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Olbermann asks McCain to suspend campaign to at least control the violent elements incited at the GOP rallies

Keith Olbermann of MSNBC news offers an accurate portrayal of the manner with which John McCain and Sarah Palin have whipped their followers into a blood thirsty frenzy which will only be satisfied with the head of Barack Obama on a platter. Please watch and heed.

Of violence, hatred and greed

So how many chants of "Kill Him" are we going to tolerate before we say enough? Why has promoting political assassination suddenly become acceptable? Why are people not going to jail for these crimes? Can't we all just get along?

Huckabee quip could result with blood on his hands

Former Arkansas Governor and possible Republican vice-president candidate Mike Huckabee made an off-handed comment at the NRA Convention after hearing a chair fall to the floor - "That's Barack Obama waiting to make a speech here - someone aimed a gun and him and he fell out of his chair diving to the floor." As innocent as this kind of comment might seem at first blush, this is exactly the kind of affirmation that right wing wackos with rifles need to pull the trigger in an assassination of Obama. Already today a Hispanic man who came out against a Marietta bar owner who put a picture of Curious Georgia with Obama in '08 on a shirt received a package with powder and a cross on it at his front door. The tone and rhetoric have already gone off the charts with revisionist Republican fearmongers suggesting that the presumptive Democratic nominee is an appeaser. We need to stick to the issues and figure out how to fix what is wrong with this country, not appeal to reactio...