Flyer compares Obama to Dukakis, revives Willie Horton

[draft_mario_cuomo]

Man, the repukes must really be getting desperate if they are bringing the Willie Horton card out of cobwebs well over a year before the general election...



==With the headline "Democrats Play Dirty In Charleston," the Palmetto Scoop blog published what it said was a flier found affixed to fence posts near the Citadel, the location of Monday night's Democratic debate.

The pamphlet, suggestive of an appeal to racial prejudice, visually links Barack Obama to Michael Dukakis and to Willie Horton, the convicted rapist whose furlough in Massachusetts became a controversial television ad during the 1988 presidential race, and it goes on to accuse Obama of favoring early release for sex offenders.

The charge leveled at Obama lacks evidence and the citation appears to distort a 1999 state senate vote on prisoner sentencing. The legislation expanded "good times credits" for convicts.)

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When it first aired in the fall of 1988, the Horton ad was immediately criticized for exploiting latent racial prejudice. (It was created by ad maker Larry McCarthy on behalf of the Virginia-based National Security PAC; McCarthy and the PAC denied any racial intent.)==

Read the rest at http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/07/obama_compared_to_dukakis_will.php

[sandnsea]

1. A little more sublte than that

It's actually comparing Obama to Willie Horton - lock up your womenfolk, the darkies are gonna be on the loose with this Obama fellow.

*sigh*

[draft_mario_cuomo]

2. Good point

On the other hand, this is a good sign. The Republicans are desperate and fear Obama, and our other candidates. This will be the dirtiest election in decades, though, as the repukes will sink to any depth in a desperate attempt to retain power.

[sandnsea]

5. Meh, been doing it for decades

I keep reminding people, they really did call FDR a communist way back in the 30's. They really believe they're defending god and capitalism and they'll say anything to hang on to power. It's what they do.

[BeyondGeography]

3. South Carolina is the Heart of Political Darkness

just ask John McCain.

Anyway, they've got nothing. It will be fun to knock the piss out of these people next year.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. From your title, I figured it came from Zinc, AR

the home of the KKK in our neck of the woods. They keep mailing out hate flyers, to the general embarrassment and consternation of about 95% of everyone else who lives in the area.

Appeal to racism. That's all it is.