Al Qaeda Joins the ‘Obama Is a House Negro’ Club
In a video unearthed today, Al Qaeda number-two Ayman al-Zawahiri said that Barack Obama (like Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell) was a "house negro." That brings the membership of the club of people who have willingly and unrepentantly used racist slave rhetoric to describe our future president up to two. Hey Ralph Nader, let us know how the first chapter meeting goes, okay? [AP]

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