!Cognitive Dissonance Alert!

William Howard Hobbs, who as of late has found his inner-feminist, thinks that it is the Obama supporters who are too touchy in response to a quasi-sambo caricature of Obama on a box of Waffles being pimped by the Conservative base:

Bill Hobbs, a spokesman for the Tennessee Republican Party, said the Obama Waffles are an example of grassroots supporters getting involved in the political process.

“Candidates, campaigns and parties aren't responsible for the actions and messages of every single freelancer from the grassroots and should not be subjected to constant calls to denounce, defend or explain the actions of freelancers,” he said.

Mr. Hobbs said the party did not have a stance on whether the Obama Waffles were offensive. He did say that Sen. Obama and his supporters are “hyper-sensitive to criticism of ‘The One’ and will label almost any criticism of him ‘racist,’ even if it isn’t.”

Of course, the difference between the two parties and two campaigns is that if the shoe were on the other foot, and this was a sexist caricature of Sarah Palin, Hobbs and his ilk would be immediately impugning not just the Democrats, but Barack Obama personally.

In fact, Wade Munday refused to even say this waffle box was racist (though classless), whereas the McCain team and Hobbs have been on a hair-trigger alert to label any criticism of Queen Mooseport as sexist, and impugn it towards the Democrats as a whole.

(h/t Kleinheider)