However, for me, listening to the story, it brought my own thoughts. I thought I’d likely be sitting at home watching similar things unfold on the news. (As I have) I’d think, “Thank god, that’s not here. Those things aren’t happening in my neighborhood.” And go to sleep feeling “There’s nothing I can do.”

Crap, I don’t know. If such appeared in my neighborhood, I’d like to think I wouldn’t be part of it. I believe I wouldn’t, but really, when faced with it, what would I do? What could I do? I could stand. But in the face of certain slaughter, would I?

And what do I do with someplace on the planet, “It’s happening.”

We can’t judge our people and hold our elections on that kind of basis. Yes, that kind of negativity troubled me. And the constant shifting of the argument, I was troubled a couple of weeks ago when in the middle of the crisis the campaign said, ‘We’re going to go negative,’ and they announced it. ‘We’re going to go negative and attack his character through Bill Ayers.’ And now I guess the message this week is we’re going to call him a socialist. Mr. Obama is now a socialist, because he dares to suggest that maybe we ought to look at the tax structure that we have. Taxes are always a redistribution of money. Most of the taxes that are redistributed go back to those who pay them, in roads and airports and hospitals and schools. And taxes are necessary for the common good. And there’s nothing wrong with examining what our tax structure is or who should be paying more or who should be paying less, and for us to say that makes you a socialist is an unfortunate characterization that isn’t accurate.