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John McCain today attempted to rev up his audience at a biker convention in Sturgis, South Dakota. The Senior Senator declared, “As you may know, not long ago a couple hundred thousand Berliners made a lot of noise for my opponent. I’ll take the roar of 50,000 Harleys any day”. Vroom, Vroom! I am not […]

John McCain today attempted to rev up his audience at a biker convention in Sturgis, South Dakota.

The Senior Senator declared, “As you may know, not long ago a couple hundred thousand Berliners made a lot of noise for my opponent. I’ll take the roar of 50,000 Harleys any day”.

Vroom, Vroom! I am not sure, though. Is not a huge crowd of Germans–however distressing–preferable to a noisy legion of Harleys? Maybe I need to better understand the free-wheeling Easy Rider mindset, but this year I experienced “Roaring Thunder” on Memorial Day–when tens of thousands of biker veterans rumble through D.C.– and the occasion struck me as a bit sinister. Admittedly, lots of people had fun, but it takes a certain kind to enjoy the ear-splitting roar of an army of 1250cc engines processing through the streets.

And if, as bloggers seem to think, the recent McCain attack ad sought to equate Berlin’s mass turnout for Obama with Hitler’s rallies, surely it is odd for McCain to respond by bonding with thousands of leather-clad men on large black machines? What could be more evocative of fascism than a huge crowd gunning their engines in raucous approval for a political leader?

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