GfS:

The picture you describe is unsettling and saddening.

However, if it is of any comfort, I know lots of Obama supporters, NONE of whom would ever resort to the general kind of demonstrative melodrama you are describing.

While I can appreciate people getting angry after having been fed too many lies, or manipulated too often, I don't think the set of people who are Obama supporters is in any way identical to those who resort to public dramatization of anger and hatred, and in fact I would have expected it (from the degree of mindless hatred I have seen on blogs) to be the opposite--that is, the "public anger" set would have a higher proportion of members from the right.

Another possibility is that this is one of those too-clever maneuvers whereby a group gets framed by others posing as them, and doing extreme things.   It's been known to happen in trying times, and this race is certainly such a time.

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