Club president who sent image of Obama quits post

[babylonsister]

Club president who sent image of Obama quits post


SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) -- 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.

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[The Wielding Truth]

1. I just hope that she actually knows how wrong this is.

I hope she sees how much this stuff hurts our country. I'm glad that she resigned, but I would have also liked it if she would have turned this awful racial episode into an outreach to all people with an endorsement to bettering relations and respecting all people according to their hearts and not their nationalities.

[rvablue]

2. The rethug dominos are beginning to fall!!! BWAHAHA!!! n/t

[kestrel91316]

3. Dah-dum-dum-dum! Another one bites the dust!

.........And another one's gone and another one's gone! Another one bites the dust!.....

[RollWithIt]

4. Leave Kool-Aid OUT OF THIS!!!!

For the love of god, Kool-Aid? How dare you!


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