Is the McCain campaign sowing the seeds of
civil unrest?
Le Monde, France
McCain Invites a
'Dangerous America'
"In opposing Obama, Republicans
tolerate and often encourage racist slander, xenophobic lies and venomous
rumors prevalent amongst extreme right-wing bigots and 'White supremacists.' If
Mr. McCain wins under these conditions, violence will menace America."
EDITORIAL
Translated By Philippe
Guittard
September 14, 2008
France
- Le Monde - Original Article (French)
After eight years of
President George Bush, with their credit weakened by the debacle in their banking
system - which threatens to plunge much of the world into crisis - the choice
that Americans make in the presidential election on November 4 has particular
significance.
The good news was the process
of selecting candidates, which led to the designation of people remarkable for
their intelligence, strength of character and independence of mind. On the
Republican side, John McCain has confirmed throughout his long Senate career
and disputes with Mr. Bush, his status as a reformer able to ally himself with
lawmakers on the other side of the aisle to correct some of the defects in the
system. As a nationalist and of course a conservative, he defends the
principles of freedom and morality that underlie American and Western society.
Among Democrats, Barack Obama
has become the candidate of a new generation and a new era at a time of
globalization, which runs through, jostles and energizes America as it does the
rest of the world. This mixed-race candidate - a Black man according to
American perceptions - offers a chance to overcome the divisions inherited from
slavery and segregation and which continued right up to the 1960s.
The bad news is that for
Republicans, disarmed by the unpopularity of Mr. Bush and the financial
doldrums, the color of Mr. Obama's skin is becoming the only argument left for
opposing the Democratic candidate. He is attacked not only because he's Black,
but because his father was a Kenyan, because he lived in Indonesia, and because
his "middle name," inherited from her paternal grandmother, is
Hussein.
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Republicans have little to
say about Obama's choices in the area of energy or his fiscal proposals. They
tolerate and often encourage racist slander, xenophobic lies and venomous rumors
prevalent amongst extreme right-wing bigots and "White supremacists."
If Mr. McCain wins under these conditions, violence will menace America. If Mr.
Obama is elected against this resurgence of hate, hope will prevail, but fear
will continue to loom.
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