I have been a 98% lurker here since the beginning at this site. I've seen a lot of things come and go but what I witnessed tonight is truly breathtaking. UPDATED: I just want to interject that I had hoped that the commenting in this diary could be fairly devoid of comparing candidates or issues yet again. This diary is about whether we hold greater allegiance to candidates or principles. If we choose to give a pass to this kind of race baiting just because we like candidate X more than Y, then this site means absolutely nothing.
I cannot believe that This Diary could EVER be not only read and commented on, but enthusiastically supported and recommended. How in the world has this site come to this? How can an entire diary attacking Barack Obama (and don't tell me it's about Democrats generally, because all the language of change, hope, and seats at the table are his) using the most base, vile, despicable and disgusting stereotypes of black men be recommended? How is it appropriate to have an entire flimsy diary attacking the first viable Black candidate for President by analogizing him to a crack dealing, woman abusing, hustler concerned only with his "flashy" car on this site? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON???? Did I just wake up on FreeRepublic? I have NEVER been more ashamed to have ever been affiliated with this site. The author and all those recommenders should be ASHAMED of themselves.
Clearly, from my comments in the past, I'm an Obama partisan, but this goes much deeper than that for me. I don't care who you support but this is an entirely new and peculiarly despicable event here. This site has gone off the deep end. What's next, a flimsy and long winded diary purporting that John Edwards is principally analagous to a child molesting, meth pushing, neo-nazi and his supporters the child who takes his abuse? Or that supporting Hillary would be like taking back your conniving, spendthrift, whore ex-wife? Are we to just take the most baseless and horrific parts of a stereotype that would fit the candidate we oppose and then craft entire diaries around flimsy analogies to disparage that candidate and all their supporters? IF THAT is truly what the people on this site think is a measured and reality based analysis, THEN COUNT ME THE FUCK OUT! Believe me, I'm no great fan of John Edwards, but I know he's CERTAINLY a thousand times better than that diary. I KNOW that if he were to ever see it that he would be appalled. So here's a BIG, GIGANTIC FUCK YOU to everyone that was a part of it. Please allow me to go take a rhetorical bath while I try to scrub the sewage that is that diary from my mind.