Incendiary sign in McCain office embarrasses Broward (County, Fla.) Republican leader

[Newsjock]

Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Among the images that greeted visitors to the John McCain campaign office in Pompano Beach this week was a sign headlined "Barrack Hussein Obama” that compared the Democratic presidential candidate to Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler and Fidel Castro.

Shown a picture of the sign Thursday night, Broward Republican Chairman Chip LaMarca said he was "disgusted" by it and would immediately go to the office and remove it.

"I'm speechless at the ignorance," LaMarca said. "It's not something we can condone.

"We're trying to promote positive messages for our candidates. I understand people want their candidate to win. It's ridiculous. I'll find out who put it up there, and maybe they'll volunteer somewhere else."

Read more: http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/broward/blog/2008/10/incendiary_sign_in_mccain_offi.html

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Pictures at the link

[tularetom]

1. Like he didn't know it was there

Yeah sure.

[POAS]

2. Insert usual "Casablanca" gambling reference here!

[Bake]

20. I'm shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED!!

Bake

[BlooInBloo]

3. That's good enough to fool sucker DUers.

[Kalifornia.Kid]

4. Outrageous ...

[aquart]

7. Good lord, do those idiots think Marx was a head of state?

[Alcibiades]

16. And he didn't really have a youth movement

He was an academic scribbler supported by Engels for much of his life.

[xxqqqzme]

22. That 'sign' certainly was not

put together on someone's kitchen table. Wonder how many were printed? where they were printed and how many campaign offices received one or two?

[4lbs]

5. I guess he forgot that both McCain and Palin have used the "change" word in their stump speeches.

n/t

[CitizenPatriot]

6. Thank you for the extra votes, Florida!!!!

I am sure this goes over well with most Americans. The polls and audience meters tell that story. Good job! Keep it up!

I appreciate your efforts to out yourselves to the public, so we all know exactly what and who we are dealing with.

Please keep your "base" locked up and medicated for the next 8 years.

thanks!

[DFW]

8. This kind of thing will energize both Bush's 23% and Obama's 50.5%

Who do you think will profit?

Not that we should be expecting anything more sophisticated from these people.

They are not making signs like that to appeal to university professors and brain surgeons.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Bigotry is an important plank of the Republican Party.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than ask permission.

[fasttense]

10. Maybe those campaign staffers should drop the pretense

and work directly for the KKK.

[MrsBrady]

11. man, this is bringing all the racists out of the woodwork....it's like

turning on a light in a kitchen in the middle of the night in a bad apartment only to see tons of cockroaches scurrying around

[olegramps]

12. If you don't believe the Republican Party attracts racists:

You are a Republican in denial. The last thing that would be attracted to the Democratic Party is a racist. This is a simple fact.

[dhpgetsit]

13. In order for the Cons to con you they have to exploit your fears.

That makes racists one of their easy targets.

[Frances]

14. Someone posted a picture

of Obama on a bill with watermelon and fried chicken and sent it out to Repubs in CA.

McCain may have adopted the Rove tactics, but he didn't adopt Rove smarts.

Remember how careful the Bush campaign was to always have a group of people exactly mirrowing the population of the U.S. standing behind Bush at every speech? There were always a couple of African Americans, an Asian American, a Hispanic American.

[gratuitous]

15. "Speechless at the ignorance"

Translation: "Hey, don't put those signs where other people can see them!"

[Alcibiades]

17. Waiting for McCain to denounce and reject

Waiting... waiting....

[PatGund]

18. *cough* *cough*....

Young Republicans, Young Americans for Freedom *cough* *cough*.....

[Pacifist Patriot]

19. White men with facial hair. Yeah, I see the resemblance.

Oh wait, I see! They were really comparing him to this guy :evilfrown: Now I get it. (Sarcasm folks)

Racist freaks!

[robinlynne]

21. Broward COunty is a very Democratic COunty.

[yellowcanine]

23. Wait - he had to be told about it by the media? How is it he did not know it was there?

I mean, there must be a lot of people in and out of that office that would have seen the sign. Surely one of them called him and told him about it? I call bullshit on Mr. LaMarca.

[liberal N proud]

24. He is the county party leader and didn't know this sign was there?

He also wants us to buy a bridge to nowhere.

:banghead:

[Supersedeas]

25. only embarrassed b/c he got caught

[machI]

26. Kick