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Posted on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 02:44:25 PM EST
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Just when you thought it couldn't get any uglier:

A San Bernardino County Republican group has distributed a newsletter picturing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on a $10 bill adorned with a watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken.

A black member of the club said:

"This is what keeps African-Americans from joining the Republican Party," she said. "I'm really hurt. I cried for 45 minutes."

To its credit, the California Republican Party denounced the illustration.

Update: As noted in the comments, the picture is actually of a $10 food stamp.

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    Here's a link... (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 02:53:01 PM EST
    ...with a picture of the offending (and offensive) "Obama Bucks"...

    http://tinyurl.com/3zbgw5

    Yes that is offensive... (5.00 / 0) (#5)
    by desertswine on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 02:56:07 PM EST
    and to make it even worse, it's not a $10 bill, it's a $10 "food stamp."

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    If you don't see it now, (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by scribe on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:08:16 PM EST
    don't worry - it will be circulating in viral Rethug emails from now until the sun burns out.

    Count on it.

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    Ms. Fedele's club's email (none / 0) (#13)
    by scribe on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:14:29 PM EST
    is here.  Be polite if you choose to speak.

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    thing is I doubt Obama will want (5.00 / 0) (#4)
    by Howard Zinn on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 02:55:14 PM EST
    to make this or anything like it an issue at this point.

    Is it just me, or do the (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by CaptainAmerica08 on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 02:59:33 PM EST
    republicans seem especially unhinged and angry lately? I mean geez, it's just an election and no party is entitled to the WH. You would think there had never been a Dem. President ever the way the right has been whining. Is this how I sounded the last eight years?

    doesn't matter (5.00 / 1) (#9)
    by Howard Zinn on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:02:13 PM EST
    look where we are now -- we were right and they know it.  It's hurt pride as well, I think.

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    they know they are going to get cained. (5.00 / 0) (#42)
    by Salo on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 04:42:56 PM EST
    David Cameron must know it too.   The tide is turning historically.

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    I seem to remember them being (5.00 / 0) (#24)
    by inclusiveheart on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:38:01 PM EST
    pretty unhinged and angry ever since GHWB lost in 1992.

    Bill Clinton was white trash while GHWB was regal and deserving.
    Al Gore was too smart while GWB was common and accessible.
    John Kerry wasn't a war hero while GWB was.

    and now...

    Barack Obama is black and John McCain isn't.

    They've consistently found something irrational to hate for decades now.

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    Don't know about you. (2.00 / 0) (#27)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:41:18 PM EST
    but you should have seen the stuff written here when GW won in '04. Off the charts.

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    True. (5.00 / 0) (#29)
    by scribe on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:43:05 PM EST
    But we were right.

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    You're always right. (none / 0) (#31)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:45:41 PM EST
    Right? ;-)

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    Glad you recognized that. (5.00 / 2) (#33)
    by scribe on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:49:51 PM EST
    Send money.

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    Maybe thats because... (5.00 / 0) (#52)
    by Thanin on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 05:20:08 PM EST
    we got into a stupid war where American soldiers were dying and 100,000+ Iraqi citizens were dying so rich oil people could get richer.  The fury against bush has always been justified.

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    Everyone thinks their fury is justified. (none / 0) (#54)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 05:36:17 PM EST
    Regardless of which side of an issue they're on.

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    Not everyone thinks that false (5.00 / 1) (#55)
    by ThatOneVoter on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 05:40:13 PM EST
    equivalences are worth any notice, buddy.

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    Fair enough, (none / 0) (#57)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 05:45:22 PM EST
    there is only one right side to an issue, and that side is worthy of righteous fury. And that would be your side, I presume...

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    So would you argue... (none / 0) (#58)
    by Thanin on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 05:46:36 PM EST
    the Iraq war was a good thing?

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    It's all coming back to me now (none / 0) (#36)
    by ruffian on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 04:16:23 PM EST
    I had a little bit of a reminder during the primaries, when a lot of the Clinton Derangement Syndrome reappeared in the oddest places, but it still was not the full effect we are in for in the next 4 years.

    Before I realized how much damage GWB would actually do as president, I found a bright side in his taking office - at least the rethugs got what they wanted, I thought, so maybe the vile ugliness will stop.  Of course, it did not stop altogether, and they still picked on the Clintons, and Tweety speculated about their marraige every night, but it did go underground a little bit.

    Republican ugly will be the order of the day for the next 4 years.  No one does it like they do. Maybe we can purge the last of it from the system at last.

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    The ugliness turned into a (none / 0) (#46)
    by Salo on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 04:56:35 PM EST
    n  invasion.

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    They do (none / 0) (#69)
    by cal1942 on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 09:43:58 PM EST
    believe they're entitled.

    That's part of the problem and has been for all too many years.

    One of my neighbors, a strident Republican, had two Obama signs in his yard.  Both signs had a spray painted circle around Obama's name with a spray painted slash through the circle.

    He has two sons at an impressionable age.

    He took down the signs but I'm not sure why.  I know my wife wanted to rip his face off but never spoke with him.

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    You know (none / 0) (#72)
    by TomStewart on Fri Oct 17, 2008 at 02:05:52 AM EST
    Obama charges for his signs, so unless he swiped them from somewhere, he probably had to contribute to the campaign to get them.

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    I guarantee (none / 0) (#73)
    by cal1942 on Fri Oct 17, 2008 at 11:09:24 AM EST
    he did not contribute to Obama's campaign.

    I've known him for 10 years.

    I got my Obama yard sign for no cost. I contributed to Edwards and Clinton but not Obama.

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    We all agree this is racist (5.00 / 5) (#17)
    by kmblue on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:24:31 PM EST
    but we can't seem to agree on what is sexist.

    Pity.

    I'm sure you could come up with a picture that (3.00 / 2) (#19)
    by Faust on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:27:36 PM EST
    eveyone would agree is sexist.

    Just as we could come up with an example of something that people would find ambiguously racist.

    Nice try though.

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    Unfortunately I can find the sexist (5.00 / 4) (#21)
    by ruffian on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:31:54 PM EST
    videos from lefty Dem sources.

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    What is considered sexist? (5.00 / 2) (#39)
    by vml68 on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 04:33:53 PM EST
    Would a "Sarah Palin is a c*nt" t-shirt be considered sexist? And why are these people wearing it to an Obama rally and WHY were they not asked to change/leave?

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    I would consider that sexist. (5.00 / 0) (#61)
    by Faust on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 05:59:00 PM EST
    not to mention deeply stupid politically.

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    republicans have always been sexist... (3.00 / 2) (#53)
    by Thanin on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 05:24:19 PM EST
    so why would republican plants at Obama rallies be any different?

    Parent
    Uh, those t-shirts showed up on (5.00 / 1) (#59)
    by Cream City on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 05:47:59 PM EST
    some so-called liberal blogs -- in the hosts' posts.

    Parent
    Cant you let me... (5.00 / 1) (#60)
    by Thanin on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 05:51:22 PM EST
    hold onto my conspiracy theories?  :(

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    I'm letting you (5.00 / 1) (#63)
    by Cream City on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 06:09:56 PM EST
    expand them. :-)  Btw, here's a lovely librul guy in the home of the hope of the New Dem Party.

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    OMG Cream city... (none / 0) (#67)
    by vml68 on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 09:16:55 PM EST
    I clicked on that link. I am not a violent person but reading that made me really want to hurt him, particularly that bit about Trig Palin.
    I guess before we accuse the Republicans of ugliness we need to take a look at our own side.
    How did you come across this?

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    YES (none / 0) (#68)
    by ruffian on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 09:30:57 PM EST
    I don't know.

    You tell me.

    Parent

    Bet they will be happy to take (5.00 / 1) (#20)
    by ruffian on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:30:27 PM EST
    their middle class tax cut though, and happy to get their sons and daughters home from Iraq.

    Just as they did well in the 90's, whining about the Clintons all the way.

    It is a shame we have to include these morons in the better future ahead.

    Interesting point ruffian (none / 0) (#70)
    by cal1942 on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 09:48:52 PM EST
    I remember talking to Republicans years ago who complained bitterly about Democrats.  When Eisenhower was in office they complained that business was either soft or bad.  When Johnson was in office, I'd ask them 'how's business?'

    The reply: Great, never better.

    Of course they still took shots at Democrats.

    Parent

    YeeHaw, after eight years of this (5.00 / 1) (#22)
    by Militarytracy on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:32:52 PM EST
    I guess we are all nuts now :)

    Any idiot can (5.00 / 0) (#37)
    by lilburro on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 04:18:37 PM EST
    and does make a racist joke about Obama.

    But this is an officially affiliated community organization.  

    These people are out of their tiny gourds.  And completely unable to see the hurt they do.  Argh.

    o/t - Fred Baron (5.00 / 1) (#49)
    by txpublicdefender on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 05:10:18 PM EST
    Off topic, but I just saw a breaking news update on the Dallas Morning News that said the drug company agreed to give Fred Baron the drug for his cancer treatment, according to an e-mail sent out by his son.

    Unreal. (none / 0) (#1)
    by Faust on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 02:50:51 PM EST
    I really wonder what kind of psychotic stuff we will see if Obama actually gets elected.

    Well, it would be an ironically fitting (none / 0) (#2)
    by ThatOneVoter on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 02:52:51 PM EST
    end for the GOP if, having been formed in response to racial strife, it ended because its members could not cope with the changes it wrought.

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    More precisely, the GOP would be ending (5.00 / 0) (#10)
    by scribe on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:07:04 PM EST
    because it had embraced, exploited and grown to be conjoined with the very racial strife it had formed in opposition to.

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    sad irony, really (5.00 / 0) (#14)
    by coigue on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:16:11 PM EST
    Lincoln must be spinning in his grave.

    Parent
    I think John McCain is already (5.00 / 0) (#26)
    by inclusiveheart on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:40:52 PM EST
    getting nervous about the power of hatred that his campaign has unleashed.  

    It is clear to me and I think to him as well that it has gone too far for him to control now.  It has taken on a life of its own.

    He is looking a little like the guy who has incited a riot who is just realizing that the mob is going to run him down in their frenzy.

    Parent

    fwiw, (5.00 / 1) (#30)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:44:27 PM EST
    you should have seen the stiff posted here on TL when GW won in '04.

    Hatred and frenzy are understatements.

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    Oh, I remember 2004 all too well. (5.00 / 1) (#41)
    by inclusiveheart on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 04:42:55 PM EST
    I was venturing out onto public boards and the stuff I saw was incredible.

    That was all before most of these boards figured out how to keep the hate-mongers at bay and wow - just wow.  I have no doubt that those people are still out there now - they just don't get as much exposure as they used to.

    That experience is the reason I was so saddened by the primary wars over at orange.  I had landed over there in 2004 because I was trying to escape mindless frenzy and hatred.

    Parent

    we are expecting right wingers (5.00 / 1) (#47)
    by Salo on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 04:58:04 PM EST
    will shoot leftwingers.   ugly words are to be expected from both sides.   Hope no bullets start flying.

    Parent
    Of course (5.00 / 1) (#64)
    by jondee on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 06:37:11 PM EST
    you're refering to those Swiftboat links people were posting here ad nauseum during the run-up. No, of course you weren't.

    Parent
    And yet, even in 2004, people (none / 0) (#45)
    by ThatOneVoter on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 04:54:01 PM EST
    underestimated how much damage Bush would do in his second term, and were shown that his misdeeds in his first term outstripped almost all speculation.


    Parent
    The head of the organization said she (none / 0) (#7)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:00:06 PM EST
    didn't get the connection. I'm nost suprised, she also said this:
    "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 told the newspaper. "I absolutely apologize to anyone who was offended. That clearly wasn't my attempt."
    "That clearly wasn't my attempt?"

    I just love these non-apology aplogies (5.00 / 1) (#38)
    by shoephone on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 04:33:10 PM EST
    I absolutely apologize to anyone who was offended.

    But she's perfectly okay with people who weren't offended by it. I guess she thinks they're the "base".

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    She also said this... (5.00 / 1) (#66)
    by MileHi Hawkeye on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 08:01:08 PM EST
    She meant it "to represent food, nothing else. I'm not a racist. I'm a German Jew whose (grandparents) had to leave Germany. Why would I be racist? But I was angry and upset about what (Obama) is going to do to this country," Fedele said. "He's going to return it to the welfare state.

    That's some first rate rationalizing there.

    Parent

    God. Now she thinks she's the New Yorker? (none / 0) (#23)
    by ruffian on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:33:15 PM EST


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    No way. You can't see San Bernadino (none / 0) (#34)
    by scribe on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:52:45 PM EST
    or Orange County from New York.  It's behind that mountain between Utah and Los Angeles.

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    Sad, (none / 0) (#8)
    by bocajeff on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:01:35 PM EST
    Ugly, Ugly, Ugly.

    BTW, I was listening to Mike Malloy's show last night and he called John McCain a war criminal for being a pilot during Vietnam.

    Ugly, Ugly, Ugly.

    But instead of being a small group of 200 idiots, Malloy has a huge radio listenership that has sponsors and is employed to make stupid statements.

    Ugly, Ugly, Ugly.

    Look! Over there! (5.00 / 5) (#12)
    by Steve M on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:08:40 PM EST


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    wow i see it (5.00 / 4) (#15)
    by Jlvngstn on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:17:46 PM EST
    a flag burning homosexual with a "free bill ayers" t-shirt killing a moose without a license.

    Parent
    Yeah, but he'susing that moose to (none / 0) (#35)
    by scribe on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:55:39 PM EST
    feed his three husbands and their adopted kids, so as to keep them off food stamps this week.

    So it isn't all bad.

    Parent

    as long as he doesn't want to get married (none / 0) (#40)
    by Jlvngstn on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 04:38:27 PM EST
    to another man I will ignore him.

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    Oh puh-lease (5.00 / 1) (#16)
    by coigue on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:18:02 PM EST
    Malloy is the Limbaugh of the left. He is a hack.

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    Right (5.00 / 0) (#18)
    by Faust on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:25:46 PM EST
    I mean, the right wing doesn't have anyone on the radio with $hitloads of sponsors and huge audiences. Such hugely sucessful right wing radio hosts would never make incredibly offensive statements.

    Ooops: this.

    Parent

    the point (2.33 / 3) (#51)
    by bocajeff on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 05:20:02 PM EST
    is that both sides have plenty of nutjobs to go around. Thank goodness they are on the fringes (with the exception of Ayers, Wright, Flager, etc...)

    Dems are supposed to fight for everyone's rights, not just Dems....

    Parent

    Limbaugh is fringe? (5.00 / 3) (#62)
    by Faust on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 06:04:51 PM EST
    Are you joking? The man gets invited to the White House.

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    And (none / 0) (#71)
    by cal1942 on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 10:02:08 PM EST
    the Vice president of the United States guests on his show.

    Yes there are left whack jobs but the imbalance in numbers and audience are astronomical.

    Implying they're equal is like calling a measure bi-partisan when one Republican votes with 50 Democrats or claiming that Democrats ALSO supported some whacked out provision when only one Democrat went along with an otherwise all Republican cast.

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    Whats sadder (none / 0) (#56)
    by jondee on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 05:44:12 PM EST
    is spinning the fusing of Vietnamese kids together with napalm into some kind of heroic act.

    Enabling the devastation of a poor nation on the other side of the world that is in no way threatening your own country is as good a definition of what constitutes a war crime as any.

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    The c-word is pretty much verboten here. (none / 0) (#28)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:42:44 PM EST


    Using language like that gives TL headaches (none / 0) (#32)
    by scribe on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 03:48:29 PM EST
    b/c that will set off the pron filters in many of the law firms and corporations whose employees check this blog for serious discussions of serious topics.

    The last six or 10 months have seen a huge preponderance of politics-oriented posts, but once the election is over the site (I assume) will dial back more to the crime and justice posts that are its bread and butter.  The firms and corps check in here to keep up.

    When their pron filters go off, then the site gets blocked.  Then Jeralyn has to go to each site that's blocking Talkleft and ask them to let us back in b/c some knucklehead commenter used a word their filters thought bad and remind these professionals that we're a serious site and not the purveyors of trash their filters made us out to be.

    It's really rude to Jeralyn, b/c she has to spend a lot of time on that which she could use for paying work or more blogging.

    So, misspell pron, or use strategically placed asterisks or something.  We human readers know what is meant, if you do it right.

    Does that qualify as (none / 0) (#48)
    by rdandrea on Thu Oct 16, 2008 at 05:01:22 PM EST
    Playing the "race card?"

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