I can see the jungle bunny stomp now..
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:49 PM, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If you want to oppose Obama, some expect you to do so very quietly:
>
> The sign went up Sunday evening, bold black letters against the
> stark white background of the marquee at the Colony South Hotel &
> Conference Center in Clinton: "Country First. McCain/Palin."
>
> By daybreak, pandemonium had broken loose all across heavily
> Democratic Prince George's County [Maryland]. Many local supporters of
> Democrat Barack Obama, jolted by the message as they headed down
> Branch Avenue on their Monday morning commutes, grabbed cellphones and
> BlackBerrys to notify friends. Operators of neighborhood e-mail group
> lists cried foul to their memberships. The NAACP logged calls.
> Community leaders demanded boycotts of the hotel…
>
> Sputters "community activist" Arthur Turner:
>
> People I have talked to look at the sign as a slap in the face.
> They feel it was blatant disrespect.
>
> University of Maryland professor Ron Walters concurs, fuming that
> expressing support for McCain in "an area that is strongly African
> American was like putting a stink bomb in the middle of the living
> room."
>
> By that logic, expressing support for Obama is like putting a stink
> bomb in the living room of America as a whole. After all, the USA is
> 82% Caucasian; Prince George's County is only 66% black.
>
> But I'm forgetting: racism only cuts one way — the Left's way.
> >
>
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