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

[Herb Parsons]

Ben,

What good would it have done to ask you at the time? I tried that, you 
refused to answer.

What, you wanted another opportunity to refuse?


Ben Cittadino wrote:
> Bill;
>
> With all of the perjoratives that have been slung at the candidates (and
> forum members) in this forum over the past weeks, you pick NOW to chime in
> over my use of moron to refer to Sarah Palin? 
>
> And you do it in a thread referring to the resignation of a woman who
> herself acknowledged her error in publishing a racist handout? You brush it
> off as a political cartoon? 
>
> And how do you know Scott McClellan doesn't have some afflicted individual
> in his family when you refer to him as a moron.
>
> Tell you what, I'll give you Scott as a moron if you give me Sarah as a
> moron. OK?
>
> Ben C.
>
>  
>
> Bill Effros 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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