Columnist – John Sammon
‘I don’t mean that has to reduce your ferocity, I just mean to say you have to be respectful.’

That’s what John McCain told a supporter at a rally in Minnesota where right wing nuts were calling for Obama’s head on a platter.

Lakeville Minnesota has always been a center of higher learning. The late Johnny Carson did his character Floyd R. Turbo, the ignorant racist duck hunter whose political views were to the right of Genghis Kahn, based on some of the people of Lakeville.

This was a high point of the entire election campaign.

Respectful ferocity?

A supporter, a woman, said Obama is an ‘Arab.’

To his credit, McCain disagreed that Obama is an Arab.

Here is a partial list of epithets Obama was called at the rally. Pervert, socialist, communist, asshole, frekazoid, mother..fuc.’er, traitor, dip-shit, jungle bunny, communist queer coon, Obie the monkey, darkee, and Senator Jerk Off.

Here’s how McCain responds to each one.

‘You can call him a pervert, but we should respect differences in sexual orientation.’

‘You can call him a socialist, but I think he’s a decent sort of fellow. For a black man.’

‘You can call him an asshole, but I don’t think you should do it when I’m around.’

‘Let’s hang him!’ Members of the crowd chant. ‘Lynch the communist nigger!’

McCain calls for calm. ‘You don’t have to lessen the intensity of your feelings. But I don’t think we should hang him.’
‘He’s a member of a mud race,’ another supporter calls.

‘Please,’ McCain chides. ‘How can a person be made of mud? Now, I know you all are patriots, but let’s channel our energy in a more positive light.’

The crowd boos McCain.

‘Wait a minute!’ McCain calls. ‘I just think that words like darkee, and communist, and Arab and traitor, and Senator Jerk Off, while there may be some validity to them. Well, I think some of them may be counter-productive. That’s all.’
The crowd hisses.

A woman screams, ‘that no-good sonofabitch (Obama) wants to teach my three-year-old daughter sex education.’

‘You see! You see!’ McCain happily calls. ‘There we go. We should focus on the issues like that rather than on personality things. I mean, calling Obama a jungle bunny. I know that your anger is there because you disagree with Mister Obama and his policies that he has proposed. I know that you feel let down by things that are happening. But we need to get our message out in a way that resonates with voters. I wouldn’t call Mister Obama a jungle bunny. I would refer to him as a LIBERAL NEGRO.’

Copyright 2008 Sammonsays.