Divide and Conquer; The New American Political Strategy

After invading thousands of households with Robo-calls, slamming Obama as a terrorist, the McCain camp has taken a play right out of the Karl Rove playbook. The goal is to divide voters on irrelevant hot button issues, and to placate the fear that lives inside all of us. By calling Obama a terrorist, McCain hopes that voters will feel an overwhelming sense of patriotism, and put a notch next to his name on election day. Yet all that he is adopted is an anything but the economy, anything but healthcare, anything but real issues approach. The truth is that McCain himself is the terrorist. The objective of a terrorist is to strike fear into the hearts of a citizenry to force an over reaction. The fear mongering that McCain has displayed is both pitiful and ineffective, the majoriy of American people know better than to buy into this tactic. My question is, who is he going to terrorize? Do people fear that he will strap a bomb on his chest, and blow up an Ohio tour group in the White House. The idea is not only ludacris, it is insulting to the hard working Americans, who have seen their hours cut, lost their homes, and have gone into the hospital to find that there insurance won’t cover what they categorize as a pre-existing condition. We must guard against this kind of tyranny, the notion that we as a people must live in a “Kingdom of Fear,” as the late Hunter S. Thompson describes. McCain has driven a wedge into the heart of America, creating a radical disconnect between the people who live in what Palin describes as the real America, and the coastal elite. This, is all we have to fear!