Sounds to me like Randall Terry didn't get enough hugs as a kid. It saddens me that someone has so much hate in their heart. I actually feel sorry for this guy. I hope he gets the help he needs to deal with the inadequacies he's obviously trying to make up for.

I thought the white supremacist movement was their base.

It is as if he is sure his mother would not have had him had she had a choice. He acts like someone who could not talk a woman into having his child without intimidation and bullying. It's as if he would trust any government more than he trusts his own mother, wife, sisters, and daughter. "Those women. They love abortions." Why isn't he handing out condoms if he hates abortions so much?

Dr. Jerome Corsi, Sean Hannity's good buddy, was first interviewed on James Edwards' Political Cesspool hate radio show last summer. Corsi had scheduled a second appearance on this show, but cancelled out at the last minute when word leaked out about his appearance. Sean talks about guilt by association, but he is silent when it comes to his associations with the most vile and hateful people on the planet.

Clinton's diverse comments concerning, "a few old white guys, like him, not being cut out yet." Implying food for thought. Those gentlemen he referred to fought and died for our nations freedom. The young generation that votes will need to consider they will be the next to go to war under Obama and it won't be gameboy any longer. Don't count the few old white guys out yet. Old age is earned and Obama isn't even close.

It seems a little unfair to lump Randall Terry and James Edwards together. Terry is basically a single-issue voter - and McCain/Palin has made no secret of its position on abortion. We can disagree with McCain/Palin/Terry, and Terry might be a bit of a nutter, but the national debate on abortion is a legitimate one, and they're participants in it. If I remember correctly, Operation Rescue in the 1990s advocated civil disobedience - not actual violence.

James Edwards, on the other hand, is actually outside the pale of public discourse, and his presence is the more legitimately disturbing....

There are undoubtedly extremists among both parties who exercise their freedoms in ways that many do not approve, but such is the life in pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.

It should be noted, however, that associations are quite different from alliances and partnerships. It should also be recognized that if one is in the habit of surrounding oneself with groups of individuals who all share similar beliefs, then there must be a source of motivation, as human beings rarely seek out to spend their precious time, energy and money on activities they have absolutely no interest in.

I know there is tremendous controversy over the value of discussing Ayers in relationship to Obama, but there are many questions that should be answered and deserve to be answered, as they are not formed in a vacuum.

It seems quite obvious, that an unrepentant domestic terrorist who becomes an educator has exchanged bombs for books, the capital building for the institutions of learning, and one politician for another.

Bill Ayers worked with Cuba says FBI report
By Judi McLeod Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Raul, Fidel Castro, William AyersUnrepentant terrorist former leading Weather Underground Organization (WUO) member William Ayers was aided by Fidel Castro's Cuba in the 1970s, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report.
The 400-page report, a copy of which was obtained by the New York Times, revealed that Cuban intelligence officers in the General Directorate of Intelligence (known by its initials in Spanish as the DGI, Cuba's equivalent of the CIA) set up the Venceremos Brigades in which WUO members participated.

"The ultimate objective of the DGI's participation in the setting up of the Venceremos Brigades was "the recruitment of individuals who are politically oriented and who someday may obtain a position, elective or appointive, somewhere in the U.S. Government, which would provide the Cuban Government with access to political, economic and military intelligence." (Italics CFP's).

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/5860

"Though neither Political Cesspool nor Randall Terry have any known contact with the McCain-Palin campaign, their presence at the recent Palin rally presents one of the clearest portraits yet of the far right's attempts to exploit the Republican base's anti-Obama resentment for organizational gain."

If there are no know ties between the McCain/Palin troop, how can we assume that the white supremacist pictured above and the radio show he respresents has any connection to the right wing. Shall I assume that the author of this piece has ties to anti-American terrorists?

Edwards and Terry...what a waste of life!

To Carfania:

Terry is not a "single issue" voter. He also hates homosexuals (and his son is one, to boot....and he has clearly screwed that poor kid up). If support for sodomy laws isn't outside the pale of political discourse, it should be, at this point. He richly deserves his lumping.

These fools are not on the "far right." These people are fascists, and by definition, on the Left. They wouldn't be welcome in the Republican Party any more than Michael Moore would be welcome in the Republican Party.
Fascists need not apply.

"Sarah Palin is sleeping with terrorists". If McCain campaign people were running the Obama campaign that is the headline you would see. Well, OK, Todd Palin is a secessionist not exactly a terrorist, and secessionists want to blow up the country figuratively not literally, but they still want to split Alaska from the US and that is not exactly patriotic. (Isn't that what the Civil War was about?) She is married to him, so I assume she sleeps with him and she spoke at their convention and told them to keep up the good work, you know, the work of becoming a foreign nation. Maybe they will take Texas with them. I also saw where she wants us to become independent of foreign oil, something I heartily agree with. Gee, I wonder if her husband and the secessionists succeed in making Alaska a separate country, will they join OPEC and will she and her husband still want us to be independent of their foreign oil and will she then be able to say "I can see a foreign nation from my house, in fact it is in a foreign nation." Oh, the questions this all raises are mind boggling. Vote Obama on Tuesday and end all the confusion.

I agree with LeRossey Girl, this is a sad waste of human energy.

We need every human and social group to focus on the many problems our world faces TODAY as a result of the MANY mistakes made during the centuries of slavery that existed world wide.

This generation needs us to be positively focused - to resolve the consequences of these mistakes for our present and our children's future.

Hate and negativity can't change the past, wrong or right.

Ladyhawke08, please give valid sources for any such charge regarding cuba and ayers. I have been attempting to research and could not find anything in the New York Times. You source the canadafreepress article which when I researched this company and the author found it not to be a valid newspaper source. I mean she is considered fringe by the far right. So if you are going to claim that the New York times or the FBI has this information please source the original source not someones personal belief. Of course if you do give a valid source. I stand corrected... on another thing I kind of agree that just charging that far right fring groups that attend a rally does not indicate that McCain and Palin are associating with Nazi colloborators, Latin DeathSquads, or the Alaskan Independence party.

That's called appealing to the base.

It's a shame, but in a two-party system both sides are going to draw nuts. The difference, though, is that no left-winger is too much of a fringe nut to be welcomed on college campuses or to organize a march with. They're just inconvenient come national election time. Don't see a lot of tenured skinheads or abortion clinic bombers. Don't see Republicans of any stripe trying to disrupt Democratic convention speeches like those cuddly Code Pink moonbats tried in Minneapolis.

And another thing worth noting is that if the Obama campaign and acolytes in the pseudo-intellectual journalistic community hadn't cynically used race as a weapon and shield at every turn since the primaries then maybe these white nuts would have stayed under their rocks. It sets off the tin foil in their loony hats the same way that left-wing nut jobs see fascism in every minute thing they disagree with.

Lets all take it easy on Ms. Button. The Daily Beast is relatively new and needs content. No offense, Wendy, but I tend to agree with other comments left here about your original essay. Your logic is deeply flawed and the believability of your claims for why you left the Democratic party is suspect. I too am an independent voter, but only because I don't believe in political parties, not because I feel like I need to send any messages to my former co-workers.

Like any of us would do with bell curves, ignore the extremists, on both sides, who would rant against you. Instead, I suggest you focus on some very good advice I've read here from commenters - search your heart before you write on the national stage. Your first attempt here at The Daily Beast was not your best effort. Respectfully,

I have always been a democrat but I have always respected both parties. Since Bush II took office things have gone down hill. I don't think the republican party is the same republican party that was before Reagan came into the presidency. The republican party now is the party of the extreme right religious nuts and hate groups. Sorry for that.

The right is in a lather about Obamo's supposed associations with extremists. But, there are no extermists on the Right?

Sarah Palin is calling Obama a Marxist. Well, the many supporters of Palin celebrate the working class, have distain for intellectual freedom, a hatred for the media and support secret prison camps and torture. Sounds like Communism to me!

The more I listen to the people who show up for the McCain rallies, the more I see the seeds of Facism growing in them.

MacLaren, sorry, but fascism is the extreme right.

So is all totalitarianism (including religious states and constitutional monarchies). Hitler - the fascist we all know - was far right.

From the beginning, Hitler held himself up as the best Christian, advanced the argument that God is perfect, and God's creations are perfect, therefore Christians are perfect... then it devolved to white (as he defined white) Christians are the most perfect and pure of all... a position that sadly, the Catholic Church and Pope upheld in support of Hitler's murder plan.

Check out a brilliant research book and a and gripping read on the history of the Catholic Church and its involvement in the Shoa, "Constantine's Sword." Fforgive me for not remembering the author's name - it can be looked up on.

Anyway, with Hitler, at first it was Jews, but it grew to include all who were not perfect in Hitler's eyes: gays, Down Syndrome babies, other ethnicities, other nationalities... all fell to the murderous rage of Hitler. 'Nuff said - I suppose that you all know the story.

Hard to believe, but we have people today who think Hitler had a good idea.

Thankfully, we have the wonderful heros at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Anyway, socialism, which is innocuous when not run by dictators, is on the most liberal, far left. When socialism is taken over, perverted, and forced by dictators, it becomes communism, not a good thing. Communism is technically no longer the liberal left.

Dictatorship of any stripe: Bad. Social responsibility in a free world with a popularly-elected leader: Good.

Vote - and tell everyone to vote.

Obama/ Biden '08

~Dr. Jazz

Facism is a baa humbug and should be abolished.

You are judged by the company you keep and the people you attract. In politics the people you attract tell much more about you than your stated platform.

Look at the people at McCain/Palin rallies and Obama rallies. I will be losing two old friends who have turned out to be bigots and small minded Palin supporters. Neither of them had ever heard of Todd and the AIP. So much for liberal media bias. If Michelle Obama had been in the IIP (Illinois Independence Party ) for 7 years and Barack had spoken at some of their conventions, the right wing screaming would shatter glass.