Once the region's primary newspaper, the Press-Enterprise, got word of the despicable "joke," and reported it as a story, Fedele began backpedaling as quickly as she could. She attempted to explain her "artwork" as an effort to deride a comment Obama has made about himself, that he doesn't look like all the other presidents on dollar bills. Fedele claimed, when interviewed by the PE, that there was no racially insensitive intent.
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Example two. Al Austin is a long-time, well-heeled Republican fundraiser from Tampa. Recently, in an email to his list of contributing contacts, Mr. Austin included what he refers to as a "joke" the subject of which is the assassination of Senator Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.
The couple are aboard an airplane that is blown out of the sky.
In a classroom of youngsters, the effort is to distinguish between the definitions of "tragedy," "great loss," and "accident." According to Austin's emailed "joke," one little girl sums it this way: "It would probably be a tragedy because it certainly is not a great loss, nor is it an "accident."
I for one am not laughing, at any of this. I will never claim to "know" what is genuinely in anyone's heart. But I will strongly assert that all the available evidence truly suggests there are the most unholy of foul deprecations roaming the chambers of Republican hearts. And it is to all who would vote GOP, if he or she is to remove that prima facie stain from themselves, to work hard to prove to the rest of us that they are not also among the most foul of foul misanthropes. Sure, they have no obligation to prove anything to anyone, but the evidence is just simply so overwhelming and ubiquitous that the rest of us, relying on the duck and the look and the quack . . . Well, what should we be expected to believe?
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