It is ok to be sexist as long as you pretend not to be racist.

McClatchy has an article today suggesting that if Missouri goes to the Republicans this year it will be because of racism. Never mind the fact that Missouri has gone Republican in the last two elections. They are determined to make this all about race, just as they did in the primaries.  I am shocked that more people in the African American and civil rights communities aren’t outraged at having this issue used as a tool to elect a fraud to the White House solely based on the color of his skin.  Because when it comes to the content of his character, he doesn’t have a shred of it.

Four years ago, one yard in a working-class Kansas City suburb sported a “Kerry” sign bigger than a bed mattress.

But this season there’s no “Obama” sign there of any size, not even throw-pillow dimension.

“It’s the ‘B-L-A-C-K’ issue,” a neighbor explained. “You hear it everywhere.”

But it hardly has to be spelled out for most of us that race has been injected into presidential politics in unprecedented ways.

And who injected it into the race?  That would be Obama himself, and his lackeys in the corporate, lying media, who care as much about race relations as they do about telling the truth.  That would be not at all.  See, they only cry bigotry when it suits their interests.  And their interest is to have a sock puppet in the white house.  If they truly cared about bigotry and hatred they would recognize the rampant sexism that has gone on this election season. They might even write articles contemplating that Obama might win in a given state because the voters don’t want to elect a W-O-M-A-N to the vice-presidency.  Instead they engage in some of the most vile, hate-filled attacks on women you can imagine.  If you don’t believe me, take a look at these editorial cartoons.  The media, while it falls all over itself to see tinges of racism, openly engages in the worst kinds of misogyny.  I found sixty cartoons about Palin at this site and not one of them was positive.  Here is a sample:

Not only that, they paint HER as the anti-feminist sexist, and to prove beyond a doubt that they are complete scumbags, they pile onto her teenage daughter as well.

If anyone dared draw a picture of Obama in such a condescending and thoroughly dismissive way just because of his race, I’d be the first to cry foul.  So why can they do it to a woman? 

So here’s the deal the media is trying to sell you:  If Obama loses it will be YOUR fault because YOU are a racist.  If McCain/Palin lose, the fact that they used the most vile and misogynistic tactics against her is fair game because, well, you know she’s a stupid girl. 

30% is all we need to stop this nonsense.