How can anyone condone such hate?

Shameful and disgusting. People of all political stripes should respect their leaders.

No one who has ever spent even a little time over on Free Republic should be surprised by this although I have to admit even I am a little taken aback: a peace sign set them off like that?

Here is how - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290517/posts

thankfully we all will have our day of reckoning.

leslie

It makes me sick. Truly sick, that this kind of prejudice still exists in my grandaughters lifetime. She's only 9 months old and sadly is going to grow up hearing comments like that. My children were taught to be colorblind. I thank God for that everyday. They have friends who are every color of the rainbow. But, they have been subjected to anti-semitism because we are Jewish. We had swastika's painted on our front door during the holidays about 7 years ago. My kids won't let me put a menorah in the window ever again because they are scared of what may come of it again. I am so saddened by all of this. It makes me want to cry...it really does.

Me too.

The racial slurs just make me sick.

Right after the Democratic convention, my husband and I had coffee in a local cafe with a retired physician who lives in our small town. The man proceeded to tell us---I warn you this is ugly---that America could not elect "that boy" to be president. :angryfire

I walked out. I wasn't going to scream at him or point out his prejudice. But I could not take his bigotry.

It's been about a year since that incident and that man and I are civil to each other---but I won't forget.

At our county fair, about the same time last year, I was looking at an old church preserved on the fairgrounds. Started up a conversation with an elderly man who said that if the election doesn't go "the right way", our country would be headed to hell. I asked him what he meant by "the right way". He looked shocked and said, "Well, as long as that Muslim doesn't get elected." That time I didn't walk away. I informed him that not only was Obama a Christian, he was of the same denomination to which I belong.

I just don't understand prejudice against anyone for their color, country of origin, religion, sexual preference, age. Don't these people who marginalize others understand that someday they, too, will be marginalized, if only because of their advancing age?

And Cherybaby, I am so sorry that anti-Semitism prevents you and your family from celebrating the holidays any way you wish. An old friend who is Jewish has related stories similar to yours. There are no words to describe the horror of anti-Semitism. :angryfire:angryfire:angryfire

Two of my cousins in a RED state had the opportunity to campaign door to door for the Obama-Biden campaign. It was the first time a Democratic presidential campaign had an office in town since 1960. This is a town with , I think, mostly truly good people.

Paired up with an out of state volunteer local citizens went door to door. They were welcomed in. Most people thought he was Muslim and believed that is a terrorist religion.
My cousins explained that he is Christian, listened, and answered questions.
The mosy common sentiment was that they would, of course, vote Republican. But after learning more would respect him if he became President.

I doubt most of them have ever known a Muslim. When I lived there nearly everyone was Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, or Jewish. Now there are MANY new churches of many Christian denominations.

Of course there's no chance that the comments were planted to create a false story about right wing racism.