I have such mixed feelings about these video clips. McCain has for a moment done the right thing - finally - in saying that Obama is not an Arab and is not someone of whom Americans need be afraid. The problem is that McCain created this situation with his campaign ads, rallies, and the talking points of his campaign staff and surrogates.
It would seem that in his mind he constructed Obama as enemy so much that he went unconscious. McCain's expression betrays his shame. In this moment, he was confronted by the paradoxic desires of his personal and political aspirations.
Where has the McCain who will stand up to such vitriol been for the last few days, weeks and months?
Curiously his own crowd boos him when he calls for people to be respectful. This emotionality and irrational rhetoric makes me angry at the irresponsibility of this campaign and terrified at the state of our country.
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