Elective Decisions

Palm Beach, FL—In what could only be described as career ending, Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL, has struck a deliberate blow for justice by claiming that Rush Limbaugh “hates Mexicans.”

After a campaign rally in Elko, Nevada, Obama called Limbaugh out by getting in his face with the “Dos Caras” ads. 

“They want us to forget the insults we’ve put up with, the intolerance,” the announcer says in one of the ads as a picture of Limbaugh appears onscreen and the talk show host is quoted saying, “Mexicans are stupid and unqualified” and “Shut your mouth or get out.”

The ads forced Limbaugh to scramble to try to prove the allegations false, writing an outrageous piece that appeared in the Wall Street Journal Online, titled, “Obama Is Stroking Racial Antagonism.”

“The ad is meant to remind Latinos that while John McCain has one message for them in Spanish, the reality is that he caved to right wing extremists, like Rush Limbaugh and others, on the issue of immigration,” said Obama national co-chair and former Clinton Administration Transportation and Energy Secretary, Federico Peña.  “I’m glad Obama is taking a hard stance on this extreme whacko.  It’s about time someone knocked him off his ‘Golden EIB Microphone.’”

Shortly after a rally in Coral Gables, Florida, Obama slapped Limbaugh right back.  “The ads were the truth,” claimed Obama.  “Limbaugh hates Mexicans, and everyone knows it.  He likely hates blacks, Jews, Arabs and women as well.  This pathetic showing is only his reckless attempt to keep me out of the White House.  But it won’t happen.”

Obama also noted that anyone with Rush Limbaugh’s flair for parody could easily produce the kind of evidence he needed in an attempt to get himself off the hook.

“As far as I’m concerned,” quipped Sen. Joseph Biden, D-DE.  “Limbaugh and McCain are one in the same.  They’ll both take us back to the days of segregation and back alley abortions.”

“If you’re a black, Mexican, Jew, Arab, or woman,” Obama added, “and you want to sit down at a lunch counter again, you’ll keep John McCain and his advisor—Rush Limbaugh—out of the White House.”

The battle for the White House is heating up, and neither Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL, nor Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, are pulling any punches.  One must now wonder if John McCain can weather the Mexican storm with Rush Limbaugh in his corner.

One thing is evidently clear to Rush Limbaugh: Barack Obama appears to be drowning, and is desperately grabbing for a life jacket.  Will it make the difference?

Time will most certainly tell.