Monday, November 3, 2008

Consider the Source

A sampling of what passes for recent conservative thought:

"How did Obama respond? He suddenly discovered that his grandmother, who had supposedly been released from her hospital a week ago, when he showed no interest in her, needed his immediate attention. Cool, calm, collected Obama suddenly suspended his campaign and headed for Hawai'i." - Conservative commentator Andy Martin, October 20, 2008

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"We're gonna raise the question of why Obama is headed to Hawaii. He certainly wouldn't take the time out to visit an ailing grandmother all of a sudden -- it is for other reasons, it is being speculated across the Internet that he was born in Kenya and he is not a U.S. citizen... There are people arguing that Obama is headed to Hawaii not so much to visit an ailing relative but to fudge the birth certificate in question." - Conservative talk-show host Michael Savage, October 22, 2008

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"Well, Mr. Liddy, I'm headed out to Honolulu. I am not convinced that Barack Obama is going because his grandmother is sick. I appreciate that his grandmother is sick and he wants to be with her. I do recall that Barack Obama's mother died of cancer, and he didn't go to be by her side when she died. He relates that in his autobiography, Dreams From My Father." - Conservative author and commentator Jerome Corsi, October 22, 2008

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"If Obama's grandmother is deathly ill, why has this been announced days ago, and he's only going now or tomorrow or whenever it is? Now, I understand, folks, Snerdley's got-- he's buried his head in his hands -- I understand this, my friends -- anything said about Obama is gonna be turned into an unfair, racist attack on the man, but I -- am I not asking the obvious questions? Who announces days in advance they're rushing to the side of a loved one who is deathly ill, but keeps campaigning in a race that's said to be over, only to go to the loved one's side days later?" - Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, October 23, 2008

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HONOLULU – Barack Obama's grandmother, whose personality and bearing shaped much of the life of the Democratic presidential contender, has died, Obama announced Monday, one day before the election. Madelyn Payne Dunham was 86. - Associated Press, November 3, 2008

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I suppose they'll now say that Obama planned his grandmother's death in order to draw the sympathy vote... They and their followers are just low enough for that. Lord knows they've already tried everything else.

Do the right thing on Tuesday, please, and shut these classless cowards up for good.

pH 11.o3.o8

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