They'll Nail Everyone Whoever Scratched His Ass During the National Anthem

The McCain campaign has been claiming that Barack Obama is not like you or me. He's a scary, dangerous outsider with leftist leanings who associates with terrorists and hates America. After accusing Barack Obama of just that during an interview on Hardball with Chris Matthews on Friday, Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said "The news media should do a penetrating expose and take a look - I wish they would - I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out are they pro-America or anti-America. I think people would love to see an expose like that." (Check out the interview for yourself: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27243547#27243547)

I have read some comments that Chris Matthews was goading the Congresswoman into her statements, but I think that his line of questioning was germane. If Barack Obama is un-American, then how can anyone who holds the same views or is associated with him not be?

I would like to give her the benefit of the doubt and say she was just trying to get out the message, but when pressed by reporters on the same issue, even Governor Palin said "I know Obama loves America.I'm sure that is why he's running for president. It's because he wants to do what he believes is in the best interest of this great nation. ... I don't question at all Barack Obama's love for this great country."

Coupling that with John McCain's statement that Barack Obama is a decent American, I have to wonder why their campaign continues to insinuate through ads and robo-calls that Obama is a terrorist who voted to let babies die. You cannot be on both sides of the fence on this. He's either a threat to our nation because he is anti-American or he is a decent man running for president because he has the best interest of his country in mind. For me, there is no in-between on something this inflammatory. This is not equivalent to being misleading on Obama's voting record, this is a poorly veiled cry for McCarthyism.

James William Fulbright said this about Joseph McCarthy, "The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control." That still rings true today.

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Congresswoman Bachmann toes the Republican line with the best of them - she believes global warming is a hoax, favors privatizing Social Security, supports federal and state amendments to ban gay marriage, claims that evolution is a theory that has never been proven, and thinks we should stay the course in Iraq - but her inability to differentiate a flawed political attack and reality is astounding. If you, like I and many others already did, would like to contribute to her opponent in this November's election to help keep her Christian fundamentalism out of Washington, please visit this site: http://www.tinklenberg08.com/home.html