Hillary’s Voice

Racist GOP mailing depicts Obama surrounded by KFC, watermelon, and food stamps. (Think Progress)A local California GOP women’s organization’s most recent newsletter claims that if Obama is elected, his face will appear on food stamps, rather than dollar bills like other presidents. The group then included a picture of “Obama Bucks” — a phony $10 bill with Obama surrounded by racist imagery:

The president of the organization, Diane Fedele, didn’t understand the charges of racism: “I didn’t see it the way that it’s being taken. I never connected. It was just food to me.” One African-American member of the club said that upon seeing the newsletter, she “cried for 45 minutes.” “This is what keeps African-Americans from joining the Republican Party,” she added.Remember when the Conventional Wisdom was that Obama was a better candidate for the Democrats than Hillary because they would attack her on a lot of nonexistent stuff and no one would dare attack Obama on race? And remember that the nonexistent stuff attacks on Hillary came from the so-called left, and not the right?—CaroEx-editor Lundy gets to the bottom of WBT radio’s constant attacks on Obama (Poynter Online)Walker Lundy says the talkers on Charlotte’s WBT radio manage to conclude — on every issue every day — that Barack Obama is dangerous and disloyal to America. The former Philly Inquirer editor called the station’s general manager for an explanation. Rick Jackson told him it’s not politics, just business. “Two things drive me: the dollar for our shareholders and protecting our license. We go where our listeners tell us they want us to go.”The Brainy Governor of New York Can’t Name Any Obama Accomplishments (by SusanUnPC at No Quarter)Can anyone provide a list of substantive accomplishments that Barack Obama can claim, besides winning office and going to college? The one executive job Obama had — when Bill Ayers hired him to chair the $50 million Chicago Annenberg Challenge — meant that he had to carry out Bill Ayers’ radical school reform initiatives, at which he was a miserable failure since the entire project was a failure. Then there’s the one chairmanship that Obama was given in the U.S. Senate, as [chair] of the European Affairs Subcommittee of the Foreign Relations Committee… [H]e never held a single hearing… Now there’s this: “MSNBC’S CHRIS MATTHEWS: ‘Can you give me a case where Barack Obama has reached across the aisle and cut a deal and gotten something done for the country? One example.’ GOVERNOR PATERSON: ‘Well, Senator Obama has been there two years and I can’t cite an example right now.’”Click through to watch the video.—CaroPart 2–Independent Thinking: THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY/LATRINE NEEDS THE TY-D-BOL MAN (by InsightAnalytical-GRL)While cleaning the toilet the other day, the Democratic Party came to mind…I’m not kidding!… I knelt down to pick up something on the floor and lo and behold! I saw stuff I hadn’t noticed before, stuff I thought I was getting cleaned when I scrubbed the bowl. But NO! I had missed the buildup around the thin line of little round holes at the very top of the bowl, hidden under the rim…. I HAD MISSED THE HIDDEN CRUD!…[T]he entire episode suddenly reminded me of how we’ve been waking up to what’s under the facade that is the Democratic Party, how we’re seeing “under the rim.”Click here for more political and media news headlines.Carolyn KayMakeThemAccountable.com