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

[Bill Effros]

Ben,

This was essentially a political cartoon.

Seems to me you called the mother of a Down Syndrome child a "moron" 
recently.

Very offensive to the intellectually challenged.

There is great danger when the defenders of the first amendment scream 
"RACIST!" at anyone who disagrees with them on any topic.

Thomas Nast would be saddened.

Bill Effros



Ben Cittadino 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.
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> "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.
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> 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."
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> Officials with the state Republican Party have said the GOP club is not
> directly responsible to the state party.
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> 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.
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> 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."
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> Ben C.
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