Obama photo in GOP club newsletter sparks outrage - Los Angeles Times


A Republican women's club in San Bernardino County sent out a recent newsletter with a photo of Barack Obama surrounded by fried chicken, watermelon and ribs, sparking widespread outrage and rebuke from GOP leaders and Democrats.

Now when pushed she said the mailer merely parodied the statements Obama made during a debate last summer and wasn't racist.


I ask you defend this. Find some way those foods were chosen completely randomly.

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Yessir, this election sure has brought out the class, tact and dignity in people.

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Of course this is racist. But Sen. Obama is hardly a victim in this matter, in any meaningful sense of the word. More precisely, he stands to be the beneficiary of the sympathy that anti-racist Americans--which is to say, most Americans--are likely to feel toward him; and the corresponding revulsion that they will be prone to feel toward those who have associated themselves with such viciousness.

Of course, the (understandable) revulsion toward a handful of racists, who happen to support Sen. McCain, is no good reason to vote for Sen. Obama. But many voters do not think along purely logical lines. So I would imagine that this sort of racist attack will do far more to help Sen. Obama than it will to harm him.

This isn't racism.

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"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

of course, you'd say that.

Just being nice, he asked me to say it.

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May your paradise always be green, you liberties always be full, and may the ignorance of you enemies not drive you to be pro-nuke.

"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself
into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

I'd say that it isn't racist. It is stupid and hateful, but not racist (meaning that it does not attack him based on him being black). It attacks him (and his supporters) as poor (thus the food stamps) and as a democrat (thus the donkey).

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look at the food choices!

Fried Chicken, Kool aid, Watermelon, and Barbecue ribs. any one of those things and maybe you would have a point but all of those come on

OE I hope you just overlooked that and actually do not think that was random.

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Thanx for obliging.

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I've heard of fried chicken being considered "black" food, but I've never heard of any of the others being considered "black" foods. I've heard of them being considered "southern" foods (like in the country song "watermelon crawl" by Tracy Byrd), mainly due to the fact that they are great on hot summer days (nothing beats a barbarque on hot summer evenings), which the south has a lot of, and the white folks too consume these products.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides