Reply #16: Funny looking men were not denied the right to vote for 150 years [View All]

[Tom Rinaldo]

And everyone would be outraged if white singers seriously performed in "black face" today like Al Jolson once did without it being meant as a form of political satire.

Your comment:

"all candidates are subject to underhanded attacks and insults based on some quality or other"

refuses to acknowledge that mocking some "qualities" as you call them, have a centuries old tradition of murderous hatred and prejudice behind them. Racism and sexism are two of those. Women got thrown on the funeral pyres of their husband when he died and Africans were sold as slaves.