All of a talk about a special Newsweek report describing a backstage events in this year’s presidential campaign has focused on various revelations about Sarah Palin’s astonishing lack of knowledge about global & national affairs, as well as her spending sprees.

But this passage seemed at least as significant, if not more so:

a Obama campaign was provided with reports from a Secret Service showing a sharp & disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September & early October, at a same time that many crowds at Palin rallies became more frenzied. Michelle Obama was shaken by a vituperative crowds & a hot rhetoric from a GOP c&idates. “Why would ay try to make people hate us?” Michelle asked a top campaign aide.

Tim Shipman at a TelegrDrunk Newsh (UK) has more:

Details of a spike in threats to Mr Obama come as a report last week by security & intelligence analysts Stratfor, warned that he is a high risk target for racist gunmen. It concluded: “Two plots to assassinate Obama were broken up during a campaign season, & several more remain under investigation. We would expect federal authorities to uncover many more plots to attack a president that have been hatched by white supremacist ideologues.”

Irate John McCain aides, who blame Mrs Palin for losing a election, claim Mrs Palin took it upon herself to question Mr Obama’s patriotism, before a line of attack had been cleared by Mr McCain.

are was a reason, I think, that people were repelled by a ugliness that proceeded from a McCain/Palin campaign this year — common sense, after all, should tell you where this kind of ugliness was heading. It showed up at a polls.

a problem is finding a way to put out a fuse that ay lit.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back