Is Obama in Danger from Palin's Words?

Here's something Sarah Palin and her neo-con handlers need to consider. The incendiary language Palin has been using to insinuate links between Obama and terrorists may be creating an atmosphere in our country similar to what was found in Israel just before a crazed right wing student murdered then Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin.

Is it perhaps time for her to cool the rhetoric? This is dangerous stuff.


From Andrew Sullivan's excellent blog, The Daily Dish, on the Atlantic website.

The Danger to Obama

An Israeli reader writes:

Your post on "The Danger of Obama" immediately brought to mind what happened here in Israel in the period leading up to Yitzhak Rabin's assassination. Even allowingfor the differences in political culture between the two countries, some of the sounds we're hearing in the public debate around the election have a haunting echo.

Here no one would have thought it possible that an Israeli Jew would take the life of a high official. There's little doubt that the crescendo of demonization toward Rabin – including accusations of treason, flyers picturing Rabin as an SS officer – and the difficulty, in a society guaranteeing free speech, of 'civilizing' the public debate before it creates a fertile bed for actual violence, all helped create the context in which Rabin's murderer decided to take matters into his own hands.

I'd like to see which Republicans will denounce this turn towards demonization. And if there are no takers – maybe Joe Lieberman?