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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-13-08 03:09 PM
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From Salon.com--MORE examples of racism on the campaign trail.
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And keep in mind, this ugliness is coming from OTHER DEMOCRATS (note below that others are picking up on the hypocrisy).

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/05/13/racism/print.html

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Incidentally, some of Salon's reporters have heard similar things from voters about their reticence to vote for Obama because of his race -- our Mike Madden has an article up today in which he mentions one voter in West Virginia who said his neighbors "won't go for a black man ... I don't think it's being racist necessarily, they just don't like black people that well." The man added, "The arrogance and all that bothers me more than black, but black is a close second ... Our generation was back when blacks were the back of the bus, and it's hard to change that outlook. I just feel like I couldn't vote for him."

At Hot Air, Ed Morrissey was incensed that the Post didn't mention often enough that the incidents described in the article happened in the context of a Democratic contest, and said, "The media should remember this when it comes to accusations of racism and bigotry later in the general election." He linked to a post at the QandO Blog, where Bruce McQuain had written, "As predictably as sunrise occurring tomorrow, Democrats will start throwing 'racism' around during the general election. When they do, posts like this will remind them that they have absolutely no room to talk."
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