Part of the problem is that you won't even be surprised what McCain Democrats are saying about Obama. Nonetheless, this stuff is still scary as hell...
Kirstie Hartle of Rome, N.Y., a registered Democrat who has never supported a Republican presidential candidate [said that] with Clinton out of the race, "I'm Republican all the way now."
She said she doesn't like Obama's name and thinks he has a questionable background. She also said she thought Obama was deceitful when he broke from his church after it hurt his campaign, and she doesn't trust him to handle the Iraq war.
"It sounds to me like a Middle Eastern type of name and whether or not he's born here in the United States, he doesn't seem like, to me, somebody who is trustworthy," Hartle said in a telephone interview. "You can't trust anybody these days, so who's to say he's not a terrorist and we just don't realize it yet?" [Right-- but, um, doesn't that mean McCain could also be a terrorist? Or maybe even... you?? Ed.]
When asked an open-ended question about the first words that come to mind about Obama, some former Clinton supporters used words like Muslim or terrorist. Those misconceptions have been fueled by Internet rumors that point out his name is Barack Hussein Obama but otherwise lie about his background.
"I refuse to vote for an Arab to be in my White House," said retired salesman Dean Johnson of Lanett, Ala. "That is the only factor. Otherwise, you couldn't break both my legs and make me vote for a Republican."
Never mind that John McCain, who was born in Panama, could arguably be deemed "unqualified" to be President based on this kind of logic, you readers know all this stuff is untrue, right? Barack Obama is from Hawaii, is not an Arab, Muslim, or anything else that racist, ignorant, bigoted, idiotic, right-wing Democrats (and Republicans) mislabel him as. And if he was, fuck you, John McCain is a Panamanian Vietnamese spy who staged the moon landing while pretending to be in a POW prison camp. So there.
Via the Associated Press.