John McCain and Sarah Palin did a short 10-minute interview on a local ABC affiliate television station in Philadelphia yesterday after they spoke at Lehigh University. Their reaction to Matt O'Donnell's questions about rising violence in the city and gun-control was cold, unfeeling and automaton-like.
Among the topics that were discussed was the rise of violence in Philadelphia in the past two years (murders are on the rise, and violence against police is unprecedented with 4 dead in 2 years). Three Philadelphia police officers have been shot to death in the past year; the most recent funeral of a 30 year-old officer was televised last week (his partner was also shot but survived).
On Sunday night, a father driving his 8 year-old daughter home from New Jersey to a Philadelphia suburb was shot in the head (with a .45 brandished by a passing driver) in a road rage incident on a highway in the city while his daughter narrowly missed being shot as well. He is still fighting for his life, and the city is reeling from this latest turn as it serves as an example that even traversing the major highways through the city (without stopping) has become very dangerous.
See link to video of interview of McCain/Palin interview below.
This is the link to the video (sorry I do not know how to embed):
http://abclocal.go.com/...
They left me short of words. Not a word of sympathy uttered for the families of the officers who died in the line of duty – as recently as last week. No compassion. No understanding. No acknowledgment of the rise of crime, and of violent crime. Nothing.
Their utter lack of humanity, of the very human-ness that should connect us all leaves me cold. It was a stark reminder of the debate last week when Palin ignored the emotional Joe Biden after he talked about the death of his wife and daughter. At the time, many wrote it off as a moment wherein she did not know how to react and so reverted to talking points. Not so. They feel nothing but their own superiority.
I’m at the point where I have been switching the mute button on when I see McPalin advertisements. I just don’t have the stomach for the two of them anymore.