequately represented by somebody who cannot understand and appreciate the ‘white experience’) I still wouldn’t vote for Obama because he is a vicious hate-monger, he will prove very divisive to the nation, and he is vehemently opposed to large sections of the Constitution (Amendments 2, 9, and 10). He will probably prove to be the worst president ever, far in excess of the horrible job that Bush has done over the last eight years, and that would require quite a bit of effort in actively bungling things.
I won’t vote for McCain because he is just another big government liberal who belongs to a different party which subscribes to an identical foreign policy and anti-Constitutional platform, with the only differences being in minor cosmetic issues. They blabber on about queer rights, people flying a flag they love, how far along into a pregnancy before it’s too far, and they totally ignore the fact that our nation is being swamped by the dregs of the Third World as our borders are open wider than a New Orleans prostitute. Not to mention the fact that we are coming up to a point where it will be eight years in Afghanistan and five in Iraq, all with basically nothing to show for the effort.
In short, our politicians are all either fiddling while the nation burns, or they are helping to fan the flames.
October 11th, 2008 at 5:27 am
I can’t, at times, even imagine either of these candidates being our President. When are we going to get someone in office who actually cares about the AMERICAN people and the struggles we all face on a daily basis? I have a hard time believing either of them, as I have any in the past. They care more about bashing eachother and making empty promises than they do being honest about what they really plan on doing while in office. Hatred is something that will never cease, no matter what country you live in. There are ignorant people all over the place in this country, with one track minds. If you’re a Democrat you vote the same and visa-versa. It’s rediculous. I can’t wait for the day when I can actually have FAITH in someone running for office, no matter what side they are on. I don’t care if they are black, white, yellow, green or any color of the rainbow. I just want to feel safe, secure and proud. I don’t at this time and it’s truly frightening. I don’t think either candidate will make us feel this way but hopefully one day we’ll have someone who will actually do some good for this country of hard working, honest and good people. When that day will come, who knows.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Democrats, or so called liberals, are not tolerant of those who disagree with them. It seems that, whenever a person does not support a Democratic candidate, many from the ‘party of tolerance’ begin name calling and describe those who disagree as hateful, mean spirited, and ignorant. Apparently, many so called liberals do not truly believe that all Americans have the right to their own opinions and freedom of speech.
It is increasingly disturbing that Democrats are also using the race card to attempt to force their views on others. If a person does not believe that Senator Obama has the best experience for the job of President of the United States, it does not mean that person is a racist. If a person does not agree with the policy proposals of Senator Obama, it does not mean that person is a racist. If a person is concerned about Senator Obama’s suitability as Commander in Chief it does not mean that person is a racist. If a person is questioning some of Senator Obama’s ties to people like Bill Ayers and Reverand Wright, it does not make that person a racist. If a person has always voted Republican, it does not make that person a racist.
It is possible that the people who are shouting racism, are doing so because they are racist. Additionally, how can either a caucasion or African American person be racist towards Senator Obama since he is biracial. He does have a caucasian mother and a Kenyan father.
It seems wrong to attack people as racist or evil just because they have different views.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:44 am
janet:
Ok….I’ll take your word on that and not attribute the named negative characteristics of the people in the video, provided you give the reason for their uninformed replies and reactions in the video.
Until then, I think you’ve scratched the surface of describing these folks….
** OBAMA / BIDEN 2008!! **
October 11th, 2008 at 8:56 am
These people are maybe coming to the realization that an African-American man just MIGHT be the next president of the USA. All of the comments are fear driven. Just what do they think is going to happen to them if he is elected? Perhaps what has been done to minorities forever……Barrack appears to be a fair and just man. Come on people–put your scare flags away. There is nothing to be afraid of except perhaps; REAL CHANGE.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:03 am
These are the people that scare me …. its like their drones … brainwashed to hate what they don’t understand …. I feel that most McCain/Palin supporters are just going to vote for them, because thats what they were raised to understand. My neightbor knows nothing about any of the candidates, but is voting for McCain because she feels Obama is a muslim. When was he a muslim? as a child or because if his dad? My dad was a bigotted back woods redneck from Alabama, does that make me that as well … NO! ….My 16 year old know more about politics than most people. I wish she could vote Thanks for this video !
October 11th, 2008 at 9:15 am
So I wouldn’t call George Bush or McCain a terrorist even though in the media it was pronounce that it would be good for John McCains campaign if there was an act of terrorism. I wouldn’t call George Bush or McCain a terrorist because when they went to Iraq they found no weapons of mass destruction and slaughtered innocent women and children. I thought the Al-Quida was in Pakistan and in Afghanistan?
I wouldn’t call George Bush or McCain a terrorist even after 911 they are still doing business with the bin-laden family and even have there children and family living freely in America. I wouldn’t call George Bush or McCain terrorist even though across the street in front of the white house there is a park full of homeless veterans suffering because there was no support for them when they came home and are constantly ignored. I wouldn’t call George Bush or McCain a terrorist even though they left us in a vunerable financial position where they american Dollar grow weaker everyday hmm lets see who are the real terrorist?
October 11th, 2008 at 9:25 am
In this particular video, I think the Blogger pieced it together, looking for sound bites he could use to embarass the McCain supporters. He asked an unusual question comparing how long the people had known about Governor Palin versus Senator Obama. Senator Obama is running against Senator McCain and he should have been asking them to compare specifics between those two candidates. It seemed like the people felt baited and some walked away while others perhaps responded in aggravation.
In a calmer moment they may have responded differently if they felt they were being asked serious questions.
Of course, I acknowledge that there are some people on both sides of every issue who are uneducated and prejudiced. It is just not always everybody on the opposition’s side.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:41 am
I first heard of Satin 55 years ago. Does that mean he should be Pres. What an idiot you are.
You do not invite a fox to into your henhouse and you DO NOT invite a man who has relatives that are at war with you to lead the war against them.
Are you people insane?.
The fact that he has ANY supporters in this country just shows the world how much stupidity there is in this country.
It just makes me ill.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:00 am
I bet they all have white sheets in the back of their hillbilly trucks too.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:59 am
I watched this video and I can only think “where do these people come from?” I have met plenty of McCain supporters but these citizens scare the hell out of me. Did they just come up out of their bomb shelters or something to attend the rally? The GOP supporters I know may be conservative but they are not crazy and these folks are angry nut-jobs.
October 11th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
When was the first time you ever heard of Jim Belushi? So you feel you know Jim Belushi better than Barach Obama?
October 11th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
When was the first time you ever heard of Jim Belushi? So you feel you know Jim Belushi better than Barach Obama? LOL
October 11th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
No wonder the Wallstreet wizards can rip off the entire country with no fear of any kind of punishment. Just look at what constitutes the “American People” these days. Christ, it’s like taking candy from a kid. They are rabidly sticking up for the very party that has ripped them off, screwed them out of free health care, ruined our country’s reputation, wasted the lives of our brave young men and women, and laughed all the way back to their private planes, private islands, and private security. No wonder the Nazi’s had such an easy time of it.
October 11th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Republicans, in general, are a very scarry bunch. Misinformed, immature, emotional, mean spirited. I’ve got mine, & I want to keep it- the heck with anybody that wants to help those that need help. Power hungry, corrupt, decietful. I don’t want to be associated with those whom are foolish enough to support the Angry Old Man Mccain, his vile wife, or his crazy running mate palin. I’ll never vote for a republican until they fix their problems. & they’ve got a bunch of problems.
October 11th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Republicans, in general, are a very scary bunch. Misinformed, immature, emotional, mean spirited- mostly clueless. I’ve got mine, & I want to keep it- the heck with anybody that wants to help those that need help. Power hungry, corrupt, decietful. I don’t want to be associated with those whom are foolish enough to support the Angry Old Man Mccain, his vile wife, or his crazy running mate palin. I’ll never vote for a republican until they fix their problems. & they’ve got a bunch of problems.
Worst of all, they fill up media time with repetive, untrue propaganda- obviously they’re out of worthwhile things to talk about, lets tune them out en-masse-
October 11th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
This Video is great you have uninformed voters. hahaha. (That’s Sarcasm!)How about all the people voting for Obama because he is 1. Black 2. Not an Old White man or 3. He is not a republican (AKA George W. Bush.
People need to inform themselves on both of the candidates. Look into their policies, former associates and works. If you ask these same questions at an Obama rally you will probably here GWB mentioned 1000 times and here very little about Obama’s policies making America a better place. His rhetoric is to bash the right and separate himself from them while making bigger and bigger government to police everyone especially those opposed to his views. If he God forbid wins America will have to suffer a larger Government and more handouts across the board.
October 11th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
This Video is great you have uninformed voters. hahaha. (That’s Sarcasm!)How about all the people voting for Obama because he is 1. Black 2. Not an Old White man or 3. He is not a republican (AKA George W. Bush.
People need to inform themselves on both of the candidates. Look into their policies, former associates and works. If you ask these same questions at an Obama rally you will probably here GWB mentioned 1000 times and here very little about Obama’s policies making America a better place. His rhetoric is to bash the right and separate himself from them while making bigger and bigger government to police everyone especially those opposed to his views. If he God forbid wins America will have to suffer a larger Government and more handouts across the board.
October 11th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
I genuinely am proud of Mccain for standing up and letting the people know that Obama is a decent family man.It seemed as Mccain realized that things were getting nasty and he was ashamed of it. This group of supporters had rage in their eyes, and I must say Sarah Palin created it for them. I do not believe that the crowd in this video were supporter of Mccain but rather Palin.
If only Mccain had picked anyone else rather than Palin, none of this would have happened. what is Palin gonna do when she is in office, allow her husband to make decisions for her? I WILL ALWAYS HAVE RESPECT FOR MCCAIN, AND PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD WILL COME TO REALIZE THAT SARAH PALIN RUINED MCCAIN.
vote respectfully for the future of America. People need to realize WE DONT LIVE IN THE EARLY 1900’s anymore. racism creates hate, fear and domestic terrorist.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I love this great racist country who thinks Obama is a terriorist. And for the old lady who called Obama and Arab, racism will never go away, because the elders teach the young and the young execute what was being taught. Voting for someone who is the same race as you are is wrong! period, but it will happen. i dont see how america can remain being a country we all want to live in, when people can’t/wont get along because of are skin. Why does that make america so great? Our economy sucks, we have homless people laying in the streets of our most wealthiest cities, and racism so bad that even when a man tells the american people where he is from, he’s still called an arab? Or run slander ads against a person? Why would we even want to have someone in the white house who is vindictive like that? America is trying to become a great nation, but until we can come together and end all the hate, and discontent for each other, and lend a helping hand to ALL Americans we wont be a great nation, we’ll just be another nation, with out God and no liberty and unjustice for all.
October 11th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I love this great racist country who thinks Obama is a terriorist. And for the old lady who called Obama and Arab, racism will never go away, because the elders teach the young and the young execute what was being taught. Voting for someone who is the same race as you are is wrong! period, but it will happen. i dont see how america can remain being a country we all want to live in, when people can’t/wont get along because of are skin. Why does that make america so great? Our economy sucks, we have homless people laying in the streets of our most wealthiest cities, and racism so bad that even when a man tells the american people where he is from, he’s still called an arab? Or run slander ads against a person? Why would we even want to have someone in the white house who is vindictive like that? America is trying to become a great nation, but until we can come together and end all the hate, and discontent for each other, and lend a helping hand to ALL Americans we wont be a great nation, we’ll just be another nation, with out God and no liberty and unjustice for all
October 11th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
This is what happens when your mother and your sister are the same person. Geez.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
As I sit at my computer reading some of the spewed bile that comes from the eminates from the “patriotic Americans” claiming not to harbor racial bias, I feel justified in telling my 18 year old son and 18 year god/stepdaughter that people are just functional. Too many are indeed stupid ( especially ‘disgruntled voter’, which leads me to ask – what in Heavens name is the ‘….white experience…? Oh, maybe it is the experiences we’ve just had with this disgusting Republican “regime”, where we in America have had many of our freedoms trampled on in the name of “Homeland Security”).
I am not happy with McCain/Palin not just because they are Republicans (they have had 8 years to try and make this country strong and prosperous, yet they have failed miserably), but here you have a condidate that is NOT sticking to the issues, and is showing the strain of his candidacy by constantly perpetuating and facilitating the behaviors viewed here. And who is Sarah Palin? Questions abound about the character of Barack Obama, but what about Governor Palin – a “hockey-mom” bereft of her responsibilities of being a completely nuturing mother while putting herself and her four month old son in peril health-wise ( a seventeen year old pregnant by an eighteen year old – isn’t there some sort of crime here? Yet, it is okay – they’re getting married after high school; never mind furthering your education or establishing a career goal.) And now it has been reported that she has in fact abused her authority in trying to get a state trooper fired. The list goes on.
I applaud the blogger who exposed what I hope is a small faction of the Strongville population. While I know there are hundreds of thousands in other areas of the United States that have the same sentiments ( I live in New York City, Rockaway, Queens, to be precise and believe me I here some of that exact garbage from those that are supposedly more sophisticated) I feel what should be questioned is WHY in the 21st century are people so closed minded?!? And gullible?!?
And moreover, so stupid?!?
October 11th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Your video got a nice plug in the NYT. Give ‘em hell!! And, don’t ever back down – as your video plainly shows McCain-Palin supporters won’t (though, they’re not sure why).
October 11th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
i feel really and truly sorry for those on that tape, especially the narcissistic blonde who kept jumping in front of the camera to proudly display her lack of knowledge. i also feel very sorry for the bigotted woman who tried to insinuate that “bloodline” and “name” meant “terrorist”. the real terror from this clip comes from the blatant racism, ugly hatred and blind stupi…. no, ignorance so proudly displayed to the rest of the world.
AMEN!!!! GO OBAMA!!! HE WILL WIN THE ELECTION BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE EDUCATED, INFORMED VOTERS THAT WILL BE VOTING THIS ELECTION.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
I’m just wondering if I could get a blowjob from Sarah Palin before she goes back to Alaska.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
I hope before they go to the next Rally they take the time to find quotes from the Alaskan Independence Party and ask the McCain-Palin Supporters which domestic terriost said this just to watch all the people scream Ayers said it
October 11th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Just for the record for people who don’t know what “ignorant” means. It means that you are unaware of the truth, not that you are stupid. The people in the video said Sarah Palin has done more interviews than Barack Obama (false), they said barack obama is a terrorist only because of his name (false) The woman in the video said she heard of barack obama four years ago at one point and then said two years ago at another point. If Barack Obama does become president and is assassinated, it will be from a person like this.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Im a 21 yo white male. this will be my first time voting. Personally, I do not think we as the voters are being given anything special on each side of the ticket. but, my main concern is that the African American population as tried to instill that we(white folks) are racist, wel i have a question for those of you who feel this way? You’re voting for Obama why? Is it because he is African American(25%)…wow talk about ignorancem, trying to play the race card when you, yourself, are being racist in the fact that you are voting for him because he is black. The only blacks I have heard of planning on marking the ticket for McCain/Palin are those in their mid to late 40’s and higher. Wonder Why? Because they are intelligent, informed, and most importantly (not racist). When someone speaks of racism they generally think about being racist towards African Americans, what about those of you(way too many) who are racist towards genuine Caucaision’s WTF. Why dont you become informed instead of wasting your vote, and possibly ruining the USA voting for someone “because hes black and we want change”. Well if he becomes president there will be change, a change for the worst. As for this comment, it is not an unitelligent one. It simply states that for people out there voting for Obama because he is black(surprisingly too many of you) pull your head out of your a$$, don’t f*ck up the rest of my life. Im serving in the US ARMY and i put to much on the line for those of you who this concerns for you to do nothing for me!
October 11th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Mindy Green of Strongville, Ohio is very ignorant and stupid.
The blonde woman who keeps mugging for the camera looks capable of violence.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
This is just frightening….McCain and Palin have been so negative and hateful; now McCain has done a 180 and reinvented himself again and is trying to play nice guy….he doesn’t know what to do to save himself. He took a wrong turn with Palin and has made mistakes and now he is creating mobs….he has lost all sense of good politics and the issues.
October 11th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
When is the last time the camera guy had heard of Obama?
October 11th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Barak Obama… not a terrorist, but a great man and it’s shamefull that you people can’t look past his color to see the positive outlook this country will have with him being president. For all those whom is letting his color outweigh his character, just vote for his mother’s son! I will vote Barak Obama. One more thing, for the people that believe McCain only stood beside him because it was his job, will you make that the reason he stands with a real terrorist IF he becomes president? Don’t fool yourselves, join in because this is history in the making and I know you would love to be a part of this! BARAK OBAMA, NOVEMBER 4, 2008. We ready for a safe president!
October 11th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Maybe not ignorant, just very afraid of this change that’s about to come. If they don’t see it’s democrat time, then you’re right, their not ignorant, their just plain foolish, lol! Barak Obama 2008!
October 11th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Barak Obama. enough said, yall just get on his team, because he will be the next president of the United States of America. I hope Michelle and the girls are ready to be treated like the Queens they are! History is in the making, and right now Martin Luther King Jr. is happiest man in heaven. Guess what, even McCain knows this, why don’t the idiot thats plastering her face all in the camera? Maybe these people are not ignorant, just very afraid of this change that’s about to come. If they don’t see it’s democrat time, then you’re right, their not ignorant, their just plain stupid and foolish, lol! Barak Obama 2008!
October 11th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Whether we like it or not.
All our past presidents(when in office) were seen as a symbol or reflection of America. Initially that sets the tone for the first weeks/months. For those of you who don’t care what the world thinks of us please study deeper into the subject, then see if you have the same opinion.
Who ever wins the election the world will see America in a different light.
I am wishing for the next president two things:
1. The wisdom to make wise decisions with respect to our national security and economy and the importance of selecting the best advisors to draw upon for creation and implementation of plans and policies that will set the course for continued unity, strength, and the creation of a new cycle of prosperity for our country.
2. Good health throughout the next four years and anytime thereafter.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
WHY IS HE COMPARING OBAMA TO PALIN ??? SHOULDNT HE BE COMPARING OBAMA TO MCCAIN ..THEY ARE THE PRES. NOMINEES …. . HELLO !?!?!
October 11th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
My god. Really?!? So anyone with the name “Timothy McVeigh” is also a terrorist.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Aaron, you’re ignorant as well. As stated above you say that you are in the army, you should be tired of risking your life for ignorance when there could be peace. In a quick minute, the army won’t even have enough money to pay you for going to war, will you work for free? I don’t think so, you need to check the facts yourself before speaking, there are some things more important then a check on the 1st and the 15th, like people who family members never come back home after fighting a war that serves no purpose. We are not voting for Obama because he is Black, we are voting for Obama because he is promising change. If you have never voted, why not keep it that way, then you won’t feel like a worthless voter when you see that you wasted your time, because Obama will be the next president, the 25% black of him along with the 75% of his character and concern for the goodness of the american people. Be careful in Iraq idiot, you’re not risking your life for us, you’re risking it for nothing, the economy is fighting to stay above water, so what are you risking your life for, a paid tuition and a paycheck,WTF. Is it really that serious, what about your parents and children if you have any? What will McCain do for them in the event they loose you in fighting the republicans pointless war. Maybe you’re the one not voting for him because he’s black, maybe you’re the one whose racist.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Aaron, you’re ignorant as well. As stated above you say that you are in the army, you should be tired of risking your life for ignorane when there could be peace. In a quick minute, the army won’t even have enough money to pay you for going to war, will you work for free? I don’t think so, you need to check the facts yourself before speaking, there are some things more important then a check on the 1st and the 15th, like people who family members never come back home after fighting a war that serves no purpose. We are not voting for Obama because he is Black, we are voting for Obama because he is promising change. If you have never voted, why not keep it that way, then you won’t feel like a worthless voter when you see that you wasted your time, because Obama will be the next president, the 25% black of him along with the 75% of his character and concern for the goodness of the american people. Be careful in Iraq idiot.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
It would truly be scary to see Palin a heart-beat away from the presidency. Obama will be our next president no matter what the racists say.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
I am honestly scared…Im scared for my future and I am scared for all our future’s if this is really what America is. It’s not Republicans or Democrats that scare me…its all the hate, all the assuming. All the ignorant hatred and assumptions on both sides. Is this truly America? Is this the land of the Free and the home of the brave? I am 15 years old and I feel like I am being forced to grow up to fast, and see the hate in the world before I can even drive. People Please think of the generation that is after you, my generation, all the curruption we have to deal with, its your selfishness and greed that my generation has to deal with. If you have an opinion its ok to voice it…just think of how it will affect you children. I am disgusted at the disrespect and crudness this election has offered. Even though I support Obama, I respect and think of McCain as one of our nations greatest hero’s. Please think of these canidates accomplishments and their views when voting. Don’t choose purely over skin color, age, or how their name sounds. If you agree with the policies of either canidate than vote for them.
October 11th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Ignorant people. just screamin things out, things they dont even know. Barack all the way. HE WILL WIN!!! WAIT AND SEEE!!!
October 11th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Where was the mob? It appeared that people who were lined up for a rally were being interrogated by a left leaning, self important fool with a camera who fancies himself a journalist. These people are clearly angry and it is a shame that they don’t understand all of the facts, but that isn’t surprising since the Obama media continues to sweep these facts under the rug.
1) His campaign has made sizeable contributions to ACORN, despite ACORN being under multiple investigations for voter fraud.
2) Obama’s top Muslim staffer made a “mistake” by going to a meeting with supporters for Hamas and Hezbollah (this is the second time a “mistake” like this has been made by the Obama campaign, forcing the resignation of the first Muslim outreach director)
So, I guess based on all of your wonderful definitions of “ignorant”, all of you fit the definition. Or are you knowingly supporting Obama despite his support of campaign fraud and terrorist supporters? Perhaps you shouldn’t worry about shining the light on Strongsville and instead turn the light on yourselves and your candidate.
It is time to take the blinders off. Do your homework before you criticize others.
October 11th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Please watch and listen to a song I wrote called “Bridge to Nowhere”.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Hi. I am a right-wing, conservative Republican and I just want you guys to know that I am ashamed of the people in the video. Furthermore, I am ashamed to be in the same party as them, although I have to say, I’m also ashamed of the people who commented on this who can’t even bother spelling correctly.
I would like to point out that the idea that Obama has “the potential” to be a terrorist because of his last name and his “bloodline” is B.S. He is not an “arab” nor Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being either of those things. Besides, being an Arab or Muslim does not make you a terrorist any more than being German makes you a Nazi or a Russian makes you communist.
The woman’s claims that Sarah Palin has had more personal interviews than Barack Obama is not true. Even if it was true, that’s a poor argument for ‘knowing her better’. I don’t know what channels she’s been watching. Or not watching.
While it is true Palin has little experience, neither in a way does Obama, as the Senate is a notoriously poor training ground for presidents. For the record, I would rather have had McCain pick someone else for VP. Sarah, while a good person, feels kind of superficial and the whole ethics law scandal worries me.
I must also commend John McCain for denouncing this at his rally. I beleive that he is not racist nor approves racism. Although, I must say, letting his VP and campaign team fearmonger is disturbing.
Just so you know not all of us think that way. Thank you.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
It’s interesting how all of you that are bashing the people on the ‘youtube’ video, (who, by the way, should know better than to speak with such ignorance) fail to realize that a good part of the black population are going to vote for Obama just because he’s black. Now, who are the pots calling the kettles black. Everyone is predjudiced in one way or another. And who cares, the electoral college is going to vote in who they want anyway. It doesn’t matter who you vote for. It’s no longer “We the People”, it’s “Let’s Screw the People”.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
funny, when Americans see this, some of them *still* waive that ‘American Exceptionalism‘ flag… shocking that people can find even THAT behaviour ‘justifiable‘ & ‘patriotic‘.
throw a pile of sheets & a lighter into the crowd & you get a firm suspicion they’re would be a sudden regional shortage of black churches.
Americans… …damn… but, when you finally figure out that they don’t even see themselves clearly… you realize how they could aerial bomb several dozen nations, fund coups, torture & destabilize regions into massive ethnic cleansing …
then <a href=”http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3351275215846218544″.tell you to thank them for your ‘freedoms’ they gave unto the World.
Spread Love…
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can be found @
ThisCanadian
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“… tolerance of intolerance is cowardice…” ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
“We, two, form a Multitude” ~ Ovid.
“Violence can only be concealed by a Lie, & the Lie can only be maintained by Violence.” … “Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ”
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire
~~~
“Silent Freedom is Freedom Silenced“
October 11th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
funny, when Americans see this, some of them *still* waive that ‘American Exceptionalism‘ flag… shocking that people can find even THAT behaviour ‘justifiable‘ & ‘patriotic‘.
throw a pile of sheets & a lighter into the crowd & you get a firm suspicion they’re would be a sudden regional shortage of black churches.
Americans… …damn… but, when you finally figure out that they don’t even see themselves clearly… you realize how they could aerial bomb several dozen nations, fund coups, torture & destabilize regions into massive ethnic cleansing …
then <a href=”http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3351275215846218544″.tell you to thank them for your ‘freedoms’ they gave unto the World.
terrifying
Spread Love…
BlueBerry Pick’n
can be found @
ThisCanadian
~~~
“… tolerance of intolerance is cowardice…” ~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
“We, two, form a Multitude” ~ Ovid.
“Violence can only be concealed by a Lie, & the Lie can only be maintained by Violence.” … “Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ”
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire
~~~
“Silent Freedom is Freedom Silenced“
October 11th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
To Ron Sampson:
What is your basis for calling Cyndi McCain vile?
This woman has given much of her time to go into impoverished countries and help children who have birth defects. She chose to bring one of those children home and adopt her as her own daughter.
I am unaware of any unkind words or selfish deeds of which she is guilty. I suggest that you be more careful in how you speak of her in the future unless you know of something specific, which could be described as vile and would be sufficient to outweigh her enormous charitible efforts. If you have specifics, you should list those, rather than use negative adjectives directed at her.
This type of rhetoric characterized by name calling and the use of unsupported negative adjectives is adding to the anger on both sides of the political positions.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I wonder if this interviewer intentionally sought out offensive people to interview just to make republicans look bad.
When you think about it, this situation is very scary. No matter who wins this election,there will be more division in this country than ever before. We all need to pray for God’s protection.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
It’s interesting how all of the comments are bashing the people on the ‘youtube’ video. I agree that they are ignorant in their responses to the questions posed to them. However, in regards to them being racist, look at the pots calling the kettles black. You don’t think that a good part of the black population isn’t voting for Obama just because he’s black? Get real!! There’s racism on both sides. With all that the media’s portrayed, I wish I didn’t have to vote for either one of them. Many of our votes may not be considered anyway, because the electoral college has the final say…
October 11th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Blind ignorance? I agree that the people in the video were ignorant in their responses to the questions posed to them. However, in regards to ‘them’ being racist, you don’t think that a good part of the black population isn’t going to vote for Obama just on the basis that he is [part] black? Get real!! Look at the pots calling the kettles black. There’s racism on both sides. I wish I didn’t have to vote for either one of them….the media has left a bad taste in my mouth with the whole election. Many of our votes may not be considered anyway, the electoral college has the final say in who will be in office…
October 11th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Haha, seriously, revealing movies than that could be made on any supporters of any party. Really, get a life.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPpFyI4s5KY
October 11th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
How sad and pathetic the way this crowd acted. Uninformed and sad and radical and hateful. I will NEVER admit I live/d in this city again. Thank you Mr. Blogger for showing me why I am so happy to be out of this hate spewing city. Sorry for me that I have to return at times.
October 11th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
PATHETIC, SAD, RADICAL, UNINFORMED, RACIST…..I will NEVER again admit I live/d in this city. Let’s just create an environment of hate and fear and racism for the children of this community, WHICH BY THE WAY, USED to attract people looking for a great educational environment for their school age kids…..WOW.
October 12th, 2008 at 1:46 am
Great video!
Did you ever fear for your life? In my opinion the people in your video do not appear to be informed at all, which is a scary thought in itself. I really thought the McCain events were staged. After your video…I don’t know what to think. Love your blog.
October 12th, 2008 at 2:42 am
Wow…just wow…
Please be careful. These masses are stubborn. They have a hard time being dissuaded.
This is what worries me about middle America.
October 12th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Good work! You should know from my perspective that every time one of those nuttier-then-a-shit-house-rat-McCain-crowds goes up, its like you just stabbed the giant in the eye with a sewing needle, or maybe the eardrum with a satay stick. You are bleeding the McCain campaign one drop at a time.
Keep shining lights on roaches pal.
October 12th, 2008 at 9:46 am
McCain and Palin want a crazy white person to kill Obama before the election or if Obama wins. It is part of the Republican’s plan to plant seeds of hatred and terrorism in the hearts of potential killers. It will only backfire. Palin is a terrorist herself and points the finger. I am from Cleveland and very familiar with Strongsville. What’s sad is that John McCain has a deep,dirty secret that would make most of his supporters head spin. But I don’t know about people of Strongsville-incest and child molestation is right up their alley. I know you won’t post this but I have to tell the truth.
October 12th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
What’s the difference between Sarah Louise Palin and a Ku Klux Klansman?
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Lipstick!
October 12th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
This video is ridiculous.I can understand that people have strong feelings about politics,beliefs and morals that they want dispalyed in the White House. But Barack Obama is NOT A TERRORIST!!! His name comes from the Kenyan language (Kenya is in Africa…FYI). So explain to me how thats realated to terrorism? His mother is WHITE and his daddy is BLACK. He is not an ARAB!!!!! When I watched this video, the people in it made me throw up. Not one of them had a valid reason to be against Obama. He didn’t pick that name when he was born!!! So all the Republicans that are against Obama because of his name need to get over themselves. Grow up!!!
October 12th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I’m outraged at how ignorant people truly are in this country. Thank you for making this video, but like everyone else has been saying, please be careful. You’re going into dangerous territory. OBAMA/BIDEN ‘08!
October 12th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
thnx for putting this stuff up, i suspect it has helped focus the medias attention on some of the cheap (and actually crazy) tactics going on…
as far as all the comments on stupidity one can be clinically ’stupid’ and still have common sense…
one more important thing:
TERRORISM ONLY WORKS ON PEOPLE WHO ARE AFRAID
October 12th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
OK this is just ridiculous. the level of ignorance and stubbornness is unprecedented! You can see by the their ignorance that they’re really not supporting McCain/Palin because they know so much about them or believe in their policies, but by the fact that they’ve been steered to hate Obama and vote against him.
Having said that, it just fills my heart with sadness that although it’s 2008, race still plays a major role in making a major decision like voting for the president of the US.
October 12th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Americans are ignorant to a lot of things. They won’t research to discover the truths and lies of each party. I’m not surprised. Wish we could see more mob reactions from both campaign sides. I would bet though your would see much more ignorance at a McFalin campaign. Its disgusting.
October 12th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Now this is reporting!!!!!!! For everytime the media says they are fair and balanced, I thank God for people like you, keeping it real. Keep up the great work and PLEASE BE SAFE. You know what this make you in their eyes. You are in my prayers.
OBAMA/BIDEN 08 12
CLINTON/? 16 20
October 12th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Now this is reporting!!!!! Thank you for all you are doing to keep it real…..For all the fair and balanced reporting the main stream media claim to be doing, I thank God for people like you. PLEASE be SAFE and CAREFUL. You know what this makes you in the eyes of ignorance like this. You are in my prayers.
KEEP KEEPIN’ IT REAL!!!!!!
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008 2012
CLINTON/? 2016 2020
October 12th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
This footage is making its way around the web. I’m glad you captured it as an example of our “wise electorate”.
October 12th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
ROTFLMMFHO!!! 1st thing’s 1st… in which clip did any Palin/McCain supporter speak about the issues? And why is Obama still being called Muslim when his mother is white and his father is African? If you know like i know, in now way is African associated with the Islamic cultures/ beliefs/ people! Hmmm… if you are going to argue this fact so hard, atleast make it a little realistic… say he’s involved in the genocide in Darfur or something! Thats a little closer to home (his roots)… and even still, NOT REALLY! 2nd, how many times did that drunk blonde chick jump into the camera? Okay… that was a tad overbearing and WEIRD! Then, she heard of him 4 yrs ago, I thought… now 2 and Palin 3? 3 years????? Yea freaking right? She just popped up… hmmm, maybe CHRIS ROCK was right… maybe Palin is McCain’s nurse! I mean at 72, who wouldnt need one? LOL! Its sad when you realize that this Country is so racist they would rather have a 72 YEARS OLD president and former (PRESCRIPTION) DRUG ADDICTED first lady in office because he’s WHITE than a well over qualified, MUCH younger, moral, family man in office because he is AFRICAN AMERICAN? Sad! AND NO… OBAMA IS NOT BLACK! His wife is. His children are. But he is NOT! He is the true meaning of AFRICAN AMERICAN!!!! Seeing as though his father is African and his White mother is American! YES! AMERICAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 12th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
ROTFLMMFHO!!! 1st thing’s 1st… in which clip did any Palin/McCain supporter speak about the issues? And why is Obama still being called Muslim when his mother is white and his father is African? If you know like i know, in now way is African associated with the Islamic cultures/ beliefs/ people! Hmmm… if you are going to argue this fact so hard, atleast make it a little realistic… say he’s involved in the genocide in Darfur or something! Thats a little closer to home (his roots)… and even still, NOT REALLY! 2nd, how many times did that drunk blonde chick jump into the camera? Okay… that was a tad overbearing and WEIRD! Then, she heard of him 4 yrs ago, I thought… now 2 and Palin 3? 3 years????? Yea freaking right? She just popped up… hmmm, maybe CHRIS ROCK was right… maybe she is his nurse! I mean at 72, who wouldnt need one? LOL! Its sad when you realize that this Country is so racist they would rather have a 72 YEARS OLD president and former (PRESCRIPTION) DRUG ADDICTED first lady in office because he’s WHITE than a well over qualified, MUCH younger, moral, family man in office because he is AFRICAN AMERICAN? Sad! AND NO… OBAMA IS NOT BLACK! His wife is. His children are. But he is NOT! He is the true meaning of AFRICAN AMERICAN!!!! Seeing as though his father is African and his White mother is American! YES! AMERICAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 12th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
intense… I don’t think McCain is a terrible guy but he really has the worst supporters in the world.
October 12th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
JANET…YOU ARE IN IDIOT! SORRY…BUT I CAN’T TAKE IT ANYMORE! I AM AN AMERICAN LIVING IN AUSTRALIA AND I AM SO CLOSE TO NEVER COMING BACK TO THE STATES…CAUSE OF IDIOTS LIKE JANET!!! MIDDLE AMERICA = MIDDLE EARTH! THE END TO A GREAT NATION!
October 13th, 2008 at 1:30 am
Very telling video; thank you. Those featured are extremely ignorant as they are following blindly and unprepared with fact. I am traveling abroad now and the opinion of everyday people about Americans is unfortunately often based on this. Just watched a news clip on Al Jazeera (which is at least as credible as CNN) in which the reporter interviewd random attendees at the Ohio Palin rally. Every person was ultra anti-Obama and each credited his or her stance to either Barack being Muslim (which he is not), the fear that blacks will take over if Obama is elected, that black people treat whites like trash and that is just not fair, and that Palin has the holy spirit in her. That is ignorance.
October 13th, 2008 at 2:20 am
I’d like to start by saying that it seems this years election have turned into a witch hunt againt Barack Obama. it is a shame that so many Americans are so ignorant as to allow themselves to make such extreme accusations on someone’s character based on their name or because they have Islamic roots. This goes to show that America has really not come as far as we’d like to think. This country is no better now when it comes to racism as when Afican Americans were being hung by there necks just for being Black. In reality this extremist racist ideology has lied dormant until these pivotal moments, when our “great” country is at risk of being led by a Black man. Now is the time that we can see many people for who they really are, Crazed, racists who are shaking at the thought of having a Black man named Barack Obama as president of their country. Finally the shroud which we have used all these years to help us sleep at night has been removed. Wake up America!!!
October 13th, 2008 at 2:44 am
I am amazed at the reactions of people who are taking this video seriously. The Blogger cut and edited it to make the people look foolish. He edited out anyone who would have actually discussed issues. He interrupted people in the beginning who tried to express their points of view and he baited them with ridiculous questions.
Out of all the people at the rally, he was able to incite a few to become upset enough to respond to him when they knew he was baiting them. Perhaps they were the only ones who didn’t have the sense to just walk away.
I believe that the few who may have made veiled, yet absurb, questionable comments regarding Obama’s name or heritage did not seriously mean them. No one actually used the kind of negative, derogatory language which is being used in some of these postings.
Actually, angry verbal attacks and racism seem more open from the Obama supporters in some of these postings than they do on the video from the McCain supporters.
October 13th, 2008 at 2:45 am
Let me start by saying that this election has become a witch hunt against Barack Obama. The people in this video and unfortunately in many other video clips are representative of the amount of ignorance and racism still present in this country. The fact that people could be so biased against a person because of his name and the fact that he has Islamic roots, is evidence that our “great” country has not come so far as we’d like to believe. We are not much different now as the days when African Americans were being hung by there necks for being Black. The fact is, many Americans have become infuriated at the very great potential that Barack Obama, a Black man, could be the president of their country. Sadly, this is causing a panic among many people, awakening the racist ideology that has perhaps been suppressed for many years as evidenced during the last few Republican rallies. I also believe that Senator McCain is fearful, shocked and disappointed at this behavior, which is the reason he may not be as aggressive as his republican supporters would like him to be.
Finally, the shroud we have used all these years to help us sleep at night has been removed and we can see people for who they really are. Wake up America racism is alive and well
October 13th, 2008 at 2:53 am
Does anyone know hte name of the blonde bitch?
October 13th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I grew up near Strongsville, or near enough, in the Canton area. I have lived in Chicago for five years. Some of the people in some parts of Ohio, (and other places, I won’t be biased) are the biggest group of uninformed, racially phobic people. They know what they know, and have not had any life experiences to show them otherwise. It’s horribly sad. These people give Ohio a bad name. Living away from Ohio makes me realize how racially unfriendly and closed-minded people there can be. Not to defend these people, but they just are not informed. They don’t know what else there is out there, because they are stuck in their little towns full of people of the same race and ideals. I want to put them all on the show 30 days, or something to get them out of their little “box” and have them see what REAL life is like.
This video is so sad. I also realized how ANGRY McCain supporters get at these rallies. If you look at the audiences at Obama rallies, how positive it is, and then these people, it’s a clear difference. It’s terrifying. Fear breeds fear.
Just when I thought I wanted to move back to Ohio… these people have me second guessing. ugh. All the more reason for Obama to win. Let these people see what a brilliant and good man he is, and the good he will do for our country.
October 13th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Thank you for showing the other side of this country. Not just the video’s but the postings here on this site.
It is a shame that there is so much anger and intolerance in this country, as it is in the world. When did it become acceptable to become so emotional about being pro or against a candidate or an issue? When did having a different view or belief from those around you lead one to become mean spirited?
When there is so much hate and anger in ones heart that they become blind and closed to others they become them selves radical. Regardless if they are Democrats or Republicans. They become what they detest in other countries. Yet, they persist and as they do so they become harmful to themselves and those they hold near and dear to them. It has become the nations way of life, to blame others. “Its the person who ask the question rather than the person who does not know the answer when asked.” Blame the press, yet buy into the fact that it is that very source that they get the information from. Rather than multiple or even independent sources. I have said for years that the American voter is Stupid. Those who I have said it to, tell me that I am wrong. They say that people are bigots, fearful and/or emotional.Yet this blog shows me that I am correct. OK, I will amend my comment. Rather than Stupid, I will replace it with ignorant.
If voters took time to understand the issues, they could reply to bloggers such as this one and answer clearly, coherently and decisively. If educated they would have no fear, no reason to hate and most of all, protect their beliefs for themselves and those they care about.
I suspect that most voters do not know even the follow simple questions. Why we vote on the first Tuesday of Nov. every four years? The difference between the General election vs other elections. The difference between the houses? What is the difference between an amendment vs referendum?
There is no reason why anyone should be void of knowledge. There is no reason to act like others are at fault. there is no reason to behave like those you say you despise.
October 13th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I used to be a card carrying member of the republican party. The reason I don’t support the Republican party anymore is the fact that they are for bigger government than the Democrats. Also, my mom has mounting medical bills because her insurance CANCELED HER!!! WHEN WE TRIED TO GET HER NEW INSURANCE…NO COMPANY WOULD COVER HER. NOW SHE IS GETTING SUED BY ALL OF THESE HOSPITALS AND THEY ARE GARNISHING HER SOCIAL SECURITY. I’M PISSED OFF. This country does not take care of it’s people. My dad is a Vietnam vet and can’t get a fucking job.
I’m voting for OBAMA!
October 13th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I used to be a card carrying member of the republican party. The reason I don’t support the Republican party anymore is the fact that they are for bigger government than the Democrats. Also, my mom has mounting medical bills because her insurance CANCELED HER!!! WHEN WE TRIED TO GET HER NEW INSURANCE…NO COMPANY WOULD COVER HER. NOW SHE IS GETTING SUED BY ALL OF THESE HOSPITALS AND THEY ARE GARNISHING HER SOCIAL SECURITY. I’M PISSED OFF. This country does not take care of it’s people. My dad is a Vietnam vet and can’t get a fucking job.
I’m voting for OBAMA!
October 13th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
First of all, I’ll start off by saying that no matter which of the two candidates for POTUS get elected, we’re up the creek. They both have the capacity, in their own ways for taking this country furthur down that black hole, so to speak. Secondly, during last Tuesday’s debate, when both POTUS Candidates began talking about going in and kicking some butt, I immediately turned it off, because it reinforced my opinions that neither one of them is fit to lead this country.
Getting down to the subject at hand, however, while I agree that the crowd at the Strongsville, OH McCain-Palin rally were absolutely disgusting, nasty and mean-spirited, the guy who was going around asking people if they thought Obama was a terrorist was acting like a totally pathetic jerk. Really!! That reporter’s setting himself up for getting his lights punched out, if one gets the drift. If he’s looking for a fight, he’ll get one. Say, buddy, if you’re reading this post, cool it, for you own sake…will you? Thanks.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Thank you, Martel. Good thoughts in your post.
October 14th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
They are IGNORANT. EXTREME ignorance.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
These people are not only ignorant, they are angry and full of rage. These republicans cannot believe that a Democrat will win this election and that they cannot steal another one. I agree with one of the posts warning the man who did this video to be careful. He could have titled this clip “lynch mob”.
October 14th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Think that the labels make it so? You label this a mob? I think that you do a disservice by putting crap like this on here. If you want to use the mob name FIND A MOB!
October 15th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Seems almost every dem that has responded is attacking, making fun of, calling names as well as sounding hateful just like the people you are talking about! You are no better that those in this video.
And for the person who recorded this video, a dem, you knew exactly what you were doing by picking those who would give you a radical argument so you could become “famous” for your stupid video.
Shame on you.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Almost every dem that has responded is attacking, making fun of, calling names as well as sounding hateful just like the people you are poking fun of! You are no better that those in this video. “Look who’s calling the kettle black”
And for the person who recorded this video, a dem, you knew exactly what you were doing by picking those who would give you a radical argument in an attempt to become famous. If you had chosen those who weren’t so radical and “normal” to your standards then it would have bored the hell out of the dems here who are just as eager to jump down throats and call names. I dare you to record a video of dems doing and saying the same thing. I saw such a crowd today at the University. Talk about ignorant!
This video doesn’t show me anything other than you instigated this crowd so you are no better then the radicals you recorded, except your audience loves this type of warped entertainment. Hypocrites!
Shame on you.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:41 am
Great post Kettleblack. Well thought out. I agree totally.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:04 am
Dear God man! You are brilliant. I am very angry at you. You stole my idea. I was pissed watching tv this evening and thinking how cool it would be to drive around to McCain rallies and interview the supporters with a little camera. If your ever in Illinois and need someone to hold your camera let me know! Keep up the good work!
October 15th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Are you kidding me? As an American I am appalled! “Obamas a terrorist because of his name” are you idiots there in Ohio serious? I am ashamed of this country when racist mindless attacks like these occur. Think of what people all around the world are saying about us, even Castro! This is sad.
**************************OBAMA/BIDEN 2008***********************
October 16th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
It’s people like those in Stongsville that drag this country down. They cling to their Christian faith but are intolerant, racist, ignorant and stupid!
Christianity professes peace and tolerance but it’s conveniently ignored by these people.
Sadly, America is still a nation of racists and bigots.
And for the record, you idiots, Obama is NOT an Arab, Muslim or terrorist for that matter.
So get used to a black man in the White House leading the free world. Yes, a black man that will be surrounded by white men serving under him.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
wow. i live in strongsville, am now in college in another state, but thats beside the point. I’m thoroughly embarrassed by what I just saw. I think it’s important to point out that not all of these people are from Strongsville, and that the residents aren’t all as ignorant as the people portray in this video.
I’m not 100% sure on the facts but I don’t understand all the comparisons to Obama and terrorists. So far people say his name is similar and apparently from this video “from the ages of 1 to 6″ he lived with them too. Is that seriously the only reason that people say he is a terrorist?
Other than that, after watching the debates and comparing our candidates policies, I still think Obama is the right choice. Especially because I would never want Palin to be that close to becoming the leader of our country. Her views on a lot of things seem to be out of touch with the modern day ever-changing times we live in now.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Rednecks are what they are, and don’t expect anything more than that. Now McCain is not a war hero. He dropped Napalm on innocent villagers. He voted with Bush over 90% of the time. He was one of the Keating Five. Obama is a liar. He voted for Telecom immunity, oil drilling, bankruptcy limitations, lied about the invasion of South Ossetia, and the Bailout/Extortion scam. This is why I am voting third party.
October 17th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Seriously?! Why are you comparing Presidential candidate Barack Obama to VICE Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. If your going to go out asking the question of “When did you first hear of…?” why aren’t you asking “When did you first hear of Barack Obama?” and “When did you first hear of John McCain?” Everyone was “introduced” to John McCain long before Barack Obama. Obama and McCain are the two running against each other, not Obama and Palin, so why all the focus and comparison on the two of them and not the two actual presidential canidadates?!
October 17th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
One of my earliest memories of the affects of mob/group mentality, the promulgation of fear, and the subsequent breakdown of norms, mores, values and resulting socially acceptable behavior is reading William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. “Find the pig. Root him out. Kill him dead!” “”Kill the beast. Cut his throat. Spill his blood” were the chants of “well-bred,” pre-pubescent, prep-school boys of “privilege” from England as they chased, captured, and killed the out-projection of their deepest fears.
Find the ni**er/Muslim/terrorist, root him out, kill him dead…appears to be the battle-cry of McCain supporters as they attempt to “kill” the out-projection of their worst fears and the antithesis to the biggest lie ever told – an intelligent, well-educated, well-qualified, man of identifiable, direct and immediate African decent – an African American man!
The ultimate “American Dream” is on the brink of becoming a reality…and some can’t deal…holding desperately to their ill-crafted stereotypes (as if they ever represented reality in the first place)…adding to them the wild imaginings and unsubstantiated delusions of minuscule minds hopelessly lost in disparate, unrelated minutiae while running even further a muck of anything remotely related to the truth.
America is face-to-face with it’s own hypocrisy and the hypo-crazies are on the loose and running scared.
Wake-up America – this is real!
Got Hope!
Nina Simone
October 17th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I was born in Parma, Ohio, and raised in Strongsville until I was 13 years old.
A few thoughts…
1) I’ve heard a lot of people say that the people on the film are ignorant and I agree with that…but there’s also been a leap that all people from Strongsville are ignorant. I’m not sure that is so. (I also heard but have not confirmed that some people were paid and bused to that ralley to cause trouble.)
2) What’s more important to me, is that if they were ignorant to begin with, they went into a ralley and their blank slates were filled with racism, lies, and hate from McCain-Palin.
3)And what you heard was what they learned when they were in the ralley, not what they knew before they arrived. McCain is running a campaign based on fear and ignorant people are buying it.
You’ll find ignorant people everywhere. It’s just a shame that my hometown has the stain of this ignorance on it.
October 17th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Hate radio motivated people to genocide in Rwanda, and is now being used here. A small percentage of people incited to hatred can do a lot of harm. Hitler used very similar rallies to get the people of Germany roused against ethnic and religious minorities.
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If you want Kristallnacht, radio is your first choice.
Radio is perfect for the complete illiterate–not ONE BIT of reading required. It’s perfect for the person who does labor in a shop, because unlike TV you don’t have to look at it. It can just pour into your ear while you tinker and putter and relax. Radio is perfect for those whose eyesight is diminishing, or who are homebound. It can both terrify and reassure, and it always has a message just for you.
Radio is perfect for the computer-phobic. Turn it on, turn the dial, turn it off. Simple. And you don’t worry about DSL or dial-up or any of that stuff. Turn it on, listen.
And it tells you you’re wonderful, you’re smart, you’re not like other people but better. You can turn the dial all over the place and listen to the voice tell you that Christians are better, conservatives are better, Anglo-Saxon names are DEFINITELY better.
Incitement is what radio does best. Get up off that sofa right now, Patriotic American!
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October 18th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Those people are ignorant.They clearly have no idea what there talking about,and they make that 100% clear in this video.
There only voting for McCain because Obamas name sounds like Osama.How narrow minded can you get.
OBAMA-BIDEN 08
October 18th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Great video. It proves my point you can prove anything with a camera. I could care less what people in an edited (Which people ended up on the cutting room floor) video. The same videos could be made at Senator Obama’s rallies but they don’t need to be. The far left nuts get away with that kind of talk on the regular media and no one cares. Remember the comedian saying if Gov. Palin came to her neighbor hood she would get gang raped.
Look back at the 2004 election and the 2000 election. It was a non stop trip of George Bush is a natzi. No one needed a video for it. It was in plane sight for all to see with signs at every democratic rally. Any intelligent person new that wasn’t the norm for most who would vote against Bush but it happened a lot more on the left.
Any one who thinks this video means something needs their head examined.
October 19th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
My favorite part of this video is when the gentleman tells, the agitated young lady to [not]‘answer any questions unless they are put in writing.’ Overall this video is a bit comical and at times hard to watch. On one hand it’s good to see people who are passionate about politics, but on the other it is disheartening to see the anger that in particular this one woman is holding. There’s always that 20% factor, but the vast majority of the others on this video did not demonstrate the same anger or potential for violence as this one individual… I think it would take much more to incite the rabble than one overtly angry person, or the simple mention of Ayers…
October 19th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
I am white, and these are the sickest type of white racists that you would ever want to meet, because they feel inferior to what they don’t understand and are afraid. In that mindset, they are dangerous and become THE TERRORISTS themselves. The blonde is the worst. She is crazy on top of being angry and hateful – like the way she says O-b-a-m-a with so much disdain. And the other one “There’s more interviews with Sarah Palin … that I’ve seen most recently in the news.” She actually seems nice but clings to her prejudices a.k.a. “fears.” These ignorant whites are no different than ignorant blacks. They won’t educate themselves, mentally or spiritually, because they have relied so long on just being white as an “identity” to get by or just being black. It’s not going to be enough in the future. Ignorance is colorblind. Truly.
October 20th, 2008 at 3:32 am
Strongville sounds like a very wonderfull place . . but im sorry, im still voting for Obama, but thats just me, just like my dad smoked pot and listened to the beattles and his father told him he was a waste, i do the same now, now dad is a YIPPIE (yuppie hippie) and is voting mccain, and i will vote obama, everyone needs to just get along, cause this is the evolution of youth, who eventually come to power, and around and around we go.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:05 am
I have been to Obama rallies and the blind following he has is what scares me. If you dare disagree you are called racist. Not every vote Obama doesn’t get is because of racism. People do have views on issues and concerns about his past and present affiliations. Have 7000 people at a rally of any kind and you will get 7000 different thoughts and opinions. This video did not accomplish anything extraordinary. Go to an Obama rally and pose the same question, ‘Is Obama a terrorist?’, You won’t make it out alive.
October 20th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I’m with you Rose,….
Ross Says:
October 9th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Obama is not a terrorist, he just hangs out with them. I have seen more ignorance on the floor of Congress than in this video. Nice try though. What really makes me fearful is the far left of this country controlling the Congress, Senate, and Presidency with no checks and balances.
Ignorance definition: Anyone who has an opinion that differs in any way from the far left agenda.
October 20th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
As a Strongsville resident, this video disheartens me. I wish our city were not so ignorant as to judge a man based on his name or race, but it seems to be the case. While this video may not represent everyone in Strongsville, “a team is only as strong as its weakest members”. Showing ignorant members of our community is not inaccurate, it only shows that not everyone is aware of the facts in this election. Although I am for Obama, I can respect other political opinions– if they are based on fact. I hope that these community members are embarrassed enough by their lack of knowledge that they get some more information before voting. Otherwise, Ohio might let us down again.
October 21st, 2008 at 5:52 pm
http://www.sirius.com/howardstern
Not a Howard Stern fan, but this is telling of ignorance on the Obama side as well.
How many of us have accepted what our “leaders” say without actually digging into the facts? Or gone with a hearsay and told it as truth? Or forwarded an email that was in line with our philosophies without checking the facts?
Point is, there are ignorant, “mob” mentality followers on both sides of this heated election. It’s amazing the finger pointing, half-truths and outright lies that go on from the stump. Before you believe them, you’d better research them.
The current economic / mortgage “crisis”? Better do some digging, because it didn’t start anywhere in the last 8 years and it is not a Free Market(Capitalism)issue. Find the policy and follow the bouncing ball.
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:48 pm
I found these videos on YouTube, and was stunned. Not stunned about these comments, because I heard them on the news, and on the internet. Stunned because I didn’t believe people actually were ’stupid’ enough to say these things. It is stunning on so many levels. I posted them on my site, so even more people can see it. It’s a crazy, crazy, thing
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Let’s say these people are passionate about their politics, they are still of the ilk that maintain a level of ignorance that screams racism. I mean come on “it’s in his bloodline?” “Barack is a terrorist?” hello people! Read a book! Stop flashing your ignorance to the world! Get an education, because it is clear Ms. Green could stand to sit in on enough college level courses to spare her the embarrassment of verbalizing her ignorance to the masses!
She is so base both she and Sarah Palin are each others intellectual equal! And yes Ms. Green, we know your are proud of the comparison, as well you should be!
OBAMA/BIDEN! OBAMA/BIDEN! OBAMA/BIDEN!
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
I live in Strongsville and this is an accurate representation of the right-wing, ignorant fools that live here
October 23rd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I live in Strongsville, and it ashames me of the ignorant, bigoted, right-wing fools that live here
October 24th, 2008 at 12:20 am
waoo this people is really really stupid, they dont deserve obama as president, they are the reason why we need Obama in the whitehouse to provide education and a sense of critical thinking to future generations.. sad, very sad..SHAME ON SARA PALIN AND THE AMERICANS THAT SUPPOT HER..
October 30th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
This is the problem I fear most for my son, is that when his time comes to run for an office, that the crazies come out of the wordwork and slam anyone that is slightly tanner than khaki. Thanks for keeping this kind of news coming and taking the time to show us the face of the so called “real america”.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Those people are horrifingly misinformed.
I like how the folks in that video seemed to think that Obama started the ACORN group… it was founded in 1970…in Arkansas. I didn’t know Obama was in Arkansas working for equality when he was 9 years old.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
The people in this video are so ignorant and un-educated! How can that woman say that the name Obama sounds like a terrorists name???? U people are so closed minded, and it’s a shame that people still think this way in 2008!!!! Does it scare you that an african-american man has the intelligence to be the president of the united states??? I can’t be mad at any of you, all i really feel is pity and sorrow. It’s time for a change in america! The people in this video are the same idiots that voted for bush! and look where he’ s gotten us… Obama is gonna be the next president, so deal with it.. I have faith that he will be one of the best americas seen…
October 31st, 2008 at 5:56 pm
its funny to see people upset at positivity. the obama camp is positive, and these people are anti enthusiasm.
November 1st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Ignorant…is that the excuse? How about hateful?!
November 1st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
We are too intelligent to fall for McCain and Palin’s tactics! There is too much at stake for us to let the Hate mongers in this country win, not this time! Do not become complacent or overconfident! Barack Obama CAN lose this election! Don’t worry about what anyone says! Don’t pay attention to the polls! People have had big leads in the polls and lost on Election Day! Just get out and VOTE! Don’t wait until the last minute! Don’t become overconfident! When you are VOTING there will be extremely long lines, but be determined and vigilant! Obama must win this election! Vote! VOTE! VOTE! The world is watching!
OBAMA/BIDEN 08-12!
November 5th, 2008 at 8:42 am
These videos don’t document crap. OBVIOUSLY these people have strong feelings against Obama, I get it… and you completely unprofessionally antagonize them to get them to say dumb shit… and A MAJORITY don’t say anything.
How dare you say to the black man in the 2nd video “You’re african american, and YOU arn’t voting for Barack Obama?”. That’s completely disrespectful, and you sounded like a complete ass.
Your little videos are terrible and not well done by any means. You proved nothing, other than proving you, the filmmaker, can be an annoying little fuck while also being a mosquito bite on the bottom of McCain supporters scrotums.
Pointless.
November 10th, 2008 at 9:27 am
And, surprising nobody who has any intelligence: Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service over death threats against Barack Obama
Don’t hold your breath waiting for the so-called “liberal media” to report this.
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:24 am
What in the world? Are there only WHITE people in that area?
December 31st, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Those people ARE ignorant. They lack class, and education. This is not dissing those who come grew up hunting, or didn’t pursue college. I know many people who are pro guns, didn’t go to college, and are smart enough to figure out that just because someone has a Kenyan father doesn’t make you a terrorist. It’s pure bigotry, and it’s a insult to my fiance’s family who come from the mid west and who are farmers. I’m surprised they aren’t embarrassed of this footage, but then I’m not because they probably only hang out with people who share their own views. I’ve always believed in having an open mind to different values, and ethnicity. Maybe, it’s from growing up with a very diverse family being Caucasian, Asian, and Pacific Islander.
These people with their very distorted views make me embarrassed.
January 8th, 2009 at 9:13 am
The dominating blonde is simply pathologically angry…angry to the point of dangerous. This is precisly the sort of person who allows him or herself to get stirred up by the crowd around him or her until he or she commits an act of violence. I imagine if the blog cameraman had not been prudent enough to see that and leave the scene, she might have attempted to hurt someone.
January 8th, 2009 at 9:30 am
The dominating blonde is simply pathologically angry…angry to the point of dangerous. This is precisly the sort of person who allows him or herself to get stirred up by the crowd around him or her until he or she commits an act of violence. I imagine if the blog cameraman had not been prudent enough to see that and leave the scene, she might have attempted to hurt someone. By the way, good job…but please be careful when you attend such events…particularly if you’re alone.
January 23rd, 2009 at 2:26 am
I love Obama
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I love Cat Power (album jukebox)
I love Bob Dylan (everything)
I love India (the children)
I love America (the hope)
share what you love.
March 28th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Dostum hala neyi tartisiyorsunuz, Barack Obama baskan oldu iste.
May 13th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
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Eye rite nau
Blessings on
Your sacred cow
Be him hawk
Or be him dove
Filled with hate
Filled with love
Tortured man
A hero’s lot
Gone for now
But not forgot
Eye rite nau
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Blessing on
Your sacred cow
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