Murtha says Western Pennsylvanians are racist

This was posted to a message board on October 15, 2008:

I just heard this from Neil Cavuto.

U.S. Rep. John Murtha says his home base of western Pennsylvania is racist and that could reduce Barack Obama's victory margin in the state by 4 percentage points.

On October 16th someone responded with this:

And so because the other guy does it, so should we?

A racist (voting either for or against someone based on color) is a person without a brain. I don't want to be associated with such people. There is an objective right and wrong.

On October 23rd I wrote:

Furball - I've had the same thought that maybe this election is so close that those voting against him because of race might tip the election in our favor and it is disturbing, because it should be about the issues. Nobody should vote for somebody based on race, but it appears to be happening for Obama. There really isn't anything that can be done about it and there probably is no way to actually tell. McCain is a very honorable man and he defended Obama when someone accused him of being a Muslim. Even if someone claims that racism is their sole factor, you have to consider their political views. Do they support liberal or conservative policies? I suppose there might be liberals who refuse to vote for a black man. We can just hope that people will vote for McCain because of the economy and because they are excited about Palin.

Someone else responded on the 24th with this:

Actually, he defended Obama when some bitch called the latter an "Arab terrorist." When it was reported in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (which makes the NYT look like National Review), they dropped the crucial word "terrorist," to make it look like McCain was defending Obama from accusations he was an Arab. This was in spite of the fact that McCain has Muslim and Arab Americans working on his campaign! In short, the MSM has been distorting these sick incidents to their best advantage, trying to make McCain look like a racist, when his whole life and career demonstrates otherwise.

A third person also responded on the 24th with this:

Race is an important issue in this election. It's not from any anti-black bias, but anti-race card bias. Obama's candidacy has elevated the race card from niusance political posturing to something that may be engrained in policy and philosophy of an Obama administration. I do not want to hear, for the next four years, the leader of the free world giving legitimacy to race baiting politics. I do not want cries of 'racism' to be used whenver policy is criticized, such as his proposed wealth redistribution. It's more disgusting that class warfare.