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McCain/Palin mob: 30 cars owners find tires slashed after NC Obama rally; voters heckled
Sigh. This happened yesterday in Fayetteville yesterday. And only a couple of days before, a Greensboro reporter was kicked to the ground by another McCain/Palin patriot at a Bible Spice rally at Elon. Someone slashed the tires of at least 30 vehicles parked outside the Crown Coliseum on Sunday during…
The parade of racist images continues: Obama ribs ‘n chicken
Blogger David Poller, a photo editor at the S.D. Union-Tribune found this masterpiece out of a GOP women’s group in California. How about some Obama ribs ‘n chicken…plus a nice slice of watermelon for the darkie? I’m sick of this sh*t: The latest newsletter by an Inland Republican women’s group…
FL: middle school teacher uses ‘nigger’ to describe Barack Obama
Here you go – it’s all coming out into the open now. We know expressions of racism are just below the surface for too many people in this country as the prospect that we actually could elect a black man as president. For some it is so unsettling that they…
Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland calls Obama ‘uppity’
The GOP’s white sheet is showing (again). There’s a reason the RNC has hit a record low in black attendees at its convention. Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland used the racially-tinged term “uppity” to describe Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Thursday. Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s speech…
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