RACE BAITING BY MCCAIN CAMPAIGN OFFICIAL IN VIRGINIA- UPDATED

The LA Times scoops the Virginia media with this column from the McCain campaign's official Buchanan County representative.

You need to read this column to believe it. In "humor" he accuses Obama of wanting to paint the White House black, supporting reparations, changing the national anthem to the "black national anthem", teaching "black liberation theology in all churches", and replacing the flag with a "star and crescent logo".

Why has the Virginia McCain campaign not removed this guy already and publicly rebuked him?

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UPDATE: Wow- a bunch of well known blogs have picked this story up.  Howie Klein at Down With Tyranny,  Matt Stoller at Open Left, Nicole Belle at Crooks and Liars, Oliver Willis, Adam Seigal, Watertiger, Jack and Jill Politics, and The Huffington Post.

Here are the statements from Bobby Lee May and the McCain Campaign: 

"I offer a sincere apology to anyone that I may have offended with anything that I've written when expressing my personal opinions. Effective immediately, I have resigned my position as McCain Campaign Buchanan County Chair." -- Bobby Lee May

“Bobby Lee May’s comments about Barack Obama are offensive, insulting and have no place in political discourse. Mr. May’s comments in no way, shape or form reflect the views or opinions held by John McCain or his campaign. The McCain campaign wholeheartedly disavows Mr. May’s column. Mr. May is no longer a part of our campaign organization.” – Gail Gitcho, McCain mid-Atlantic spokesman

Comments

[Leslie Connolly]

We'll remember this the next time you Democrats come up with some Jew-baiting or woman bashing crap (that for you are never parody). Fortunately, you never condone such activities, right, bitch?

The only thing new I see is the "star and crescent logo".

[Cottonpickers]

Don't forget us whiteys will be put in the fields to pick cotton in our overalls too! What we need is more MOOSEBURGERS from the queen of witches!

Virginia Republicans prove once against that they are fearful, pathetic, ignorant, hateful people. No wonder why they're going down for the long count.

LC (and that's not Leslie Connolly, it's loose cannon), you are a sick individual. But that goes without saying because you voted for Bush/Cheney and you will vote for McSame.

The best legacy of a Bush/Cheney Administration would be a 60 vote Democratic Senate. We will obtain 5-7 seats in the Senate this year and the outlook looks awesome in 2010:

http://www.senateguru.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=35

So if 60 vote total doesn't happen this year, it will happen next year. Great legacy, right LC?

The McCain campaign comes down to two words:

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/7740/bushagainfz0.png

You are all sheep.

[Mike in Oakland]

And so it begins...pathetic.

[ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©]

Seven and one half years of miserable failure, and this is all the pukes have.

Maybe losing eight Senate seats will get their attention.
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[Irene]

What paper printed that stuff? Surely not The Coalfield Progress. Seems it would be time for some letters to the editor.

Hey Ben:

Did you are about John McCain's brother calling Fairfax, Arlington, and Alexandria "Communist Country"?

Here it is:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hby_5Pku5ywmfC_rEtEV5BcYKR5gD93KDFPO0

You should put this up.

11:11 AM, sounds like you have a sick infatuation with animals. Please don't talk about your sex life.

11:11 am has a weird obsession with lemmings and sheep. He must be into bestiality.

"woman bashing"?

Obama is leading among women by a large margin.

I guess Dave Albo is no different than Joe/John McCain.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/03/AR2008080302056_pf.html

Joe McCain just ensured an 85% turnout rate in Northern Virginia.

[books]

The author of the column, Bobby May, really ought to get back on his meds. His paranoid schizophrenia is producing some very serious delusions.

[William in Petersburg]

"Only one person can solve this economic crisis and that is Hillary Rodham Clinton."

Interesting what Ben has put up there. Maybe Obama can't solve this economic crisis because he's black? Is that it, Ben?

[Mister Papercut]

Wow. Did this cretin's use of "Jim Webb's aide" in a punchline for a lame Second Amendment joke jump out at anyone else?

Stay classy as ever, Republicans.

This Bobby May character needs to be completely ostracized. This was a sad piece of writing and the GOP should be asked if they want to repudiate him and his claims.

[Indy]

Ostracized? dude, he already lives in Buchanan.

///could relocate to Floyd- they don't even have a major road of any kind running through.

//Buchanan county is really, really beautiful. It has several gas stations, a subway, and a lot of cattle.

Did he get this off in the Lynchburg NewsAdvance? That a wackaloon paper has an elderly bigoted crank for every type of conservative.

[ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©]

Skins!
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From Gail Gitcho, McCain mid-Atlantic spokesman:

“Bobby Lee May’s comments about Barack Obama are offensive, insulting and have no place in political discourse. Mr. May’s comments in no way, shape or form reflect the views or opinions held by John McCain or his campaign. The McCain campaign wholeheartedly disavows Mr. May’s column. Mr. May is no longer a part of our campaign organization.”

Maybe John McCain's brother should team up with Dave Albo to do outreach to independents in NoVA.

I'm sure the good people of Fairfax love to be called food stamp using Communists.

4:28 PM, provide a publication (e.g. web site, newspaper, magazine) for your quote. If you can't, then we have to assume that you are not telling the truth and you are in bed with 11:11 AM and his sheep.