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While a number of speakers -- such as Railroad Commission chairman Michael Williams and Mike Huckabee -- have praised the advance of Barack Obama and what it means towards a colorblind society, at least one vendor hasn't gotten the message. At the Republican state convention, a booth hosted by Republicanmarket was selling a pin Saturday that says: If Obama is President will we still call it the White House. There were other pins that weren't necessarily conveying the positive, inclusive, united front that has been portrayed during the convention. One said, "Press 1 for English. Press 2 for Deportation" and another, "I will hold my nose when I vote for McCain" |
Comments
Posted by Nelson Simonson @ 10:53 AM Sun, Jun 15, 2008
If I were a republican I would be ashamed. As it is I am merely disgusted.
Posted by cm7qe8 @ 6:28 PM Mon, Jun 16, 2008
Whoever is selling these is pathetic. Even more pathetic are the people who manufacture and distribute them.
Posted by Fred Finkel @ 8:08 PM Mon, Jun 16, 2008
Sounds like Democrat operatives invaded the convention for purposes of disaffection.
That's as bad as "Hot Women Vote for Obama"!
Posted by Al @ 10:48 PM Mon, Jun 16, 2008
Disgraceful.
Time to change to something more "positive" than right wing propoganda...
Posted by njdem @ 11:22 PM Mon, Jun 16, 2008
The Republicans are showing their true colors.
Posted by Chris Salzmann @ 11:28 AM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
This is disgusting. The fact that the GOP convention tolerated this says it all. It's pathetic that these idiots can even claim the "patriotic" label.
Posted by buddhistMonkey @ 11:54 AM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
In a dozen words, this button perfectly summarizes the Republican Party.
Posted by tom @ 11:59 AM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Some of my countrymen are just too dumb to live!
Posted by dhmlt @ 12:07 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Talk about chickens coming home to roost (if the racism that runs rampant in the Republican party ever actually left).
All they have to peddle is hate and war - both of which they seem to just adore.
Posted by Johnson @ 12:23 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
sexism is all over the news, but the MSM lets all of this go while Pushing McCain's talking points. I would love to still feel love for idiots.
Posted by Sara C @ 12:45 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
It would seem that this pin is yet one more indication that the Republican Party is filled with disgraceful racists.
Why am I not surprised?
Posted by Caca @ 12:56 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
GOPsers always were racist. In fact, they hate everything and everyone. No surprise here...
Posted by Jennifer @ 12:58 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Racism? In MY Texas GOP?
Posted by tas @ 1:02 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Gee, what a shock. And the main stream media is where on this? Nowhere to be heard. don't tell me that ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC or the wire services weren't at that convention.
Posted by Chaz @ 1:04 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I'm SO glad I don't live in Texas.
Posted by B @ 1:36 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Some things never change. Uneducated cowards who are afraid of their own shadows - The GOP base.
Posted by Jacob @ 1:43 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I think it should have said "WHEN Obama is President..."?
Posted by Martin A. Knight @ 1:45 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
And second ... why is the picture above such an obviously badly done Photoshop job?
Posted by Steve Majstorovic @ 1:52 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Now I understand why the Dixie Chicks had a Republic Party fatwah imposed on them. These extremists actually call themselves Republicans. Goldwater must be turning over in his grave!
Posted by Jack Smith @ 1:55 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Many of the posts here are just as ignorant as the button itself.
Posted by Andrew @ 2:07 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Guess I'll just have to go donate another $25 at Obama's website!
Posted by flywheel @ 2:15 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Well, after all, it would be "liberal" to just report this as a hard, cold fact wouldn't it?/snark
I am ashamed and horrified that no one, not the printer, not the organizers, could stop and say, "Wait a minute. We don't need a law about this. Get the hell out of here, and take that rubbish with you!"
Posted by vel @ 2:16 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I'm so glad I left Texas. This style of attack should surprise no one. Here's to the Bush-i-fication of the Lone Star State and some of this country.
Posted by Joseph Riedel @ 2:17 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
The fact that this is not being blasted on the airwaves is a testament to the lack of shock that something like this would occur at the Texas GOP convention
Posted by Sooze @ 2:19 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
This is what the Republican party is. It always has been THIS - but was very successful in disguising it's true objectives in order to be palatable to the main stream. Their act is no longer working and they have no idea how to 'fake the funk' anymore.
Posted by Democrat2000 @ 2:20 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Are you kidding me? Has any one called them at 407-333-2983 and asked for a statement or emailed them at sales@republicanmarket.com? Accountability please before you release anything like this. No picture of this being sold at the convention? Espicially at a state that both campaigns think they are going to win?
Posted by Dizzle @ 2:25 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Yeah, I'm from Texas and I'm actually surprised by this... It is one thing to be a backwoods bigot. They're usually loud, but without tangible mediums of expression. But, it is an entirely different thing to make buttons and market them at the state convention. These people need to be run out of the state.
Posted by hotspur @ 2:25 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
It's just so lame it makes my head hurt.
Posted by Bob @ 2:27 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
The maker will probably claim that it's a statement against "librul political correctness" or something, implying that lefties find the label "White House" racist, and these guys are in favor of protecting our history, or something. But they have to be tone deaf idiots to think that that's how people will actually read it.
Posted by Dont Ask @ 2:28 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Republican'ts just can't help it. It's like Tourette's Syndrome. They literally CAN'T stop themselves from revealing the racism and blind terror that guides their lives
Posted by Martin @ 2:30 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
If this WERE reported on the MSM, it would most likely be "inadvertently" connected to a Democratic State Convention. It seems whenever a Republican is embroiled in any number of Republican-patented scandals they are always "mislabeled" as Democrats.
This obviously racist button also makes me think of the FoxNews program that called Michelle Obama a "baby mama." Racist pure and simple, yet noone is really held accountable. Its the nappy-headed ho moment for FoxNews and noone seems to care.
Republicans = fear, hate, bigotry, greed, greed, and more greed. They don't care about the people they pander to yet they are constantly supported by said people. Why is that?
Posted by WWJ Think about the GOP? @ 2:31 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
The Republican Party: Come for the tax cuts, stay for the racism...
Posted by doc magnus @ 2:31 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Betcha they're made in China.
Posted by joe p @ 2:34 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
While it is certainly troublesome that a vendor would think, produce and sell this trash; what is worse is that they had a stand at the convention and sold the product. I would like to give some people the benefit of the doubt, but unless provided info otherwise, it appears that the Republican party is made of couple of overt racists and a whole lot of whispering racists, with no one objecting to this junk.
Posted by Mark @ 2:37 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
That's one piece of flair that I would not wear.
Posted by Gretchen @ 2:38 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Repubs are such slow learners. Of course it will still be called the White House. It has been inhabited by the village idiot the past 7 years and no one has changed the name to the Looney Bin or the Failure Farm.
Posted by dave @ 2:46 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I love it. Get it all out there for everyone to see. BUT, it's our job to refrain from the name-calling(racists pig, bigot, etc.). I fear if we start throwing around the "racist" word then it will put people on the defensive...people who may not want to vote for Obama becasue of his policies, not becasue of his race. Also, voters on the fence don't want to fear being branded a racist if they decide they might want to vote for McCain. If we start tossing that word around there will be a group of Obama supporters who will use it endlessly till November. I don't want any part of that kind of behavior. We are better than playing the victim and branding people racists. Let those people be who they are...the time is coming when their lot in this country will by minute and insignificant. Crap, for all we know maybe that time is now. Don't give them justification for fighting with us by giving them the opportunity to be a victim.
Posted by Ronathan @ 2:48 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
@Fred Finkel
Try going to www.republicanmarket.com and look at the products they are selling. These guys are clearly not Democratic operatives.
The button collection is particularly telling. Some gems include:
"Life's a bitch. Don't vote for one." with a picture of Hillary.
"I still hate Commies even after they changed their name to Liberals".
"KFC Liberal Special: 2 Fat Thighs, 2 Small Breasts, . . . Left Wing".
"Republican women like MEN".
and the completely unoriginal
"Somewhere in Arkansas, a village is missing its idiot".
Posted by not anive @ 2:54 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Has anyone taken the time to see if this blogger is telling the truth or not? I have a call into the TX GOP to find out
Posted by Davebo @ 2:54 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
And Lee Atwater cracks a smile from the grave.
You do realize this has been actively encouraged in the GOP for almost 30 years right?
Posted by PotMeetKettle @ 2:54 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
You Dems crack me up. Some yahoo clown has a pin and you label ALL Republicans as racist. Since Senator Robert Byrd- D West Virginia was in the Ku Klux Klan I should return the same favor and label you all as racist as well. Strom Thurmond was in the Democratic Party when he broke rank and ran under a segregationist platform. Racist Democrats
Posted by Don @ 3:00 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I am equally disgusted. However, many of the commentors here need to remember that the GOP was the party of Lincoln.
Posted by Carole @ 3:00 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Someone asked: Gee, what a shock. And the main stream media is where on this? Nowhere to be heard. don't tell me that ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NBC or the wire services weren't at that convention.
Because they probably found out it was a Democrat behind it.
Posted by Brent Nicastro @ 3:00 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
No, we will call it OUR house.
Posted by Victor @ 3:01 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Can we get rid of the south already? Racist white trash wasteland. I'm tired of them and their redneck presidents. One being a self absorbed douchebag and another a bubbling redneck with a pea sized brain.
Posted by Still Hopeful @ 3:05 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Democrat2000 - I agree that this is something that needs definitive proof. I believe it's possible, but just seems so idiotic. The only "evidence" I can provide is that Republicanmarket.com claims to have 104 buttons but only has images of 103. Could be they've removed this offensive article from their site, although plenty of others remain.
-SH
Posted by Philadelphia Steve @ 3:09 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Re: "Sounds like Democrat operatives invaded the convention for purposes of disaffection."
Of course. It's all the Democrats' fault. Can't hold Republicans accountable for anything, can we? Even when it takes place at their very own convention.
Posted by kris @ 3:30 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I am a registered Republican (but really just a fiscal conservative), and I am absolutely disgusted by this. I'd also like to add that not all Republicans believe the Bush doctrine for government, we're not all retarded. We intelligent conservatives are trying to do something about it.
Posted by Johnny Tsunami @ 3:35 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Dear Biggot who created these buttons,
You are an idiot. You have no right to live, breathe and work in a free society if you propogate filth and ignorance like you have. What a waste of a perfectly good button. I suggest you take the pin part and jab it into your own eye as you truly are a moron. Maybe you should take a moment to research your own past as I have no doubt you will see many variations of "White".
Love, a girl in the West
Posted by raymond @ 3:37 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Believe me when I say it will always be the White House in more ways than one.
Posted by keith @ 3:38 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Well, it was the Democrats who forced all those Republicans to take money from Jack Abramoff. And it was the Democrats who lured Florida Representative Bob Allen into a public bathroom and offer a black undercover police officer $20 to give him (the police officer) oral sex. And it was the Democrats who trapped Larry Craig on his countless gay trysts and ultimate arrest for lewd behavior. And it was the Democrats who forced Alaskan Congressman Ted Stevens to take kickbacks from convicted VECO fellon Bill Allen. And it was the Democrats who made Duke Cunningham take millions in bribes while in office. And it was the Democrats who made thousands, or millions, of emails go missing in the White House. And it was the Democrats who forced disgraced Staten Island Representative Vito Fossella to get arrested for drunk driving and uncover his extra-marital affair, complete with love child. And now they're planting racist buttons at a Republican State Convention.
Posted by Steven @ 3:43 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
This is so typical of the Republican party - when you can't win because you're the right choice, you resort to low-brow tactics. Sickening!
Posted by ronathan @ 3:47 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
@PotMeetKettle
umm. . . Byrd has publicly stated that joining the KKK was the worst mistake he ever made. Yes, he had racist attitudes at one point in history, but since then he has been awarded a 100% approval rating from the NAACP during the 108th Congress, and he endorsed Obama over Clinton. If that makes him a racist, then he's not a very good racist.
And the difference between Strom Thurman running on a segregationist platform and this story about the pin is that Thurman's run on the segregationist platform happened in the 1950's and 60's, whereas this story about the buttons is happening NOW, in 2008. The Democratic Party has changed a lot since then. Yes, at one point, the Democratic Party was associated with segregation- JFK and LBJ changed all that with the Civil Rights Act, which led to the Republicans abandoning the values that made it the "Party of Lincoln" and turned it instead to the Nixonian-"Southern Strategy"-racist organization it is today.
Posted by disgusted with both sides @ 3:48 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
come on people its just a stupid button made by and bought by idiots. if you can say there haven't been similar stuff from the Democratic side raise your hand. i thought so
Posted by sr @ 3:48 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Yes let's completely attach these blanket statements to all republicans......All republicans must rot in hell and all democrats are going to heaven....give me a break..Do you really think that most republicans feel this way? Get real! This is an isolated incident and that's why it is in the news....If this is what the republicans really stand for they would have already been run out of office!
Posted by Ray @ 3:50 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
We are glad you don't live here either! Question is, why are you interested in Texas news if you don't want to live here? God bless Texas!
Posted by Randy @ 3:50 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
How funny, I love it...where can I get one.
Proud to be Texan
Posted by Derrick @ 3:54 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I find it amusing that some Republicans still find a way to blame something like this on the Democrats. It must've been a Democrat that snuck the pin in to sabotage the Republican convention? Please.
Partisan politics make me sick.
Posted by bubba @ 3:56 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I love it! I need to order some of these...anybody know the website? hehehehe
Posted by Donna2112 @ 3:56 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
The generalizations about Texas Republicans that are written in these comments are just as prejudiced as that button (which is disgusting, by the way). Don't judge me unless you know me and I'll do the same for you - regardless of color, gender, sexual orientation, education, religion or even political affiliation.
Posted by Eve @ 3:58 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
@ Victor: Not everyone who lives in the southern U.S. is racist... and not everyone who is racist lives in the southern U.S. Don't blame an entire region or an entire group of people for the hate and smallness of spirit that is behind this button. Speak out against injustice, but make sure you've holding accountable the right people.
Posted by Jeffrey Weiss @ 3:58 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Um...Y'all do know that this is a blog run by the Dallas Morning News? Look, up there in the far left corner. Which is about as MS as an M can be? Which mean you only know about this because the MSM has reported about it?
Posted by john @ 3:59 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Where is everybody's sense of humor. Is it in bad taste....maybe, is it funny, yeah! I also find it funny how the over reaction is by some people. "You have no right to live"......really, are we all supposed to tow the p.c. line and accept newspeak? Second of all the fact that the oreo that is running for president is pretending to be black does not mean that he is free from critism or humor in the bad taste, I supposed if they were making fun of an old white man then there would be story today.
Posted by ABR @ 4:05 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Insane, embarrassing, propagated by people who support Bush and his administration and/or people who would support another Clinton administration.
Posted by jweb @ 4:05 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Reckon these were "Made in China?"
Posted by rcindallas @ 4:06 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
yet another tasteless, racial comment from repugnicans.....why am i not surprised?!?!?
Posted by Jeff @ 4:09 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
This was a booth space purchased by some group calling themselves Republicans. That doesn't mean that they are, nor does it mean they aren't allowed to sell their items in a free society. I don't agree with it, but it's just as likely that this is a group of George Soros' folks pushing this junk in an attempt to paint us, the true Republicans, with a racist brush. Don't forget that Mr. Lincoln was a Republican!
So before you, my brothers on the left, start calling names, please reconsider that we are all ultimately on the same team.
Posted by DOUG @ 4:10 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I JUST WONDER WHY I HEAR THOSE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF RACISM SAY THAT THINGS ARE JUST FINE IN THIS COUNTRY! AND THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT WE ARE GOING TO LET RUN THIS COUNTRY THAT IS MADE UP OF SO MANY DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES? WE HAVE A VERY LONG WAY TO GO. WHILE SOME ARE TRYING TO HEAL THE WOULDS OF RACISM, STILL MANY CHOOSE TO KEEP IT GOING. GOD HAVE MERCEY ON US ALL, AND SHAME ON THE MEDIA FOR NOT MAKING A "REV. WRIGHT" MOMENT OF THIS.
Posted by AmericanGirl @ 4:12 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
John, "humor" is no excuse for racism. Ever.
Posted by Shanna @ 4:16 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. If you don't agree with what the button says, don't wear it.
Posted by Brad @ 4:17 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Great, just what Texas needs... another idiot to add fuel to the Texas stereotypes. When are people going to learn to look beyond a persons color, religious or sexual orientation and see them for what they truly are... human beings just like the rest of us.
Posted by Jim Swayze @ 4:23 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
As a conservative, I find this pin repulsive. I would be surprised if this were not a hoax and ashamed if it's not.
Posted by ra @ 4:24 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
That's the thing: republicans aren't funny. In general, they're nasty and mean and they think that's funny.
I remember at the '96 GOP convention in San Diego, one could buy a button that read, "Hinckley Shot The Wrong Brady."
Get it? Sarah Brady was in favor of gun control. And the button suggests that John Hinckley shoulda shot her dead. Shoot her! Kill her with a gun because she's in favor of gun control! Ho ho ho!
Now that button was available for purchase, not outside the convention; no, it was for sale in the
official merchandising area at the convention.
Posted by debbie rasbury @ 4:24 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
NO I DO NOT THINK IT IS FUNNY.IT IS REPREHENSIBLE.
SO THIS IS THE FACE OF CONSERVATIVISM?NOT VERY PRETTY
IS IT? OBAMA 08
Posted by KG @ 4:28 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Good lord people, I have supported Obama from Day 1 - saw him speak in Dallas and will help vote him into the White House. However, THAT button is funny.
lighten up!
Posted by Lori @ 4:29 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
SHAME ON YOU!!! This is exactly why we need CHANGE in America.....it's idiots like the people who came up with this button!!!
Posted by T @ 4:30 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
How sickening. And of course it had to come from Texas, reinforcing the image the rest of the country and world have of us that we are all a bunch of racist, back-woods rednecks. What a way to tear down our state, our nation, and human society in general in one fell swoop. Whoever sold these just joined Bush on my "ashamed and disgusted to share a state" list.
Posted by Dave @ 4:30 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I think the Liberals are showing their true colors right here. What happened to the party of tolerance and love? I'm reading a lot of hate.
Posted by Tommy @ 4:31 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
If the convention was this last weekend, why are we just hearing of this on Tuesday?
Posted by hfreeman @ 4:33 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I speak to many whites about race and they all generally say they were not raised "that way". What this Obama nomination thing has done is to separate the whites that are really and truly not racist from the ones that talk that old, outdated game of how they weren't raised that way. Funny thing is that all of us African Americans know who the fakes are. I would bet you any amount of money that if you aske the person that produced the button if the harbor any racist sentiment, they will say, "I just wasn't raised that way". They will probably try to spin the words on the button as to try to make them non offensive. I, for one brother, am not buying it.
Posted by David Wozniak @ 4:37 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
And I reflect back on a comment made to me in class by one of my scholars this last spring semester ... He was lamenting the difficulty in finding a job despite doing all the right things .. and some others chimed in too. He was a black man and I felt the pain when one of my more vocal black female students said, “I just wish more white people could be like you Professor Woz.” I was silent for a moment and said, “That is my wish too.” You see, if I had a job for my scholar, I’d have put him ahead of anyone else in line because he demonstrated that he was bright, hard-working, polite, and professional. Then today I read that button and so sadly shed a tear—and I wonder how is job search is today.
Posted by Kristine @ 4:37 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I'm a Republican and sat with my mouth gaping open in shock upon seeing this item. I pray that it's not true. But if it is, I hope those on the left realize this is not representative of the party as a whole and that they will stop painting us with such a broad brush: Racist? Slow learners? Typical? Not hardly.
Posted by Larry @ 4:41 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
The Re-thug-licans are dinosaurs, and their extinction in Texas will be observed on Election Day in November. It couldn't happen to a bigger bunch of creeps.
Posted by Paul @ 4:41 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I AM a Republican, and not an Obama supporter, but that button is ridiculous. What were they thinking?
Posted by John @ 4:46 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
You all DO realize that Cedric the Entertainer, who the last time I checked was Black and NOT Repubican, made the EXACT SAME JOKE... Or, because of his blackness, is he allowed to make jokes that others cannot, and if so, how is that NOT a restriction of 1st Amendment free speech?
Posted by Eduardo @ 4:46 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
What if Hillary Clinton would have won the Presidency? Would we have called it the "Pink House", as referred to in Argentina?
Posted by Tarzan The Ape Man @ 4:47 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Fred Finkel: "Sounds like Democrat operatives invaded the convention for purposes of disaffection."
If that were true, then why didn't the virtuous GOP conventiongoers run the eeevil Demoncrat spies off?
Oh, wait. Republicans aren't afraid to embrace the hate.
Never mind.
Posted by Brad Smith @ 4:49 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I was there. Had I seen it, I would have demanded the sergeant-at-arms remove it and possibly the vendor who sold it. I am less than sure it was a vendor inside the hall who sold it. If they did, they should be censured.
I came over to look at the article expectong the NObomma burttons, not that someone had presented some inexcusable racist crap.
Posted by Leah @ 4:52 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I love it! Go Obama change it to the Black House!
Posted by MJ @ 4:52 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
And the funny thing is, whoever was selling the button wouldn't dare say it in a Black person's face. Coward.m
Posted by The Heathen Formerly Known As Ed @ 4:56 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Why wouldn't we still call it the White House? GWB has been there 8 years and we don't call it the OutHouse, do we?
Posted by Karina @ 4:57 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I have to say that while I do not agree with the sentiments expressed on the paraphenalia, we must not forget that this is a free, capitalistic country. The beauty is that we all do not have to agree or buy anything we dislike or find offensive. Also the comments that people have made demeaning the Republican Party do not help the situation, in fact it makes them look just as ignorant. We must take the high road, teach our fellow citizens respect for opposing ideas, and have civil, open-minded debate if things are ever to change in this country.
Posted by Mark @ 4:58 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Considering the White House was built by black slaves, it is befitting that a black man eventually get to live in it.
Posted by Dallas Guy in Denver @ 5:00 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Our society needs help, big help. This isn't sick, disgusting or even deplorable. There isn't a word for what this is, it saddens me that someone decided to make a buck this way. Last I checked this was 2008 not 1968 but I guess the only thing that has changed is the price of a gallon of gas.
Posted by Texas Lover @ 5:00 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I agree it is obectionable and disgraceful BUT if keeps some of these idiots that blame Texas for it out of Texas we're better off!!!!!
Posted by Paula DeMarta Mastroianni @ 5:01 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
If nothing else, THIS presidential campaign will bring the best -- and the worst -- out of hiding in this diseased country.
Her TRUE colors will shine through, and they AREN'T "red, white and blue."
Keep at it, Republicans and hate-mongers everywhere. Every single cheap shot is going to slowly expose what we're REALLY all about here.
This kind of hatred is the ONLY terrorist that is going to ultimately cause the downfall of our nation.
God help us all.
Posted by regal @ 5:03 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
if any black comedian said this, people would think it was hilarious.
Posted by Noneof @ 5:04 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
The pin is quite deliberate and no amount of disdain will shame these people. They are simply white supremest punks and proud of it. They absolutely see nothing wrong with their racism. They wear it as a badge of honor.
Posted by Karen Brooks @ 5:06 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Tommy, et al -
You're just now hearing about it because you apparently weren't lucky enough to be educated about the vast wonders and genius of the Dallas Morning News website before today.
The site which, if you'll look at the date stamp on Hoppe's post here, actually broke this little tidbit on Saturday. IN the MSM. You read it here first.
Or, if you read it somewhere else, it's because THEY read it here first.
So, come *on* with the conspiracy theories asking about photoshopping and whether it's true and whether it's been verified (though feel free to call them, i'm sure you won't be the first today) and how we know they were selling it there.
They were.
Now, see. That's what you can love about the MSM. We aren't some random little blog with an agenda that some random little dude or dudette put together in front of the TV in their pajamas. This is an actual media company whose writers get paid to give you facts.
You can trust that our Austin Bureau Chief, Christy Hoppe, has zero motivation to lie.
I mean, why would she? She covers politics. You can't MAKE this stuff up.
Posted by Peter @ 5:06 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Racism is alive and well in the Good Ole (Boy) USA! YEEEHAH!!
(For the mouth-breathing rednecks--that's called sarcasm)
Posted by Jon Smith @ 5:07 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
While certainly objectionable, it ultimately is his right to say what he wants to say. You dems try to say that you support all free speech, but when it comes down to it, you only support the speech that you agree with.
The vitriolic words that are written here calling all republican thugs and racist are as equally as offensive as the asinine button.
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is afraid of its people. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Posted by Kim @ 5:07 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I would love to see the buttons on the table at the Democratic convention. I am sure there was nothing offensive or hateful especially directed at President Bush. I never voted for him but give me a break. This whole country need to get a life and get an enema.
Posted by capt caveman @ 5:08 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
John, the First Amendment does not protect hate speech. But I doubt you've ever actually read it.
Posted by Amanda @ 5:11 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
If all Republicans are racist, does that mean that all Democrats cheat on their wives? I think that we need to stop trying to group everybody together and realise that there are idiots in every station in life.
Posted by Jen @ 5:14 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Hahaha I think it's funny, and I think it is even funnier that so many people are getting pissed about it.
Posted by JB @ 5:14 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
This is pathetic.
Posted by Karen S Crow @ 5:19 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
As an Independent Conservative, I want to ask the Democrat posters one question ..
If you are SO offended by this button, are you also offended by the YEARS of hate speech from your own party .. not to mention the ravings of Air America advocated the assassination of Pres Bush??
I get it. You absolutely LOATHE George Bush as a human being ... but where was this shock & offense when the likes of Randi Rhoades advocated killing the President of the United States on Air America?
All I can see are a lot of pots calling kettles black. Try checking your own standing before trying to claim the high ground.
Posted by William H. Conner @ 5:24 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I live in Texas. This is about right. Look at the rubes spouting off the "god bless Texas" crap as an a-men. Texas is exactly what the outside world thinks it is as is the American South. We can all wish until we can't wish any more that it weren't the case - it won't change a thing. The rep is well earned around these parts - doubly so for the GOP in general.
Generalizations? Maybe. Rash? No. Is judging a group by 90% of its members wrong? I think not. Judging it by 70% is more than fair - especially if that other 30% chooses to remain silent and prefers to attack evil liberals rather than the raging bigots, religious radicals and Luddites dominating their party.
Oh, for you true-blue, red-state-loving, good-ole Texuns - Luddite means afraid of technology. I suppose I should have found a word for "afraid of knowledge of any sort" instead though.
Lazy me.
Nice to see the GOP and its flock working so hard to become irrelevant though. Keep it up.
Posted by Bridget @ 5:25 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
I disagree with those who imply this wouldn't have happened outside of Texas. Racism is racism, and I've met more racists living outside of Texas than I have while living there.
That being said, it is a despicable sentiment.
Posted by lefty @ 5:30 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Ah, good old republicans. They got the market cornered on patriotism, huh?
I think Gonzo ( Hunter S. Thompson ) said it best after the ‘00 ‘election’:
“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world — a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we’ll kill you.
Posted by William H. Conner @ 5:30 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Also, what moron would actual post an argument based around "well...well, liberals are mean too" as some retort?
"Randi Rhoades advocated killing the President of the United States on Air America" Gee, not sure many knew about that. I did not. Would not support that blather either. You should poll all in here to make sure we do in fact agree with his statements rather than assume we do. As speech of that sort isn't blasted on AM radio and Fox News 24-7 this is an apple-to-oranges situation.
Karen, you need to stop digging now. You just made a fool of yourself by acting like a two-year old. Would that argument work "I know you are but what am I" if your kids tried it around the house? But you use it here?
Pathetic.
Posted by Jon Smith @ 5:32 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Captain,
The first amendment certainly protects the type of speech included on that button, just as it protects the KKK's and the Black Panthers' right to march and protest. If you would like to expand your faulty knowledge about the current jurisprudence on "hate speech" please review the case R.A.V, v. City of St. Paul (505 U.S. 377).
But good try.
However, you can go ahead and throw out the ad hominem attacks. That is what Dems do best since they clearly cannot win on the policy arguments.
Posted by Nate @ 5:34 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
"Press 1 for English. Press 2 for Deportation" hahahahahah!!! I love it! I want it on a t-shirt!
Posted by Paula DeMarta Mastroianni @ 5:34 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
At long last, America's TRUE COLORS will be seen by the world. And they're NOT red, white, and blue. Keep it up, hatemongers. YOU'RE the real terrorists that will destroy America.
Posted by Fry @ 5:42 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Guess what obviously photoshopped button doesn't appear anywhere on republicanmarket.com for sale? Liberals gets 3 guesses and effort will be rewarded.
Posted by RJR @ 5:46 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
All: The pin is real, and it was for sale at the Republican convention. Reporter Wayne Slater purchased one and took the picture shown here. Feel free to debate the merits of the pin, whether it's racist, what it means, whatever, but don't deny that it exists. If Republicanmarket.com would answer our calls, we'd ask them why it's not on their Web site. Thanks for reading.
Posted by John Smith @ 5:46 PM Tue, Jun 17, 2008
Paula,
What are you even talking about? Unless I am completely wrong, it was America that nominated Barack Husein Obama. Our true colors are such that a man whose father was a goat herder can grow up an be nominated for President of the United States. Our true colors are fighting against Nazism and genocide.
I can only assume that calling us the "real terrorists" is somehow an argument that the vile terror