I can barely get through a single day without feeling disgust for the tactics that people are willing to use, the slime people are willing to produce, the absolutely filth people are willing to chew up, digest and regurgitate back onto the American public in the hopes of smearing Barrack Obama but today, today, October 22nd, 2008, they've gone and become so disgusting I can't just sit back.
I want to hunt these people down in their homes, dig through their dirty laundry, and spread gossip to their neighbors.
Because anyone, anyone, willing to do something as... absolutely, heartlessly amoral as to smear a Candidate's dead mother needs to swallow the same filth they've created.
From Blogger News
The woman was clearly not your average American Mom.
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In that case we would have a Presidential candidate who is the offspring of a Communist and a slut. It would be much to Obama’s credit to have risen above that but because personality traits are highly heritable it would also cast further doubts on his character.
If this is how far the hate machine goes, I say give them no quarter.
I understand in these forums I might be considered a radical for what I believe is right and just, in this battle for the Presidency.
But this, to me, isn't about winning and losing. This is personal. This is about common human decency.
From the site that originally "reported" this,
A geneological researcher has emailed me with three pictures of Obama's mother in the nude. That would be of trivial interest except for the setting in which the picures were taken. They were clearly taken in a sophisticated mid-century apartment and my correspondent suggests that the apartment details could be used to identify the photographer. He feels that the photographer is the Communist "Frank" whom Obama mentions as his mentor. That Frank was so intimate with Obama's mother would support the contention that Frank was in fact Obama's father. Various bloggers have pointed out how similar Obama looks to "Frank" and the coverup of Obama's birth certificate is certainly very suspicious.
Let me say, in no uncertain terms, that I could not care less if Obama's mom posed nude: this bullshit smearing of a dead woman, this attempt to make a black man into a hateful right-winger's stereotyped fantasy-- uncertain parentage, "genetics" influencing personality, the "tragic mulatto"--- is nothing compared to the REALITY of John and Cindy McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin.
John Sydney McCain left his Wife And Child to shack up with a young, blonde heiress. Are these your American family values?
Cindy McCain Embezzled from a Medical Charity to support her drug habit. Are these your American family values?
Sarah Palin, an accused cheater and abuser of power, hid her pregnancy and had a child who got knocked up because of her own bad parenting-- and you're damn right I'm going to call it Bad Parenting, because that's what a lover of Traditional American Values would call it-- forcing a shot gun wedding
Where the fuck are your American family values now?
I couldn't be more disgusted with this hypocrisy but that's the thing about hypocrisy: it is never justifiable, it is always, always pathetic.
I say, give them no quarter. Spread it from the roof-tops: John McCain and company does not practice what they preach; they mock American values, they mock the American way and they mock even their own loving base.
Going after Obama's dead mother....
The entire Republican party-- or what's left of it-- is nothing but a mockery.
I apologize that the only upbeat thing I can say about this disgusting act of cowardice is that it is too little and far too late: your tactics, that filth, your absolute disregard for common human decency led to your downfall.
Obama isn't just to win in 2 weeks.
He's going to fuck. you. up.
UPDATE: To those who say, "Hey, don't give it attention" I've got two things to say: A) They've Already Got Attention. Buzzfeed, if you didn't know, also links through to the Huffingpost and is read by enough people that my little diary is a drop in the bucket.
B) If I can't get pissed off here, I can't get pissed off anywhere. And I am very, very pissed off. Go stick your head in the sand elsewhere.
UPDATE 2: Thanks to We Shall Overcome for pointing out a site showing who the joker behind this BS is.
His name is Robert Hayes. He's 40. And he says
"In my writing, as in my daily life, I strive to be respectful to other people."
These people....
I pray this is photoshopped, if only to see him completely discredited and hope all traffic to his site dies painfully-- but as I said, I couldn't care less if it weren't. It's the gall to imply things about Obama's genetics, to smear him this way... I need to get off the internet for awhile, just to keep my jaw from the continual clenching.