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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (443739)	1/1/2009 6:52:24 AM
From: Road Walker	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) of 1572376

Editorial Talk About Out of Touch The Republican Party paid a steep price for race-baiting in the presidential campaign. Remember the ferocious backlash against the California Republican group that produced a racist newsletter depicting Barack Obama on a food stamp, surrounded by images of fried chicken and watermelon? Then there were those two congressmen who were rightly excoriated for condemning Mr. Obama’s candidacy in the language of the Jim Crow South — one describing him as a “boy” and the other as “uppity.” We thought after all that — and, oh yes, losing the election — everyone in the Republican Party leadership would have figured out that race-baiting alienates young, minority and all reasonable voters. Clearly, not everyone has. Chip Saltsman, a veteran political operative, is pushing his candidacy for chairman of the Republican National Committee. He distributed a compact disc containing a parody questioning President-elect Barack Obama’s racial authenticity. The song — entitled “Barack the Magic Negro” — by a writer often heard on the Rush Limbaugh radio show, has split the Republican leadership. One faction thinks the parody is just fine and seems prepared to defend it to the death. The other is condemning it and shuddering at its political consequences. Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, warned his party against using “racist descriptions” and said that the parody should “disqualify any Republican National Committee candidate who would use it.” Mr. Saltsman, who was Mike Huckabee’s campaign manager during the primaries, could still be vaulted into the chairman’s seat by hard-core committee members who resent the explosion of criticism and have learned nothing from the last election. Maybe they like the hole their party is standing in and want to dig it even deeper. That’s their right, but it does the country no good. Copyright 2009 The New York Times Company

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