Check out this article, entitled “Anger is Crowd’s Overarching Emotion at McCain Rally”.

Here is an excerpt:

“I can’t stand to look at him, I don’t trust him. I don’t like the circle of friends he keeps, I don’t like his policies,” Schmitz said of Obama. “I’m pissed off by it. I’m beyond mad. How is he climbing up in the polls?”

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The crowd showed equal disdain for the media, fueled by comments from Palin, who encouraged the Republican supporters to take the campaign’s message around the media. “I can’t pick a fight with those who buy ink by the barrel,” she said. “It’s dangerous territory whenever I suggest the mainstream media isn’t asking all the questions.”

That message was clearly shared among the crowd. Mike Payne, who traveled from Madison, Wis., for the rally, rejected the idea that McCain’s supporters are angry, preferring to use the word “frustrated.”

“It might have something to do with you guys,” he told a reporter.

It’s not anger at all. It’s frustration. There’s millions of people around the country that think like we do. You guys refuse to acknowledge that, and you insult our intelligence by misreporting the information. You are treating [Obama] like he’s Britney Spears and covering him like he’s Paris Hilton, instead of the next president of the United States, potentially.”

Seriously what is wrong with people?  Let me begin by saying that I know there would be democrats equally as angry as those cited in this article if Obama was losing, and equally making up lame ass excuses as to why their guy/girl was losing… but that’s not the point.  What really bothers me is this anger.  This anger that riles up inside of people when their person/team/ideology/country/etc. is losing or is being attacked… it’s like a poison.  It infects people.  It’s ugly.  And to be completely honest, it freaks me out.

It is all emotional hogwash.  It is people who are sore losers and who are used to being on top and who can’t stand the fact that they might be wrong on this one, that Obama might actually be a decent human being despite being colored blue (democrat) and black (African-American).  I say that because it is this ignorance in people that really bothers me.  As much beef as I have with the Republican party (mainly because of President Bush / V.P. Cheney and other Republican fundamentalists) I feel that I have been pretty level headed in trying to give McCain a chance.

But I get the anger.  It seeps through me sometimes when I am listening to McCain and the sound of his voice makes me want to vomit and the thought of having to listen to him for four maybe eight years almost brings tears to my eyes - and it is then I stop and realize that it effects me too.  This unjustifiable bias for the opposing team - and I hate it.  It is so wrong and it blinds us.

I’ll say it right here, McCain isn’t a bad guy, he has said some decent things that I relatively agree with.  With that said, I feel that those decent things he has said have been contradicted by other things he has said, and there is just an overall feeling I get from the republican campaign - that they will do anything to win this “war” of a political race.  To be fair, regretfully I’ve seen this from the Obama campaign too… and maybe it is just because I am voting for Obama that I say this, although I don’t think so, but I think Obama has really tried to carry out a different campaign, focusing on his strengths and his intelligence and his passion to lead the country rather than solely attacking his opponent (which, truth be told, is what the McCain camp has pretty much resorted to).

There are so many biases and deep deep hurt and scars that people carry into elections, it is said that it can’t be more objective.

All this anger… it makes me fearful, for Obama.  My only prayer is that some overzealous “freedom fighter” from the republican party doesn’t lose it and grab his sniper rifle and attempt to be “heroic” or something.  I would lose all hope for this country…