Tone down the rhetoric

Posted October 11, 2008 8:38 AM
by Jill Zuckman
PHILADELPHIA -- Barnstorming to get out the vote across this pivotal Pennsylvania city, Barack Obama paused Saturday to thank John McCain.
"I want to acknowledge that Senator McCain tried to tone down the rhetoric at his town hall meeting yesterday," Obama said, referring to a raucous gathering where voters urged McCain to get tough on Obama. "I appreciated his reminder that we can disagree while still being respectful of each other."
And Obama also noted that McCain served the country with honor "and deserves our thanks for that." McCain is a decorated Vietnam veteran who was held as a prisoner of war in Hanoi for five and a half years.
Voters at McCain's town hall meetings and rallies have gotten increasingly riled up, demanding that McCain go after Obama harder. One person said he was scared of Obama and another called Obama an Arab terrorist yesterday. McCain told them that Obama is a decent family man and that he just disagreed with him.
"I want everyone to be respectul," McCain told the crowd yesterday in Minnesota. "And let's make sure we are because that's the way politics is done in America."

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