Shame on local GOP
A local reader stopped by the office to show me something he had just purchased at the North State Street Republican Party Headquarters: a "$3 bill" made to look like real US currency with Barack Obama's face on the front in Arabic headress. There are a lot of other just plain stupid political references on the bill, like the signature of Teddy Kennedy as "Chief Socialist Advisor," but it is the clear, bigoted, racist prejudice of the bill's portrait of Obama of which all Republicans should be thoroughly ashamed and I find it really shocking that our own local Republicans would buy into such a stunt. It does nothing to advance any serious views you have and reveals you as not only desperate, but unprincipled.
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Good for you for standing up and saying that this is unacceptable behavior.
It just makes the whole bunch of them look like uneducated buffoons.
Posted by: S | October 2, 2008 12:39 AM
KC, this despicable info belongs in print!
Posted by: Robert Bruce | October 6, 2008 08:50 PM
I purchased the bill and brought it in to show K.C.
There were other racist references on it, besides the Arab headdress. An Ebonics-mocking serial number. A seal that pictured a camel. "Da Man". Several derogatory racial slurs towards both Arabs and blacks.
I was amazed that they would sell these, and said so to the very nice volunteer after I had paid for mine. I'm told that she had sense enough to remove them from display, but I have to wonder about a local campaign headquarters of a national campaign that would, without blinking, allow that sort of racial slur against their black, non-Arab opponent.
She assured me that both sides do this sort of thing, although I walked right over to Obama headquarters and could not find anything whatever remotely similar.
McCain headquarters also displayed a W Bush toy that sings, dances and clearly mocks their party's current president. I know that they want to establish some sort of imaginary distance between their candidate and Bush but the G.O.P., as they now seem to call themselves, has been backing all of Bush's policies up until this moment. I really didn't see the word "Republican" anywhere in their front window.
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Posted by: Jerry Krantman | October 15, 2008 11:47 AM