Limbaugh: Obama's nomination "goes back to the fact that nobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy"

Here is yet another example of how Rush Limbaugh and the Republican right must make race an issue to scare people into voting for John McCain over Barak Obama. When it is not possible to win an election on issues or ideas, the right wing smear campaign needs appeal to the lowest common denominator of an individuals character to get their messages heard.

On the August 19 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh said that "it is striking how unqualified [Sen. Barack] Obama is and, and how this whole thing came about with, within the Democrat [sic] Party. I think it really goes back to the fact that nobody had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy." Limbaugh went on to say: "I think this is a classic illustration here where affirmative action has reared its ugly head against them. It's the reverse of it. They've, they've ended up nominating and placing at the top of their ticket somebody who's not qualified, who has not earned it." Limbaugh added: "It's perfect affirmative action. And because of all this guilt and the historic nature of things, nobody had the guts to say, well, wait a minute, do we really want to do this?"



Click on the headline to see the actual transcript of Limbaugh's conversation with the caller courtesy of Media Matters