Sacramento County GOP removes website materials urging people to ‘Waterboard Barack Obama.’
By on Oct 15th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Sacramento County GOP removes website materials urging people to ‘Waterboard Barack Obama.’
Yesterday, the Sacramento County Republican party removed from their website images that likened Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to Osama bin Laden. One of the images “encouraged people to ‘Waterboard Barack Obama’”:
The chairman of the Sacramento County Republican party, Craig MacGlashan, told the Sacramento Bee on Tuesday, “Some people find it offensive, others do not. I cannot comment on how people interpret things.” Earlier this week, the chairman of the Virginia Republican Party, Jeffrey M. Frederick, also compared Obama to bin Laden.
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The only good thing about the Michelle Obama reference is that they quoted her correctly.
Republicans sure are ugly, aren’t they.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:32 amAs always, the republicans present and support hate instead of solutions.
These “people” have no honor.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:33 amOne can only imagine the outrage if the shoe were on the other foot.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:33 amThese people will go any length and breadth to humuliate a person……….so much hate,does that come from the BIBLE to?
October 15th, 2008 at 9:33 amNo heart, no soul, no integrity and………. no White House come November!
October 15th, 2008 at 9:36 amSilly Fascists and their silly torture and their silly branding of a presidential candidate as a terrorists.
If Obama is assassinated – Palin/McCain are to be blamed for inciting the silly fascist wingnut base.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:36 amif we’re playing a game of “what culturally reprehensible organization is supporting my opponent,” anybody care to speculate what percentage of the KKK vote mccain will get?
October 15th, 2008 at 9:36 amSomeone once said that your true character is revealed not by how you act when you win, but how you act when you lose.
Now we see the true character of what has become the Republican Party.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:37 amI want to get that Michelle Obama bumper sticker and add another one saying, “Okay–now I’m ashamed again.”
And this isn’t John McCain being supported by an extremist organization–that IS his organization.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:43 amI CAN comment on your racist, inflammatory internet rhetoric.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:44 amAnd condemn it.
This is the way the Republicans should go down, choking bitter slogans.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:48 amDon’t you just love those dildoheads? How could you not…?
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October 15th, 2008 at 9:49 amSo who disagrees that racism isn’t alive and well in the US? (Especially the Rep. party!)
October 15th, 2008 at 9:49 amWhile driving to work this morning in Northern Virginia, a car stopped next to mine and the guy in the car gave me an angry stare. I rolled down the window and asked him if I could help him, or if there was any problem. He growled at me “no, no problem,” and continued to glare at me. I shrugged my shoulders, and he drove on.
It was then that I saw the back of his car covered in Bush/Cheney and McCain/Palin stickers. It was also then that I realized that his problem, and why he was so angry at me, was the sticker on my car reading “Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing its idiot.”
There’s the angry right for you — I had no problem with him having republican stickers on his car, but I obviously wasn’t going to be permitted to express my opinion in his world…
By the way — it made my day; it’s not often you can piss off a reich winger before 8am!!
October 15th, 2008 at 9:50 ami like that he can’t comment on what other people think is offensive; implicit would be he finds this unoffensive. Where’s Arnie the Governator when such happenings are going on in his own internet backyard? Like McCain-Palin and the rage-rallies, candidates are responsible for their own parties and how they wish to be associated: as the highest ranking member of the CA GOP should we call him the Govern-hater?
October 15th, 2008 at 9:51 amDogfather, score !!!! Let’s hope his BP got up over 200/100 and he burned all morning…
October 15th, 2008 at 9:55 amOnce it’s out there, it’s OUT THERE!
You don’t “take it back.” UN-fuukin-possible.
That’s why they do it in the first place: To get it OUT THERE!
Mission: Accomplished…
October 15th, 2008 at 9:56 amThe Dogfather Says:
the sticker on my car reading “Somewhere in Texas, a village is missing its idiot.”
Somewhere in Alaska an igloo is missing its idiot :)~
October 15th, 2008 at 9:59 amWhy would Michelle Obama be proud of her country if it spawns people like this who say we should water board Obama, and that the only difference between Obama and Osama is BS. … Well Maybe if they knew how to spell they would realize it is Usama, which is UBS o I forgot about Phil Gramm…
October 15th, 2008 at 9:59 amThe right-wingers call us the left coast — but some of the most frightening, demented reactionary neofascists are out here in California, Oregon & Washington.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:00 am#WaltB Says:
So who disagrees that racism isn’t alive and well in the US? (Especially the Rep. party!)
October 15th, 2008 at 9:49 am
It’s not a “partisan” thing. The USofA is a fundamentally WHITE-Racist organization. There are just as many troglodytic racists alleging themselves to be “Democrats” as there are who identify as “Republicans.”
That’s why the “race” is as close as it is: racist Dims whom McCain’s campaign is studiously providing reasons not to vote for the Kneegrow…
October 15th, 2008 at 10:01 amHmmm… once again, the GOOP demonstrates it just doesn’t understand that images on the Intertubes are FOREVER.
Can this bunch POSSIBLY get any uglier?
October 15th, 2008 at 10:03 amIn the interest of fairness, we should give equal time to all the local Democratic Party organizations around the country, and all the hateful and inflammatory rhetoric they’ve put forth in their promotional materials — similar in tone to the Sacramento County GOP.
All the times they’ve equated McCain with terrorists.
All the times they’ve implied McCain should be tortured. Or harmed. Or killed.
All the times they’ve suggested McCain is a traitor and not a “real” American.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any examples of any local Democratic Party organization that’s done this. Does anyone else?
October 15th, 2008 at 10:06 amWaltB Says:
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So who disagrees that racism isn’t alive and well in the US? (Especially the Rep. party!)
**I live in Sacramento and am saddeded that this is going on here. We also had a great deal of racist/facist graffiti covering a fence that had Obama support painted on it. I hope that we can prove that the majority of the residents are above all this. I would also hope that this does not inflate into serious racial tensions
October 15th, 2008 at 10:08 amWow. Heads would literally be spinning off their necks in outrage if the Dems had a website with derogatory comments about wrinkly old whitey and his Alaskan valley girl.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:10 amI think, sensing that their usual fear tactics have not been effective this go-around, the GOP is trying a new strategy of intense racial hatred.
Who wants to win like that?
It’s truly disgusting.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:11 amThis is truly sickening.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:12 amAnd the beat goes on Says: I live in Sacramento and am saddeded that this is going on here.
I lived there at the onset of the invasion of Iraq (Part II), and remember all the window signs in the many houses downtown that were opposed to it.
Considering Sacramento has been called the most ethnically diverse city in America, this is even more disturbing.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:13 amWhy doesn’t the McCain campaign speak out against this instance? … anyone else hear the crickets …
October 15th, 2008 at 10:23 amThese people are an embarrassment. A stain on our society. Racist holdovers from the 19th and 20th century. It’s because of these types of people that we haven’t engaged in 21st century solutions for the problems that we face. They seem to think they can freeze in time some sort of Rockwellian existence; where women and minorities know their place and society is dominated by the God fearing white man.
I got a news flash for these folks. Black and brown people aren’t going away. Immigrants won’t stop coming. Everything they hate about our society is here to stay. So they better start dealing with reality. They better understand they dynamics of our culture and begin to work with everyone to ensure that our country can survive the new epoch we are entering into.
Either that, or they’ll be dragged kicking and screaming into the dustbin of history.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:23 amwhoops, that might make people realize mcflopper evolved on waterboarding. don’t want any evolution with palin on the ticket.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:24 ampalinode Says:
Why doesn’t the McCain campaign speak out against this instance?
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It’s bad enough to have individuals at GOOP rallies shouting out things like “Kill him” and “traitor” but it’s an even lower level of ugly when it starts to become the Official Stance of the Party, as evinced in Sacramento or Virginia this week.
And when McCain and Palin DO NOT speak up against it, indirectly they endorse it. This just REEKS of desperation.
The GOOP… going down and down and down…
October 15th, 2008 at 10:33 amThis scorched earth strategy being used by McCain/Palin and the GOP against Barack Obama isn’t very Christian like is it?
October 15th, 2008 at 10:33 amI would be happy to comment on how the people at least in my neck of the woods interpret this sort of thing:
The rednecks love it.
The independent voters are appalled by it.
My guess is the Sacramento GOP didn’t exactly put California back in play with this racist garbage.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:36 amOkay, you guys have covered most of the salient points about these idiots in the Sacramento County GOP.
So allow me to add a trivial one;
Jane Fonda???
Jane frickin’ Fonda???
Can these lizard brains at least update their hatred to the 21st century???
Crikey.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:37 amGood Morning youngster’s, With all this ugly stuff going on because of mcnasty and walin palin’s hate speech campaign I have become weary and feeling like our country has stepped back 45 year’s in time…It was sad then,even more sad now…
There are only two good thing’s about this day to comment on right now…1. for all the people lucky enough to have a job or in school, it’s Wed, hump day and only two more wakies to the week end…2. Somewhere in alaska there is a moose, happy that palin is not hunting there…Blessings all
October 15th, 2008 at 10:37 amUncle Fester Lurks Says:
This scorched earth strategy [...] isn’t very Christian like is it?
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Au contraire, Fester.
It is the very epitome of modern Christianist attitude.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:37 amExit Stage Left Says: Somewhere in Alaska an igloo is missing its idiot :)~
I’m definitely updating my bumper sticker if this thing turns out the wrong way in three weeks; thanks, ESL!
October 15th, 2008 at 10:38 amI am offended by this hateful material! (Not that they care)
October 15th, 2008 at 10:39 amIt really drives the radical christian base insane that the democrats have a strong, intelligent black Christian man as our candidate.
So being the counterfeit Christians that they are they will go against their Christian values and vote for an adulterer and a adulteress who parades her pregnant, unwedded, teenage daughter all over the airwaves.
I remember how the Christian right used to say “What kind of an example is Bill Clinton setting for our children” after he Monicagate. Well we should be asking them what kind of example is adulterer McCain or Bristol Palin setting for our children.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:39 amThe ironic thing is that they get all huffy if we compare McCain to Bush.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:48 amOops, I guess Exit Stage Left got there before I did at #3.
Read the comments first, Zooey! Sheesh!
October 15th, 2008 at 10:52 amSkepticRising Says:
The ironic thing is that they get all huffy if we compare McCain to Bush.
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Right, or have the GALL to want Palin to do interviews that aren’t carefully scripted and rehearsed infomercials. The election is what, just about 3 weeks away, and STILL no Palin news conferences. They’re actually going to do it… run all the way to the election w/out ONCE going in front of the press.
And the NERVE of that Obama, playing the race card, ya know, by having the chutzpah to be black, or half-black, and run for office, and be good at it.
What… is… this… country coming to?
October 15th, 2008 at 10:55 amI don’t see what’s “up to interpretation” on these statements. They are pretty straightforward.
October 15th, 2008 at 11:03 amThe republicans have crossed the line:
The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama
We must not tolerate this hate. John mccain has sold his sould to the devil.
October 15th, 2008 at 11:06 amThis is proof that NONE of the evil attacks against Sen. Obama will prevail !
You [ Barack Obama], are from God and have overcome them [the enemy's attacks, schemes, and plots ] , because the one [God] who is in you [ Barack Obama] is greater than the one [the enemy ] who is in the world. – 1 John 4:4
No weapon forged against you [ Barack Obama] will prevail, and you [ Barack Obama] will refute every tongue that accuses you [ Barack Obama] . This is the heritage of the servants [ Barack Obama] of the LORD, and this is their [ Barack Obama] vindication from me,” declares the LORD. – Isaiah 54:17
” I [ God ] will send my terror ahead of you [ Barack Obama] and throw into confusion every nation you [ Barack Obama] encounter. I [ God ] will make all your [ Barack Obama] enemies turn their backs and run.” – Exodus 23:27
The Lord will rescue me [ Barack Obama] from every evil attack and will bring me [ Barack Obama] safely to his heavenly kingdom. – 2 Timothy 4:18
11 For he will command his angels concerning you [ Barack Obama] to guard you [ Barack Obama ] in all your ways; 12 they will lift you [ Barack Obama ] up in their hands, so that you [ Barack Obama ] will not strike your [his] foot against a stone. 13 You [ Barack Obama ] will tread upon the lion and the cobra; you [ Barack Obama ] will trample the great lion and the serpent. – Psalm 91:11-13
I have given you [ Barack Obama ] authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you [ Barack Obama ]. – Luke 10:19
It’s time for the American people to get it right and NOT vote for McCain-Palin, instead vote for change. It’s time for this country to turn the page and seek a new and better future for ourselves and our children.It’s time for REAL change in Washington, it’s time to elect Barack Obama for president !
Obama-Biden are the wiser and stronger team to solve the crucial challenges we have in this nation and abroad !
Amen.
October 15th, 2008 at 11:19 amNo, they can’t. My husband’s got a friend whom, every time we argue and I (figuratively) kick his ass, he starts sputtering Jane Fonda!!! (but did he enlist in the army in the early 70s? Noooooo! He was terrified of being drafted.)
October 15th, 2008 at 11:29 amQuestion for John McCain at the debate tonight:
Senator, at the onset of your campaign you vowed a clean campaign free of mudslinging saying that that is not what voters want. You then defended your campaign’s divisive rhetoric by blaming Senator Obama for declining your invitation to ten “town hall” meetings. You continue to speak of your ability to “reach across the aisle” yet you and Governor Palin continue to foment anger and threats of violence at campaign rallies that isolate Democrats and turns off those crucial Independent voters. Your surrogates are even instructing volunteers to emphasize innuendo that compares Obama to Bin Laden. Is this what being a Maverick means Senator and if you were to win this election does it worry you that you have burned so many bridges in your desire for power over what this Country so sorely needs right now?
October 15th, 2008 at 11:35 amIs that all it takes? A black man close to becoming President and the grand old party transforms into the national socialist workers party?
October 15th, 2008 at 11:36 amIt’s clear from all the polls and surveys that Republicans and conservatives (and conservatives include a number of officially registered Democrats too) that now a VAST majority (rather than a mere ‘plurality’) of voters are hugely pissed-off at Bush and the GOP.
For a liberal Democrats, there’s plenty of anger towards, say, Pelosi and Reid and even Hillary Clinton but there’s unity derived from the appalling facts of the numerous failures of the GOP’s not just absolute but decidedly aggressive rule as well as their obstructionism post 2006 ( which the Democratic House leadership has all to frequently allowed to prevail).
But what of the “liberal conservatives” and the ‘independents’ who invariably vote with the Republicans?
The die-hard Republican who believed that the domination of the Executive, House, Senate, Supreme Court and the 4th Estate would result in a political, social and economic Nirvana have been more than severely disappointed.
The Independents, too, have been shocked that even their arguably modest desires have not just been ultimately ignored but trampled upon.
All of these are now facing an ‘existential’ challenge as almost all of their hard-held assumptions have been proven wrong.
Some of these, Independents especially, are voting simply for a change but the hardcore Republicans and conservatives are rising to their existential challenge by professing their convictions more adamantly than ever before and damn the facts and realities before them.
These are the people that McCain is forced count on for support and that Palin enthusiastically encourages because she is just like them.
It isn’t easy to suddenly reject ingrained beliefs especially when one is relatively isolated from challenges to one’s beliefs as so many in the midwest and south are system–indeed as many are encouraged to never change their beliefs.
McCain/Palin are stuck with “true beleivers” who have just been informed that th world is round, not flat and not only do they not want to hear it, they are ready to fight by whatever means necessary to assert their position and to fight all the harder for their position as the facts pile up against them. Fear is all they have left and fear is what they express now and the one thing they recognize as reality is that they are being outnumbered so fear is the only thing they have left to resist. Fear becomes anger, and anger becomes violence, first in rhetoric and when that fails to convince others or the self, violence is the next step.
Not only does McCain/Palin have nothing to offer even the most conservative Democrat or Independent, he and she also have nothing positive and practical to offer the hard core conservative and Republican–except anger about their current situation and fear of the future. Instead of facing reality the die-hards are digging-in for a last stand and these are the people who are most motivated to attend to the current McCain/Palin rallies.
October 15th, 2008 at 11:53 amJane Fonda???
Jane frickin’ Fonda???
And Bill Ayers.
And Vietnam.
And the “counter-culture”.
And student protests.
And ‘moral relativism.’
And “patriotism.”
This election is, in some very important ways, ‘72 revisited…and Obama already turned his back–remember, his adulation of Raygun and his disdain for “activists”– on the folks who were the real ‘victims,’ those of us who took to the streets, got gassed, kicked, beaten, stomped, spat upon, arrested and jailed…
for principle…
October 15th, 2008 at 11:56 amThe same people who hoot and jeer when they win, threaten violence when they’re losing. They’re not a political party any more; they’re merely a collection of most of the evil people in America. They are simply bad people, and should be told so, so they can stop pretending to be a political movement.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:10 pmtokin librul Says:
tokin, you should take a different tack. Trying to make us believe that Obama is a republican won’t fly here, at least not with me.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:14 pmThe McCain-Rove-Palin axis has been reminding us lately that Republicans are the party of lying and swiftboating. So now they don’t want us to forget that waterboarding is part of the brand, too?
October 15th, 2008 at 1:20 pmI saw Jane Fonda last year at an antiwar protest in DC. She proudly wore a VVAW badge.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:42 pmVile. His wife needs to resign her supervisor’s post immediately.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:04 pmAhem. Let us be clear:
OSAMA BIN LADEN HAS NO BETTER FRIEND THAN GEORGE W. BUSH.
Why is this so? Well, look at the record. OBL wanted US troops out of the “holy land” of Saudi Arabia. We pulled out. OBL wanted to bog us down in a war in some Middle Eastern country. We invaded and occupied Iraq. OBL wanted to see the price of oil skyrocket so that more money would be in the hands of Muslims. Well, I’ve been paying more than 400% more for gas than I did when Dubya was sworn in.
Sen. Obama has no relation whatsoever to OBL, but Dubya sure does. The Bush family and the bin Laden family have been friends and business partners for years.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:24 pm“Their best shots” sound like the snotty playground taunts of a pack of 9-year-olds.
Righties are the weakest people I’ve ever observed.
October 15th, 2008 at 2:37 pmThe GOP must be really proud of Sacramento. They may have removed the worst graphics, but the site is still full of garbage. Scroll down about half way, and you’ll find them passing off a ridiculous made-up quote from a piece of low-grade satire as Obama’s actual viewpoint:
Snopes debunked that one months ago, and yet here it is on an official GOP site being fraudulently presented as “truth”, with nothing to suggest it shouldn’t be taken at face value. Go figure.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:57 pmGawd when the repugs said they will get dirty and ugly, I should have known it meant lies, smears and racism. Silly me, I thought they meant they had some real dirt on the dem party not this childish, petty bs.
October 15th, 2008 at 4:04 pmWell I found this. http://waterboardbarckobama.com
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