Politicalamity

Obama Bucks from Inland GOP

Just when the McCain camp thought they had snuffed all the “racist” inferences in their campaign, a GOP women’s group decided to mail out to its supporters a extremely insulting.  The creator responded to questions by stating that her intention was to “point out the outrageousness” of Obama’s statement about his not looking like the Presidents on our money.

The real kicker was that she actually wanted us to believe that she didn’t mean to be insulting.  To her the food items, which are often connected with racial slurs on African-Americans, were, “…just food to me.  I didn’t mean anything else.”  Wow.  So I guess racial slurs are “just a bunch of letters” and maybe lynchings are “just boys being boys.”  To add to the insult, Diane Fidele stated that she didn’t mean it to be racist, as she once supported Alan Keyes.  That sort of logic is weaker than those who show their bigotry and brush it off by saying, “It’s okay, I have a black friend.”

This group has had other charged statement including an image of Obama next to Osama bin Laden and even a plea for its members to “Waterboard Barack Obama.”  For any group of political supporters to endorse hate is disgusting, but for them to invited physical torture of a respected federal figure, who may be our President soon, is disgusting, immoral, and certainly un-American.

So if the “Obama bucks” image was originally circulated in a mass email forwarded amongst likeminded bigots, is it so much of a stretch to think this is more common than not?  Would the McCain/Palin campaign like to take a closer look at that base it prizes so firmly?  They may shoot back that there are Obama supporters wearing shirts that say “Sarah Palin is a C*^T.”  I think these are just as offensive and would hope that the Obama campaign does what it can to denounce these ignoramuses.   Then again, wasn’t it reported that John McCain once called his wife the c-word at a public function?  No, the word wasn’t Cindy either.

Yes it is true that political caricature and satire have been around in just as insulting forms for ages, but isn’t it time we “grow up” a bit, and act like adults?