John McCain calls for civility in campaign

Giving credit where due, I just saw a clip on CNN where John McCain sought to push back against his supporters’ calling Obama a terrorist, “Arab’ and related personal attacks of being ‘scary’ and/or unAmerican. It was just a small clip, so not sure of the entire context, but he was getting a good bit of a negative reaction by simply calling Obama a decent person, and asking that everyone be ‘respectful’ in the rest of the campaign.

So, kudos to John McCain, who may be able to lose with honor after all.

Update: I should add that he was booed by his many in his audience when he did this. But he also got some applause when he said the campaign should be about issues.

He may have just divided the conservative movement even further than it was already.

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8 thoughts on “John McCain calls for civility in campaign

  1. MartiniMama

    It’s nice of him to call for civility, but this apparently came about after some supporters took his and Palin’s “Obama is a terrorist” jabs too seriously and started making noises about attacking him.

  2. MartiniMama

    It’s nice of him to call for civility, but this apparently came about after some supporters took his and Palin’s “Obama is a terrorist” jabs too seriously and started making noises about attacking him.

  3. Rena Post author

    Yeah, I guess I was assuming that my readers were aware of the numerous occasions this week (if not earlier) when rally attenders called out things like “Traitor” “Terrorist” “Kill him” and “Off with his head” when McCain or Palin were talking about Obama. It’s been all over the news, but not everyone follows political news 24/7 like I do.

  4. Rena Post author

    Yeah, I guess I was assuming that my readers were aware of the numerous occasions this week (if not earlier) when rally attenders called out things like “Traitor” “Terrorist” “Kill him” and “Off with his head” when McCain or Palin were talking about Obama. It’s been all over the news, but not everyone follows political news 24/7 like I do.

  5. Rena Post author

    It would have been nice for McCain to go further in explaining that Obama wasn’t an “Arab” as that woman charged. He said, “No, no, he’s a decent family man …”

    What he could have said is “No, he’s not an Arab, he’s a American, who is a decent family man.” Thus not perpetuating the idea that Arabs aren’t decent, or don’t care about their families. Most of them are, like most everyone of every descent.

    But, it was extemporaneous, and better than the accepting silence that’s been his previous response in the face of these kinds of outbursts. So I’ll gladly cut some slack.

  6. Rena Post author

    It would have been nice for McCain to go further in explaining that Obama wasn’t an “Arab” as that woman charged. He said, “No, no, he’s a decent family man …”

    What he could have said is “No, he’s not an Arab, he’s a American, who is a decent family man.” Thus not perpetuating the idea that Arabs aren’t decent, or don’t care about their families. Most of them are, like most everyone of every descent.

    But, it was extemporaneous, and better than the accepting silence that’s been his previous response in the face of these kinds of outbursts. So I’ll gladly cut some slack.

  7. MartiniMama

    You are both gracious and right. Both sides are just going to get more heated as we approach election day, sooooo I’ll have to hold on to my hat …

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