This one is heroic – and if I had seen it before sending, I would have included it in the Race section of the last email:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95591135
“A top U.S. labor leader is making an unusually blunt pitch to working-class white voters in key battleground states. Longtime United Mine Workers President Richard Trumka, who is now secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, is making the case for Sen. Barack Obama.”And this is an excellent letter to McCain, from a Republican and former supporter, in the Baltimore Sun, regarding his dangerous campaign that encourages hatred and potentially violence:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.mccain10oct10,0,7557571.story
And it looks like McCain’s campaign is completely unapologetic. Unbelievable. I hope Obama wins a landslide as people desert his sinking campaign!
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/10/1529529.aspx
UPDATE: McCain is now, too little, too late, attempting to put the genie back into the bottle:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/10/mccain-defends-his-rabid_n_133710.html
At least he is finally speaking up. I don’t think McCain is evil, but I think great evil could be done by people who take campaign rhetoric literally, and that is frightening. I hope McCain realizes what he has done, or has allowed to be done in his name, and is genuinely horrified. He was booed by his own supporters when he tried to tell them Obama was not an Arab terrorist, but a decent man with whom he had fundamental differences.
