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McCain dumbfounded by his own base - October 12th, 2008

In another step towards Idiocracy, McCain was twice dumbfounded last week by the appalling ignorance of his base. These two clips from a Lakeville Minnesota rally show McCain getting booed for calling Obama a ‘decent man’, and then taking away the mic of an audience member calling Obama an Arab.

I have to say, I’ll be heartbroken if McCain wins this election, but he gets a lot of credit for playing this game fair, and by putting his base in their place even while being booed. I’m somewhat troubled by his correction of ‘Arab’ with ‘decent’ (did you mean, ‘Christian’?), but I think he was just too flabbergasted by the ignorant attacks of his audience members.

I’m heartened by McCain’s integrity in this election but depressed by how ignorant this country is.

On a side note, Obama also thanked McCain for his remarks.
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Genarlow Wilson Freed - October 26th, 2007

Hurray! The system sometimes almost works!

Genarlow Wilson was finally freed after spending more than two years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15 year old when he was 17. Wilson was convicted as a sex offender and sentenced to 10 years in prison for the act, which was recorded on video.

Douchebag Georgia Attorney General Thomas Baker appealed an earlier ruling on June 11 that would have set Wilson free and reversed his charges, and released the video tape to the press, without protecting the identities of anyone involved including the female teenagers on the tape. This was an illegal act of distribution of child pornography as well as the Title 18 U.S.C. ยง2257 (legal statement that all people involved in a pornographic video are documented as over 18). Baker not only acted inappropriately and illegaly, but also kept Wilson in prison 4 months longer.

It’s amazing how much public opinion can sway the courts. If there hadn’t been as much outrage as there was, lawmakers wouldn’t have reacted the way they did, this case wouldn’t have been challenged, and Wilson would still be rotting in prison. But if you have a good enough publicist, like OJ simpson, you can get away with murder.

It’s too bad the public doesn’t care enough about other cases, such as Mumia Abu-Jamal, or the Jena 6. It’s great that Wilson didn’t have to serve an outrageous 10 years in prison, but the 2 years in prison, disruption of his life, felony charge, and sex offender charges aren’t going to help him. It’s nice that sometimes our collective conscious can have enough sense to realize the law can be horribly applied and corrupted. Why do we hide behind it then and feign helplessness when we question these other cases?

Sources
Georgia Court Orders Man Freed in Sex Case - The New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/us/26cnd-georgia.html?hp

10 Years in Prison For Consensual Sex: Genarlow Wilson’s Mother Speaks Out on Why Her Son Remains Locked Up
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/17/1356206&mode=thread&tid=25
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