Perhaps your friends wouldn't have "verbal typos" if they just spoke the truth plainly.

1) Southern Strategy for segregationists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

2) The "social issue" for northern Democrats who were economic populists but would vote Republican if they could get riled up against anti-war protesters and civil rights activists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Majority

Perhaps, you can illuminate how Obama saying that Ayers was "just some guy in the neighborhood" is some nefarious obscuring of their true relationship, when it's well documented that Obama served on the same board with him and had one political rally in the guy's house, and all because he was a well respected guy who happened to live in Obama's neighborhood. Because this guy certainly doesn't seem to know, and no other conservative who harps constantly on the issue seems to either.

http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/11/rmiller_1010/#more-1548

Why won't they even consider voting for McCain?

I think the problem for Democrats is they started to believe their own hype.

Let's remember...Obama never won a single big primary in his own party.

Obama is a media concoction.

What you are seeing now is the reaction

A reaction not based on race, or ethnicity, much as SLOG would like to believe.

But based on the simple question: Why is Barry Obama?

After two years, many people still don't know.

His biography is not authentic, and people are starting to see through the veil.

setting stage for his big half hour speech when hopefully he lays out his plans for first 100 days and push for fucking getting everything passed asap like FDR.

The more we focus on that the more change we will actually get.

Some of the talk like that of Bill Ayers, is just normal GOP slime not the GOP racist slime....some of the other talk is racist slime.....thankfully it won't work this year because the economy is tanking.

In response to the Ayers slime we should simply point out a huge GOP richy rich Annenberg set up a education charity and had a board with lots of people on it D and R and when Obama and Ayers were on that board working with a bbunch off others they were fulfilling the intent of that richy rich Annenberg.

So if Ayers was doing what a GOP richey rich wanted to do the implciation it was nefarious is a big fat typical GOP slimey treasonous unpatriotic unAmerican lie.

Just in this case not a racist one.

Unity y'all--

Why is Barry Obama?

Let's remember...Obama never won a single big primary in his own party.

In fact, it passed over the ardent objections of liberal icons such as J. William Fulbright and Al Gore Sr.

And oh yeah, Robert Byrd - who still hasn't.fully renounced his associationwith the KKK - is a leader of today's Democrat Party.

And they support the most racist policy of all - affirmative action. Why should anyone be surprised that the Democrat nominee himself, Barack Hussein Obama, is an affirmative action choice?

He's also a terrorist dympathizer and a secret Muslim redistributionist homosexual drug addict.

In fact, it passed over the ardent objections of liberal icons such as J. William Fulbright and Al Gore Sr.

And oh yeah, Robert Byrd - who still hasn't.fully renounced his associationwith the KKK - is a leader of today's Democrat Party.

And they support the most racist policy of all - affirmative action. Why should anyone be surprised that the Democrat nominee himself, Barack Hussein Obama, is an affirmative action choice?

He's also a terrorist dympathizer and a secret Muslim redistributionist homosexual drug addict.

In fact, it passed over the ardent objections of liberal icons such as J. William Fulbright and Al Gore Sr.

And oh yeah, Robert Byrd - who still hasn't.fully renounced his associationwith the KKK - is a leader of today's Democrat Party.

And they support the most racist policy of all - affirmative action. Why should anyone be surprised that the Democrat nominee himself, Barack Hussein Obama, is an affirmative action choice?

He's also a terrorist dympathizer and a secret Muslim redistributionist homosexual drug addict.

In fact, it passed over the ardent objections of liberal icons such as J. William Fulbright and Al Gore Sr.

And oh yeah, Robert Byrd - who still hasn't.fully renounced his associationwith the KKK - is a leader of today's Democrat Party.

And they support the most racist policy of all - affirmative action. Why should anyone be surprised that the Democrat nominee himself, Barack Hussein Obama, is an affirmative action choice?

He's also a terrorist dympathizer and a secret Muslim redistributionist homosexual drug addict.

and john bailo, i mean what i said. watch that clip. you can see the conservative guy struggle with his own wilting humanity. it doesn't matter who you support or what label you call yourself, when something is plain as day, go ahead and call it bright.

I can't believe how racist and biggoted the Republicans are. We have to silence McCain and Palin now! Barak Obama's first act as president should be to arrest Sarah Palin for hate crimes.

That quote makes me think that you and Sandra Bernhard are pretty racist and sexist yourselves. "Raped by a gang of BLACK THUGS?" Do you listen to yourself?

Much like moderate republicans are brought down by "Kill him" and "off with his head," I feel ashamed to share a party affiliation with you and Sandra Bernhard issur.

And by the way, if McCain's campaign couldn't find anything more damning about Obama and Ayers after all these months, there really isn't any "mentor" relationship or McCain's campaign is completely inept. Or both, now that I think about it.

And no, I don't think the McCain campaign is trying to whip up racist votes. I think they're trying to whip up a racist nutjob assassination.

It was in 1854 that the Republican Party was founded in order to put an end to slavery, and a Republican President, Lincoln, fought a war to accomplish it, freeing the slaves by the Emancipation Proclamation. The first black Representative, Joseph Rainey, and the first black Senator, Hiram Rhodes Revels, were Republicans. But let's fast-forward.

In 1954, former GOP governor of California and GOP vice-presidential candidate Earl Warren won unanimous support for the Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education.

In 1955, E. Frederic Morrow, a Republican, was appointed the first black Presidential staffer by President Eisenhower, who in 1957 signed the Civil Rights Act of that year; in that year he also forced school desegregation, and in 1960 introduced another Civil Rights Act.

In 1965, a Republican judge, Frank Johnson, overruled George Wallace's attempt to ban Martin Luther King's march from Selma to Montgomery. Also that year, it was Republican votes that passed the Voting Rights Act.

In 1971, Republican President Richard Nixon made RA Samuel Gravely the first black officer to attain flag rank in the US Navy. Nixon also selected the first black Teacher Of The Year, James M. Rogers Jr., and named the first black Secretary of Transportation, William T. Coleman, and in 1972 appointed the first black member of the US Civil Rights Commission, Benjamin Hooks, who would later speak at the 1980 Republican National Convention as NAACP President.

In 1975, GOP President Gerald Ford gave the fourth star for the first-ever black Air Force general, Daniel James.

In 1981, GOP President Ronald Reagan appointed Clarence Pendleton the first black Chair of the US Civil Rights Commission.

In 1982, Reagan promoted the first black four-star general in the U.S. Army, Roscoe Robinson, and extended the 1965 Voting Rights Act for another 25 years. It would be extended again in 2007 by GOP Pres. George Dubya Bush. Reagan also made Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday in 1983.

In 1991, GOP President George H. W. Bush signed another Civil Rights Act. In 1996, a bill authored by GOP Congresswoman Susan Molinari outlawing racial discrimination in adoptions was passed by a Republican Congress. In 1999, it was GOP Senator Spencer Abraham who saw to it that Rosa Parks got the Congressional Gold Medal for her civil rights work.

In 2000, J. C. Watts became the first black presider at a major national party convention, the Republican one. In 2001, Dubya selected the first black Secretary of Education, Rod Paige. In the same year, the GOP Senate made Alfonso Lenhardt the first black Sergeant-at-Arms, and Dubya named Colin Powell the first black Secretary of State. He would be followed by second black one, Condoleezza Rice, in 2005.

In 2003, Jeannette Bradley of Ohio became the first black woman Lieutenant-Governor of a State. The same year, GOP Senator Sam Brownback introduced legislation to establish the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, which Dubya signed into law.

So, I'm wondering, exactly when did the Republican Party become a nothing but a raving lynch mob of black-hating bigots and racists? Seems to me that African-Americans have done pretty well by that party generally. And with Democrats making up about 39% of the electorate, it's doubtful that a President Obama could be elected without a fair amount of support from registered Republicans.

Just puttin' out some facts for the mill.

I think RS has a solid point about the history of the Civil Rights Act, but it's only one point in the long list of things Seajay offered.

Chris in Tampa -- Two things. One, I was wearing jeans and a black blazer. I didn't think it would be obvious the blazer wasn't the best, but I don't really get paid a lot. Fortunately, most people ripped on my glasses than the jacket.

Two, you do have a point about whether those things showing a relationship between Obama and Ayers are relevant. But that's always the political football, right? McCain is at a rally, and two people say inappropriate things, and suddenly his campaign is encouraging racism. But even a superficial relationship with Ayers, or a very real relationship with Jeremiah Wright, can't be questioned? That doesn't strike me as very fair.

@4 -- Well, expletives aside, I actually misunderstood Ari when he said "hate" because "hate crimes" are most definitely crimes against minorities, etc. But it's sort of tenuous to even try to make the distinction right? In essence, his argument is that the McCain campaign is dredging up hate, even though the examples, if we take average Americans on good faith, are outliers. Those nuts that stand up and cry out racist slurs against Obama at McCain rallies can't be speaking for a majority.

Bringing up the radical connections isn't encouraging racism, or "hate" (as it may somehow be different from racism) guys. The racists don't need to be "convinced" they don't like Obama.