[Rhodes22-list] Another of Gov. Palin's "Real Americans"

[petelargo]

Ha-ha. remember the neocons all talking about the 'lefty-liberals' leaving
the country IF bush won 2004 and people like brad chastising them as
un-american? see ya brad. be sure to send postcards from your new home in
communist china.



Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> 
> Ben,
> 
> Racist, racist, racist, yada, yada, yada.
> 
> Go to Obama's website and donate some money.  I just did.  They took
> it even though I faked everything but my e-mail, phone number, and
> credit card number.
> 
> Donate to McCain and see what happens.  See what a hassle you get
> including the security code you have on the back of the card.
> 
> You fools.  YOU FOOLS!
> 
> I have two places paid for in China - we and mine will be fine, thank
> you very much.
> 
> As for name calling, Pete, you are a useful idiot!
> 
> Brad
> 
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Ben Cittadino <bcittadino at dcs-law.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> The following came over the AP Wire today.  I think the Dowd column and
>> Gen.
>> Powell were thinking of people like this when they criticized the tactics
>> of
>> the GOP this time around. Just my opinion. I could be wrong.
>>
>>
>>
>> "SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - The president of a San Bernardino County
>> Republican club resigned after apologizing for distributing a newsletter
>> with a caricature of Barack Obama on a fake food stamp surrounded by
>> ribs,
>> watermelon and fried chicken.
>>
>> In a letter sent Wednesday to members of the Chaffey Community Republican
>> Women, Federated, Diane Fedele said she was sorry for showing "poor
>> judgment
>> and lack of insight and sensitivity."
>>
>> Officials with the state Republican Party have said the GOP club is not
>> directly responsible to the state party.
>>
>> In the October newsletter sent to about 200 members and associates,
>> Fedele
>> included an image she pulled from an e-mail making the rounds of the
>> Internet.
>>
>> The illustration showed a $10 "Obama Bucks" food stamp with the
>> Democratic
>> presidential candidate's head on a donkey, surrounded by the foods linked
>> to
>> negative stereotypes of blacks.
>>
>> Black members of the club as well as GOP lawmakers and state and national
>> party leaders condemned the newsletter as offensive and racist.
>>
>> Fedele denied racist intent but in her letter defended the message: "The
>> point, that has been lost in the subsequent discussion over images, was
>> that
>> Obama will 'take from the rich and give to the poor' and that we ALL
>> would
>> be buying food with his 'Obama Welfare Dollars.' An ideological
>> statement,
>> not a racial one."
>>
>> The Riverside Press-Enterprise said the cartoon was created by Tim
>> Kastelein, a 31-year-old Minnesota Democrat who said he made it in a
>> satirical attempt to make fun of right-wing pundits afraid of a
>> Democratic
>> presidential candidate."
>>
>>
>> Ben C.
>>
>>
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