College Republicans director resigns over racial post about Obama

By GottaLaff

Will McCain/Palin denounce and renounce this?

A Kutztown University student who once begged fellow students to forgive the campus president of the College Republicans for making racially insensitive remarks has resigned as the head of the statewide GOP group after posting comments on Facebook about Barack Obama's lips.

Adam LaDuca, 21, of Allentown said he was only trying to spark debate among friends when he wrote on his Facebook page that the Democratic presidential candidate has ''a pair of lips so large he could float half of Cuba to the shores of Miami.''

He also called the late Martin Luther King Jr. a hypocrite.

Now there's an educated university student if I ever saw one.

LaDuca, who is white, resigned last week as executive director of the Pennsylvania Federation of College Republicans after excerpts of his Facebook page were reposted on the PA Progressive blog, written by John Morgan, a Democratic committeeman in Berks County.

So he resigned because he was caught. We see.

''We do not accept racism,'' said [the college group's state chairman, Anthony Pugliese], a senior at West Chester University. ''The Republican party at times gets a bad rap for condoning racism, and that's 100 percent false.''

Let's give ol' LaDuca the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he was drunk. Maybe he didn't mean it. I'm sure he feels some sense of remorse:

After posting the comment about Obama's lips on his Facebook page July 27, LaDuca followed up on the page with the remark ''if sayin' someone has large lips is a racial slur, then we're ALL in trouble.''

Or not. Whaddya want to bet he says some of his best friends are black:

LaDuca admits the comments Morgan reposted were his, but denies that he is racist. He says economist Thomas Sowell, who is black, is one of his heroes.

''I have eight of his books and I think he's brilliant and he's a black man,'' LaDuca said. ''If I were racist, would I be reading this stuff? If I were racist, I wouldn't idolize Colin Powell and Condeleeza Rice.''

Gosh! We must have misjudged this young man!

Earlier this year, LaDuca also posted an article about King on his Facebook page that said black people historically have lower IQ test scores than white people.

Oh, LaDuca-a-a-a.... I'm still waiting for that remorse:

LaDuca said he doesn't understand the backlash, and doesn't regret another post about King being a ''hypocrite,'' nor his comments about Obama's lips.

''I don't use racial slurs unless I'm on a rant,'' LaDuca said. ''[Obama] has puckered lips. I made fun of [Republican John] McCain's hair and no one excused me of ageism.''

I don't call racists like LaDuca pinheaded, hateful, braindead little dicks unless I'm on a rant. I have no remorse about having just ranted.

Responding to the resulting backlash:

''The [McCain] campaign doesn't need that kind of attention,'' [LaDuca] said.

Too late.