UPDATED: Missouri attorney sues McCain/Palin for $6 mil over “reprehensible campaigning”

There is just no end to the hypersensitivity and absurdity of the progressive socialist nowadays. And the latest hypersensitive loon to emerge in the court system is Mary Kay Green, 66 year old family and PI law attorney, and author of “Women of Courage”.

Ms. Green has filed a lawsuit against McCain, Palin and campaign manager Rick Davis for what she calls promoting hate speech.

Her lawsuit claims McCain’s campaign “intentionally, recklessly and irresponsibly portrayed presidential candidate Barack Obama as un-American, a terrorist by association, and “not like us,” a non-white individual.

It also accuses Palin of working a crowd at a rally into a frenzy “causing them to make death threats against presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Barack Obama with her audiences shouting “kill him,” “off with his head,” “terrorist,” “Muslim terrorist.”

“It strikes terror in my heart,” Green said.

Ms. Green blames the assassination of Robert Kennedy for her father’s death when, eight days later, she says he dropped dead because of grief. Hummm… wonder if that was the cause of death on the autopsy report?

“The same bullet killed my father,” Green said. “It was profoundly tragic for my family.”

Because Green views Obama as the modern day JFK, she fears for his safety.

UPDATE: Considering the assault on a McCain campaign worker in Pittsburg Oct 22nd, Ms. Green may have a point… However it appears the hate McCain is inciting is the Obama faithful for any McCain supporter….

Anyway, so what’s her beef with McCain and Palin, and why does she feel she, personally, is entitled to $6 million in damages and punitive damages? According to her filed brief in the Western Missouri District, US District Court:

4. Govemor Sarah Plain is known as “the Pit Bull of the McCain campaign and on or about October 1, 2008, with the McCain 2008 campaign floundering in the polls, she conspired with Presidential Candidate John McCain and his carnpaign manager Richard “Rick” Davis to begin making public speeches and television and cable advertising to engage in a McCarthy-like campaign of falsehoods, innuendo, and smear of the reputation of Presidential candidate Barack Obama.

5. From October 1, 2008, to the present, Governor Sarah Palin with the approval and under the direction of U.S. Senator John McCain and his campaign manager Richard “Rick” Davis intentionally, recklessly and irresponsibly portrayed Presidential candidate Barack Obama as un-American, a terrorist by association, and “not like us,” a non-white individual.

6. That from October l, 2008, to the present, Sarah Palin, recklessly, knowingly and intentionally and with the approval and under the direction of John McCain and his campaign manager Richard “Rick” Davis by her falsities and hate speech played to the racial prejudices of her and John McCain supporters and worked them into afrenzy causing them to make death threats against Presidental Candidate and U.S. Senator Barack Obama with her audiences shouting “kill him”off with his head,” “terrorist,” “Muslim terrorist.’

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10. Plaintiff has suffered actual damages and compensatory damages and continues to suffer at the hands and words of the Defendants.

11. Plaintiff seeks actual damages, compensatory damages and punitive damages and the costs of this action.

WHEREFORE the PlaintiffMary Kay Green, pro se, prays the court for actual, compensatory and punitive damages and the costs of this action from the Defendants personally and in their official capacities, and prays that they cease and desist their reprehensible campaigning.

Ms. Green’s apparently upset that neither McCain nor Palin admonished the crowd comments… assuming, of course, they even heard such comments from their stage position. In fact, she promises to withdraw her absurd lawsuit if she hears “public statements from these two candidates that they abhor these death threats and they will not tolerate these intruders in their audiences.”

Ms. Green’s got a few problems, as I see it.

First of all, anyone that makes a threat to a POTUS or potential POTUS ought to find their a$$ behind bars. I couldn’t agree with that more.

Ms. Green, nor the press, provides any accounts of crowds yelling “off with their heads”. And McCain has publicly corrected a rally attendee who tried to portray Obama as a Muslim.

But these articles suggesting that the “kill him” was directed at Obama have my head scratching. According to the transcript provided by left-wing blogger, Blogger Interrupted these threats followed Palin’s references to William Ayers.

“Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers,” Palin said.

“Boooo!” said the crowd.

“And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, ‘launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,’” she continued.

“Boooo!” the crowd repeated.

“Kill him!” proposed one man in the audience.

Somehow, BloggerInterrupted reads the above, and hears that “kill him” as directed at Obama. The same goes for AmericanBlog.

The way I see the timing, it appears to be directed against William Ayers, not Obama. But you know the “it’s all about me, Obama” crowd.

Never the less, the Secret Service takes any such idea as serious… as they should. And, according to another left wing blogger, Radaronline, and based on Dana Milbank’s WaPo article, they are investigating. However neither Palin, nor McCain, are responsible for their supporters unsavory behavior. If so, the amount of Obama supporters who’d be behind bars for their accusations and treatment of Palin would swamp our court and jail systems.

Neither Palin nor McCain has ever called Obama “un-American”. You can throw out that charge completely. She’ll be digging long and hard to find any quotes on that from either candidate. That is merely an interpretation of Ms. Green’s obviously deluded mind, blinded by bias.

Neither has Palin, whom Green specifically accuses, called Obama a terrorist. Palin is on record as saying Obama has been “palling around with terrorists, and other statements (as quoted by WaPo’s Dana Milbank):

Barack Obama, she told 8,000 fans at a rally here Monday afternoon, “launched his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist!” This followed her earlier accusation that the Democrat pals around with terrorists. “This is not a man who sees America the way you and I see America,” she told the Clearwater crowd. “I’m afraid this is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.” The crowd replied with boos.

McCain had said that racially explosive attacks related to Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are off limits. But Palin told New York Times columnist Bill Kristol in an interview published Monday: “I don’t know why that association isn’t discussed more.”

Let me get this straight… Palin labels Ayers a terrorist, and a friend and associate of Barack Obama, and they interpret that as calling Obama a terrorist? That’s quite the leap.

The already verified facts include:

1: Ayers is an admitted terrorist who got off on technicalities on improper surveillence.

2: Obama and Ayers have an association that goes back to shared educational philosophy, acting as co-administrators of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge,

3: Both were board members of the Woods Fund.

4: Obama had a “launch” neighborhood introduction “coffee” in the home of William Ayers and his fellow domestic terrorist wife. Bermadette Dorn.

I’d say what Palin says is absolutely, and inarguably true.

INRE the Rev. Wright, heaven forbid anyone bring his name up as the racist pastor with whom Obama has shared a two decade relationship. Is Obama the man who has supposedly transcended racism or not? Or has he, by his refusal to come clean on his Black Theology and socialist beliefs, and his unmitigated support for affirmative action welfare programs, just fueled it instead?

The point here is that now we are told we must tiptoe around Obama’s nefarious terrorist and racists friends and associates, or risk lawsuits for “hate speech”. Well, there’s a giant step for unity and healing in the nation…. what BS.

Needless to say, both Green’s charges of calling Obama a terrorist “by association” and “un-American” are figments of Ms. Green’s own nanny-speech oriented mind.

Here’s another real stretch that comes from Ms. Green’s imagination. The notion that either McCain or Palin was referring to race when using a “not one of us” comment… which is down right rare that I can find in any campaign speeches.

But what about that “not one of us” phrase? Where does that come from? And just how unusual is it?

How about we go back in time to Jan 2008, with an article from Kathryn Jean Lopez at the National Review. Only problem? The “not one of us” phrase was not used in reference to Obama, but to McCain as presumptive GOP nominee.

To Senator McCain, congratulations. But he has not got this thing wrapped up by any stretch. It’s less than a year since he tried to push a disastrous immigration bill into law — one as manipulative as any pork-laden appropriations bill — with vigorous opposition from talk radio, conservative bloggers, think tanks, and the grassroots. I don’t see how such a man wins the Republican nomination. I’m second to none in praising him on his surge leadership. But on a whole host of issues — including water boarding, tax cuts, and the freedom of speech — he’s not one of us.

According to Ms. Green, that phrase is racist…. what was Ms. Lopez thinking, using those words?

Let’s leap forward to May of 2008, from the Atlantic Monthly and an article by Jonathan Rauch – again used in reference to McCain.

Alert Washingtonians were treated to an odd juxtaposition not long ago. John McCain was booed at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the big annual gathering of the right-wing tribes, while trying to establish that he was a conservative. On the same day, across town at the American Enterprise Institute—another conservative stronghold—Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, was warmly received when he touted a new book called Real Change. Never one to go underboard, Ging­rich called for “explosively replac[ing] the failed bureaucracies of the past.”

The irony of the contrast seemed lost on conservatives. No one in the movement doubts Gingrich is a real, no-kidding conservative. Many doubt that McCain is. Some flatly flunk him. Thus spake James Dobson, the head of Focus on the Family and a leader of the Christian right: “I am convinced Senator McCain is not a conservative.” He’s not one of us, these conservatives have insisted.

Again, according to Green, how racist of Dobson to call McCain “not one of us”…. sigh

So just what the heck is Green referring to when she accuses the “not one of us” statement, when applied to Obama, as being “racist”?

According to Rep. Gregory Meeks, who shares Green’s notion that Palin is fueling racism in her rallies:

In recent days, as polls have shown a steady lead for the Democratic ticket, Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin have used reports of Mr. Obama’s loose association with Bill Ayers, a former member of the ’60s radical group the Weather Underground, as evidence that he is different from them.

“Our opponent,” Ms. Palin told donors in Englewood, Colo., “is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”

She added, “This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America,” she said. “We see America as a force of good in this world. We see an America of exceptionalism.”

An Associated Press analysis characterized those remarks as “unsubstantiated” and carrying “a racially tinged subtext.”

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“They are trying to throw out these codes,” said Representative Gregory Meeks, a Democrat from New York.

“He’s ‘not one of us?’” Mr. Meeks said, referring to a comment Sarah Palin made at a campaign rally on Oct. 6 in Florida. “That’s racial. That’s fear. They know they can’t win on the issues, so the last resort they have is race and fear.”

“Racism is alive and well in this country, and McCain and Palin are trying to appeal to that and it’s unfortunate,” said Representative Ed Towns, also from New York.

“These codes”? “Not one of us”?? “Racially tinged”???

Oh horse manure. I’m really tired of tiptoeing around these issues. We can either discuss this stuff openly, or not. But if the other side is going to claim that Obama’s really questionable friendships and associations are all “racially tinged”, we’re going to get no where quickly except retrograde to increased racial hostilities.

Now, would any of you consider Steve and Cokie Roberts racist? August 1st, 2008, they asked the same about Obama…

To many Americans, Obama is still a stranger, an exotic and mysterious stranger with an odd name, a dark face, a weird pastor, a cheeky wife and a brief past. “This is a big leap for people,” he said on “Meet the Press.” “I don’t look like previous commanders in chief. I’ve been on the national scene a relatively short time.”

One measure of that leap: Pew reports that 22 percent of all voters think Obama is a Muslim or are confused about his religion; only 57 percent correctly identify him as a Christian. And among independents who don’t know his true faith, only one-third support him, while half back McCain.

So, in November, will Americans decide Obama is “one of us”? We don’t know yet.

Just like McCain’s been accused of not being “one of us”, as in on conservative issues, Obama is not “one of us” when he views America thru the eyes of Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers and Rashid Khalid.

Obama is also NOT “one of us” when he sees US soldiers as those who are air raiding villages and killing civilians.… using Obama’s own words.

But to show this level of hypersentive insanity isn’t limited to one goofball, liberal 66 year old attorney in Missouri, even the media (i.e. Newsweek) are whining that using Obama’s own quotes are a “distortion”.

Dishonorable?
The ad asks, “Who is Barack Obama,” then calls him “dishonorable” for supposedly saying that U.S. troops in Afghanistan are “just air-raiding villages and killing civilians.”

Gov. Sarah Palin raised a similar charge during the October 2 vice presidential debate. The intervening weekend hasn’t made the claim any more substantive. What Obama said – more than a year ago at an August 2007 campaign stop – was a criticism of administration military strategy and not a criticism of “our troops”:

Really? Let’s hear it from the “donkey’s” mouth, shall we?

We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there.

If Newsweek’s “pass” on this is correct, Obama is suggesting that our military leadership has the strategy to “air raid villages and kill civilians”. Well now, don’t that make it all right?

Feh…

What it appears is that at every attempt to get to the bottom of Obama’s shadowy relationships and foggy past, the cry of racism and lawsuits arise. Combine this dangerous method of quashing free speech with a socialist POTUS, a Chicago machine political methodology, and we could be in deep sheeeeeet as a nation.

Somehow, in my heart of hearts, I don’t believe most the Obama supporters – wanting desperately to believe Obama’s lofty promises of unity – genuinely want what Obama is likely to usher in as President. Unfortunately, it will be too late… for these four years, anyway.