McCain Forced to Fire Virginia County Chair Following Racist Newspaper Attack on Obama

[G_j]

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=9960
Headlined on 10/9/08:

McCain Forced to Fire Virginia County Chair Following Racist Newspaper Attack on Obama

Diary Entry by Mark C. Eades

The John McCain campaign has been forced to fire its campaign chair in Buchanan County, Virginia, following his publication of a racist newspaper attack on Barack Obama. Bobby May, pictured here, who has also served as treasurer and correspondence secretary of the Buchanan County Republican Party, recently penned a column containing an overtly racist attack against Barack Obama for a local newspaper, The Voice, which lists Mr. May among its columnists. May's column contained a number of inflammatory charges against Obama, including the following on Obama's plans for America if elected:

"FREEDOM OF RELIGION: Mandatory Black Liberation Theology classes taught in all churches - raise taxes to pay for this mandate. Put Rev. Jeremiah Wright in charge...."

"DRUG CRISIS: Raise taxes to pay for free drugs for Obama's inner-city political base...."

"2ND AMENDMENT: Under Obama will only apply to gang-bangers, illegal aliens, Islamo-Fascist terrorists, and Senator Jim Webb's aide...."

"FOREIGN RELATIONS: Appoint Rev. Al Sharpton as Secretary of State, Jesse Jackson as UN Representative, and let Bill Clinton handle all other "foreign relations" ... As long as Hillary doesn't find out...!"

"THE WHITE HOUSE: Hire rapper Ludacris to "paint it black." Taxes to be increased to buy enough paint for the job plus spray-paint for graffiti...."

"THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES: Raise taxes to send $845 billion, most of it to Africa so the Obama family there can skim off enough for them to free their goats and live the American Dream...."

"NATIONAL ANTHEM: Change to the "Black National Anthem" by James Weldon Johnson...."

"US CURRENCY: Update photos to reflect US diversity; include pictures of "great Americans" such as Oprah Winfrey, Ludacris, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Paris Hilton, and Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson (Obama's new Secretary of the Treasury - 50 Cent refused position after learning that he would lose his crazy check if he accepted the nomination)...."

"US FLAG: Replace 50 stars with a star and crescent logo; red stripes changed to green to represent Obama's tree-hugging radical environmentalism and his lack of experience. Flag lapel pins, having become a substitute for "real patriotism," will henceforth be banned...."

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[Taverner]

1. Wow - the mouth-breathers are getting worse every day

[TornadoTN]

2. Let them spin that one

I don't think the GOP could even begin to justify that little temper-tantrum.

I guess the one good thing about this election is it has helped us identify the racists amongst our society.

[meegbear]

3. ...

:wow:

WHAT A DOUCHEBAG!

[amdezurik]

4. damm he should have know better

they aren't supposed to say that out loud!

[leftofcool]

5. It was the right thing to fire this clown

[VP505]

7. Yes it would be the right thing to do,

but the reality of it is that he was fired because he was an embarrassment that they knew they couldn't defend not because they had the integrity to do the right thing.

[csziggy]

9. Yes, if he had spread the same crap as a whisper campaign

Or if he had farmed it out as a no name letter to the editor, he would have been guaranteed a job in a McCain administration.

[G_j]

11. yep, as Phil Gramm's mistake was not

calling Americans whiners, but saying it in public.

[Roy]

24. The right thing to do would be to NOT create an atmosphere...

Where someone would think it acceptable to say these vile things in public.

[Solly Mack]

6. Wow...damn.

Pieces of shit...all of them. The entire campaign..nothing but a bunch of racists

[hootinholler]

8. Wait a minute!!!

I thought the new anthem was "Teach the world to sing!"

Damned flip floppers!

-Hoot

[Ms. Toad]

18. Too easy to sing.

It is a prerequisite for a national anthem that it be difficult to pitch so that any one voice can sing all the notes. :)

[Miss Chybil]

10. I guess he couldn't help himself.

Sooner or later, a puss-filled, putrid bag of shit will burst. It's the natural order of things. Let's get the rest of them out in the open, so we can lance them and get it over with. Then we can start to heal.

[EOTE]

12. Are there even racists who find this shit funny?

I mean, I'm angry as hell reading this. Not so much for the overt racism, but the thought that this douche bag probably thinks he's like some right wing Dave Barry or something. I'm trying to think of things funnier than this stain, genocide pops into my mind fairly quickly.

[RiverStone]

13. Hope is took his white hood with em on the way out!

Good - glad these racist and cowardly pricks are being hung out for all to see!

[QueenOfCalifornia]

14. McKlan

would appoint the guy to Secretary of State if he could.

Asshats.

[ihavenobias]

15. K & R

[yardwork]

16. Buchanan County, Virginia. Very poor. Coal mountain country.

The poverty rate in Buchanan County, VA is 23%, compared to 10% for the state. And, the number of people on Medicaid (government subsidized health care) in Buchanan County is 26%, compared to 11% for the whole state of Virginia.

Yeah, the Republican Party has been good to Buchanan County, VA. Not. Perfect example of people voting against their own interests.

http://www.wise.virginia.edu/gmec/Counties-Cities/buchanon.html

[Peacetrain]

17. My Mom is from Buchanan County...

and she is a very pro Obama person. Of course she left that area 57 years ago, but I know they moved back for a couple of years when I was 4 or 5..

My Dad was a coal miner, when coal mining was hell in the 40's in Tazewell county, the county next to Buchanan. He used his GI bill to go to Chicago to go to college. My Dad who died in July of 2007 got to see Barack at the beginning of his campaign here in Iowa, and said this is a man who will make a difference.


My point in this little bit of personal history.. do not think all poor people from the hills are one step from a white sheet outfit. Far from it, I have relatives still in "them thar hills" and all democrats.

[G_j]

19. certainly not

it really doesn't matter where this slime ball comes from. It could be anywhere in the US.

[Ian David]

20. I think I've seen this guy (or someone damn near like him) screaming at cars from an underpass. n/t

[Ian David]

21. Next year, let's circulate it around the internets and sign Dennis Miller's name to the bottom! n/t

[G_j]

22. McCain Co-Chair Calls Obama "A Guy Of The Street," Raises Drug Use

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/09/mccain-co-chai...

McCain Co-Chair Calls Obama "A Guy Of The Street," Raises Drug Use
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October 9, 2008 04:30 PM

Former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, a McCain campaign co-chairman, edged up to an explicitly racial attack on Barack Obama on Thursday, describing the Illinois Senator as a "guy of the street" before raising his youthful drug use.

Appearing on Dennis Miller's radio show, Keating charged that the Democratic nominee was covering up his "very extreme" record, and urged Obama to be more honest with Americans. "He ought to admit," Keating said, "'You know, I've got to be honest with you. I was a guy of the street. I was way to the left. I used cocaine. I voted liberally, but I'm back at the center.'"

Keating began to address Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright -- a topic that John McCain himself has said should be off-limits -- but Miller interrupted him to return to the discussion of cocaine.

Listen to the audio here.

The criticism is the latest in a spate of increasingly aggressive attacks from the McCain-Palin camp.

It's unclear what Keating meant by "a guy of the street," but his assertion that Obama should "admit" his brief drug use in high school makes little sense, since it was Obama himself who did disclose it in his memoir published 12 years ago.

Keating was one of McCain's earlier supporters, endorsing the Arizona Senator even before he officially launched his 2008 presidential bid. Keating is a member of McCain's National Campaign Committee, and serves as co-chair for various campaign groups, such as Catholics for McCain and Sportsmen for McCain.

Here's the transcript from Miller's program today:

MILLER: It's the most liberal, let's just say that. We're talking to Frank Keating, former Oklahoma Governor, John McCain supporter. Frank, let's just say, it's the most liberal. The thing that bothers me the most about all this with Barack Obama is not the -- I know he's the most liberal guy. You know, I know he's gotten this close to the White House and I know most people don't realize he's probably the most liberal senator we have. The thing that bothers me the most is I recognize the obfuscation and the smoke and mirrors as Clinton-esque. When I hear him reduce Ayers to "this is a guy who lives in my neighborhood" or Rev. Wright, "I was there 500 times and never saw him." The acts themselves don't bother me as he's starting to treat me like an idiot too when he's blowing this smoke my way. He ought to just come clean and say, "listen, I came up through Chicago, you make some errors there." I'd almost be able to absolve it more easily then.

..more..

[sarcasmo]

23. He is getting beat and beat badly, the white sheet crowd is angry.

[beac]

25. What the hell took them so long?? Didn't that column come out almost a WEEK ago??

Sounds like they only fired him when this vile filth was exposed nationwide, not b/c they actually wanted to.

John McCain truly is SCUM.

[JonLP24]

26. How many times has this happened?

I recall a surrogate from NM and Nevada having to step down for the same reason.

[KamaAina]

27. You know what? I actually agree with the shitball about something.

I wouldn't mind seeing Sheila Jackson-Lee's picture on U.S. currency one bit (when the time comes, of course). Unlike Bobby May :grr: , she really is a great American.

edit: spelling