Student GOP Leader resigns over racist Obama remarks

scheming daemons

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Tue Sep-09-08 12:37 PM
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Student GOP Leader resigns over racist Obama remarks

These are the assholes we're dealing with.

http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080908/ap_on_el_pr/college_republicans_obama

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – The leader of a statewide group of college Republicans has been forced to resign after posting racially insensitive comments about Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on the Internet.

Adam LaDuca, 21, the former executive director of the Pennsylvania Federation of College Republicans, wrote on his Facebook page in late July that Obama has "a pair of lips so large he could float half of Cuba to the shores of Miami (and probably would.)"

LaDuca, who previously had called Martin Luther King Jr. a "pariah" and a "fraud," also wrote: "And man, if sayin' someone has large lips is a racial slur, then we're ALL in trouble."

The College Republicans asked LaDuca to resign after his remarks were publicized by the Pennsylvania Progressive, a blog written by a Democratic committeeman from Berks County. The group announced LaDuca's resignation on its Web site Friday.

"The comments were completely uncalled for and very offensive," said Anthony Pugliese, 22, a senior at West Chester University and chairman of the College Republicans, an umbrella group with more than 50 chapters statewide. "The P-A College Republicans do not accept or tolerate racism in any way."

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WinkyDink

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Tue Sep-09-08 12:40 PM
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1. Adam is just out of sorts because he's in a SEA OF BLUE!

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Lautremont

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Tue Sep-09-08 12:40 PM
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2. "The P-A College Republicans do not accept or tolerate racism in any way...

...once it's been discovered."

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WCGreen

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Tue Sep-09-08 12:41 PM
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4. That's what I was thinking...

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wicket

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Tue Sep-09-08 12:42 PM
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5. EXACTLY

Light it the best disinfectant

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cali

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Tue Sep-09-08 12:41 PM
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3. and some people here have the temerity to claim that

racism isn't a factor.

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Divine Discontent

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Tue Sep-09-08 12:49 PM
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6. ah the young republicans.... so warm... so caring...

so fucking retarded.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1UYquKlfT0

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CPschem

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Tue Sep-09-08 12:56 PM
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7. Draft College Republicans

n/t

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Divine Discontent

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Tue Sep-09-08 01:06 PM
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8. one of my fave videos!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1UYquKlfT0

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