Actions have consequences

In comments to that last posting, Steve Burns points out this wonderful bit of news:

An ACORN community organizer received a death threat and the liberal activist group's Boston and Seattle offices were vandalized Thursday, reflecting mounting tensions over its role in registering 1.3 million mostly poor and minority Americans to vote next month. ...

Kettenring said that a senior ACORN staffer in Cleveland, after appearing on television this week, got an e-mail that said she "is going to have her life ended."

A female staffer in Providence, R.I., got a threatening call from someone who said words to the effect of "We know you get off work at 9," then uttered racial epithets, he said. ...

Since McCain's remarks, ACORN's 87 offices across the country have received hundreds of hostile e-mails, many of them containing racial slurs, Kettenring said. "We believe that these are specifically McCain supporters" sending the messages, he said.

Some things I wanted to say, but left out of yesterday's posting: that I consider McCain's incitement in this case to be not just shameful but obscene.  It's as though just the sight of that brass ring in the distance has had the same effect on McCain that another ring had on someone else, and it reinforces something I've been thinking about lately: that the adage about power corrupting leaves out the pursuit of power, which can do nearly as much damage.

Something else I left out of yesterday's posting was a donation link for ACORN.  I'll definitely be sending them some money now, and I hope you'll consider doing the same (and I hope that will be the reaction of thousands of people around the country).  You might also consider contacting McCain's campaign to let them know what you think of his willingness to say anything at all, no matter how vicious, unfounded, and dangerous, in his desperate attempt to gather more power to himself.

Comments

[IZOD]

That's funny, Jon Stewart just did a hilarious bit a couple weeks ago comparing McCain to Gollum. Even went for the cheap shot of comparing their wrinkly faces (I wholeheartedly approve of such cheap shots, for the record).

[John Caruso]

In my plagiarism defense, I plead basic cable.

[IZOD]

Well, his was making fun of McCain contradicting himself several times in the exact same interview over whether the bailout bill was good or bad. "We loves the bill!" "We hates the bill!" "We loves it!" "We hates it!"

So you're in the clear. Anyway, just think of it as a "great minds think alike" type of thing.