What is it with Virginia Republicans and their mouths? The Los Angeles Times is reporting that a local Virginia Republican and Member of the McCain Leadership Team in Virginis penned a nasty and racist newspaper column regarding Barack Obama.
A local newspaper columnist, in a spoof of Obama’s platform, wrote in one recent piece that the Democrat would hire the rapper Ludacris to paint the White House black (a reference to a pro-Obama song by Ludacris), and divert more foreign aid to Africa so "the Obama family there can skim enough to allow them to free their goats and live the American Dream." He joked that Obama would replace the 50 stars on the U.S. flag "with a star and crescent logo," an Islamic symbol, and that his policy on drugs would be to "raise taxes to pay for Obama's inner-city political base."
The columnist, Bobby May, is also treasurer of the Buchanan County Republican Party and was listed in a July news release as the county's representative on McCain's Virginia leadership team, though he said his column reflected his views alone, and he denied it was racist.
A pdf of the actual column is here.
No that's not racist at all. I would like to see if either McCain or Sarah Palin would like to publicly renounce this person. It's bad enough the Virginia had to deal with George Allen. I will be waiting for the campiagn's response.