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Well, if he didn't expose Allen as a racist, he exposed him as a dumbass. That's just as good. Better to get these things out of the way before he gets elected President or something.
The story of the college senior who took down a powerful Senator...
I Am Macaca
By S.R. Sidarth
Sunday, November 12, 2006; Page B02
This past summer, between my third and fourth year of college, I decided to volunteer for the campaign of Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb in my home state of Virginia. For most of the summer, I worked behind the scenes at the campaign headquarters in Arlington, helping set up field offices statewide and performing other odd jobs. In the second week of August, I was dispatched by the campaign to serve as Republican Sen. George Allen's tracker on a "listening tour" across the state. Tracking was a rather solitary pursuit; I videotaped Allen's public appearances whenever I was admitted into an event and killed time between stops in places I had never been to before.
Then, on Aug. 11, my experience took a strange -- and now famous -- turn. On that day in Breaks Interstate Park, located on the Kentucky border, Allen acknowledged my presence for the first time in one of his stump speeches. I was singled out at a GOP picnic, identified as "macaca or whatever his name is" -- despite the fact that Allen knew my name, as we had been traveling the same route for five days -- and then "welcome to America and the real world of Virginia."
Allen's actions that day stood out because they were not representative of how I was treated while traveling around the state. Everywhere I went, though I was identifiably working on behalf of Allen's opponent, people treated me with dignity, respect and kindness. I cannot recall one event where food was served and I was not invited to join in the meal. In southwest Virginia, hospitality toward me was at a high point.
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The politics of division just don't work anymore. Nothing made me happier on election night than finding out the results from enson County, where Allen and I had our encounter. Webb won there, in what I can only hope was a vote to deal the race card out of American politics once and for all.
S.R. Sidarth is a senior at the University of Virginia.
Washington Post
Well, if he didn't expose Allen as a racist, he exposed him as a dumbass. That's just as good. Better to get these things out of the way before he gets elected President or something.
Well he got +49% of the votes. There are lots of people who really didn't care about his stupid comment.
The Repugs are the party of closet, code-worded racists, xenophobes, rabid chauvinists.
That's why the Repugs have become so strong all across the socially backward South, as the South grew in wealth from the ealry 70s, including Texas. The Repugs are no longer the progressive/moderate Republicanism of a Lincoln or Eisenhauer.
Trent Lott, Rove's dirty gay tricks, macaca, race-baiting adds, gay-gashing/baiting, illegal-immigrant-bashing ads. Really nasty stuff. The Repugs make Americans so Proiud To Be American.
Oh, you mean like the outing of Foley. Yes, yes. I understand!
Yeah, but enough did to allow him to be beaten by the least charismatic candidate in recent Senate history.
Oh trust me, as a resident of Virginia I feel obligated to tell you that was by no means the least charismatic democratic candidate we have had for the senate, if you mean just in general then that is even farther off.
Not so willfully uncharismatic -- Webb didn't even try to deliver a speech appropriately until the last month of the campaign. It looked like he was trying to throw the race.
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