Oh No You Didn't McCain!!

Though I do not support Senator McCain and think he would not be a good president for our country, I have respected him some of his actions. Unlike Palin, who ignores when people are screaming to assassinate Senator Obama, McCain has corrected people for speaking untruths about Barack. When one women called Obama an Arab, McCain defended his rival candidate, saying that Senator Obama was a "good family man". I really respected McCain for this.

But in the last debate, McCain said some things that I thought were incredibly irresponsible and innapropriate.

When a question was asked about the ferocity of the campaign, Obama took the high road; he said nothing about the screams urging for his assassination and just simply said that it was a tough election but the issues were what mattered. Senator McCain, obviously not taking the hint went on about how he did not appreciate comments made by some Democratic supporters.

Obama was finally forced into bringing up the assassination remarks, and McCain countered by describing some t-shirts worn by members at one Senator Obama's rally that he did not appreciate.

This made me a little mad...how could McCain compare screams of murder to T-shirts. I don't know what the T-shirts looked like, but can you really compare the two? I hate to bring this up, but it is true: it would be a different story if Obama was not black. Because the United States has such a memorable history of violence towards blacks, especially succesful ones, this issue holds a lot more weight.

Back when African Americans first got equal rights the Ku Klux Klan would use fear and intimidation to keep blacks ignorant. If an African American became to succesful or too influential, they would be beaten, tarred, have a burning cross put in their yard or even killed. This thing kind of reminds me of that. It's just another example of how we have escaped slavery but racism is still very prominent in our country.

I really did not like what McCain had to say there, but I will again state my respect for him in many other situations. I feel like McCain is atleast a good man who wants to win, but holds no personal grudge against Obama. It is amazing to see some of the ignorance and racism that still exists. It is sad that McCain is forced to defend his opponent. With that said, I support CHANGE and look forward to the first African American president in our history!!

Here is the full debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvdfO0lq4rQ

Here is McCain defending Obama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTMloaj6b68