Thanks for the link, Mark.

This reminds me of so much similar stuff put out by very ignorant people in the South and elsewhere in years gone by. That guy they were mourning a few months back did similar things in his youth in Virginia: opposition candidate dancing with black women, etc.

Nothing changes I guess. Ignorant families raise ignorant children who become ignorant parents. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Puts a knot in my gut, but what can one do. Many folks feared this campaign for this reason, they knew it would waken that beast of ignorant feelings that puts out such columns. Too bad the party of Lincoln and T Roosevelt has attracted so many like this.

They are trying there hardest to change the subject as quickly as they can. You think the Mc camp doesn't know about this? PUHHHHHHHLEAZE, they want nothing more than to talk about race.

I have e mailed this out and asking all to contact the McCain and other entities noted in post. I believe we need to address this quickly and vehemently (albiet respectfully) immediately.

Please, send this out to all including other MSM media and make RNC and McCain denounce this ugliness.

I hope everyone is taking advantage of these e-mail links that Mark kindly provided. It's kind of fun to imagine these folks sifting through reams of angry letters, first thing Monday morning.

Those who have nothing to say will insist on saying it!

My Email:

First let me say that as a DIRECT descendant of Dred Scott and as a Helicopter Pilot in the US ARMY, I am really disgusted to read such trash and just down right racist comments coming from a so-called professional! Comments like this make it really difficult to believe in the Republican Party. Yes, we know that this is really just one rotten and destroyed seed among many; but this incident isn't isolated. Why is it that whenever there is word of some sort of voter suppression that it just about ALWAYS involve a Republican? Why is it when someone makes a not so positive comment about Palin or McCain, they are all of a sudden liberal and left wing? Yet it's considered truth and good reporting when it's done by a Right Wing reporter or talk show host?

Your candidate is attempting to run on this new found "change" platform and the so called Maverick image. Well let me tell you, comments and incidents like this undermine his campaign more than ANY of his actions alone. This is exactly the change that America wants and needs. A change for attitudes of hatred and malice; a change from the ignorance that continues to grow like a fungus in the wild; a change where people are just people and not always associated with the color of their skin. But see, this is the exact type of change that you are afraid of. You cringe when you see interracial couples walking the street... praying silently to yourself that you're glad that it isn't your daughter. Lo and behold, in many instances it IS your daughter... you just don't know it! But this email isn't meant to bring insult to your daughters... no more than having people like you as their father brings.

Now my prayer is that the good Republicans stand up as MEN and WOMEN as ONE COUNTRY UNDIVIDED and denounce not only his words but also this man!! Because it is words like this that continually DIVIDE our country.

CW2 Miller
US Army

On August 17, I wrote a post entitled "It IS about race, and we'd better talk about it."

I'll spare you all but the most salient points, in light of what still is occurring—and arguably escalating:

"Republican Barbara Dettloff, 72, a retired bartender from Racine, Ohio, an Appalachian river town with about 750 people, voted for Bush in 2004 and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in this year's Republican primary. She's voting for Obama in November because 'I think he's nice and I think he's sincere in what he says.'

"But, she added, 'I'm probably the only person in this town that does.'

"Indeed, many of her friends have told her they're either not voting for Obama or are staying home. 'They just won't vote for him because he's black,' Dettloff said." [story from Yahoo News 8/17/08, link now gone]

There it is. Barbara Dettloff has matter-of-factly acknowledged what we'd better admit and discuss: Some people won't vote for Obama because he's black.

I'd love to think that it's about the issues and the values about the candidates, but whether hidden or overt, when some voters look at the candidates and see that one is white and the other one is black, and that's all that matters to them. ...

The race issue has to be discussed openly. Every self-justification masks racism, and only racism. Justifications need to be laid open, dissected, and then shown for what they are—indefensible.

I can already hear the argument that doing this would make a campaign of hope turn ugly. I will state unequivocally here and now: It already is ugly.

Even if an open discussion about why "they just won't vote for him because he's black" doesn't result in one vote changed, I want all those people whose racism has heretofore been unchallenged to know that they've been outed.

Talking about racism against Obama isn't what's ugly; the racists are.

I got a little flak for posting this, being told discussing racism plays into the Republicans' desire to link Obama with Wright, Farrakhan, etc. I didn't agree then and I sure as heck don't agree now.

From the "uppity" implications to the outright slurs, this is a spade that needs to be called a spade (irony angrily and deliberately intended).

The Republican ticket is so bankrupt of ideas, I think they will hang themselves. I think this may be an election where H.L. Mencken'squote: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.", may be the exception rather than the rule.

I just called the editor of the paper and he defended everything said in the column. He literally told me there was not one false claim in the column and it was 100% turthful. He also stated that it was Bobby Mays' column and he could say anything he wanted. Of course, being a good Republican hack, he then stated that the entire economic meltdown was Bill Clinton's fault. Since the editor fully supports this column, it is time to see if there are any national companies advertising in the paper and put a financial hurt on his butt.

We still have such a long way to go as a country.
Sigh.

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