So are we to understand that the video TIA in the Rocky Mountain Video was drastically censored to make the Obama supporters look totally unthreatening and the whole thing fairly low key? Because that was how it appeared from that clip.

All looked a lot less unpleasant than the stuff in the first minute of this video from a previous occasion, a few weeks ago. (After the first minute it turns into a slide show about Obama, to accompany Dolores Keane singing Let it Be.)

No doubt about it, partisan politics can be remarkably ugly at times. Anyone involved in this kind of situation needs to step back and look at what they are doing and saying, to check they aren't stepping over the line. And that goes for us on threads here as well.