I am a registered Republican--i switched from Unaffiliated in 2000 to vote for McCain in the Primary because GWB scared me so much. I received a fund raising letter in the mail today from Sarah Palin asking for a contribution. I sent the postage prepaid envelope back with a piece of toilet paper in it.

Mr. J. McCain and Ms. S. Palin.
I am writing to you and asking both of you to cool the incitement to violence shown in your rallies in the last few days.
By standing idle and not stopping the HATE, you are guilty by association.
Please do something before some people will take you inaction as an approval.

Thank you and God bless
Y. Manor

Palin was chosen by McCain's people as a running mate to throw the focus of the voters away from any topic of substance - the economy, the war in Iraq, etc. Now they are having Palin do the same - look how we are all focused on her hate messages and "Christian values". The second Obama responds in any other fashion than taking the high ground it will be over - McCain's people will have a field day and the real issues that need to be addressed will be lost in all the drama. At any other ralley, at any other point in time should someone be instigating what authorities deem to be a threat of violence the event would be shut down or the person making the threat would have been asked to leave. The fact that the only people who heard "Kill Him" being shouted from the audience were the media is laughable - Palin was reading from a script and "kill him" was just the next line.

Media need to call him on it! This is absolutely frightening. Let's question the ties that McCain has that a far more substantiated than serving on a board. If Ayers frighten folks, if he is such a terrorists, be more concerned over him teaching at the University than serving on a board with Obama. You are basically saying we need the resume's to include background investigations on everyone that is serving on the board we are asked to join. Is that what you are saying? The smear and fear tactics and the old ways of America needs to stop and NOW! Racism has no place in a land founded by IMMIGRANTS!

I cannot understand why Obama-Biden-DNC have not gone after McCain and Palin's "associations," also. Palin has many "unsavory" associates in Alaska, including those of the Alaskan Successionist Party who backed (and helped fund) her initial run for mayor. She tried to reward them with city offices, but was blocked by council members. Obama accepted a "house party" from Ayers when he entered his first race for public office. What's the difference? Perhaps the difference is that Obama didn't try to appoint Ayers to a state position!

McCain has many past associates who are now in jail! He gladly accepted endorsements from some of the most radical, anti-Semetic, "ministers" of the far right wing. Is he somehow less responsible for his associations than Obama is?

Who among us doesn't have SOMEBODY we once knew who once-upon-a-time did something that they (and we) are now less than proud of? Serving on a board of directors that worked to benefit children's education with somebody else who, like you, was appointed to that same board, is hardly a terrorist act! Not to mention that the organization was funded and run by staunch Republicans! If they placed Ayers on the board, blame them! Don't blame Obama.