The Globe reports today from Lakeville, Minnesota on the most touchingly pathetic moment of the presidential campaign to date:
McCain was booed at a town-hall meeting here when he rebuked a man who said he was “scared…to bring a child up” under an Obama presidency. “I have to tell you he is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared of as president of the United States,” McCain said to audible disapproval.
The man was one of nine who appealed to McCain to confront Obama more forcefully, several of them raising specific controversies dominating news, including Obama’s relationships with Bill Ayers and the group ACORN. McCain seized the microphone from the hands of a woman who called Obama “an Arab,” and scolded her.
Interestingly, you couldn’t go to that “town hall meeting” unless you pledged to volunteer for the McCain campaign. That’s democracy for you.
Regardless, I wonder if my republican aunt who lives in Lakeville went…
Just gives you an idea what a decent man McCain turns out to be dispite all the vitriol spent to disparage him. [P.S.: In the United States, we are all republicans, but only somewhat less than half of us are Republicans; likewise, we all are born into this democracy, yet only somewhat less than half of us are Democrats. Ours is a democratic republic, and I hasten to remind us all that we were conceived, first, as a republic—if not exactly on "the Greek model," then at least "in the manner of the classical Greeks."]
Nice to see you are taking comments, Scotto: you honor my ancestor’s name in so doing…that’s Scottoway Whitcomb, Revolutionary War soldier of some modest renown re: SAR records.