The Ghost of George Wallace
A while ago I learned a basic lesson, which is that living neo-nazis do not really like being referred to as “ghosts“. It is understandable, I do suppose. It appears that this guy, and not his ghost, was out in Peoria doing some campaigning. For that cause.
Sadly, it seems that he probably could do worse than float around Sarah Palin rallies. It seems that the media are being scooted away from interviewing Sarah Palin supporters, which is taking the tight control of Palin one step further. I have heard some relatively goofy comments from Palin supporters — “She has five kids! I have five kids!” — but those are no less sophisticated than comments from gatherings of any candidate. Those are not the problem. The problem, it seems, goes along the lines of:
In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric‘s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.”
The Ghost of George Wallace appears to be in the air here.Â
The Secret Service is following up on media reports today that someone in the crowd at a McCain/Palin event suggested killing Barack Obama, according to Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley. The shout of “kill him” followed a Sarah Palin rant on Obama’s relationship with radical Chicagoan Bill Ayers.
It is unclear who the “kill him” is directed at — Obama or Ayers. Which I guess would be the out in the meeting with the Secret Service. Things are getting a tad heated here, and I have the basic feeling that this cannot end well — her particular brand of “Pit Bull with Lipstick” ensures that she fades back into Alaska, serves another term perhaps, and then fades away. Assuming she doesn’t manage to say something over the line and have some sort of a “Macaca” Moment — which I tend to doubt — the audience that the press is not allowed to talk to is more likely to have that over-the-line ball of fire wrecking what is left of the McCain candidacy.
As for the Great Northwest, there is This.  This. Something else I can’t gather at this precise moment. Not affiliated with the campaign, Palin wandering through North Florida and areas where the Confederate Flag might be waved, and those I suppose would exist whether or not Palin were alluding to Obama as a Coddler of Terrorism.