Ugh.

Seriously? This is how we're going to do this one?

So, I saw this on Warren Ellis' site yesterday. Apparently this button, along with a couple others equally offensive, was being sold at a state Republican Convention recently. Now, I'm not going to play the political game of trying to paint all Republicans with the bigot brush because of this. I'm certain that most folks opposing Obama do so on the basis of legitimate differences of policy or ideology. But how is it that the state party in question allowed this sort of thing to be offered for sale at all? It certainly doesn't reflect well on them.

Now, I'll admit I don't have to whole story here. Maybe the folks selling these buttons were run out of the convention on a rail in short due to the outrage of the majority of conventioneers. That's what I hope happened at least. I'd hate to think that no one at the convention recognized the message of the button as offensive, I had hoped we had made more progress than that.