The Raw Story

An exhibitor at the 2008 Value Voters Summit – sponsored by the Family Research Council and counting among its speakers former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been selling seemingly racist anti-Obama waffles. The product is pictured (at right) and portrays Senator Obama closer to a character out of Fat Albert than the man who is running for the President of the United States. The first image shows a gaping caricature of Obama under the words “Obama Waffles,” with the tagline “Waffling the World Over.” The second shows Obama in a turban with the words, “Point box toward Mecca for tastier waffles.” “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.'” Summit security would not allow photographs to be taken inside the exhibit hall, but you can view a video from the American News Project here. The waffles are also sold online. The site selling them says they are also sold at the bookstore Books-A-Million, though nothing comes up in a search at the bookseller’s website. Read more… (Including how Lou Dobbes bought a box for his wife..)

Exactly what kind of values do these people promote? Looks like the spreading of more spurious lies and innuendo, and blatant racism.. Gee, sounds like great family values.. Just stay away from my children.

The Family Research Council calls themselves a Christian organization. Maybe not so much..

Actually, they’re a think tank and powerful group of lobbyists who hide behind religion). Christians follow the teachings of Jesus Christ which are taken from the Bible. I’ve read the bible. I don’t recall in any of those teachings where Jesus said it was “family values” to lie, slander, misrepresent, and smear another human being – (let along another professed Christian) – in order to win an election and take control of a government. I must have missed that chapter.. I only remember Christ’s teachings to be about loving one another, and caring for those in need.

Take note of the photo of Barack Obama on the top of the box, dressed in a Muslim head-dress. These people KNOW Obama is not a Muslim. They know he is a professed Christian. I didn’t realize scaring families by spreading lies was a “Family Value”.. This is despicable, and they are responsible from trying to perpetuate a myth and sell fear to people who believe these men of the FRC are spiritual men.

These are not Christian principles, and this group misrepresents themselves by hiding behind the title of “Christian”. They are rich, powerful lobbyists with hateful, dishonest, and destructive tactics – perpetuating lies of this magnitude, and then they laughing about it.

They give Jesus Christ, God, and Christianity a bad name..

From Wikipedia:

Lobbyists for Jesus..? Really?

Tony Perkins and James Dobson have also been members of the secretive, powerful Council for National Policy.

This is the same group that hand-picked Sarah Palin to be the VP for John McCain.

The Republicans have repeatedly made comments with blatant racial undertones, while couching them as either jokes (in this case) or misunderstandings. (See this and this.) The speeches given at the Republican National Convention were nasty and divisive. Republicans are leaving their own party and supporting Obama.

It seems that the Republican Party has taken the Bush mantra of “Either you’re with us or against us” and applied it to their entire party. Either you are one of them (white, fundamentally religious, and heterosexual, willing to lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie about lying and are mean-spirited) or you are not.

Let me ask you, are you one of them?

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