It is unfair to hold a candidate directly responsible for every unfair and outlandish remark made by a supporter, but the candidate must repudiate the remarks and the person making them. In recent days Samuel L. Jackson and Ellen Barkin have made profanity-laced statements wishing that Tropical Storm Isaac would drown the delegates to the Republican convention in Tampa.
Barkin called for Isaac to "wash every pro-life, anti-education, anti-woman xenophobic gay-bashing, racist SOB right into the ocean." Obama would not use those exact words but the tone of his campaign is reflected in them. Campaigns should be about what you have done to solve problems and your plan to make things, such as the economy, better. The Obama campaign, with only failures to run on, has resorted to calling everyone who does not agree Obama's philosophy to be a racist. Recently, they have added anti-woman to their message. The national media allows Obama to get by with this.
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