EnlightenmentHK
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This is getting out of hand:
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_buck16.3d67d4a.html
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Seriously, who are these people? You get a chain letter with Obama on a food stamp surrounded by fried chicken and watermelon and no alarm bells go off? Think its perfectly fine to distribute throughout your Republican women's organization? What the hell, lady? Did George W. Bush personally skullf**k the brains out of your racist head?
I'm not a racist because I supported Alan Keyes. Priceless. The Republican political organizer's version of "I'm not racist, I have a black friend."
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_buck16.3d67d4a.html
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By MICHELLE DeARMOND
The Press-Enterprise
The latest newsletter by an Inland Republican women's group depicts Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama surrounded by a watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken, prompting outrage in political circles.
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.
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."
"It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of his statement. I really don't want to go into it any further," Fedele said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "I absolutely apologize to anyone who was offended. That clearly wasn't my attempt."
Fedele said she got the illustration in a number of chain e-mails and decided to reprint it for her members in the Trumpeter newsletter because she was offended that Obama would draw attention to his own race. She declined to say who sent her the e-mails with the illustration.
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.
"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."
She said she also wasn't trying to make a statement linking Obama and food stamps, although her 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!"
Seriously, who are these people? You get a chain letter with Obama on a food stamp surrounded by fried chicken and watermelon and no alarm bells go off? Think its perfectly fine to distribute throughout your Republican women's organization? What the hell, lady? Did George W. Bush personally skullf**k the brains out of your racist head?
I'm not a racist because I supported Alan Keyes. Priceless. The Republican political organizer's version of "I'm not racist, I have a black friend."