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Forum sells 'Obama Waffles' with racial stereotype
AP ^ | 09/13/08 | JOAN LOWY

Posted on 09/13/2008 2:28:27 PM PDT by nhwingut

WASHINGTON - Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; waffles
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1 posted on 09/13/2008 2:28:27 PM PDT by nhwingut
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To: nhwingut

Why does everyone else have the great ideas except me?!


2 posted on 09/13/2008 2:30:01 PM PDT by GauchoUSA
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To: nhwingut

Aunt Obama?


3 posted on 09/13/2008 2:30:24 PM PDT by XR7
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To: nhwingut
What's offensive?

I'm offended by their offense.

4 posted on 09/13/2008 2:30:35 PM PDT by Selmore (You want fries with that?)
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To: nhwingut

A really dumb, dumb move on their part. Not helping the conservative cause and just not right.


5 posted on 09/13/2008 2:31:03 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (GOD BLESS GEORGIA! SAVE GEORGIA, OUR ALLY, NOW!)
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To: Selmore

I found it offensive. Let the Libs do crap like this. They are already doing this with the sexism with Sarah.

It really was a caricature that is beneath us and here we are trying to erase the Mis information about how conservatists are racist, when we aren’t.


6 posted on 09/13/2008 2:33:19 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (GOD BLESS GEORGIA! SAVE GEORGIA, OUR ALLY, NOW!)
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To: nhwingut

Photos here:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1131ap_obama_waffles.html?source=mypi


8 posted on 09/13/2008 2:34:52 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: nhwingut

Is that a racial sterotype or a caricature, like someone might draw of Palin or McCain or Bill Clinton in an editorial cartoon? It looks more caricature than stereotype. It is “racial” only in that he is part black. They could not very well color him white.

The article didn’t show the top panel with the “muslim head-dress.”


9 posted on 09/13/2008 2:35:23 PM PDT by Puddleglum
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To: Abbeville Conservative

If you really don’t get it....after years of actual racial stereotyping...you just don’t get it.

this stuff doesn’t help us!


10 posted on 09/13/2008 2:36:22 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (GOD BLESS GEORGIA! SAVE GEORGIA, OUR ALLY, NOW!)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
I found it offensive. Let the Libs do crap like this.

I totally agree with you.

We should be above that sort of thing.

Just because the libs have no scruples is no reason for us to follow suit and enforce the stereotypes they try to perpetuate with regard to conservatives.

11 posted on 09/13/2008 2:37:43 PM PDT by cerberus
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Heh. Watch for the few that were sold to show up on Ebay with big prices.

I’d personally love to own one.


12 posted on 09/13/2008 2:38:40 PM PDT by EggsAckley
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To: nhwingut

AP: more offensive than Michelle’s failure to attend the 911 services?

Where was your outrage on that?


14 posted on 09/13/2008 2:39:07 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: XR7

How about Aunt Michelle.


15 posted on 09/13/2008 2:39:22 PM PDT by cw35
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To: nhwingut

If this continues, John McCain is sure to lose the black vote come November.


16 posted on 09/13/2008 2:39:34 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: nhwingut

I’d buy a box but wouldn’t eat it that’s for sure.


17 posted on 09/13/2008 2:39:46 PM PDT by cw35
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To: nhwingut

After all, if Aunt Jemima can do it, Barrack Hussein Obama can do it. :)


18 posted on 09/13/2008 2:41:03 PM PDT by Paperdoll (Duncan Hunter for Secretary of Defense!)
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To: nhwingut

They just have a picture of the front of the box at the link.
Actually, it’s an improvement on how Obama usually looks.
Just a waffle box with a caricature of Obama.
Political cartoons slamming Republicans are often much worse.
And it’s not like mocking a crippled war hero for not having full use of his arms or anything...
The media is stuck in hyperbolic ,hair on fire mode trying to save Barry.


19 posted on 09/13/2008 2:41:22 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: Puddleglum

It’s not a good caricature. Obama has very narrow eyes, thin lips, and a pointy chin.
This could have been done better.


20 posted on 09/13/2008 2:41:30 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (They're penguins! Just wipe the oil off the white parts and toss 'em back!!)
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