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Klansmen for Obama

David Duke, founder of the Louisiana-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, United States Congressmen, and presidential candidate, apparently would rather Mr. Obama over the other presidential contenders:

I don’t think Obama will be any more negative for the United States than Hillary or John McCain.  In fact, we probably have less preference for a European like a John McCain or a Hillary who has betrayed our interests, our heritage, our rights.

I’m suggesting a new motto for Mr. Obama: Who ever thought that David Duke and Louis Farrakhan would agree on something?

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I was driving through Louisiana when David Duke ran against Edwin Edwards for Governor.

Greatest. Political. Bumper. Sticker. Evah.

Vote for the crook. It’s important!

Will Timmeh require Obama to repudiate/reject/denounce/nuke the David Duke “endorsement”? I’m holding my breath.

Russert never asked Ron Paul to repudiate David Duke’s support for his run for the Presidency. Nor has Hillary Clinton been asked to repudiate her support from the Satmar Dynasty.

To be honest – I don’t think any politician should renounce the support of anyone.

It’s one thing for a politician to seek the endorsement of a controversial figure. Here there is a potential moral issue. But if someone indicates that they support you without asking anything of you, you owe them nothing.

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Indeed. Obama did not seek Farrakhan’s endorsement. I assume that Ron Paul did not ask David Duke to support his candidacy. Therefore, it should be a nonissue. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, has sought and received the endorsement of a closed but politically powerful religious sect in NY who came to her side when her husband granted clemency to four of its members.

The Satmars and Lubavitchers are not controversial because of their insularity but their political activities should be examined far more closely than they have been. Clinton’s insertion of the great support she receives from Jews in New York and her “rejection” of anti-Semitism is fine on the face of it but fails to inform viewers of what she had to do to gain the support of a segment of the Jewish community in New York. Schumer, too.

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