Classy

Not content to hunt wolf cubs from airplanes, right-wing malcontents have decided to go after bears:

Maintenance workers reported about 7:45 a.m. finding a 75-pound bear cub dumped at the roundabout near the Catamount statute at the entrance to campus, said Tom Johnson, chief of university police. “It looked like it had been shot in the head as best we can tell. A couple of Obama campaign signs had been stapled together and stuck over its head,” Johnson said.

This is on top of recent reports that at an Obama rally in North Carolina, 30 cars had their tires slashed.

I remember this kind of ugliness from the 2000 recount. I was working in Ft. Lauderdale organizing volunteers for rallies and as observers for the recount, and on several occasions volunteers with whom I was working had their tires slashed. This kind of ugliness bred the "Brooks Brothers Mob" that shut down the counting in Miami over the Thanksgiving holiday. It's bad stuff. Can you imagine being a parent who brought a kid to a rally only to find your tires slashed? Or being a college freshman who finds a dead bear draped in the logo of the candidate you support? These actions hurt real people, and if anybody is tearing away the fabric of democracy, it's those who perpetrate, incite and condone actions like these.