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

[Brad Haslett]

Bill,

Not very creative of me but your name was the first name that popped
into my mind.  You made a $15 donation to Obama today.  Don't worry,
the address was bullshit and the credit card number was legit - mine.

Anyway, when your name is published on the donor's list, you can thank me.

Love ya' man.

Brad.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> "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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