GOP Shows Obama With Fried Chicken and Watermelon

JeanneSager — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:17:00 GMT

The head of a group of California Republicans who handed out fliers depicting Barack Obama with a bucket of fried chicken, watermelon and ribs apparently thinks we're all a bunch of newborns.

Diane Fedele, the president of the San Bernardino County Republican group claimed there was no racist intent behind the fliers - "it was just food to me." WTF??

It's just food alright. Food most often related to African-American culture, food most often derided for its popularity among poor Southerners who just so happen to be black. Fedele said she received the picture in an e-mail and printed it out to respond to an Obama comment that he doesn't look like other presidents.

"It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of his statement. I really don't want to go into it any further," Fedele told a local newspaper.

So he says he doesn't look like other presidents and to show it's outrageous you play up his race, which, by the way, is one way Obama is significantly different from past presidents?

No, Ms. Fedele, I wasn't born yesterday, but I'm not stuck in a generation full of people afraid to elect a black man as president either.

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Brett Singer — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:30:00 GMT

I can see the commercial now: Bob Dole staggers in, explaining to America that he, too, has had issues with E.D. "Bob Dole is all man. But sometimes even Bob Dole has trouble with E.D. That's why Bob Dole eats lots and lots of watermelon! That's why on this July 4th, Bob Dole is going to pitch a tent!" He winks. "And Bob Dole ain't talking about camping…"

Bhimu Patil, a researcher at the hilariously named "Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center" at Texas A&M University, says that "Watermelon has more citrulline in the edible part than previously believed." (I wonder if he spent time gnawing on the rind before he figured this out.) Citrulline is an amino acid that can become arginine, which is another amino acid. "This is a precursor for nitric oxide, and the nitric oxide will help in blood vessel dilation." In other words, BOING!

(Or you could just look at pictures of boobs. Whatever works.)

Of course, Patil doesn't know quite how much watermelon one should eat. Scarfing down 10 watermelon balls (heh heh – Beavis, he said "balls") would give a person "about 150 milligrams of citrulline," but Roger Clemens, a professor of pharmacology at USC, cites one study that found "volunteers who drank three 8-ounce glasses of watermelon juice daily for three weeks boosted their arginine levels by 11%." (Roger Clemens, the former major league pitcher who is well versed in both drugs and erections, was not interviewed for this article.)

Bottom line? It appears to be much ado about melon. There's not much to back up this theory other than, you know, it's the sort of news that can get attention near July 4th. Still, even the naysaying researchers agree that it's fine to enjoy as much watermelon as you like, as long as you don't think it's going to, you know, get you going down there. But it couldn't hurt, right?

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