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TheCameraObscura | October 29, 2008 at 03:21 pm
No, it's not a lynch mob from the 1930's, but actual Republican demonstrators outside a McCain rally in Pottsville, Pennsylvania on Monday shouting "Bomb Obama!" One man said repeatedly. "Get rid of him." "I've had a number of people in the...when he gets in the White House...(mimicks the sound of a gun firing)." "I'd never vote for a black man," said a McCain supporter. "[I don't] want to sound racist here," said another participant, "but I do not want a black man running my country."
"Catholics must not vote for Obama," a protest sign read. "They will be ex-communicated from the Catholic Church."
Various rally participants, while waiting to greet Senator McCain's "Straight Talk Express" tour bus, called Senator Obama a communist, claimed his stances and connections were "un-American," and one said that Obama was born in Kenya. (He was actually born in Hawaii.) One referred to him as "President Hussein."
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