By the way, here is a website I found that shares all the Sarah Palin dirt to support Barack Obama!

So, I 'd like to know what Patrick E means, and why the righties on here can't condemn anything McCain/Palin do without saying in effect- there's some Democrat somewhere doing the same thing!.

Where the hell did that crack come from Patrick? Threats and inciting violence are wrong no matter who says and/or does it. Your partisan gottcha is just ridiculous… Bordering on wing-nutty.

However I do sometimes wonder why it's acceptable to say pretty much anything about a Republican and that's just politics.

They already are guilty of coercion to do bodily harm.

If McCain had chosen not to use Bush's campaign staff and tactics, and had picked a serious qualified candidate for VP, my guess is that he'd be giving Obama a run for his money instead of floundering around at 14 points behind.

Democrats and Independents need to STOP complaining about the right-wing extremist cat-calls and intemperate climate at McCain rallies.

Specifically – STOP WASTING TIME on the topic.

A great deal of time and effort has been spent in media coverage concerning “Kill Him!” and “Terrorist” and all the other jawboning over the tenor of the campaign. Democrats condemn it, Republicans dismiss it (largely)…and NOTHING CHANGES.

Meanwhile, McCain and Palin continue to repeat various lies that go totally unchallenged, because the media is focused on the hate-speech issue instead. They repeat over and over again various talking points that are either total fabrications or wildly stretching reality, and because these talking points are unchallenged, they are getting absorbed by electorate as 'facts'. For example, I watch McCain at a rally today hammer away at how Obama will raise everyone's taxes repeatedly, when this is an easily disproven lie – instead of the media tackling that issue, they decide to turn back and rehash the whole 'nastiness' topic…again.

Some Democrats, Independents and intelligent Republicans, I urge you – ignore the temptation to waste any more energy on “Kill Him!”. There's a limited amount of time and resources, and that time and energy could be much better spent tearing down Fibber McCain on his penchant for lying and character assassination instead.

Most of us knew nothing about Sarah Palin before Senator McCain picked her; since that first RNC Speech (which was an amusing and attractive version of a female Spiro Agnew on night that seemed like a Celebrity Roast of Barack Obama), what we have seen has been distubing

Sarah Palin delivered what her hometown paper called “Orwellian Big Lie” over the weekend (from Andrew Sullivan, the link to the paper: http://www.adn.com/opinion/view/story/555236.html).

Sarah Paln is such a disaster of a candidate, that her Big Lie was hardly commented upon. John McCain and Sarah Palin are running such a negative campaign, and their rallies are responding to the Right Radio's demand that they demonize Obama to such a degree that the best supporters can do to defend them is to offer that the cries to commit acts of violence happened before the candidate came on stage.

What America sees is a campaign that can only win if their opponent is destroyed.

As one who admired John McCain, I cannot believe he has put himself in this place.

I'd cut the reporters a break here.They were live blogging so the shout from the crowd just kind of rolled into the ongoing commentary.

Without any context, the remark has little meaning. Without any video corroboration, I do not trust Mr. Mullen as an honest reporter of the facts as I attempted to demonstrate in my second post. Thus, this seems like a manufactured BS incident illiciting a BS response.

Shaun, you've been in journalism for awhile. Why does the paper you linked to treat this as such an off-handed thing especially since it's been reported before? (i.e. “However, someone did shout out…”) Are you serious? Why wasn't this in the headline? Why wasn't this what the story was about? And why isn't their a video link so we can actually hear it? Given what is claimed to be said, I just find it very hard to believe that it was treated in such an off-handed manner, especially if this is the second time.

I cannot imagine anyone condoning any of this…period. But these aren't charges you just toss out their as an afterthought–they deserve to be looked into. Wasn't the secret service looking into the last one?

Why would McCain or Palin try to quell these outbursts when it's likely that neither heard them? From the links:

There were no incendiary outbursts from the crowd about Mr. Obama during Mrs. Palin's speech, as there have been during other recent McCain-Palin rallies.

However, someone did shout out, “Kill him!” during Republican congressional candidate Chris Hackett's remarks before Mrs. Palin took the stage.

I guess mentioning that Mr. Hacket was on stage when the remarks were made is too much to ask. Shaun, you're like a teacher on saturday…

My computer sucks!

A lesson learned, I hope.