Tennessee GOP Pulls ‘Hussein,’ Obama Photo From Fiery ‘Anti-Semite’ Release

Fox ^ | 2/28/08

[Recovering_Democrat]

The Tennessee Republican Party has toned down a fiery press release that included a controversial photo of Barack Obama and blasted the candidate on his stance on Israel. The release was changed after a rebuke from the Republican National Committee.

A GOP official told FOX News that the RNC privately chided the Tennessee Republican Party over the content of its online press release titled, “Anti-Semites for Obama,” which followed the endorsement of Obama by Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan. The statement cited Farrakhan, who has called Judaism a “gutter religion,” in claiming an Obama presidency would threaten relations between the United States and Israel.

The Farrakhan endorsement has dogged Obama as he tries to shake off accusations that he’s weak on his commitment to Israel. He was pressed to reject Farrakhan’s support during his debate with Hillary Clinton Tuesday night.

[Recovering_Democrat]

With gutless, spineless wimps like this: refusing to acknowledge the man's name, scared to speak about who supports Barack Hussein Obama, the RNC and the rest of the Washington establishment Republicans obviously don't have the testicles to govern.

Lee Atwater, where are you when we need you?

[Grimmy]

“With gutless, spineless wimps like this: refusing to acknowledge the man’s name, scared to speak about who supports Barack Hussein Obama, the RNC and the rest of the Washington establishment Republicans obviously don’t have the testicles to govern.”

Amen.

[Salamander]

If his name was “John Hitler McCain”, you can bet there’d be billboards up all over the country, paid for by the DNC.

[Grunthor]

The Wuss Party LIVES!

[kromike]

Now, now...try to understand the GOP wants two things:

1) Go back to the good old 1970's Country-Club Republican days and leave us unwashed masses to the whims of the Socialist-Liberals.
2) Pay proper respect to President Obama. They're hoping for a few political scraps thrown their way when Shamnesty McCain loses.

[Larebil]

What BS, this leftist clown needs to be exposed for the empty suite fraud he is.

[SatinDoll]

We are now the party of “turn the other cheek”. When we can neither speak factually nor write the truth we have become the opposition’s scapegoat. The American people want truth, they want facts, they want fearless leaders - NOT boot lickers!

[donna]

Did you here Rush’s brave stand today?

To paraphrase Rush: Hillary did it first! I’m not doing it!

[alloysteel]

Is it OK to start calling the Magic Negro “President Hussein”?

We may have to, you know.

[Billg64]

I’m sorry could you elaborate?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

This is exactly why the GOP will lose BIG in November.

[MittFan08]

If I were Obama, I’d be glad that all this “Hussein” talk is occurring now as opposed to this fall.

[pallis]

The censorship has begun, and if it can happen over something as silly as this, imagine how bad it would get under a McCain Administration. He isn’t going to win, but he will be there supporting Obama’s every step to muzzle conservatives.

[Slump Tester]

"What BS, this leftist clown needs to be exposed for the empty suite fraud he is."

Which leftist clown - Obama or RINO McCain?

RINO McCain is doing a pretty good job of showing what an empty suit pussy he is all by himself. Whose gophers do think sent the directive not to use it?

[Larebil]

Pulease, don’t even compare osama to McCain.

If you think obama is better than McCain, you are delusional.
McCain has his faults but is way better than the mooslimb crackhead.

[Thombo2]

Very timely article.I’m presently reading “How to Talk to a Liberal If You Must”.Anyways,i’m about two thirds through,and Ann is citing examples of where time and time again,R’s will back down and/or refuse to fight back when dims go on the attack.Or one of our own is on the hot seat,dims and R’s will denounce him/her-a R will probably hand them the rope!Let’s face it,dims know how to play hardball.At this rate w/in 20 yrs(or less)we’ll be a socialist state.

[Post-Neolithic]

And the RNC wonders why we don’t donate to them anymore. The plural word for cat comes to mind.

[massgopguy]

What about his first name? Barack (Buraq) is Mohammed’s Horse.

[Miss Didi]

RUSH:… Okay, so his name is off limits, can't use Hussein. You can't call him a liberal. What other fact about Obama are we not going to be allowed to talk about? That's right, can't talk about his ears, either, because when Maureen Dowd made some comment about his ears, he went straight into the crowd and said, "I'm very sensitive about my ears." She said, "We're trying to toughen you up." Well, it hasn't worked. Can't use the name Hussein, can't call him a liberal, and this is the kind of thing -- look, it's brilliant on Obama's part. He's setting the rules, and everybody's going to abide by them. Republican National Committee, "Okay, we can't call him a liberal because he's going to tear into us, we don't want him tearing into us." Well, I don't know how you're going to characterize his policies if you don't call him a liberal. And, by the way, what's so bad about being a liberal? How come none of these liberals want to be called liberals?

See, Obama's no different than any of the rest of them, folks. No different at all. Nothing new here. The only thing new is the Democrats have now made it official that their guiding principle is "America sucks." But they have to mask who they are, they have to disguise themselves, camouflage themselves, whatever, you call them a liberal, and it's a personal attack. So Obama's now said liberal is off limits, can't do it. What will Republicans do? Your guess is as good as mine, but I hope they don't shy away from that. This Hussein business, that could backfire. It's so charged. It's almost one of those things that could arouse sympathy for Obama, but regardless, I can't believe that somebody's name is off limits. I just don't believe it. (cont.)

Don't Call Him Hussein or Liberal

RUSH: Can we call him BHO? You know, presidents have initials. W is Dubya, JFK, RFK. We referred to Reagan, President Reagan. Jimmy Carter, we didn't call him Jimmy Earl Carter, but sometimes presidents are known by their three initials. BHO. Are we going to call him BO? I don't think we're going to do that. If he becomes president, we're not going to say, "BO! BO!" We're going to say BH? No, we'll say Barack or Obama. But we're being told can't use Hussein. We're being told we can't talk about his being a liberal. But I want to get Bill Cunningham off the hook here a little bit. Bill, apparently you're not to blame for this; I am. (cont.)

Talk Radio, McCain and BHO

[GraniteStateConservative]

If his name was “John Hitler McCain”, you can bet there’d be billboards up all over the country, paid for by the DNC.

The issue is that we'd not consider that fair, so we shouldn't do the same thing with Obama.