Part of the problem is that you won't even be surprised what McCain Democrats are saying about Obama. Nonetheless, this stuff is still scary as hell...
Kirstie Hartle of Rome, N.Y., a registered
Democrat who has never supported a Republican presidential candidate [said that] with Clinton out of the race, "I'm Republican all the way
now."
She said she doesn't like Obama's name
and thinks he has a questionable background. She also said she thought
Obama was deceitful when he broke from his church after it hurt his
campaign, and she doesn't trust him to handle the Iraq war.
"It
sounds to me like a Middle Eastern type of name and whether or not he's
born here in the United States, he doesn't seem like, to me, somebody
who is trustworthy," Hartle said in a telephone interview. "You can't
trust anybody these days, so who's to say he's not a terrorist and we
just don't realize it yet?" [Right-- but, um, doesn't that mean McCain could also be a terrorist? Or maybe even... you?? Ed.]
When asked an
open-ended question about the first words that come to mind about
Obama, some former Clinton supporters used words like Muslim or
terrorist. Those misconceptions have been fueled by Internet rumors
that point out his name is Barack Hussein Obama but otherwise lie about
his background.
"I refuse to vote for an Arab
to be in my White House," said retired salesman Dean Johnson of Lanett,
Ala. "That is the only factor. Otherwise, you couldn't break both my
legs and make me vote for a Republican."
Never mind that John McCain, who was born in Panama, could arguably be deemed "unqualified" to be President based on this kind of logic, you readers know all this stuff is untrue, right? Barack Obama is from Hawaii, is not an Arab, Muslim, or anything else that racist, ignorant, bigoted, idiotic, right-wing Democrats (and Republicans) mislabel him as. And if he was, fuck you, John McCain is a Panamanian Vietnamese spy who staged the moon landing while pretending to be in a POW prison camp. So there.
Via the Associated Press.
