In defending her candidate, Newt Gingrich, State Rep. Judy Manning (R-Marietta) shows us that she is a bigot. Here’s the story from the Marietta Daily Journal:

Manning believes Gingrich, if given the chance, can beat President Obama.

“But I think we’ve got so many people that are too interested in the personal lives of all of our elected officials that we can’t get past that to the point of who can do the job, and who can make the decisions, and who knows the politics involved, and who better than someone who has the experience,” Manning said.

By contrast, Manning believes Rick Santorum doesn’t have the seasoning to unseat Obama, and Mitt Romney concerns her.

“I think Mitt Romney is a nice man, but I’m afraid of his Mormon faith,” Manning said. “It’s better than a Muslim. Of course, every time you look at the TV these days you find an ad on there telling us how normal they are. So why do they have to put ads on the TV just to convince us that they’re normal if they are normal? … If the Mormon faith adhered to a past philosophy of pluralism, multi-wives, that doesn’t follow the Christian faith of one man and one woman, and that concerns me.”

Stay classy, Rep. Manning.

The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (based in Atlanta), who gave the benediction today at the inauguration of President Obama, seems to not realize what decade it is. Indeed, after reciting the third verse of “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a hymn also known as the “black national anthem,” he said this:

“We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right.”

How petty of him. Is he not aware that over 60 million people just elected Barack H. Obama to the office of President of the United States? Does he not realize that the majority of those people were, point in fact, white? Where today are these blacks which are asked to “get back” and where are the browns which are allegedly “sent away.” And are asians getting too excited for his tastes because they aren’t “mellow” enough? Notice, of course, how in Lowery’s eyes whites still evidently don’t “embrace what is right.” Pathetic.

It is Lowery who cannot seem to move on from the past and who embraces victimhood with both arms. The SCLC has made clear that even with the election of Obama the United States is still a racist country, and it is again obvious that the true bigotry lies within Lowery’s own soul. Too bad, frankly, because the rest of the Republic long ago moved on.

[UPDATE] As Michelle Malkin notes on her post concerning this matter, “A reader points to this old civil rights chant that adds context to Lowery’s remarks — but makes the jab against whites all the more egregious.”