'Zombie' Obama causes controversy in the US
According to the newspaper The Washington Post, the Republican Party of Virginia strongly condemned an e-mail sent by Loudoun County’s GOP committee that shows President Obama as a zombie with part of his skull missing and a bullet through his head.
ABC reported that “the montage, a banner on a mass email to Loudoun Republicans, mingles seasonal images including a jack-o-lantern, a disfigured US Rep. Nancy Pelosi and a throng of flesh-hungry zombie Obama supporters.”
“The disgusting image used today on a mass e-mail has no place in our politics. Ever,’’ said Pat Mullins, chairman of the state party TO THE Washington Post. “The Republican Party of Virginia condemns the image and its use in the strongest possible terms.” Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell }said through a spokesman that the e-mail is “shameful and offensive.’’
According to the Washington Post, the e-mail, sent a week before local and state elections, invites supporters to a Halloween parade. “LCRC members and Republican candidates: We are going to vanquish the zombies with clear thinking conservative principles and a truckload of Republican.”
Loudoun County GOP chairman Mark Sell said in an email response to The Associated Press that the graphic was "a light-hearted attempt to inject satire humor into the Halloween holiday."
"Apparently, some individuals have interpreted an image of Barack Obama that appeared within the email as intending to portray the President as a victim of a violent crime," Sell wrote to the international news agency.
"Nothing could be further from the truth, and we deeply and sincerely apologize to the President and anyone who viewed the image if that was the impression that was left."
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