Supporters of John McCain heckle people lined up to vote early in Fayetteville, North Carolina, not far from where Barack Obama held a rally hours earlier. Nearly all voters in line at polling place were Obama supporters. The blog post is from Christina Bellantoni of the right-wing Washington Times who reported that a “group of loud and angry protestors” — almost all of whom were white — were shouting and mocking voters — nearly all of whom were black. Bellatoni noted that people “were shouting about Obama’s acknowledged cocaine use as a young man, abortion and one man used the word ‘terrorist.’ They also were complaining that Sundays are for church, not voting.”
Morris offered Palin some advice during their encounter in Juneau, several of those present recollected, which he shared with the rest of the gathering in a short speech. As Lowry recalled it, Morris had warned her that a reformer, in order to be successful, needed to maintain her “outsider cred.” In a similar vein, Simpson recalled that Morris “gave a little speech” in which he warned that “what happens to most people is that they campaign as outsiders, but when they get into power they turn into insiders. If you want to be successful, you have to stay an outsider.”
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/27/081027fa_fact_mayer
Posted by: maudgonne | 26 October 2008 at 05:54 PM