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Opinion: Does urging political restraint apply to McCain <em>and</em> Obama or just the Republicans?

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As The Ticket, among many online sites, has noted in recent days, much has been made about the anger and fears expressed by a vocal few and aimed at the Democratic ticket by some attending rallies for Sen. John McCain.

At one recent event in Minnesota, an angry woman called Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama, the awful A-word -- ‘Arab.’

McCain quickly retrieved the microphone and said, ‘No, ma’am, he is a decent family man, a citizen I just happen to have serious differences with on some fundamental questions.’

On Sunday, Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic party’s vice presidential nominee, again sought to stoke the angry McCain supporter story line by criticizing the GOP nominee for ‘ugly inferences’ about the top of the Democratic ticket.

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So as a growing number of political bloggers, including Wake Up America, have asked in recent hours, how long do you think before the mainstream media starts reporting on scenes like a Philadelphia event on Saturday where people wore T-shirts that bore an explicitly crude reference to Sarah Palin? With 22 campaign days left, might perhaps the Democratic ticket also feel the need to warn its supporters to tone it down?

If these T-shirts showed up at a McCain event on people proudly posing like this to proclaim that Obama was the N-word, do you think we might have heard about it by now?

--Andrew Malcolm

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