The face you see at right is the face of hate. This is Craig S. MacGlashan, Sacramento attorney and chair of the Sacramento County Republican Party in Northern California. MacGlashan has taken credit for posting anti-Obama materials on the county GOP website including a call to "Waterboard Barack Obama" and a statement equating Obama with terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. MacGlashan removed the materials Tuesday in the face of sharp criticism from Republicans as well as Democrats, but has refused to apologize or acknowledge that they might legitimately be considered offensive. The materials themselves are preserved for viewing at the Sacramento Bee.

MacGlashan's call to "Waterboard Barack Obama" is probably the most vicious among other hate materials posted to the Sacramento Republicans website, and could reasonably be read as a call to violence against Obama. MacGlashan's comparison of Obama to bin Laden ("The only difference between Obama and Osama is B.S.") is also quite repugnant, and echoes recent attempts such as that of Virginia GOP chair Jeff Frederick to link Obama with terrorists. Also included on the website was a warning that voters should "be afraid, be very afraid" of Obama, likewise echoing the intensified fear-mongering of the national Republican campaign. Other materials included the suggestion that Obama is the candidate of choice for extremists and terrorists around the world and attacks on Obama's wife Michelle. Before removing the materials, MacGlashan told the Sacramento Bee: "I'm aware of the content.... Some people find it offensive, others do not. I cannot comment on how people interpret things."

California Republicans including Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger have taken issue with the materials MacGlashan posted to the Sacramento Republicans website. "In the governor's view, it's completely and totally inappropriate," said Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Julie Soderlund. The appearance of materials such as these in Sacramento seems particularly inflammatory in view of recent vandal attacks on pro-Obama political displays in the Sacramento area. Hate-filled graffiti spray-painted Monday over an Obama display on a fence at Fair Oaks Boulevard and Garfield Avenue in Sacramento included "KKK" and "White Power" in addition to other racial epithets and obscenities (Sacramento Bee 1, Sacramento Bee 2). The home of Sacramento Democratic Party chair Greg Larkins was also recently vandalized (News10). MacGlashan has condemned acts of vandalism such as these, though his condemnations now ring somewhat hollow in view of his own expressions of anti-Obama hate online.

Craig MacGlashan has failed to adequately explain or apologize for his actions and should be pressed to do so. He also deserves to be fully unmasked in public as the hypocrite and hate-monger he obviously is. MacGlashan is an attorney with the Sacramento law firm of Nageley, Meredith, and Miller (8001 Folsom Boulevard, Suite 100, Sacramento CA 95826). The firm can can be contacted by telephone at (916) 386-8282 or by e-mail at mail@NMLawFirm.com. MacGlashan may be directly contacted for comment by telephone at the same number or by e-mail at cmacglashan@nmlawfirm.com. MacGlashan sits also on the board of directors of the Saramento Valley Lincoln Club, a conservative political action committee, and is married to Sacramento County Supervisor Roberta MacGlashan.