Material linking Obama to Bin Laden removed from Sacramento GOP Web site

[maddezmom]

Source: Sacramento Bee


By Ed Fletcher | Sacramento Bee
Sacramento County Republican leaders Tuesday took down offensive material on their official party Web site that sought to link Sen. Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden and encouraged people to "Waterboard Barack Obama" – material that offended even state GOP leaders.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has pushed the party to try to broaden its appeal, took issue with the site. "In the governor's view, it's completely and totally inappropriate," said Julie Soderlund, a Schwarzenegger spokeswoman.

Hector Barajas, a California Republican Party spokesman, said Democrats have been playing the race card, but that the local party went too far in this instance.

He said the campaign should be about who is ready to be the nation's commander-in-chief, that Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain has never questioned Obama's patriotism, and that he'd ask local leaders to take down the offensive content.



Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/53948.html

[KewlKat]

1. The democrats have been playing the race card?

WTF.......

[tanyev]

4. McCain and Palin are not qualified to lead because they're white!

Yeah, I hear Democrats whining about that all the time.

[rurallib]

2. I am curious - has Arnie endorsed McCain

or campaigned for him or is he not getting involved?

[MetaTrope]

3. Who's linked to Bin Laden?

[Bennyboy]

5. www.sacramentodouchebags.org

That is in my town. Not coincidentally, a Obama sign was vandalizd with KKK nd other hate speech two days ago in Sacramento. http://cbs13.com /

[sabra]

6. Local Calif. GOP compares Obama to Osama bin Laden (urged people to "Waterboard Barack Obama.")

Source: AP

SACRAMENTO—The Sacramento County Republican Party has removed images from its official Web site that compared Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden and urged people to "Waterboard Barack Obama."

The Sacramento Bee posted an image it said was captured from the Web site that showed Obama in a turban next to bin Laden. It said: "The difference between Osama and Obama is just a little B.S."

County Republican chairman Craig McGlashan did not immediately respond to a telephone message left at his law office by The Associated Press on Wednesday.

A spokesman for the state Republican Party, Hector Barajas, says the party asked Sacramento GOP officials on Tuesday to remove the offensive material.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_10726861

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if you chose here's the GOP website: http://www.sacramentorepublicans.org /

[Mz Pip]

7. We sure do have our

share of crackpots here in CA. What is remarkable to me is that this clown even for one second thought this kind of sleaze was appropriate for the offical website. How clueless can you be? And this guy actually passed the CA Bar?

Way to drive moderates and independents away! That's fine by me but from their perspective it sure was dumb dumb dumb.

[radfringe]

8. ahhh yes - the mccain-palin hate campaign

have a nasty hard hitting toon sketched out, most likely will be considered controversial by some...

[TheWraith]

9. Who'd like to be the first one to send this to the Secret Service?

[Chorophyll]

10. This is the Republican base.

And it doesn't get much more base than this.