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Fried Chicken, Watermelon, and Obama
Talking Points Memo —
Just a little innocent fun among Republicans.
Obama Racism/Muslim/Unpatriotic/Scary Black Dude Watch, #97
Shakesville —
From the Press-Enterprise (Southern California): 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 ...
Got the State Wrong, I Guess, But Point Taken
If I Ran the Zoo —
OH GOP Group Puts Obama, Fried Chicken, Watermelon On Food Stamp Murtha Apologizes For Calling PA District "A Racist Area"
What The Republican Party Thinks About Black People
Oliver Willis —
The reality begins to leak out, this time from a GOP club in California.
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 ...
Racist GOP mailing depicts Obama surrounded by KFC, watermelon, and food stamps.
Think Progress —
... A local California GOP women’s organization’s most recent newsletter claims that if Obama is elected, his face will appear on food stamps, rather than dollar bills like other presidents. The group then included a picture of “Obama Bucks” — a phony $10 bill with Obama surrounded by racist imagery: ...
How Republicans View African-Americans
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
This is in an official Republican Party flier: 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 parade of racist images continues: Obama ribs ‘n chicken
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... How about some Obama ribs ‘n chicken...plus a nice slice of watermelon for the darkie? I’m sick of this sh*t: ...
Some McCain fans just can't help themselves
Nitpicker —
Because they're stupid fucking racists.
Really Funny If You're a Racist Cave Dweller
Hoffmania! —
... Seriously. Does this play at all among civilized human beings anymore?
Fried chicken, ribs and watermelon...all from the clear-headed imagination of Chaffey Community Republican Women of inland California.
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 ...
Oh Those Respectful Republicans
Booman Tribune —
They do such truly classy things during an election campaign. Things like, for example, this: 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 ...
Stupid: Obscure Republican Women's Group Creates 'Obama Bucks', Predictable Outrage Follows
JammieWearingFool —
... All you need to do is read the photo tag to see how the paper reporting this feels. http://www.pe.com/imagesdaily/2008/10-16/racist16_400.jpg And they have a point. So we have some women who are either too stupid to know this doesn't look good and will certainly offend people or they're so blinded by their dislike for Obama that they think a winning strategy is to even hint at anything that can be construed as racist. There's more than enough to beat this guy on. But by putting out some crude flier you'd expect from Beavis and Butthead, you give the left free reign to paint ...
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
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Local GOP Group's Mailing Shows Obama's Face, Watermelon, Ribs, Fried Chicken on Food Stamps
Political Punch —
... Local GOP Group's Mailing Shows Obama's Face, Watermelon, Ribs, Fried Chicken on Food Stamps October 17, 2008 8:17 AM The Press-Enterprise in California reports that a recent newsletter of the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated, in California, envisions a President Barack Obama putting his face on food stamps, surrounded by a watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken."Obama talks about all those presidents that got their names on bills," reads the newsletter. "If elected, what bill would he be on????? Food Stamps, what else!" The president of the GOP group, ...
The New Definition of the Republican Party
Balloon Juice —
... You might be excused if you said placing Obama’s face on a $10 food stamp with a bucket of fried chicken, watermelon, ribs, and Kool-Aid was an isolated act. ...
GOP racist newsletter gets woman in hot water
Preemptive Karma —
... October 17, 2008 GOP racist newsletter gets woman in hot water racist16_400.jpg Note the food stamps label, bucket of fried chicken and, reaching back into the more overtly racist past, a slice of watermelon. This image was part of a newsletter sent out by the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated in southern California. The group's president, Diane Fedele, claims that it wasn't intended to be racist and aknowledged that it originally came from a chain-email she'd received. I first found out about it reading a post by Marcus over at ...
Just KKKidding!
WTF Is It Now?!? —
A little innocent fun among Republicans. How dare anybody accuse them of being racist!
Socialism is Racist?
Newshoggers.com —
... for equality.
Now, maybe its just me, but this seems a bit of a stretch. Now, certainly as the author points out later, McCain and Palin are doing their level best to make Obama out to be un-American and his supporters as not belonging the to “real” America, but that’s not about his being black. Its about his being a closet Arab/Muslim/baby-killing/terrorist loving radical leftist. Or in other words a Democrat.
I mean, when you’ve got things like this, this, this, this, this, this, and these folks in the clip ...
Educators to McCain: Cut It Out, Now.
Blah3 Feed —
... ; Google News and Dallas morning News. 3 Unlicensed: Toledo Blade Taxes would decrease: Factcheck.org Back Taxes owed: Lucas County Court documents Taking Obama’s words “spread the wealth” out of context: CNN Factcheck.org has repeatedly debunked the McCain/Palin misrepresentations of Obama/Biden’s tax plan and its effect on the middle class. 4 Michelle Bachmann . Sacramento Republican Party Chafee County 'Food Stamp' Examples of the failure to repudiate offensive behavior ...
The Ashley Todd Hoax Is America's Hoax
Open Left - Front Page —
... here. Any black at any time can be singled out for any reason, even if he's on the verge of being elected President of the United States. Racism? Only someone who's a racist would see racism in that! That's part of the core formulation of contemporary "colorblind racism" (see Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva).
Here's a vivid example from just last week:
The latest newsletter by an Inland ...
America’s Mountain Top Moment
The Republic of T. —
... , printing his picture on food stamps, ...
Terrance Heath: America's Mountaintop Moment
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... , printing his picture on food stamps, ...
