The Mecklenburg County Republican Committee
posted a series of racist and tasteless images on their Facebook page which depict President Obama as a witch doctor, a caveman, a thug, and a domestic abuser, among other things. Virginia Republican Party officials ordered them to remove the pictures from their Facebook page, but R. Wallace Hudson (the chairman of the committee) was apparently astonished that anyone could view these images as racist, accusing opponents of (you guessed it) "playing the race card." Moreover, Senate candidate George Allen condemned the photos as well. You might remember him as the man who called an Indian kid who worked for his opponent a
"macaca". And there was also some stuff about him
using the N-word with alarming frequency in his college days, hanging nooses in his office, wearing a Confederate flag pin, and
stuffing a severed deer's head in the mailbox of a random black family...