Well, yes, actually. We are.
Teabaggers have always indignantly protested that oh, no, they're not racists. They simply oppose President Obama on economic issues and the size of government.
And then something like this turns up.
Seems that a teabagger and Republican central committee member from Orange County, California — a bigoted fool named Marilyn Davenport — circulated a "family portrait" showing Mr. Obama as the child of apes. "Now you know why no birth certificate," the grammatically suspect e-mail said.
"It was a joke," she insisted when contacted by a local reporter. Then, she launched into the age-old excuse of "I have friends who are black." As if that weren't bad enough, she added, "Besides, I only sent it to a few people. Mostly people I didn't think would be upset by it."
Where do we cats begin? There's so much here to respond to, but we think we'll start with the obvious: That e-mail goes everywhere, forever. We'll decline to comment on the hateful, smug, I'm-in-the-club-and-you're-not tone of her other remarks.
On the other hand, we cats must thank this wretched teabagger moron for inadvertently performing a public service: Her repellent "joke" is birtherism laid bare. How much clearer could it be? Birtherism is not a "where was he born" issue. It's a race issue. No white man would ever be asked to provide proof of his citizenship. When teabaggers question a decisively elected President's eligibility to hold office they are effectively saying, "We are racists." Case closed.
Nevertheless, although we cats HISS at the racist Marilyn Davenport, we're sure that she must be feeling a tad beleaguered. Used to be that you could drive through Orange County and see only white folk. Now, this once-reliably-Republican bastion is 34 percent Hispanic. The times, Ms. Davenport, they have a-changed.
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I had not heard this story, but I hope Miss Davenport has been exposed in the media for the bigot she is and ostracized by what few liberal friends such creatures may have.
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