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"The New York Times lead editorial this morning is a MUST READ this morning. Finally, the wretched ugliness that is the McCain-Palin campaign is being called to account:
It is a sorry fact of American political life that campaigns get ugly, often in their final weeks. But Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin have been running one of the most appalling campaigns we can remember.
Ms. Palin, in particular, revels in the attack. Her campaign rallies have become spectacles of anger and insult. "This is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see America," Ms. Palin has taken to saying.
Spectacles of anger and insult. Finally, the media is catching on to what America has been seeing with its own eyes for a while.
Her demagoguery has elicited some frightening, intolerable responses. A recent Washington Post report said at a rally in Florida this week a man yelled "kill him!" as Ms. Palin delivered that line and others shouted epithets at an African-American member of a TV crew.
There it is, America. Demagoguery, inciting violence, unbridled racism.
When Barack Obama wins on November 4, let us never forget the tactics that were used against him. While Obama can be gracious in victory, we, as a country, should never again tolerate this kind of behavior.
I hope this editorial is the first of a slew of voices from the Fourth Estate condemning the unmasked ugliness and outright racism that McCain has tried to tap to keep his fading hopes alive. I hope.
Update Biden went on The Early Show this morning and hit back:
Biden, appearing Wednesday on CBS' "The Early Show," called Palin's remarks about Obama and Ayers "over the top."
"You know, the idea here that somehow these guys are once again injecting fear and loathing into this campaign is ... I think it's mildly dangerous. I mean, here you have out there these kinds of, you know, incitements out there — guy introducing Barack using his middle name as if it's some epitaph [sic] or something,"