Forum sells 'Obama Waffles' with racial stereotype

[proud2BlibKansan]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap.

Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama Waffles boxes on Saturday, saying they had not realized the boxes displayed "offensive material." The summit and the exhibit hall where the boxes were sold had been open since Thursday afternoon.

The box was meant as political satire, said Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, two writers from Franklin, Tenn., who created the mix. They sold it for $10 a box from a rented booth at the summit sponsored by the lobbying arm of the Family Research Council.

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Republican Party stalwarts Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney were among speakers at the forum, which officials said drew 2,100 activists from 44 states.

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Asked if he considered the pictures of Obama on the box to be racial stereotypes, Whitlock said: "We had some people mention that to us, but you think of Newman's Own or Emeril's - there are tons and tons of personality-branded food products on the market. So we've taken that model and, using political satire, have highlighted his policies, his position changes."

The socially conservative public policy groups American Values and Focus on the Family Action co-sponsored the summit.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080913/D93620600.html

[madeline_con]

1. Call the bitches out!

How are a racial stereotype and an "Arab-like headdress" personality-branded and how do they "highlight his policies, his position changes"?!

American Values contact info:
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 96192
Washington, DC 20090-619

Phone:
703-671-9700

Fax:
703-671-1680

Email Gary Bauer:
[e-mail]

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Focus on the Family Action
Focus on the Family Action phone: [phone] fax: [phone]

Focus on the Family contact info (they'd prefer you contact them by phone.)
(800) A-FAMILY (232-6459). The toll line is [phone].

They have an online form: http://family.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/family.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php?p_sid=11O4Xemi&p_accessibility=0&p_lva=14190

[scarface2004]

2. did not realize it was offensive?!?!

sure you did assholes!!!

[vaberella]

3. They fuckin' piss me off. Newman's Own and Emeril's is set up that way BY the

people themselves. Obama did not and they were intentionally racist.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Okay now it isn't funny anymore

Just found this picture



And from Raw Story:

"I asked the 'chef'... if he was at all concerned that this might be viewed as a white man putting a black man into a frying pan," Raw Story reporter Larisa Alexandrovna wrote Saturday. "He laughed and said, 'I hope so.'"

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Seemingly_racist_Obama_waffles_popular_at_0913.html

[WePurrsevere]

6. Oh my God/dess! How the heck can anyone think that this is NOT racist?

:nuke:

Racism is alive and well in the RePIGlican party and yet so many live in deep denial of this.

[MagickMuffin]

5. Bob DeMoss Hearts Wiener Savage and they both belong to Focus on the Family

Yesterday while researching Mark Whitlock gave $250 to Huckster during the primary. I also looked up his address in which google had a pic of his house, he apparently lives in a McMansion.

DeMoss was a Youth counselor. I shutter to think how he was teaching them.

I think Jesus would be appalled about what these cretins are doing in his name.

I'm working on a video to expose these racists assholes. If you have the stomach for it there is a website: ObamaWaffles.com:puke:

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Is that the same group that prayed for rain the night of Obama's acceptance speech?

I get these talibornagain hate groups mixed up. :)

[MagickMuffin]

8. Same HATE group

Focus on the Family Action has pulled a video from its Web site that had asked people to pray for "rain of biblical proportions" during Sen. Barack Obama's acceptance speech at Invesco Field on Aug. 28.

The political arm of Focus on the Family pulled the video Monday after a number of complaints from Focus members.
Stuart Shepard, the director of digital media for the group, wrote and starred in the video that he described as "mildly humorous."

In the video, Shepard called for Christians to pray for "abundant, torrential" rains during the Democratic nominee's acceptance speech in order to disrupt it. He had asked Christians to pray for rain that would create flash flood warnings and "swamp the intersections."

In the video, Shepard said he hoped the rain would start "two minutes before the acceptance speech begins."

"I'm still pro life, and I'm still in favor of marriage as being between one man and one woman," Shepard said in his video. "And I would like the next president who will select justices for the next Supreme Court to agree."

The video was posted on the Internet on July 30.

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Funny that they would think god would play with their trivial games. I would think god would have other concerns than paying attention to these clowns. But isn't it interesting that they would pray for such petty thing. Too bad there is no bigger concerns in the world that they could be concerned about. :crazy:

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. I believe he answered their prayers

but sent the rain a week late and a bit further south in the form of two hurricanes. :)

edit: typo

[Starry Messenger]

9. Ooh. I'm looking forward to your video.

The whole Focus on the Family wing of the GOP gives me the heebs.

MPK

[MagickMuffin]

11. I'll try to get something out later today or tomorrow

hopefully it will go viral with a little help from my DU friends.

These people need to be exposed for their hate-filled lives that they live. They have nothing to offer except their issue based crap. Hate the gays, hate choices. HATE... HATE... AND MORE HATE

WHERE IS THE LOVE?.?.?