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October 15, 2008 5:18 PM

On its Web site, the Sacramento County Republican Party compared Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, urging voters to "Waterboard Barack Obama."

"The difference between Osama and Obama is just a little B.S," said the ad below, which has since been removed from its Web site.

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Hector Barajas, a spokesman for the state Republican Party, said that the state party had asked the Sacramento County GOP chairman, Craig MacGlashan, to remove the image, which the Sacramento Bee was industrious enough to snag.

"I called [MacGlashan] and asked him if they could remove it, and they are revamping their Web site and no longer having these type of images," Barajas said.  "We made clear this isn't the type of campaign that Sen. McCain nor us has been trying to run.  There are no questions on Barack Obama's patriotism, love for this country or whether he's  Muslim or not, becase he's not, he's a Christian."

-- Jake Tapper and Julia Hoppock

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Agnostic, I agree. It's sickening the depths that some would go to win. It's not about country, it's about winning and staying in power at all costs. What is even more sickening is that so many Americans fall for the fallacy of the game being played on them. It's no wonder that right-wingers are not interested in equal education for all in our country because if that happened then they couldn't fool the majority anymore.

Posted by: Liz | Oct 15, 2008 9:07:49 PM

Sarah Palin? Give me a break already. The only thing her selection as the repubs VP candidate showed was that McCain is a dottering old fool.

Posted by: Agnostic Free Thinker | Oct 15, 2008 9:05:37 PM

Liz –

Dottydo said it all. (Thanks, Dotty!)

PUMA! McCain/Palin 2008 - In lieu of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her sex.” - Susan B. Anthony

Posted by: LeeLee07 | Oct 15, 2008 9:04:48 PM

LeeLee,
If you think voting for McCain is going to have any impact, Go for it. I want to see this country prosper again and I want to make sure my nieces and nephews have a future.

To vote for somebody who doesn't share your beliefs, out of spite, is childish and stupid. If you ever cared what Hillary fought for there is no way you could vote McCain.

Posted by: Jwench | Oct 15, 2008 9:03:23 PM

I was wondering when Karl Rove's disciples would start playing the race card against Obama. I am a white male, registered independent and am backing Obama. The repubs are dispicible campaigners who will do anything to win an election. All they have managed to do in the last 8 years is bring this country's economy to it's knees and blow billions of dollars in an unjustified war. Time to get rid of these incompetents and give someone else a chance. Oh, BTW: F Bushie Jr.

Posted by: Agnostic Free Thinker | Oct 15, 2008 9:02:32 PM

dottydo, OMG, you can't scream to break the rules. There are rules and you can't change the rules midstream. If you disagree with the rules then change them beforehand or afterwards but not in the middle of the game.

Posted by: Liz | Oct 15, 2008 9:02:21 PM

LeeLee, I'm a woman and I am an Obama supporter. I would have voted for Hillary had she won the primary, but she didn't. It wasn't stolen, it wasn't taken from from her...she lost..sheesh!

Posted by: Liz

REALLY?

Why were we silenced on the floor and not allowed to speak out ot show colored scarves in supoort of her.
Censorship of women is Obama and the Dems biggest error.
I am not a member of a herd or Harem, and I agree with Susan B. Anthony.

Posted by: dottydo | Oct 15, 2008 8:59:57 PM

Funny how McCain supporters can never tell us why they are voting for McCain. They can only tell us why they are not voting for Obama and their reasoning is rarely logical.

Posted by: Liz | Oct 15, 2008 8:57:30 PM

Posted by: Dave | Oct 15, 2008 8:53:30 PM

I was upset when Hillary lost, but I am not going to cut off my nose to spite my face!

Posted by: Jwench | Oct 15, 2008 8:57:28 PM

MLK,
Having served from January 6, 1987 to April 4, 1988, Mecham was removed from office following conviction in his impeachment trial of charges of the obstruction of justice and the misuse of government funds.
Mecham made an unsuccessful bid as an independent for the U.S. Senate in 1992, losing to John McCain. And he spent many of his final years trying to convince others that he was illegally ousted from office, even self-publishing a book "Wrongful Impeachment’’ and hawking copies himself at a booth he rented annually at the Arizona State Fair.

Please do not attempt to re write history. It embarrasses all dems.

Posted by: dottydo | Oct 15, 2008 8:55:58 PM

"I am sure Sarah Palin does not dwell on what you or I think about her."

Sarah Palin thinks New Hampshire is in the NorthWest and that seeing Russia from her house gives her foreign policy experience.

Posted by: Now Way, No How, No Palin | Oct 15, 2008 8:50:07 PM

RE: Disgusted. The book was 1984 not 1980. You are getting 1980 mixed up with the year that traitor- Reagan was elected. You know, the guy that Republicans idolize. The one who gave business the right to drug test everybody because some abuse drugs. The guy who sold arms to our enemies let AIDS ravage the country because he was afraid what his religious base might think. He also ran up our deficit. Conservatism is dead! It doesn't work! They were wrong when they claimed the world was flat and they are still wrong. And the Republicans claim that they want to stay out of our lives. Ha! What crap! Yes, I was a Hillary supporter but anybody is better than another hate-mongering Republican like McCain and Palin. Obama 08!

Posted by: vince | Oct 15, 2008 8:42:10 PM

I guess haven't told us about his past we should forget about his bad behavior not only in his high school years but also his military days or nights were full of strip clubs visit insofar he became known as the man to see if you wanted a party you would not forget.

J.McCain a man of strong believes?

No Drama with Obama....vote..vote

Posted by: t.v.eddie | Oct 15, 2008 8:42:05 PM

dan,
whoopdeedo,
Now tell voters undecided why they should go for Obama.

Posted by: dottydo | Oct 15, 2008 8:40:50 PM

The republicans are so deperate and these are not the republicans that we remember from the IKE years or even Bush 41. These are scared people in great fear and prone to racist appeals.
These are the dying moments of a once great political party.They are going to lose and most likely fade as a political party.

Posted by: JT | Oct 15, 2008 8:40:43 PM

Typical of the Repubs, drive a wedge into the country and create more division. If this keeps up we could be looking at another civil war. Truthfully, if these lunatics think they are the saviors of our humanity then what's to stop them from "justified killing in the name of the Republican Party"? What is it that bush said, "You're either with us or you're against us". Sounds pretty divisive.

Posted by: raggmopp | Oct 15, 2008 8:39:03 PM

and they like to believe they are the "moral" majority.

Posted by: TakingPictures | Oct 15, 2008 8:38:30 PM

What little respect I had for the Republican Party is now gone. McCain publically condemns this cr@p but he’s made no attempts to control it. He is not only losing the Election but he’s dragging any respectable Republican into the toilet with him. McCain is a spoiled little brat and not the leader America needs in these hard times.

Posted by: dan | Oct 15, 2008 8:38:07 PM

"FYI The Governor was impeached, Evan Meecham. The voters believed him to be too racist for Arizona."

This is not true.

Gov Mecham was impeached and ousted for corruption charges 2years after he canceled MLK day.

AZ didn't again recognize MLK day until 1992.

Posted by: MLK Day | Oct 15, 2008 8:36:11 PM

Mary, for the record Palin will go down as one of the most amateurish, unqualified vice-presidential candidates in the history of this country. If you read the transcripts of the vice-presidential debate you can see that she didn't answer one single question, changed the subject with her brand of folksy babbling, and was ill-equipped to speak in complete sentences. This may be your version of a modern American woman but to me it was more of a throwback to the days of Hee Haw.

Posted by: Janice | Oct 15, 2008 8:31:59 PM

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