"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience... (edited with addition)

Oh, lovely.

Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media."

I've said it before but it's worth repeating: Sarah Palin is the only person in the world so lightweight she makes Katie Couric look like a gadfly journalist.

One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."

What are you doing, Sarah? What did you do, John? (I can call them by their first names...he's "my friend" and she's "just like us."

"One of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," she said. ("Boooo!" said the crowd.) "And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,' " she continued. ("Boooo!" the crowd repeated.)

(If any of you don’t know, the Ayers-Obama “connection” has been widely debunked.)

"Kill him [Obama]!" proposed one man in the audience.

What are you doing, Sarah?

ETA: At Frameshop, Jeffrey Feldman expands on that question:

One wonders at this point how the various agencies charged with the responsibility of protecting the Presidential candidates from violence will respond to this latest tactic from the McCain campaign. If, for example, a McCain supporter threatens the life of Sen. Obama by shouting 'Kill him!' at a Palin rally, should Sen. Obama's Secret Service contingent launch an investigation? Having been accused of terrorist ties by the McCain campaign, will Sen. Obama's name be put on the 'No Fly' list, effectively making it impossible for him to engage in normal airline travel?

An even more basic question, perhaps: Is Gov. Palin trying to incite violence against Sen. Obama [Emphasis mine-BV] as part of an ill-conceived campaign strategy to change the topic from the economy at any cost?

Time will tell how law enforcement will respond, but one thing is already certain: the more Palin and McCain incite calls for violence against Sen. Obama, the more their chances of achieving a victory in November disappear.

The more I think of it, the more I think that if we have any hope of pulling together to solve our problems, then Obama is our only shot.