Republicans Don't Like That Uppity Man in the White House (Caught on the Interwebs!)

[SemiCharmedQuark]

With today's incident added to the mix, I am finding it increasingly hard to keep track of all of the hate the Republicans have spewed at Obama. Therefore, I propose we use this thread to keep it straight.

To catch everyone up to speed so far (with thanks to Wonkette for making a nice little list of these)
http://wonkette.com/408934/republicans-email-racist-obama-stuff#more-408934


First up, in October we have the Inland Women's Group Newsletter sending out a picture of the future: Obama's picture on foodstamps! Hahahaha!



The group's president said she was sorry IF ANYONE WAS OFFENDED. Some loser member who couldn't take a joke had to go and make a big stink about it. The text that accompanied the photo read: "Obama talks about all those presidents that got their names on bills. If elected, what bill would he be on????? Food Stamps, what else!" The president also said she had no idea watermelons were used as a stereotype. She thought it was just a hilarious food.

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_buck16.3d67d4a.html


Are watermelons really that funny? Verily I say to you, yes! So funny they made another appearance when the Republican mayor of Los Alamitos, Dean Grose, sent out an email depicting the White House lawn covered in watermelons with the text "No Easter Egg Hunt This Year."

Once again, the mayor said that he didn't know there was a stereotype regarding watermelons.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/25/national/main4827964.shtml?tag=topHome;topStories

Next we have Carol Carter, a GOP committeewoman who had to resign after she charmingly sent out an email that said:

"2,000,000 blacks get into Washington, D.C. in 1 day in sub zero temps when 200,000 couldn't get out of New Orleans in 85 degree temps with four days notice."

BONUS! Per the article:

"Hillsborough Republicans also took heat in the days before the presidential election when the group's former chairman David Storck forwarded an e-mail warning of the threat of carloads of black people going to the polls to vote for Barack Obama, and former state party finance chairman Al Austin apologized for forwarding an e-mail joke referring to the assassination of Obama."

http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2009/02/gop-officials-r.html

How could we forget the Georgian mayor who mused on his facebook page:

BOYD AUSTIN THINKS THAT IF THE BRITISH PM WAS OFFENDED BY OBAMA'S DVDS, WHAT WOULD HE HAVE THOUGHT OF A QUART OF BULL AND A PACK OF CAMELS.

http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2009/03/13/georgia-mayors-facebook-page-confuses-nation/

And then today we have this:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/local/stories/060309dnmetgopemail.4568316.html

"Collin County GOP official apologizes for e-mail some called racist"

Diann Jones, a vice chairman of the Collin County Republican Party, has apologized for an e-mail that some local judges denounced as racist.

But she also lashed out at judges who forwarded her e-mail and condemned her.

In an e-mail Tuesday to state District Judge Robert Dry, Jones wrote, "If someone is offended by something in an e-mail, I don't think forwarding it on to 50 other people is really prudent ... That action simply multiplies the offensive e-mail and enlarges the damage."

The war of words began a week ago when Jones sent an e-mail to local Republican clubs, rallying support against a state bill that would have imposed a $50 tax on guns. The e-mail included the statement, "Another terrific idea from the black house and its minions."

What will they think of next?

[noiretextatique]

1. sotomayor is a racist!!!

and her love of puerto rican cuisine makes her too empathic :crazy:
see the latest top 10 conservative idiots for more on the GOP's pathetic attacks on sotomayor.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. June 14, 2009: GOP activist says escaped gorilla was "ancestor" of Michelle Obama

*snip*


COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - A state Republican activist has admitted to and apologized for calling a gorilla that escaped from the Riverbanks Zoo Friday an "ancestor" of First Lady Michelle Obama.

A screen capture of the comment, made on the Internet site Facebook, was obtained by FITSNews, the website of South Carolina politico Will Folks.
The image shows a post by an aide to state Attorney General Henry McMaster describing Friday morning's gorilla escape at Columbia's Riverbanks Zoo.

Longtime SCGOP activist and former state Senate candidate Rusty DePass responded with the comment, "I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors - probably harmless."

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DePass took his apology a bit further. He also said, "The comment was hers. Not mine," saying the first lady made statements in the media recently saying we are all descendents of apes.

But an Internet search for those comments turned up no news articles of the like.

http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10526195&nav=0RaPIYA8

[Number23]

3. Not only a mouth-breathing, racist cretin, but a LYING, mouth-breathing, racist cretin.

"The comment was hers. Not mine," saying the first lady made statements in the media recently saying we are all descendents of apes.

But an Internet search for those comments turned up no news articles of the like."

Foiled again! Dumbass...

[HopeOverFear]

4. LOL! @ "Foiled again! Dumbass..."

[SemiCharmedQuark]

5. 6/15: TN Republican Staffer Sends Email Labelling Obama a "spook"

Via DKos:

"Earlier today, a legislative staffer forwarded well-known West Tennessee blogger Newscoma a picture they had been sent from another staffer. It's supposed to be an "historical keepsake photo" of the Presidents. But no picture of President Obama--instead, just a "spook."

Because, haha, in addition to being another word for a ghost, "spook" is also a racial slur against African-Americans! Funny! Not.

The staffer who originally sent around the picture has now been revealed to be Sherri Goforth, an executive assistant for Republican State Senator Diane Black of Gallatin (a suburb of Nashville). When contacted by Nashville Is Talking/WKRN Channel 2 (our ABC affiliate) blogger Christian Grantham, not only did Goforth refuse to apologize, all she could do was claim that she had simply sent it "from the wrong email address. In other words, not sorry that she sent out a blatantly racist email, only sorry that she got caught."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/15/742796/-TN-Republican-Staffer-Caught-Forwarding-DISGUSTING-Racist-Picture

[firedupdem]

6. These ignorant ass people!

:grr:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

7. 6/15: South Caroline GOP Tweets Racist Comment Against Obama.

VIA TPM:

"Indigo Journal, a liberal blog in South Carolina, reports that GOP operative Mike Green posted a racist joke about President Obama on his Twitter account over the weekend -- and in a brief conversation with TPM, Green did not deny it. (Late Update: Green has now admitted it in a new set of Tweets, and apologized. See new section after the jump.)

Green posted this, then deleted it some time later:

JUST HEARD OBAMA IS GOING TO IMPOSE A 40% TAX ON ASPIRIN BECAUSE IT'S WHITE AND IT WORKS."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/south-carolina-gop-operative-doesnt-deny-racist-tweet-against-obama.php?ref=fpblg

[SemiCharmedQuark]

8. 7/4: GOP Young Republicans Chairmen hopeful says "you tell em" to comment referring to "coons"

"On Wednesday, Shay—a 38-year-old Army veteran, mother, and event planner from Louisiana who has been endorsed by her governor, Bobby Jindal—was holding court on her Facebook page, initiating a political conversation by posting that “WalMart just signed a death warrant” by “endorsing Obama’s healthcare plan.” At 1:52, a friend named listed as Eric S. Piker, but whose personal page says his actual name is Eric Pike, wrote “It’s the government making us commies… can’t even smoke in my damn car… whats next they going to issue toilet paper once a month… tell us how to wipe our asses…”

Two minutes later, Piker posted again saying “Obama Bin Lauden is the new terrorist… Muslim is on there side … need to take this country back from all of these mad coons… and illegals.”

Eight minutes after that, at 2:02, Shay weighed in on Piker’s comments: “You tell em Eric! lol.”
"


http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-06/new-gop-racist-headache/?cid=bsa:featureline

[Number23]

9. Damn, they are really reaching back, aren't they?

I haven't heard "coon" in 82 years. I didn't know white folks under the age of 65 even knew that word.

Next they'll be calling folks "darkies" and wondering why that elicits more looks of confusion than anger. I mean, if you're going to try to insult folks at least try to stay CURRENT. :eyes:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

10. 7/17: GOP Councilman caught sending racist emails

In the past several months Atwater City Councilman Gary Frago has sent at least a half-dozen e-mails to city staff and other prominent community members containing racist jokes aimed at President Barack Obama, his wife and black people in general.

In all, the Sun-Star obtained seven e-mails that Frago sent from October 2008 to February 2009 from an anonymous source. Some compared Obama to O.J. Simpson while others suggested that "nigger rigs" should now be called "presidential solutions." Perhaps the most overboard e-mail was sent on Jan. 15. It read: "Breaking News Playboy just offered Sarah Palin $1 million to pose nude in the January issue. Michelle Obama got the same offer from National Geographic."

Frago, 63, who was the city's first paid firefighter and has been on the City Council since 2000, said the e-mails were not meant to harm anyone. He has nothing against black people or the president, he said."I don't see where there's a story, I'm not the only one that does it," he said. "I didn't originate them, they came to me and I just passed them on."Frago said he sends all kinds of joke e-mails about every one from Jews to Portuguese (Frago is of Portuguese descent). These e-mails were just meant for friends, not public officials, he added. Frago said any e-mails were sent via personal accounts.For instance, the e-mails he sent to Merced County Supervisor Mike Nelson were sent to his Yahoo account, said Frago.When asked again if he had any regrets about sending the e-mails, he said: "No, because I didn't see any harm in them."


http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/story/955392.html

[SemiCharmedQuark]

11. Thanks Number 23 for reminding me!

[Number23]

12. The idea that there are people in the world who find Michelle Obama

beautiful, or interesting, or charming, and/or a role model just ENRAGES some people. They can't see past her brown skin so her beauty to them is hidden.

And they are working double time to try to cast her in a negative light. Trying to portray her as a willing pawn in her husband's "nefarious" games, the Angry Black Woman, or trying brew up a battle between her and Carla Bruni, and they absolutely LOVED that picture that appeared to show Michelle glowering at Carla. It's so racist and so completely stupid and unnecessary that I don't see why they even bother.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

13. 7/23: Conservative Activist Forwards Racist Pic Showing Obama As Witch Doctor w. bone through nose.

The election of our first black president has brought with it a strange proliferation of online racism among conservatives.

And we've got the latest example.

On Sunday night, Dr. David McKalip forwarded to fellow members of a Google listserv affiliated with the Tea Party movement the image below. Above it, he wrote: "Funny stuff."
...
Asked about the email in a brief phone interview with TPMmuckraker, McKalip said he believes that by depicting the president as an African witch doctor, the "artist" who created the image "was expressing concerns that the health-care proposals would make the quality of medical care worse in our country." McKalip said he didn't know who created it.

But pressed on what was funny about an image that plays on racist stereotypes about Africans, McKalip declined to say, instead offering to talk about why he opposes Obama's health-care proposals.

"I have a busy day," he said eventually, before ending the call.

[Number23]

15. This is beyond the pale even for these assholes.

Unreal. Absolutely UNREAL.

[Fire1]

14. REPUBLICANS don't like the uppity negro?? LOL!!!

THAT is fuckin PRECIOUS!!! Rofl!!!:rofl:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

16. 8/12: Obama assassination, killing of Latinos in latest batch of Atwater councilman's e-mails

ATWATER -- Violent and racist e-mail jokes alluding to the assassination of President Barack Obama, the killing of Latinos and violence against black people were forwarded by Atwater City Councilman Gary Frago during the last six months, according to more than 200 new e-mails obtained by the Sun-Star from the city of Atwater.

The councilman, who forwarded the newly obtained e-mails to city staff and a county supervisor, among others, has been under public pressure to resign since it was learned in July that he had sent other racist e-mails in late 2008 and early 2009.

One of the most troubling of the new Frago e-mails, forwarded in January, joked that Nokia had designed a new cell phone for "nervous white people" who want to make calls in a series of cities known for their large black populations, such as Oakland and New Orleans. The phone was a gun.

Merced County Supervisor Mike Nelson and Atwater's Assistant City Manager Stan Feathers both received this e-mail. Neither recalled the e-mail, they said.

Another e-mail forwarded by Frago on Dec. 9, 2008, was in the form of a fictitious letter sent by Sen. John McCain to John Hinckley Jr., a man obsessed with actress Jodie Foster, who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981. The letter said that Hinckley would be released soon and he should know that Obama was sleeping with Foster now.
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A third e-mail joked about killing illegal immigrants and Obama delegates. The joke is about a man applying for a position with a police department. As a test, the chief tells the applicant: "Take this gun with 13 bullets and go out and shoot six illegal immigrants, six Obama delegates and a rabbit." The man asks: "why the rabbit?"

"Fantastic attitude," says the chief. "When can you start?"
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While Frago has apologized, at first he said he didn't regret sending the e-mails.

"I don't see where there's a story, I'm not the only one that does it," he told the Sun-Star in a story on July 21. "I didn't originate them, they came to me, and I just passed them on."

http://www.mercedsunstar.com/167/story/998044.html

The emails are available to view on that page.

[noiretextatique]

17. racism is fun...everybody does it!

:puke: pathetic jerk still isn't taking responsibility

[SemiCharmedQuark]

18. And these two councilmen blame the paper for publishing them!

"Councilman Nelson Crabb, who apologized for the e-mails even though he did not send or receive any, said he had to fight other council members just to make sure the meeting was held in the community center where it could accommodate the large crowd.

Councilmen Joe Rivero and Jeff Rivero, who had until Monday night been silent on the matter, publicly stated their disapproval of the e-mails.

Jeff Rivero said that the e-mails were wrong, but he also attacked Faul for sending out a letter condemning Fargo's e-mails without consulting the other council members. "I am not running to the press," he said, adding that he would have like to send a press release from the council instead of positions from individual members.

His brother Joe Rivero also mentioned that the e-mails were wrong. But he added that the Sun-Star had acted irresponsibly when the paper published the jokes sent by Frago. "

http://www.mercedsunstar.com/106/story/972928.html

[noiretextatique]

22. white people like to keep racism "in the family"

so the exposure of racism, or the accusation of it is often more of an issue than the actual racism. it happens at DU all the time.

[noiretextatique]

19. before the election

Racism Alarms Obama Backers

Danielle Ross was alone in an empty room at the Obama campaign headquarters in Kokomo, Ind., a cellphone in one hand, a voter call list in the other. She was stretched out on the carpeted floor wearing laceless sky-blue Converses, stories from the trail on her mind. It was the day before Indiana's primary, and she had just been chased by dogs while canvassing in a Kokomo suburb. But that was not the worst thing to occur since she postponed her sophomore year at Middle Tennessee State University, in part to hopscotch America stumping for Barack Obama.

Here's the worst: In Muncie, a factory town in the east-central part of Indiana, Ross and her cohorts were soliciting support for Obama at malls, on street corners and in a Wal-Mart parking lot, and they ran into "a horrible response," as Ross put it, a level of anti-black sentiment that none of them had anticipated.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051203014.html?hpid=topnews


McCain/Palin supporters let their racist roots show

It was kind of strange, dintcha think, that John McCain came to the defense of his supporters last night after Barack Obama pointed out that people at McCain/Palin rallies were shouting out "terrorist" and "kill him!" in reference to Obama.

Now an Al Jazeera camera crew caught the honest sentiments of McCain/Palin supporters at an Ohio rally:

“I’m afraid if he wins, the blacks will take over. He’s not a Christian! This is a Christian nation! What is our country gonna end up like?”

“When you got a Negra running for president, you need a first stringer. He’s definitely a second stringer.”

“He seems like a sheep - or a wolf in sheep’s clothing to be honest with you. And I believe Palin - she’s filled with the Holy Spirit, and I believe she’s gonna bring honesty and integrity to the White House.”

“He’s related to a known terrorist, for one.”

“He is friends with a terrorist of this country!”

“He must support terrorists! You know, uh, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. And that to me is Obama.”

“Just the whole, Muslim thing, and everything, and everybody’s still kinda - a lot of people have forgotten about 9/11, but… I dunno, it’s just kinda… a little unnerving.”

“Obama and his wife, I’m concerned that they could be anti-white. That he might hide that.”

“I don’t like the fact that he thinks us white people are trash… because we’re not!”

Yep, McCain must be so proud.

The rest of us, well ... let's just say those polls should tell the story. Video here
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/mccainpalin-supporters-let-their-rac

[noiretextatique]

20. Irony: KKK endorses Obama

They hate women more than black people :shrug:
KENTUCKY - USA - Imperial Wizard, Ronald Edwards has stated that, "anything is better than Hillary Clinton."


White Christian Supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan has endorsed Barack Obama to be the next President of the United States of America.

Speaking from his Kentucky office in Dawson Springs, the Imperial Wizard exclaimed that anything or anyone is better than having that "crazy ass bitch" as President.

This is the first time in Klan history that any member of the KKK has ever publicly supported an African American candidate for the presidency.

KKK lodges all over America have been gathering and holding rallies supporting the black presidential candidate.

http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/?c=117&a=1227

[noiretextatique]

21. this should be required reading here

Uh-Obama:
Racism, White Voters and the Myth of Color-Blindness

By Tim Wise

March 6, 2008

Here's a sentence I never thought I'd write, at least not as soon as I am now compelled to write it: It may well be the case that the United States is on its way to electing a person of color as President. Make no mistake, I realize the way that any number of factors, racism prominently among them, could derail such a thing from coming to fruition. Indeed, results from the Ohio Democratic primary suggest that an awful lot of white folks, especially rural and working-class whites, are still mightily uncomfortable with voting for such a candidate, at least partly because of race: One-fifth of voters in the state said race was important to their decision, and roughly six in ten of these voted for Hillary Clinton, which totals would then represent her approximate margin of victory over Barack Obama.

But having said all that--and I think anyone who is being honest would have to acknowledge this as factual--we are far closer to the election of a person of color in a Presidential race than probably any of us expected. Obama's meteoric rise, from community organizer, to law professor, to Illinois state senator, to the U.S. Senate, and now, possibly, the highest office in the land, is something that could have been foreseen by few if any just a few years ago. Obama's undeniable charisma, savvy political instincts, passion for his work, and ability to connect with young voters (and not a few older ones as well) is the kind of thing you just don't see all that often. The fact that as a black man (or, as some may prefer, a man of biracial background) he has been able to catapult to the position in which he now finds himself makes the accomplishment even more significant. It does indeed mean something.

But this is where things become considerably more complicated; the point at which one is forced to determine what, exactly, his success means (and doesn't mean) when it comes to the state of race, race relations, and racism in the United States. And it is at this point that so-called mainstream commentary has, once again, dropped the ball.

On the one hand, many a voice has suggested that Obama's success signifies something akin to the end of racism in the U.S., if not entirely, then surely as a potent political or social force. After all, if a black man actually stands a better-than-decent shot at becoming President, then how much of a barrier could racism really be? But of course, the success of individual persons of color, while it certainly suggests that overt bigotry has diminished substantially, hardly speaks to the larger social reality faced by millions of others: a subject to which we will return. Just as sexism no doubt remained an issue in Pakistan, even after Benazir Bhutto became Prime Minister in the 1980s and again in the 90s (or in India or Israel after both nations had female Premiers, or in Great Britain after the election of Margaret Thatcher), so too can racism exist in abundance, in spite of the electoral success of one person of color, even one who could be elevated to the highest office in the world's most powerful nation.

http://www.lipmagazine.org/~timwise/Obama.html

[SemiCharmedQuark]

24. Great article, thanks for posting.

Earlier this week, I was told that "racism has nothing to do with it" right here on DU. I can't understand how people could think that.

[noiretextatique]

28. they say that all the time

i will refer them to this thread the next time i see that.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

23. 8/14: Obama's Air Force One is named N166ER

"Like our brave American soldiers, your local law enforcement officers place their lives on the line everyday to keep us safe. When dangerous and foolish acts of others put their lives in danger, we should join together in outrage.

For years, progressives pointed a finger at bureaucrats in the Bush White House whose foolish words and actions enflamed already tense situations and put lives in jeopardy.

In the city of North Canton, a similar brand of foolishness is rearing its ugly head and placing the lives of police officers at risk. OhioDaily has received the copy of a racist email message sent by a North Canton Police Dispatcher.

In the message sent to an unknown number of recipients from a North Canton Police email address ( [e-mail] ), Dispatcher Anita Malachowski forwards the message

"New "Air Force One" Tail Number and yes, please forgive me, I'm really sorry, I really, really tried not to laugh, but .......................!"

The message is sent along with a Photoshopped image of Air Force One with the "N-number" or tail number spelled out as NI66ER.

See the email message here.

This type of message is offensive coming from anyone, but coming from someone in the position of dispatching police and prioritizing calls, it's downright horrifying. The North Canton police have a hard enough job as it is without rogue dispatchers trying to incite a race riot or stirring tensions during the hot months of summer.

If I were a North Canton police officer, I'd return the dispatch call tonight with a message of my own : "Dispatcher Malachowski, do us all a favor and leave your hate at home.""


http://www.ohiodailyblog.com/content/rogue-dispatcher-endangers-lives-north-canton-police

[Raineyb]

25. That son of a bitch needs to lose his job

But I won't hold my breath waiting for that to happen.

[Number23]

26. As usual, you state it PERFECTLY

That son of a bitch needs to lose his job

I actually think that he will. People are getting real damn tired of this isht. Some of us have been tired of it for years...

[Brewman_Jax]

27. A fundamental shift in reality

for a lot of white people, and also, this shows a fundamental disrespect for black people that has always been present. It should be no surprise for a racial caste society. "Those people" aren't supposed to be governing us.

[cyndensco]

29. Obama gang signs

I stayed away for days after seeing http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6308968">this thread on DU. I see now that it was supposedly presented tongue in cheek.:eyes:

"Where are the white women at?" et.al. :mad:

[bliss_eternal]

30. you found this on du...?!?

:puke: :scared:

i can't tell you how glad i am, that i missed it.
wow...like you, i would NOT have seen this as "tongue in cheek." :(

[SemiCharmedQuark]

31. 8/27: Rep Lynn Jenkins (KS): "Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope"

U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins offered encouragement to conservatives at a town hall forum that the Republican Party would embrace a "great white hope" capable of thwarting the political agenda endorsed by Democrats who control Congress and President Barack Obama.

Jenkins, a Topeka Republican in her first term in Congress, shared thoughts about the GOP's political future during an Aug. 19 forum at Fisher Community Center in the northeast Kansas community of Hiawatha.

In response to inquiries by The Topeka Capital-Journal, a Jenkins spokeswoman said Wednesday the congresswoman wanted to apologize for her word choice and to emphasize she had no intention of expressing herself in an offensive manner.

Jenkins told people at the Hiawatha forum the nation could benefit from inspired leadership of a group of "really sharp" young Republicans in the House, particularly Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va. Cantor was mentioned as a possible GOP vice presidential candidate in 2008 and is thought to be interested in seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2012.

"Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope," Jenkins said to the crowd. "I suggest to any of you who are concerned about that, who are Republican, there are some great young Republican minds in Washington."

http://www.cjonline.com/news/state/2009-08-26/jenkins_remark_raises_eyebrows

And from Wiki:

The term, "the great white hope," reflects the racism and segregation of the era in which Johnson fought. It could be argued that Johnson, the first African American to hold the World Heavyweight Championship title, was the best fighter of his generation. Yet, white reaction against Johnson's win and his very public relationships with white women was so strong that, in 1912, the United States Congress, concerned that scenes of Johnson pummeling white boxers would cause race riots, passed a law making it illegal to transport prizefight films across state lines.<5> "The great white hope" is a reference to the boxer whom whites hoped would finally defeat Johnson.

[Number23]

32. Girl, I just read this mess in the news!

Is this woman working overtime backpeddling and trying to cover her illiterate behind or what??! Even the Dems aren't commenting on this because she's made such a colossal ass of herself. "Great white hope." LORD, have mercy

ETA: I blame Johnson for the start of this foolishness that all black men want a white woman. Cause Lord knows Johnson did.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

35. Keith did an update to this story.

The woman said she didn't know about Jack Johnson or the connotation of the great white hope. But Keith pointed out that a month ago, she had cosponsored a resolution to pardon Jack Johnson. The resolution said right on that there was an effort, "the great white hope", to oust Johnson

[firedupdem]

36. They lie with a straight face daily! She knew what the hell she

was saying.

[Number23]

37. Damn she's stupid

[SemiCharmedQuark]

33. 8.28: Idaho Gubenatorial candidate jokes about buying tags to "hunt" Obama

Rex Rammell, a long-shot in the 2010 Idaho governor's race, made a joke about hunting President Obama at an event Tuesday night.

Rammell was speaking to a local Republican group about the state's wolf hunt, for which hunters must pay for "wolf tags." An audience member shouted out a question about "Obama tags."

"Obama tags? We'd buy some of those," Rammell responded.

Rammell said he won't apologize for the comments, but insists he was just joking.

(Late update: Rammell tweeted today about the controversy. "Obama hunting tags was just a joke! Everyone knows Idaho has no jurisdiction to issue tags in Washington D.C.," he wrote.)

The Idaho Democratic Party, of course, is up in arms, and a spokesman for the Idaho Republican Party released a statement that the party "does not condone Rex Rammell's comments, whether in jest or not."

But at least one local Republican defended Rammell.

"It's kind of the bad joke that you laugh at and then move on from. Nobody was going to dwell on it, that's for damn sure," said Terry Kramer, a Republican Twin Falls county commissioner. "It's being blown out of proportion; it was just a one-liner out of the audience."

[AspenRose]

34. Book-fucking-marked.

:mad:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

38. 12-4: Muslim Obama Hates Christian Charlie Brown

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/04/national/a101436S54.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0YkUwdzSi

The mayor of a suburban Memphis city accused President Barack Obama of deliberately timing his speech about the war in Afghanistan this week to block the airing of the "Peanuts" Christmas television special.
More News

ccording to The Commercial Appeal, Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman posted the statements on his Facebook page and said the president is Muslim. Obama is Christian.

"We sit the kids down to watch 'The Charlie Brown Christmas Special' and our muslim president is there, what a load.....try to convince me that wasn't done on purpose," he wrote, according to the newspaper.

Wiseman downplayed the posting when contacted by the newspaper Thursday. He did not immediately return phone calls from The Associated Press on Friday.

[Number23]

39. Oh, sweet Jesus. There aren't enough facepalms in the world...

[firedupdem]

40. No words...the stupid, stupid, people in this world!! n/t