Who does she think she's kidding?

I received this in a Raging Elephants email today:

"Included in this email is a link to a Black community newspaper in Houston, Texas, the Forward Times. Front-Page Article From the Forward Times
The Republican Party must deal with decades of relationship and image damage done in the eyes of the black community. The unfortunate action of Marilyn Davenport of Orange County, California can now be used to infuriate the black community, deepen the perceived stereotype that the GOP (and, Tea Party) is racist, and increase the difficulty to bring voters of color into the GOP voters base.

Davenport has apologized several times. However, anyone holding public office with a "R" behind their name - regardless of the rank of the office - that commits such a serious transgression, must be pressured to relinquish that post for the exact reason that the front-page story from the Forward Times illustrates. ... The Forward Times circulates in the district of Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee. Davenport has given the political opposition a mighty gift. She deserves no cover. All excuses must be dismissed. All transgressions of this nature must be condemned, universally!"

(I see a family resemblance, don't you?)

Marilyn Davenport, GOPer behind racist Obama e-mail, demands person who leaked it to 'come forward'

Here's Davenport's apology, from the Houston "Forward Times":

"I feel that it was inappropriate and I offended people," said Marilyn Davenport, emerging from hiding to hold a press conference outside her home.

Davenport added, however, that she doesn't believe herself to be racist.

"I think it's only racist when the intent in my heart is to make it that way," she said, "and that was not the intent in my heart."

Davenport reiterated her apology later during an interview with KTLA News.

"I really am sorry for it," she said. "And [I] really regret that I sent it out."

The 74-year-old elected member of the Orange County Republican Central Committee said she won't step down because she still has the support of her "constituents."

"[They] have told me ... they want me not to resign," she said to the local news station.

A devout Christian hailing from Kansas, Davenport also insisted she did not see the image of Obama as a chimp as racist, although she admitted during her press conference that she intentionally did not send it to some friends fearing they would be offended.

Davenport said she considered it more political satire because of "all that's going on with [Obama's] birth certificate."

I get an especially big kick out of Davenport claiming she's a "... devout Christian..." It's my view that Davenport not only set black-white relations back a number of years but she didn't do anything to promote Christianity, either. I'm sure most all of those witnesses to the KKK lynchings of blacks in the South would say they were Christians, too, but I don't buy it.

I'm hoping there's a special place in Hell for anybody who claims to be a Christian yet thinks that black people are in any way inferior to white people.