by Teh Nutroots | Like the Obama-as-shoeshine-for-Palin gambit, this emerged from McCain supporters and certainly not from the campaign. This, though, is what they are made of. What's astonishing is the gleeful stupidity of the propounder, who never seems to have reflected that people of color within her own group might find this a tad offensive. Click here to "enjoy" the "joke."
The October newsletter by the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated says if Obama is elected his image will appear on food stamps -- instead of dollar bills like other presidents. The statement is followed by an illustration of "Obama Bucks" -- a phony $10 bill featuring Obama's face on a donkey's body, labeled "United States Food Stamps."
The GOP newsletter, which was sent to about 200 members and associates of the group by e-mail and regular mail last week, is drawing harsh criticism from members of the political group, elected leaders, party officials and others as racist.(Press-Enterprise)
What I found especially amusing is that the perpetrator protested that she didn't intend for it to be racist. [You know: as in "let's put his picture on food stamps and send them out in an official flier! Since black people are typically on welfare, it would be funny and topical."] (Press-Enterprise)
The group's president, Diane Fedele, said she plans to send an apology letter to her members and to apologize at the club's meeting next week. She said she simply wanted to deride a comment Obama made over the summer about how as an African-American he "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills....
She said she doesn't think in racist terms, pointing out she once supported Republican Alan Keyes, an African-American who previously ran for president. (Press-Enterprise)
Some of her favorite candidates are black: the good (Republican) kind of black person, of course.
"I didn't see it the way that it's being taken. I never connected," she said. "It was just food to me. It didn't mean anything else."(Press-Enterprise)
No? So she just came up with the idea of "a president fit for food stamps" out of the air? Why, no.
[H]er introductory text to the illustration connects the two: "Obama talks about all those presidents that got their names on bills. If elected, what bill would he be on????? Food Stamps, what else!"(Press-Enterprise)
I hope she's satisfied. She made African-American Acquanetta Warren, "a Fontana councilwoman and [a fellow] member of the women's group" cry. (Press-Enterprise) Pssst, Acquanetta? Stop consorting with Republicans. That was just one of them giddily popping out of her mold and saying what she really thinks. Discipline, via the "Shhhh! We know some of you think that, but don't let on" central leadership, will ensue but this is the true and authentic mind-set of the "base."
The Republican “base” can’t decide if Barack Obama is a fancy educated Harvard elitist or a scary foreign Hawaiian Muslin from the Jungle or just a common fried-chicken & watermelon colored, on welfare. If only they could somehow find out “the truth” about this terrorist who will soon be their American president. Meanwhile, a racist Republican gal in the “Inland Empire” — the poor white trash part of exurbian Los Angeles — sent out her little newsletter to the local GOP ladies, and she illustrated it with this hilarious thing, which shows how Barack Obama will be featured on the new food stamps for black people, redeemable for Kentucky Fried Chicken, watermelon, ribs and, uh, Kool Aid. So funny!
Elsewhere---in Sacramento to be precise--- McCain's desperate rabble posted a picture of Obama in a turban standing next to bin Laden.
It said: "The difference between Osama and Obama is just a little B.S." The site also encouraged members to "Waterboard Barack Obama," a reference to a torture technique. The Sacramento County party took down the material Tuesday after being criticized.(Press-Enterprise)
Here's a photo. And here's that perpetrator's initial comments.
Sacramento County Republican Chairman Craig MacGlashan could not be reached for comment Wednesday afternoon, but the Sacramento Bee reported that he defended the Web site's content.
"I'm aware of the content," MacGlashan told the newspaper. "Some people find it offensive, others do not. I cannot comment on how people interpret things." (Fox)
No, it's all in how you look at it, I guess. People like me find a phrase calling for the torture of Obama which compares him to Public Enemy No. 1 unqualifiedly offensive. People like MacGlashan feel that humor is very subjective.
In the meantime, the same guy who is going to have a little talk with Fedele had to remind the Sacramento Republican what it is they are trying to do.
"I called the Sacramento county chairman and I had them remove it," Barajas said. "I also noted to them that this is a complete distraction from what we're trying to do, and that's elect John McCain and Sarah Palin as the next president and vice president of the United States." (Fox)
Hell, I think local Republicans ought to be ENCOURAGED to come out and say what they really think. How else are people going to know what the GOP's base is really about? If you want to know what the Republican party's current incarnation is really about, you can't listen to the spin doctors. You've got to listen to the locals.
And now that they're gettin desperate, their real feelings are starting to break through.
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