Sale of bills mocking Obama cut off at GOP fair booth

[sabra]

Source: Herald Net

The county GOP chairwoman said party leaders did not approve sales of the notes at the GOP's fair booth.

MONROE -- Snohomish County Republicans on Tuesday stopped selling phony $3 bills at their Evergreen State Fair booth bearing a picture of Barack Obama wearing an Arab headdress.

In addition to the image of Sen. Obama, the likely Democratic nominee for president, the "Obamanation Note" design includes a silhouette figure of a camel, identifies Obama as "Da Man" and is signed by "Teddy Kennedy, Chief Socialism Advisor," and "Al Sharpton, New Spiritual Advisor." The serial number, "IBD14UOK" when read aloud, is fractured English: "I be de one for you, OK."

Snohomish County Republican Party chairwoman Geri Modrell said when she first learned of the item's existence Tuesday afternoon, she called volunteers in the booth to have it removed but someone already had done so.

"It wasn't approved by the board and it wasn't approved by me and it shouldn't have been there," Modrell said. "I want to apologize to anyone upset or offended by seeing it."

Read more: http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080827/NEWS01/708279862&news01ad=1#Sale.of.bills.mocking.Obama.cut.off.at.GOP.fair.booth

[graywarrior]

1. Tell me they're not racists.

No one will ever convince me they're not.

[apnu]

4. Those people are, and more too

Let's not forget the "queer as a three dollar Bill" that was being handed out when Clinton was Prez. I think someone in my office still has one.

It was the same thing, but had Clinton being, basically, a pimp.

[daggahead]

27. Oh, but like most of the repugs,

They say this is only a joke. It is just kidding around.

Yeah ...

[lapfog_1]

2. Nope, nobody in the repuke party is racist... nope, not at all

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Were they also selling white sheets with instructions on where to cut out the eye holes???

[zbdent]

3. It's called counterfeiting ...

and I bet they charged $10 for a (phony) $3 bill ... and made a bunch of money from the fridiots ...

[jmowreader]

5. It's just called racism

Counterfeiting is when you print money that could potentially be passed. A three-dollar bill with president-in-waiting Obama dressed as a Muslim, complete with an "ebonic" serial number, probably would not be accepted anywhere.

It's just stupidity and racism rearing their ugly heads again.

[izquierdista]

26. Anywhere?

Not even in One-Tooth, Alabama? Or ThankYouJesus, OK?

[jmowreader]

30. There's a reasonable-man test here...

A reasonable man, even in Bum Fuck Egypt, wouldn't think a $3 bill with a picture of a living human being was real money.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Racist, much?

[pattmarty]

7. This ought to get passed around the 'net real good...........

......especially as a run up to the racist convention. Band-aids for Kerry on 04 and now this POS. Don't these ass holes have any brains at all?

[Virginia Dare]

8. Ignorant racism is all they know...

apology not accepted Chairwoman Modrell.

[northernlights]

9. wonder why they killed their ugly little smear program

afraid we might recognize them for the moronic, racist pigs that they are? :puke:

No need to apologize, Geri. I'm not upset or offended, any more than by the stench at the town dump. Nobody expects any better of you scumbags idjits. Besides, never apologize for being true to yourselves. On top of which, isn't it your motto never to apologize for any obnoxious, disgusting, illegal or destructive behavior? :sarcasm:

[Enthusiast]

10. I know many Republicans.

Most are racist.

Not only that. They also have contempt for anyone that isn't 'wealthy'. Or what they think of as wealthy. They even have contempt for some of their own party on the lower socio-economic ladder. But some of these idiot fucks make around $50K a year and imagine themselves to be at the top of the heap. Funny, they are held in contempt by the more 'well to do' Republicans. It would actually be funny if it wasn't so damn sad.

[hasssan1]

11. I SAY IT PROUDLY : GOP = NAZI PARTY , SO MANY SIMILARITY WITH HITLER'S PROPAGANDA POLICY

YES I KNOW WHAT NAZI MEANS , I AM WELL INFORMED ABOUT THAT SUBJECT( I AM FROM IRAN AND LIVES UNDER DICTATORSHIP FOR 18 YEARS) AND YES GOP USES LOTS OF DIRTY TACTICS AND ATTACKS FROM NAZI PARTY'S BOOK.

GOP = PURE FUCKING RACIST

[tanyev]

12. They SOLD the damn things?

Pathetic. But very Republican.

[mopinko]

13. gotta keep it under the sheet, ya know. nt

[npk]

14. Nice to see at least soebody in the GOP has a brain

At least the chairman of the county GOP party had enough sense to shut this shit down. And most republicans are not racists. I know and work with many who are not racists, they simply share different political views than I do. These people are just stupid and they do not represent the entire republican party.

[Honeycombe8]

15. What kind of people would print and sell such things? Horrible. nt

[JonLP24]

16. smells like racism to me

Trying to paint him as a sand --

[superconnected]

17. Snohomish County GOP pulls "$3 bills" smearing Obama from fair booth

Source: Seattle Times

The head of the Snohomish County Republican Party apologized Tuesday after the organization's booth at the Evergreen State Fair in Monroe sold "$3 bills" depicting Barack Obama wearing Arab headgear and featuring a camel.

Geri Modrell, the Snohomish County Republican chairwoman, said a volunteer had brought the bills to the fair thinking they were funny.

"I don't think it's funny," said Modrell, who said she ordered the bills removed as soon as she learned about them. "They were offensive. The volunteers are being told very clearly they must not do these sorts of things."

The $3 bills, which are sold on a conservative Web site, feature signatures from "Teddy Kennedy" as chief socialism adviser and Al Sharpton as new spiritual adviser. Obama's face, in the traditional Arab headgear, is pictured above the words "Da man."

Read more: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008140846_fair27m0.html

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Yes it's local but the racism involved and the fact that they are part of the national GOP is worth mentioning.

[onehandle]

18. Appealing to racist is all the local GOP groups have. nt

[liberaldem4ever]

19. OMG-I live in Snohomish County!

That is so disgusting. Shame on these sorry POS people to do such a evil and deceptive thing. Just shows you how Rethugs are slimy, foul pond scum-why would any person thinks that shit is funny?

[The empressof all]

21. I do too.... I found this very disturbing

My little neck of the county is very Blue so I rarely come in contact with these kinds of folks in my day to day life. Goes to show you there are idiots everywhere even where you least suspect.

Kudos to their chairwoman who had the good sense and decency to call them wrong and pull them off.

[mrs_p]

20. there are racists everywhere, but

doing this in a suburb of seattle was political suicide, imho

[PSPS]

22. That's Dino Rossi's base "thinking they were funny."

Snohomish County was one of the places Rossi tried Rove's vote-flipping shenanigans in the last gubernatorial election. But Gregoire's lead was too massive for it to overcome.

[LiberalFighter]

23. Eastern or Western Washington?

[cemaphonic]

24. Western

Suburban and exurban Seattle, basically.

[Loudmxr]

25. Its all Obama's fault for playing the race card.

You see if he were not playing with a deck of racist cards then the Republicans would not have to resort to playing with racist money. Simple logic. :banghead:

[AnneD]

28. I'm shock, SHOCKED.......

to find out that the GOP is doing this.:eyes:

[BreweryYardRat]

29. Such *charming* people.

God damn, talk about not even bothering to hide the racism any more.