Around the Blogroll and Elsewhere: Special Unleashing the Monster Edition

Have you ever noticed that when you see images of McCain/Palin rallies on television, you never see crowd shots? All you ever see is the people standing behind the nominees of the Party of Racial and Ethnic Hatred. And they are always white -- every last one of them. The one time I saw a black person, he turned out to be a Secret Service agent. I wonder sometimes what this guy thinks about the rhetoric coming out of the people he's assigned to protect.

But still, you never see crowd shots. I wonder why this is. Perhaps it's because the Senile Old Man/Racist Theocratic Lunatic ticket isn't drawing big crowds. After all, the lunatics may be vocal, but if there were all that many of them, lynchings would still be commonplace.

Every time I see images from an Obama rally, I marvel anew at Barack Obama's courage in taking on this challenge. He's a tall man, but he looks so small amidst these seas of tens of thousands of people -- so small, and so utterly alone. You cannot be a black man running for president in this country, faced with the ugly, infected, life-threatening, green pus-filled sore that is the American right wing, without having some serious nads.

I fear for him every day. Because the woman with the beehive and the maniacal glean in her eyes has succeeded in whipping her mindless, grinning followers into a murderous, racist frenzy. And the man who's supposed to be at the top of the ticket waited far too long to utter some feeble, and I believe ultimately pointless words in Obama's favor -- words it must have killed him to have to say. Because painting Barack Obama as a secret terrorist is the only card left in the wingnut deck.

I'm not along in my concern for what happens in this country after November 4 -- regardless of who wins.

What Kathy G said.

DCap remembers Kristallnacht.

Paul Campos dishes up some lip-smackin' tasty snark.

Max Blumenthal and Dave Neiwert on why Sarah Palin talking about shady traitorous associates is projection at its best.

What "Arab" and "Muslim" are code words for: Archcrone on the lengths some people will go to in order to keep Barack Obama from becoming president.

The Fumigator-in-Chief is more charitable towards John McCain than I am.

Bruce Wilson has seven questions the media has not asked Sarah Palin. The Constitution wants to know the answers.

Heh. A McCain meetup held in a Starbucks. Insert your own elitist joke here.

And as Jezebel points out, if the racist and hatemongers get their way, Donna Brazile is on record: She is NOT returning to the back of the bus. Can I get an Amen?