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why are these comments

Rodger Seabrook — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:29:36 -0400

why are these comments acceptable to anyone from an electecd offical. I am sure he has blacks and other races in his state he is so called representing. So when the next gorilla escape is it ok for him to say one of my black members just escaped from the zoo. That is why I left south carolina so the clan can have there backward state.

I don't think he should

SparksFly — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:18:10 -0400

I don't think he should apologize simply because it would not be an authentic apology. He is a bigot and obviously old enough that God will be dealing with him soon. Then he can apologize to God for mocking one of His beautiful creations. I'd sure like to be a fly on the, um, cloud when that happens.

I agree! What good would an

Visitor — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:20:36 -0400

I agree! What good would an apology do! The whole world knows he is a fool. He has just offend the wife of the President of the United States! What he won't do is just go away! From now on who cares what he has to say? Smart fair thinking people will not here him! Only narrow minded people with poor taste will be his friends! He won't do it, but it would be so nice!

Please - Show Your True Colors

NatTurner — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:41:12 -0400

Don't apologize. There are an arsenal of bigoted and racist commentary that has come from the right lately to prove, like it had to really be proven, that the compassionate Christian right is narrow-minded and rife with bigots and racist. No, not just the picture of past presidents with Obama as a set of eyes against a black backdrop, not just the picture of the White House behind a watermelon patch, not just calling Obama a racist Christian Muslim, but to see this story amongst all the rest, tips the iceberg.

My late grandfather, who was called "boy" well into his fifties, once felt sorry for me. He lamented, "racist in my day showed themselves to your face. We were lucky, we knew who hated the color of our skin. Today, they smile in your face." He was wrong, today, they make jokes and rationalize them as protected free speech. Of course its protected until you joke about the knocked up white girl whose mother is er um runnin' fer president.

I say, keep 'em coming. Show yourselves like your ancestors did. Keep proving why they called your grandpappy and his daddy "blue eye'd devil"

A typical hateful racist

Visitor — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:18:24 -0400

A typical hateful racist statement--I'm not surprised. I'm a little glad it's out in the open so people can see his uglyness. What it really shows is how hard it is for some folks to accept that Barack Obama is our President. Get over it angry, bitter people.

It was an insulting remark

Milly — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:54:30 -0400

It shows that America is in a state of civil war, whites vs. blacks, whites vs. hispanics, etc.
Sorry for you guys. It also shows nothing has changed.
Milly

You are just as ignorant as

Visitor — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:02:49 -0400

You are just as ignorant as this Azz without a hole! Frankly I really don't know why you and him even exsist your parents should be shamed of themselves for creating such trash as they have!!!!!!!!!!!

It was an insult..............

Percy Kution — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:59:22 -0400

It WAS an insult....to every gorilla in the world.

taken out of context

Visitor — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:25:16 -0400

the gorilla comment was not that big of a deal. just a joke that has been taken out of context. that's why it hasn't been a big story.

Apology for what?

Visitor — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:20:00 -0400

What should be be sorry for? If he feels that way so be it. You may not agree but that's his opinion.

Did he call the First Lady a gorilla?

mwilliam — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:17:24 -0400

Embedded video from CNN Video The state NAACP is demanding an apology from a former South Carolina official whose Internet posting suggested a gorilla that escaped from the Columbia zoo was an…

The state NAACP is demanding an apology from a former South Carolina official whose Internet posting suggested a gorilla that escaped from the Columbia zoo was an ancestor of first lady Michelle Obama.

Minutes after the gorilla's escape was reported, former Election Commission chairman Rusty DePass posted: "I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors - probably harmless."

The Facebook posting was captured on a South Carolina politics blog, and DePass later said that it was a joke about statements Obama has made about evolution.

Should DePass apologize to the NAACP and Michelle Obama or is this not a big deal?

Minutes after the gorilla's escape was reported, former Election Commission chairman Rusty DePass posted: "I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors - probably harmless."

The Facebook posting was captured on a South Carolina politics blog, and DePass later said that it was a joke about statements Obama has made about evolution.

Should DePass apologize to the NAACP and Michelle Obama or is this not a big deal?