The McCain/Palin Constituency

You have to look at McCain's campaign, including his VP choice, and wonder what he's doing because it all seems so illogical and ridiculous. Then, when you realize who he's talking to and counting on to get him elected it starts to make sense. These are the people who could determine the next president of the United States. This item, reported in the LA Times, which appeared in a local Virginia newspaper, just makes you want to throw up. Never give up the fight against ignorance - especially willful ignorance.

A local newspaper columnist, in a spoof of Obama's platform, wrote in one recent piece that the Democrat would hire the rapper Ludacris to paint the White House black (a reference to a pro-Obama song by Ludacris), and divert more foreign aid to Africa so "the Obama family there can skim enough to allow them to free their goats and live the American Dream." He joked that Obama would replace the 50 stars on the U.S. flag "with a star and crescent logo," an Islamic symbol, and that his policy on drugs would be to "raise taxes to pay for Obama's inner-city political base."

The columnist, Bobby May, is also treasurer of the Buchanan County Republican Party and was listed in a July news release as the county's representative on McCain's Virginia leadership team, though he said his column reflected his views alone, and he denied it was racist.