Just got a call from a friendly McCain robot (does the McCain campaign have any actual humans making calls, or are they all robo-calls?) saying that McCain and Palin will be in Hershey on Tuesday morning, in case anyone is interested in seeing a McCain rally up close and personal.
Details are here. The call (and the website) seemed to imply that you had to pick up tickets in advance from a "Victory Office" (a.k.a. McCain office), the nearest of which (for us) is in Harrisburg. I wonder if that's just to get a head count, or if they are screening people like Bush-Cheney used to do.
On a broader note, I realize that not everyone who goes to McCain-Palin rallies are there because they hate Obama, but more and more devastating videos (like these) are surfacing on the Internet that show people at rallies saying really vitriolic, horrible things. And these are our neighbors--the first video in that link is from Johnstown, PA. What do we (as CSCC, or as individuals) do about this? Not in the context of the election, I mean afterwards. Even if/when Obama wins the election, what can we do to convince people like the ones in these videos that our president is not a Socialist Terrorist? Or that we, as Democrats, are not Socialist Terorists?
At the beginning of this election, I believed fully that Obama was a transformative figure who would change the tone of politics and bring people together. And I do still believe, as Colin Powell said, that he has crossed ethnic, racial and generational lines to do that. But then we have people like this who make our country seem more fractured than ever. What can we do?
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Actually, McCain does have humans making his "robo" calls for him in Indiana, because it's illegal to do robocalling there.
And an interesting thing happened: the human callers were disgusted by the scripts and walked off the job!
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