Race Baiting

This is a long article but worth the read. A Columbia Journalism student covered Harriet Christian's trip for Democrats for McCain from NYC to Scranton. Her interviews show that many people are voting against Obama for a variety of reasons and not because of what the Obamamedia wants the public to believe.

(cross posted at No Quarter)

Clinton Democrats: The Media Has Got It All Wrong

There are valid reasons why Obama still has problems winning over some Clinton supporters and it's not because of racism.

by Christal Phillips

On the Road to Scranton

You just can't make this stuff up. After apologizing for calling his constituents "racist" last week, Pennsylvania congressman, John Murtha, clarified his remarks in another interview by saying that the good people in western Pennsylvania are 'redneck' because he thinks that if they don't support Obama it's because (shhh, he's black).

"What I mean is there's still folks that have a problem voting for someone because they are black," Murtha said. Murtha said the history of southwestern Pennsylvania is teeming with racism. "This whole area, years ago, was really redneck," he told WTAE-TV Pittsburgh.

Double take? Yeah, I did that too when I first heard about it. On Wednesday, former Hillary Clinton supporter and Pennsylvania Congressman, John Murtha had this to say about the cold shoulder that his constituents in western Pennsylvania are giving Obama: