Little Man John McCain says Obama campaign is playing the race card.
By John Amato Wednesday Jul 30, 2008 8:13pm
Early today---the McCain campaign made a baseless accusation about Obama's camp. That Barack was playing the race card. No, really. They should know all about race after they released an attack ad with two young, white women in it (Paris Hilton) to contrast Obama and make him look like? You get the picture. John McCain told CNN's John King in a very somber tone, that yes---they played it.
King:... is it a fair criticism for Rick Davis to say---the Obama campaign is playing the race card?
McCain: It is, I'm sorry to say that it is. It's legitimate and we don't, there's no place in this campaign for that. There's no place for it and we shouldn't be doing it.
King: They say that's not the case.
McCain: OK John, I'll let the American people judge.
McCain injects racism and then says there is no place like home is no place for racism. They know the media will lap it up. They've been working on trying to make Obama look like a racist, french man who is uppity for a while now and they just played their hand. Did you notice how small he looked next to King? And I'm not talking about his size. He seemed to shrink into nothingness as he parroted his campaign's charges. Just wait until the debates. He won't be able to double talk his way out of it. The imagery will be devastating to him.
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Yeah, I starting checking the news today and I read that the McCain camp was accusing the Obama camp of playing the race card... and I think to myself? WTF? When?
He's soooooooo desperate.
My grandmother is afraid of what is going to happen if the colored people take over.
Unfortunately for her, the rest of the family has decided not to give her a ride to the polling place on election day.
Just wait until the debates. He won’t be able to double talk his way out of it. The imagery will be devasting to him.
I don't know - the McCain camp looks to be positioning themselves so that they can pound Obama for "beating up a defenseless old man" if Obama tacks too hard during the debates.
Then again, their position seems to be "These are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others..."
McCain is right too.
Obama is playing the exact same shit he played against the Clintons, only this time he's getting shoved right back into his despicable face where it belongs.
Obama is a thug, period. He can smear the Clintons and get away with becasue all the liberal blogs have gone insane for him and the media couldn't wait to take the Clintons down.
But those days, happily, are over.
What a f'n shame. Lol.
To be fair, McCain's Munchkinhausen Syndrome appeared to be partly a result of "forced perspective": King was a little closer to the camera's POV and it helped make him look relatively larger than he actually is. That being said, it is a fact that McCain is shrinking by the minute.
++++
Mccain comes across more and more as a frightened, lost and angry old man.
his people are truely getting desperate and are now going with hate.
OxyCon @ 4:
Sometimes people say some dumb shit. Go snort some more meth and leave the big kids alone.
OxyCon @ 4:
LA Confidential is that you?
Kerry could have ripped chimpy a new one but didn't. This as the other has the potential of being vey embarrassing. I'll believe when I see it because up to know our side hasn't gotten squat from these guys.
Damn, for once in his long long long life, McCain has a point.
I found the Britney/Paris ad pretty offensive. But I have a hard time calling it racist. Regardless, it has nothing to do with Obama's comments about McCain pointing out that he doesn't look like the Presidents on our money.
If Obama thinks the Britney ad is racist, he can make that case. But the comments he made were not an appropriate response.
This bothers me, because some day soon the McCain camp will be making a hard racist pitch to save some ground in some slipping red states. And Obama will have lost his credibility on this issue.
Grampa McGrumpy? Your ideas are pathetic. Your campaign is pathetic. You're pathetic. You say you want the American people to decide who's playing the race card? Let's see...put Barack Obama sandwiched in between two hot young white chicks, so that people will think that Obama's the racist.... Hmmmm..... No. You're pathetic.
I hate predictions, but can easily see a McCain victory. The race card is a mighty trump here in Wisconsin. Lotta rednecks still kickin' in the ol US.
Hate to say it, but the US deserves McCain.
And the Aftermath.
i was just feeling sorry for John McCain & the way he'd gotten in way over his head up to this point, but now it's obvious he's just as much of an bigot as OxyCon.
It would have been nice to have been able to say the poor old man was just being used by the Nazi wing of the republican party, Alas it's now apparent that he was read into the brotherhood of hate & willingly offered up his soul.
Not that the election would have turned out differently.
Does anyone remember the movie version of "Popeye" with Robin Williams? There was one character all through the film whose only line (several times in several scenes) was this whiney, sobby, "You owe me an apology!" I feel like I'm am just watching those scenes on a playback loop over and over when it comes to Republicans in general and John McCain in particular.
Whine, Whine, whine, complain complain, complain, pity party, pity party, pity party.
With their paranoia and delusion problems it is nice when the trolls give you an indication of what drug they're consuming to get that way. I guess OxyCon must be on OxyContin -- just like his good buddy Rush.
white people are obsolete.
Sherry @ 10:
It was on the national news today that Exxon/Mobile made the biggest quarterly profits of any company in US history at the same time Americans are paying $4 at the pump. You wanna focus on a real issue?
Check out Andrea Mitchell on tonight's NBC Nightly News! Full court pushback against McShame's slimy campaign.
Edward Says@6 Mccain comes across more and more as a frightened, lost and angry old man.
his people are truely getting desperate and are now going with hate.
His people are the republican party, they have always gone with hate and fear.
This isn't new but Obama should start fighting back a little harder with the truth!
McCain is not McCain he is Manchurian McCain, and I do mean just what that implies. If it does not look like McCain will win the white house these people and this admin. will do what it takes to retain power, No Matter What.Period
Ruthless People @ 17:
Happy to focus on real issues. And the Britney ad was out of line. So was the currency comment, but it certainly a smaller infraction - a comment to a group of supporters, not an ad.
Wanna focus on the thread?
Ruthless People @ 17:
....12 billion PROFIT in one quarter which bested their previous record last quarter. And who got a cool million in his campaign coffers this week? McSame! Issues, people, issues!
I will tell you what pisses me off. Americablog.com censors my comments because I call Aravosis on his Hillary-Hate.
Marty @ 12:
Well you (and probably your family) live in the US, so do I and probably most of the people commenting here. So you're saying WE ALL deserve McCain, even if we campaign and vote against him?
Yeah, Obama is playing the race card by being black! Shame on him!
Sherry @ 20:
No, I think I'll just wait for a thread that talks about the screwing the American people are getting. You can continue to post on this one. Be my guest.
All I have to say is JUST PATHETIC!!!
Thank you for mentioning the debates. I've been commenting all over the blogosphere (and been censored at HuffPo) for predicting JFK vs Nixon redux. If Kerry vs Bush was embarrassing but futile, this time I expect and demand utter evisceration. No Bonesmen this time.
The first time I heard the phrase "race-card" it was in reference to O.J. in '95. Now it is Obama playing that card. Why is it only black people are said to be playing the race-card?
At the debates they will both be sitting down, thus reducing the obvious advantage of Sen Obama, a young viral man, vs Sen McCain, an old impotent man.
Ok. I guess I'll ignore my lying inbox. No racist/ethnic/cultural attacks on Obama THERE. I'll ignore my lying ears as I listen to talk radio. No racist/ethnic/cultural attacks on Obama THERE.
Obama isn't making this shit up. He wasn't saying "McCain" is personally behind these attacks. But "they" are. Those nefarious thems. McCain doesn't have to do squat.
But yeah.... Obama is playing the race card.... and up is down.....
Unless the McCain campaign people are a LOT dumber than they seem (and they have been doing some really dumb things lately) there is NO WAY they can let McCain into a public debate with Obama.
No way.
When McCain refuses to debate, I think the Obama camp should just have Obama debate a cardboard figure of McCain. They can display actual quotes made by McCain on pieces of paper and just have Obama respond. Put it on prime-time.
When the mainstream media, who are salivating at the thought of Obama/McCain debates, hears about McCain refusing to debate they will be really mad.
I can't wait for the non-debating McCain statements.
Let's see......August, September, October, Nov.........
It's gonna get real nasty. You ain't seen nothin' yet.
The presumptive Republic candidate is acting more and more dazed and confused with each passing hour. Yet they still pretend the old coot is qualified to be POTUS. I expect the Republic convention to be very interesting.
It's actually quite amusing.
What BO said in June at a fundraising event:
"They’re going to try to make you afraid of me," Obama told donors. "‘He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?’"
Basically they are doing everything BO said they would do. Which means they are playing right into his hand because all of this was tried by Clinton and it failed to get Clinton the win. While it did have some effect in April and May everyone has already been exposed to it to it's very old hat.
McCain has gone negative way too early in my opinion and his campaign is playing into the narrative that Barack's campaign has created.
The really nice thing is that Barack is not playing into the narrative that McCain's camp is trying to replay. These attacks are pathetic and aren't going to move anything all that much.
In my opinion, McCain needs to be leading in the polls by 5 points in all the swing states, just after the conventions, just to have a snowballs chance in hell. The ground game that Barack is setting up is going to be brutal.
Ozymandias @ 28.
I understand "playing the race card" to mean changing the subject or scoring points by making false allegations of racism.
So, white people can be racist. And minorities can play the race card by falsely claiming that someone is racist. But I don't think that a white person can play the race card - they can only be racist.
Just my understanding.
I like Pie @ 2:
And your grandmother probably has a firmer handshake than McSame (33 seconds in)
Senator McCain, " can't you see that man is a ... well you know?"
Dr Jerome Corsi is on Insanity right now and has written a very derogatory book titled Obama Nation. If that is not playing the race card I don't know what is.
Uh, can someone tell me where Obama played the 'race card'? Cuz I'm not seeing it.
I for one say to McCain, "Bring it on." He has gone there and the only thing he can possibly do at this point is stay there and hope for enough people still living in the 1950's to vote for him. I think he vastly overestimates that number.
Either that or he now realizes there's no way on earth he has a chance of winning and wants to go out with a bang.
In that clip McCain is so obviously embarassed by his own behavior that it is painful to watch and he ought to be. He has now abandoned any pretense of a moral core.
McC(ompl)ain
Sherry @ 10:
That's not a racist comment at all. Fact. Deal with it. Go look up the definition. We'll wait....
I just dont understand why it is that the Republican Party always take the
low road in their campaigning. Don't they have a clue that the American public
is sick and tired of that tactic?
Everytime I hear the right call Obama arrogant and inexperienced, I hear them calling him Uppity. And it pisses me off.
Does that make me a racist?
Someone should make a political ad when McCain selects Romney as his VP titled: Finally, we have two flip-flops to make a pair!
“What they’re going to try to do is make you scared of me,” Obama said. “You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”
All the presidents on our currency are white men. Maybe I am imbecilic, but that sounds like Obama is accusing the McCain camp of launching a race based attack on him because he is black. If Obama believes that; he has the right to say it. Just dont tell me Obama has not invoked the race card as part of his defense strategy for counter-attack. The American public aint that stupid.
Global Citizen @ 41:
Its not that benign. He no longer controls the campaign. They are driving the message, he is forbidden to speak out. It is now the Bush/Rove III with a cardboard Krusty glued on the front. Seriously, the control staff is all Rove lieutenants.
john mccain's playing the get out of jail free card.
you sure you wanna exercise that option ju8st yet, senor pinata?
*just
orcas @ 47:
all the presidents on our bills are also old and have small ears
Sherry @ 10:
Are you high?
I think you missed the point, a little bit.
Obama did not play any race card. He forwarned the thugs would and now they have.
Bartelby at 30 has it exactly right.
All day... in EVERY MEDIA... conservatives and Republicans call Obama "different" and scary, and "exotic," and uppity (haven't heard THAT word yet... but there are a dozen PC words that mean the same thing which are in wide usage.)
McCain has lost his soul. He's no longer a political maverick... he's become a political hack, who has gone over to the DARK SIDE with the help of KKKarl Rove and the George W. Bush style of character assassination and mis-information.
Obama's black?!!!!
orcas @ 47:
I haven't the vaguest notion as to what you're talking about. I just think he means he's not old like all the guys on the bills, you know how everyone claims he's young and inexperienced. Why - he mentioned nothing about race. And if you say otherwise you'll just have to prove it, won't you?
And by the way, a good deal of the American public is just that stupid. Have you been living in the same country I've been?
hey, folks, don't judge a man by his size.
if mccain had even half the governing skills of that king from "wizard of id", we'd all be singing his virtues...
BennyP @ 42:
OH, that's GOOD! I'm not going to credit you, but I'm sure gonna use it!
King:… is it a fair criticism for Rick Davis to say—the Obama campaign is playing the race card?
McCain: It is, I’m sorry to say that it is. It’s legitimate and we don’t, there’s no place in this campaign for that. There’s no place for it and we shouldn’t be doing it.
I'm still waiting to hear McCain explain why, exactly, it is a fair criticism.
No comment required for mccain, but king makes me laugh every time he opens his mouth. If i had been in any business for 20 yr and learned as little about it as he apparently has about journalism, I wouldn't be telling anyone how long I'd been at it, because I'd come across as mind numbingly stupid or arrogant. Ooops I just described him didn't i? Sorry about that john.
McLame is so freaking desperate, lol. I hope he doesn't croak from that awful temper of his so Obama can cream his ass election day.
I like Pie @ 2:
IT AIN’T THE RACE CARD, IT AIN’T THE CAMPAIGNS, ITS THE MEDIA.
Yesterday the media manufactured a controversy out of an unsourced Obama quote Dana Milbank of the WaPo twisted into a comment that meant exactly the opposite of what Obama actually said. It became the story of the day for the media sheep who bleated about it all day as if it was a true quote. Obama would have to be as stupid as our pundit corps to have said what Milbank attributed to him. Few people are that dumb. Obama is not one of them.
Today ABC’s Jake Tapper, who once implied Obama was untrustworthy because he smelled what he thought was cigarette smoke on Obama, launched this whole affair at his ABC blog. Check it out. He said something to the effect that Obama’s statements yesterday were racist and xenophobic accusations against McCain. All other networks carried Obama’s comments. None of them made the connection Jake did. He took words Obama said on the campaign stump and placed them as if they were given as an answer to a question Obama was asked about McCain’s ads. Shades of CBS and Katie Couric. Then his ABC colleagues ran over and asked Rick Davis at the McCain campaign for a response to Obama accusing them of racism. This is exactly what ABC did to Obama with the New Yorker cartoon. They kept badgering them until they commented and the story blew up.
You may want to believe this is all the McCain campaign’s doing. It is the press. You need to join me in calling them on it. Tapper dealt the race card. Others played their hands.
Two white BLONDE women.
For some reason "Call me Barry" keeps running through my head.
I can't wait for a face-to-face so Obama can wipe McShame's punk-ass all over the floor.
GOP: "The only thing we have to offer is fear itself"
That's five against one including the formerly black "yes sir" congressman and Gregory.
5 to 1 just means the playing field is about even. Rachel ignored Smer because if you listen
to the statement he quoted it actually says nothing. He's using the Monica Crowley
method of talking as if he really had something to say or that there is a real
person talking. *Mike Smerborough* is a truthful, honest lawyer who I respect and honor
almost as much as Vlad "The Impaler" Putin.
Sherry@10,
It was racist and it does matter.
It matters because it was intended to inflame racial hatred, nothing more. The McCain camp is willing to use bigotry, sex and hate to solidify the votes of the lowest, most hateful, most racist demographic in this country.
Apparently you missed how racist it is intended to be. That's ok, it means you either haven't been exposed to really sick racism, or it's really hard for you to imagine anyone sinking to the level they had to sink to in order to do this.
But here's the context the ad was done in that you apparently didn't get, and why it is so very despicable:
The more racist members of our country still believe that the races should be kept separate. They also believe that blacks should know and keep in their place. Black men who look at their white women deserve to be strung up.
This isn't history, this is how it still is in many parts of this country. These folks have never really gotten over forced segregation. And there are still millions of them in this country.
There's no question that Obama won't get any of their votes, but McCain wouldn't necessarily get their votes either. Just because he's a Republican isn't enough. He's way too liberal for most of them.
But the GOP knows how to get the racists riled up when it needs to. That's what the "Willie Horton" ad was about, and Jesse Helm's "Hands" ad and Ronald Reagan's Cadillac driving welfare queen. Blatant appeals to bigots to remind them of how they have been victimized by blacks, and to make them feel like the blacks will take what is theirs if they aren't vigilant.
For a week now, all the McCain and GOP blowhards have been repeating the "Obama is arrogant" line. Obama is overstepping. Obama is forgetting his place.
This is all code for, "the n****r is getting uppity".
Once they injected the "uppity n****r" meme firmly in the media, what did the McCain camp do next? They show the uppity n****r with two sexually provacative young, blond, white women.
This had NOTHING to do with popularity or celebrity. That was the excuse for the talking heads so they could keep replaying it over and over and over. A smiling Obama and two white blond girls.
Now, this may be hard for you to believe, because you may not think this way - either because you're not that racist or you're not so ethically challenged that you would ever do such a despicable thing as make an ad that is only intended to incite hatred and racism. But you didn't do this, the McCain campaign, and the GOP smear machine, did this. And you better believe they would sink this low. They've been doing it for decades.
This wasn't a mistake, of a misjudgement, anymore than it was a mistake for Bush to go to Bob Jones, to show support for a segregated college in the South.
No more than it was a mistake for Reagan to go to Philadelphia, Mississippi - where three civil rights workers were murdered in one of the 1960s' ugliest cases of racist violence, to declare his belief in "state's rights", code for legalized racial discrimination. Reagan was letting the South know he wouldn't interfere in their suppression of blacks.
This is who the GOP is. This is what they do. And they don't care who they hurt or if they damage this country.
Get it now?
Site Monitor: Roooth, please do not use the "n-word". It will not pass through our filters.
The first black man to seriously challenge for the presidency, and he's the racist. Thanks for clearing that up, McC*nt.
I love how he just stomps off like a little ol pissed off ol man needing a drink and his depends changed....and King stood there with a stunned look on his face...McGramps made an ass of himself...( look up the definition of maverick- horse's ass)
Nicky has an excellent point in #63. I often wonder what would happen if they did a little experiment where they held people in some isolated place and only reported the facts of the campaign. Let them listen to or read speeches and watch campaign events - but completely filter out any pundit noise.
I mean... does anyone really think that any sensible person would have watched Obama's trip overseas or listened to his speech in Germany and come to the conclusion (completely without outside influence) that Obama is being presumptuous or arrogant, etc.?
It IS the media. NONE of these memes are 'real'.
Obama should, inevitably, let them make the argument of the "race card", they are arguing from a positon that it would make interesting to see how they would defend.
Yes, make this accusation. This will be funny to see, their race baiting will only get worse,give them the rope, little by little, and let them jump of their own cliff
Nice bit of race baiting on McCains part.
Jerk.
And remember, this is perfect proof of how the Republican Party has mirrored the media message of MEDIA GARBAGE fed to the American people in times of aggressive, illegal and ongoing military occupation of Iraq/A-stan.
Coincidence the media message is the same for McCain as it has been by the media as a pastdistraction?
The GOP/MSM media clearly use the same playbook
An earlier post had it right - it's the media that continues to manufacture bullshit and continually push it out in front of America, rather than hone in on the issues.
King had a chance to nail McSame with at LEAST a modicum of journalistic query. You know, like:
Why is it fair to call that statement racist?
What makes you think he meant it in a racist fashion?
Why is it fair to call him a star like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, when that doesn't even apply to the issues at hand in a presidential campaign - isn't that petty?
Don't you think words like "presumptous" and "exotic" are code words for uppity, and thereby racist?
But nooooooooo, King just allows it to remain at "it is fair" and that's it.
Meantime, Mr. Mcisn'thesameashewasin2000 continues to miss critical points on issues and blunders through his supposed strongsuit of military/foreign affairs.
I like pie @2,
Thanks! I'm still laughiing my ass off! Poor Grandma.
Does McCain EVER think on his feet or is he, like the Decider, operated by remote control? I really think he doesnt know what to say half of the time when asked silly, inane questions.
Hey Morning Jealousy
Can you report this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O5fFcM59eY
Or can you report this
LowRoadExpress.com
Or just maybe you can talk about this
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121745962594698731.html?mod=todays_colum...
WONDER LAND / is John McCain Stupid?
By DANIEL HENNINGER
Or how about asking a democrat a question and allowing them to answer it?
Or are you going to continue your race baiting because you lack any type of substance to keep the viewers’ interest.
It is quite amazing that the ratings go up when your not around don’t you think? You would think MSNBC would notice this and do something about it. But maybe CNN will help you guys out in this department.
Now CNN, American Morning this is your opportunity. Morning Jealousy will be going on a two weeks vacation for the Olympics. This is your time to change the boring format of your show. There are plenty of people who are extremely unhappy with the unfair coverage that MSNBC brings in the Morning...
I have provided you with a blog from their own website and you will read many many complaints against the race baiting Joe Jealous Scarborough.
Latest post from: Wallace vs. Gibbs (http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/31/1237320.aspx)
Now are you just going to sit there or are you going to take advantage of this opportunity to shut this show down completely.
Once this is done you will see viewers flock to your show in droves, but it’s all up to you.
enigma4ever, so true ... McCain is the guy who sets a house on fire, runs away, and then watches gleefully as the flames consume the structure. Kinda like the nutcase in the WH running the show right now. It's too bad all those firefighters and rescue personnel had to die, eh ?
ps, I see you are also a skippy fan. We share good taste in the finer things, no ?
Rethuglicans along with Morning Jealousy, Fake News and breed racist like Jim D. Adkisson every day of every week.
Rethuglicans along with Morning Jealousy and Fake News, degrade Muslims while they pump their gas into their cars every day.
What would happen if the Muslim Countries decided to cut America off of their oil, would the Rethuglicans along with Morning Jealousy and Fake News and continue their R A C E Baiting?
Have you ever thought about that, what would you do then, oh drill offshore even though you wouldn’t see any production in 10 years.
Crazy Old John is at it again. One would think that he has some handlers that would better manage his mistatements. He puts his foot in his mouth just about every other day now.
UhOhChongo @ 56:
Obama's problem is undecided voters who interpret his racial comments the way I did. They are under no obligation to prove anything. They will simply vote for McCain.
this man is an unelectable old fool. period. he should be staggeringly ashamed of himself for what he's become. a shadow of what he's accomplished. all for what? nothing but embarrassment. he wants the job or President so badly he will do and say anything to get it. you dont deserve the job, sir, the American people decide that. Obama has every right to run and so do you. neither of you deserves it.
roooth @ 67
No, I don't get it.
In fact, I think your post comes off as a touch unhinged.
They called Kerry arrogant. It is a standard attack they make against people who use three syllable words. They called Bill Clinton arrogant, and Hillary. Google it.
"Arrogant" - a pretty standard slam against the intellectualism of Democratic politicans - doesn't suddenly morph into "uppity."
And it's pretty unhinged to consider any ad that has Obama and a white woman to be some sort of sexual reference. In the ad at issue, Britney and Paris are used as examples of the shallowness of celebrity. The ad is pretty vile, in that it has no substance, and just slams Obama for being a "celebrity" which they equate with drug-addicted, shallow partiers. But there isn't any hint of a sexual relationship between Obama and Britney.
The ads ran in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin - not hotbeds for the sort of racists who want to "keep the races separate."
I have no doubt that we will see dirty racial politics from the McCain campaign. I also have no doubt that the wingnut bloggers and emailers are somewhat scripted by the RNC. But in fact, McCain has not been racist - not to a person of normal sensibilities.
The happened back in the primaries. I thought that Bill Clinton's comments about Jesse Jackson were out of line. I also thought that the playing of the Wright controversy reeked of racism. However, there was a lot of alleged racism that didn't happen. The 3 am ad wasn't racist because it reminded some college prof of Birth of a Nation, for example. And the McCain ad - though an awful piece of propaganda - isn't racist because a white woman appears.
This isn't a college lit class where you get a pat on the head for clever but improbable interpretations.
He's worse than a liar, he a con, a crook. He can't own up to his own actions and refuses to accept responsibility for any of his screw ups; He's a f!*n sociopath that refuses to give up! What does that say about his idiotic defenders?
Dude!!! I met McCain at my commencement ceremony from college. He is really short. He was like a munchkin. Maybe a troll. I was afraid to shake his hand, thought it may be catchy.
Sherry @83,
I thought roooths comments were excellent. There is nothing the Roveian fascists who are now running McSenile's campaign do for subtlety. These evil fuckers are always thinking three steps ahead. Their only problem now, is that a great many of the American people have caught up with them.
Unfortunately, there are still plenty of racist morons out there. I live in Michigan, which is definitely a blue state. Yet where I live, all I see are yard signs for repukes. These brain dead ass holes WILL most definitely be swayed by the talk radio S.S. broadcasts, and the bobbleheads on Fucks snooze.
Fortunately for us, the rest of the state is not that batshit crazy, and I'm confident Michigan will be easily won by Obama. Therein lies McSenile's problem.
The rational independents and liberal republican's have been so fucked over by Bush and the GOP corporate fascists, that the only people they can still appeal to with this shit are the sociopathic rich (like Bush), and the completely insane 1950's redneck retards. I'll be the first to admit that its depressing how many of the latter still exist in this country, and that the GOP's only hope at this point is to pray that its still 50% or more, but I really doubt that it is. I think KKKarl's math is going to be even more off the mark this time than it was in 2006!
Ku Klux Klan DOES NOT Endorse Barack Obama for President
http://www.kkk.bz/
Surprise surprise.
McSame doesn't have anything to solve the problems his Greedy Oil Party has created. They have to resort to dirty negative bs like they always do. They cannot talk about solutions because they have none. The only objective of the party that hates government is to take and destroy. They have to divert attention from reality because not even the troglodytes would go for what they have to offer. They have to be racist, hateful and dishonest.
First of all, calining your opponent is trying to scare you by saying you "don't look like the presidents on the dollar bills" IS playing the race card, and Obama shouldn't deny it.
Secondly, don't underestimate McCain in these debates. He believes his own bullsh*t, and while smarty-pants high-falluten Obama is talking over everyone's heads, McCain will give simple-minded, easily understood answers with a comfortable, firm, grandfather-knows-best demeanor second only to a yee-haw, kick-ass, Christian cowboy in appeal to the right wing and bubbas that make up the majoroty of voters. Kerry destroyed Bush on the facts, but Bush was able to communicate that he was "one of us"; a "regular guy" that doesn't scare most voters who don't trust what they can't understand. And Kerry lost.
This all may sound harsh, arrogant and rude, but it's totally true in the real world of politics, and I want to win, not feel righteous or smart. Obama is so close to losing it all. He MUST learn not to talk over people, and give answers that come viscerally from the heart.
The AP says "hard-hitting" when referencing the new McCain Ad. So comparing a Harvard Law Review president, United States Senator, and a presidential candidate who managed to beat the Clintons to Brittney Spears and Paris Hilton is "hard-hitting." Comparing someone who writes eloquent books and speeches to media creations is somehow credible? Is it the idea that there is no mention of policy or problems that the country faces that makes it "hard-hitting?" Liberal media. Yea, right.
Scott @ 89:
Except...Obama made even more strident remarks like this a month ago at an event in Florida, and there was nary a peep out of McCain.
“They’re going to try to make you afraid. They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. ‘He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?’" - Barack Obama, June 20
So it was okay to say that then, but now saying it is "playing the race card"?
Trekkie @ 91:
Your comments will for the most part fall on blind eyes, Trekkie.
Live long and Prosper.
Sherry @ 10:
Hey troll, let's shatter your bubbly tripe:
1. The Britney ad IS RACIST because it continues the racist line that Obama is a scary uppity BLACK MAN who is going after our young WHITE daughters.
That is Racist overtones and the republicans cradle their racism like a fine wine!
2. Since McCAIN approved the message, then McCain is using the RACE CARD and Obama responding that he doesn't look like the other faces on our money, is perfectly acceptable as a response to McCain using RACISM!!
3. Obama's comments in response were deserved by McCAin, and they were totally called for against McCain's racist Paris and Britney ad.
3. Obama will never stop being an African American and I'd be fine if he called out McCain and the Republican fear ads EVERY time they implied racism. I guess the fact that Obama did not more directly address the racism in the ad , is evidence of Obama saving his direct accusations for later in the campaign when he will need to slam Republicans as they crank up the swift boat guns.
I'm sorry to say friends that there's going to be more racism. We can't win this campaign without painting Obama as a racist in order to relieve the guilt of our racist constituency.
FreeDUMB @ 93:
It's paranoid comments like yours that are turning people off to Obama. Guy hauls in three times the money and he still can't shake off Obama in the polls? And not many Americans are impressed with his world tour.
When McCain said Obama was "playing the race card", Mc Cain started twisting his ring. I think that's body language for "I know I'm lying." Obama didn't mention race and has no reason to do so. He's already got the Black vote. Does anyone think that mentioning race helps him with the white vote?
Josh@94
If you use other posters comments as an excuse to not supporting Obama, you're a phony. There are many reasons why Obama hasn't shook off this awful old dope and race surely is one of them.....stop ignoring historical facts.
McGeezer has become one desperate, soulless, lost man. He knows he's an old, angry(and difficult to look at), terrible candidate with nothing new or imaginative to offer and this intelligent, charismatic, young, handsome, black guy is bitch slapping his entitled ass all over the country. Accusing the inclusive Obama of using the race card isn't "the kitchen sink", its the toilet bowel. Keeping this campaign racial is all McWorthless has got.
Left&Left @ 97:
Who said I was using Obama as an excuse to not vote for him? Other people might be but I'm not voting against Obama because he happened to use the race card. I disagree with Obama on the Surge in Iraq. I disagree with him on taxes, energy, foreign policy. And these disagreements are great enough for me to vote for John McCain because he's where I'm at on these issues.
McCain has served his country since 1958 and his dedication to this country is unquestionable.
Left&Left @ 97:
Obama uses the race card all the time. And more and more people are beginning to see that. I'm sorry but you fail in your attempt to carry water for Obama. He's out-fundraising McCain but he still can't shake him off. It's not race that haunts Obama. It's his insincerity and incompetence.
Josh@100
Incompetent? You only wish you could be that incompetent. And sure, more and more people are seeing through Obama....that's why he continues to out raise your fraudulent hero. And McGeezer sincere? Don't make me vomit. I'm out, good night....enjoy yourself under the bridge.
Obama SHOULD use the "race card". Doesn't he have a white mother and black father?? What a tremendous advantage that is- white folks and black folks, and all of the social and political issues that are intertwined... No wonder the McCain camp needs to construe race, very early, to be some horrible, despicable thing.
How are people of colour- particularly those who identify themselves to be in the middle or lower socio-economic groups supposed to relate to or feel a sense of trust for Mr. and Mrs McCain?
Race is the elephant in the room and Obama should play it loud and proud- white and black. He'll have both White and Black voters, and everyone in-between shouting "YES WE CAN". The McCain camp ought to be shitting bricks right now.
Ha. McSame. It's this type of name calling that sticks to Obama. You're not doing him any favors, trust me. If you were famous he'd disown you quicker than he disowned Ludacris.
BO is not black .
Unless a white male and a black Woman have a child and it is white .
He is an AMERICAN , true of mixed races , so the fuck what , again if anyone is entitled to use the race card it is someone who is mutli-racial .
Mcwhitie , or is that greyhair you are too senile , just mosey on out to the pasture there you old gelding .
Goodnight everyone. I'll be back some other day to debate your ridiculous and rather infantile attitudes towards McCain who has done nothing to earn such enmity from you. I recommend in the mean time that you seek some therapy because you clearly have unresolved issues stemming from parental neglect or abuse.
Obama talks issues! McCain talks nonsense!
But you know I don't blame McCain for all these baseless comments, but the national media that carries it 24/7, then tries to give the elusion that they don't play a part in this sabbatage, when you have to know that neither of the candidates, have control of these people. Oh but the five rich white bigots, sure do and they continue to drive our entire agenda, right into the toilet.
This entire country is falling apart and you would think that some kind of attention would be placed on the people responsible for it, yet because Corporate America is financing these idiots, like they are our Congress members, they would rather swift boat Senator Obama, then to speak out against the powers that are distroying this country.
I don't know in my mind a group of people more deserving of a good swift ass kicking then the idiots in American national media.
I get to judge? Great!
John McCain, eat a bag of shit. You suck.
After that interview, and McSame's thoughtless defense of his campaign's Paris Hilton ad, I am starting to have real concerns about his judgment and possibly his sanity.
Is the old boy coming down with Alzheimer's? Looks like early stage dementia to me.
Ozymandias @ 28:
Moreover, the exact Rick Davis quote “Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck,’’ is a very close paraphrase of OJ Simpson's lawyer Robert Shapiro when he said of the OJ defense team: “Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.” Davis seems to be connecting dots between Obama and black murderer OJ Simpson.
Astro @ 110:
Ask yourself how many people even knew that's where the phrase was first uttered, Rastro. Or could even make the association, and then somehow in their mind juxtapose Obama to OJ Simpson. The only ones who seem to be connecting the dots between Obama and OJ are left-wing bloggers with super secret decoding powers who dream up these things for political exploitation.
I am sick and tired of hearing all day about little and unimportant issues filling the airwaves in this campaign for presidency,while ignoring the big issues.
We have exremely demanding issues:
The Energy crisis and consumers pain at the pump.
The Housing Crisis.
Banks and credit crunch,personal and business.
Huge rise in bankruptcies
The fall of the dollar.
Two wars and a the talk about a 3rd one with Iran.
The Justsic Department scandals.
The Debt ceiling.
The world and us.
And now McCain brings Paris Hilton and B. Spears in his ad. against Obama. The media went frenzy over the issue...
We need serious campaign , because we are living crucial moments in our history,and the media seems to feed daily on stupid and unimportant issues.
"The imagery will be devastating to him."
It's a good thing he's not Obama.
Obama is nothing but imagery. All sizzle, no steak.
McShitstain is geting desperate. And in the meantime McCain's media is ignoring every important issue, starting with Constitutional matters, over which they should be holding both candidate's feet to the fire.
I tell you, when I get elected philosopher king, there's going to be some major changes..
Really? What a surprise the race card is coming up! Should the question be who is playing the race card? The race card is the GOP's fear card. The best thing to do is to refuse to debate the topic all together. Look at the media eat this shit up. Don't get roped into this B.S. Stick to the issues; you know the things that are really going to impact your everyday lives.
The McCain campaign strategy draws media and voter attention to questions of character and race in order to distract consideration from the important issues. That’s because they can’t figure out how to differentiate what they're trying to sell as their positions from what Bush & Co have already shown to be failed policies. How can they remain true to their cause, but make voters believe they're advocating something different, and win at the same time?
McCain’s campaign is suffering from multiple personalities. Perhaps McCain could solve the personality, diminutive stature, and public approval issues all at the same time by borrowing Pee Wee Herman’s elevator shoes and dancing to “Tequila’? Is the Alamo near Crawford?
It's interesting to read the vapid comments that don't see the subliminal racism in McCain's ad or they attempt to trollishly negate it as being eclipsed by the vapidity of the initial association.
... but it's clear to honest people, that the pettiness of trying to associate 2 young white women with a black man is RACIST.
Just like the HArold Ford ad is obviously sleazy and false, so will this ad become obvious down the road as more McSame sleeze!
Obama handled the response just fine. He Nailed the Republicans right between the eyes and let them squirm!
The attempt to associate Obama with 2 vapid celebrities won't work because Obama is not a vapid celebrity!
Obama is a constitutional law professor and his command of history and language and message of hope drew 200,000 Europeans to a speech that Republicans didn't even recognize restated Franklin D. Roosevelt's Four Freedoms!!
Memorable. World Shaking. And Flawless!!
And all neocons have to offer is he is an empty suit??!!
LOL!!
McCain is the empty suit, Manchurian/Rove brained candidate who will crumble on stage when the two finally debate!!
Bring. It. ON!!
Oh how I am growing to despise that man. I used to have a bit of respect for Saint mcCain but I am now seeing him for the frustrated little man that he is. I can' only hope that he blows his top one day on the air to let everyone know what a napoleonic little tyrant he is.
And to think that the Republican Corporate Media is droning on about Obama "acting too presidential" is driving me up the wall.
Josh @ 92:
Whether or or not it's "using the race card" or not...it is true that what Obama said, the republitards are trying to exactly that! Trying to paint Obama as a mean and scary racist black man.
Which is patently false, and will backfire on them bigtime.
Folks...pls do not believe the bullsh*t about Obama is talking "over" you. He's intelligent and if you're intelligent, how is he talking over you? That's code talk for uppity negro and quite frankly I'm sick and tired of people saying this. How should Mr. Obama talk? Like some of those old black comedy shows from the early '50s? Amos and Andy perhaps???? GET OVER IT.
dennis @ 111:
dennis, you are so fuckin full of shit, your eyes are turnin brown and your breath fuckin reeks!
liberalMcSuuurgeNmoderation @ 121:
Furthermore, the GOP has become a haven for racists. You can't deny that.
A bunch of close minded, regressive, anti-intellectual, anti-science troglodytes who are SO fuckin scared of an intelligent, articulate black man becoming president, they are trying every dirty trick in the book and not one is workin, MUCH to their dismay.
FreeDUMB @94 Says: I’m sorry to say friends that there’s going to be more racism. We can’t win this campaign without painting Obama as a racist in order to relieve the guilt of our racist constituency.
Yeah... what FreeDUMB said.
McCain is running about the worst campaign in modern history yet he's dead even with Obama. Obama is running out of steam. The longer the campaign goes on the more people realize he's an empty suit. Obama lost yesterday's race baiting argument. The weapon he used to bludgeon the Clinton's has been taken away from him. He's got nothing left to fight with.
Well, of course, this so-called election would have to come come down to the issue of race! It's clear that Obama is a member of the human race and, apparently, McKeating isn't........
I think the comment McKeating made the other day that his "campaign" doesn't speak for him, is most telling. On the one hand, he is trying to disassociate himself from comments made by his campaign people when they appear to be not well accepted by the public (e.g., Gramm, etc.). But, then he will turn around and support stupid comments like this one from Rick Davis. Sometimes, he even READS these ridiculous statement from little cards he carries around like a security blanket.
Basically, the man has dissociated - a little psyhchological term meaning he's lost his marbles!
At the risk of incurring a lot of wrath, I want to go on the record and make a point about "hero" John McCain. No doubt as a prisoner of war, McCain qualified as a hero.
But that was then. For my money, the chit McCain got for that was 'collected' when he dumped his wife, the mother of his first family, to marry a beauty queen who was very rich.(since he would need to have much money to run for president)
In my book, he is not that hero anymore. I get sick to my stomach when I hear that being touted. Forget it. He lost that card years ago.
Johnny @ 124:
Nothin left to fight with....except honor, intelligence, butt loads of political savvy and the ranks of his supporters growing larger by the minute.
John the Elder @ 126:
Ya won't be incurring any wrath from me...I agree 100%
Two night ago on Hardball some Republican spokesperson used the word "risky" about 25 times in two minutes to described Obama. The next day Obama responds; and he's playing the race card? I ain't buying it. How come no one has resurrected the video?
What is senior White House correspondent John King doing covering the McCain campaign? I know both he and Dana Bash are lovebirds, and her job is to follow McCain around on the campaign trail, but King's job is specifically to report on Bush and what's going on at the White House. He shouldn't be anywhere near McCain or Obama. I'm tellin' ya, this is the most blatant example of McCain bias from CNN.
King also traveled with Cindy McCain to Vietnam last month. WTF?!
Both John King and Dana Bash are not to be trusted. They might as well be on the McCain campaign payroll.
Obama Aide Concedes 'Dollar Bill' Remark Referred to His Race
...Sen. Barack Obama's chief strategist conceded that the Democratic presidential candidate was referring to his race when he said Republicans were trying to scare voters by suggesting Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
The comment had triggered a charge Thursday from Sen. John McCain's campaign manager that Obama had "played the race card... from the bottom of the deck."
Playing the Race Card
Obama's camp initially denied the remark was a reference to Obama's race.
...But Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, acknowledged on "Good Morning America" Friday that the candidate was referring, at least in part, to his ethnic background.
When pressed to explain the comment, Axelrod told "GMA" it meant, "He's not from central casting when it comes to candidates for president of the United States. He's new to Washington. Yes, he's African-American."
That seemingly obvious reference sparked the first real fireworks between the two camps as backers of both candidates accused the other of trying to subtly inject race into the presidential contest. "...
I don't think McCain is embarrassed by any of this. I think it is completely within his realm to do what ever he has to do to win this election for the oil people and defense companies. Take a look at his background. Cheating on his first wife while she was ill, Keating 5 and then there is the Forrestal event. McCain will make a good puppet president as bush has. And the country will sink further into bankruptcy, crumbling into oblivion. I am starting to plan where I can live out of this country if that happens. I just don't want to be here
4 OxyCon Says: McCain is right too.
Obama is playing the exact same shit he played against the Clintons, only this time he’s getting shoved right back into his despicable face where it belongs.
Obama is a thug, period. He can smear the Clintons and get away with becasue all the liberal blogs have gone insane for him and the media couldn’t wait to take the Clintons down.
But those days, happily, are over.
What a f’n shame. Lol.
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Exactly so. And you know what? I'm not sure most Americans aren't happy to see Obama in a position where he's finally getting it handed back to him by an opponent who doesn't have to give a shit about appearing disloyal to the Democratic party.
Even in Obama's press conference response today he could not help himeself from linking "my funny name, how I look (black)" from ANY criticism of him as being a "risky" choice for president. Precisely the way he and his camp "pushed the narrative" that the Clintons were racists. The Obama campaign tactic has been "Criticism of me/Pointing out my shortcomings/suggesting I'm a risky choice for president = making fun of my name/playing the race card against me". Bullshit. The American people are growing wearly of it, Barry.
I listened in Union,Missouri. I am positive no one in the audience had a racist thought after hearing his comments, unless of course, someone was thinking about many of the folks that will be voting for John McSame in November.
How could Obama's claim that the Mccain campaign of playing the fear card in regards to his (Obama) differences to past presidents on our currency be "playing the race card' not be accurate, if the McCain campaign superimposed Obama's image on a dollar bill?
Could one of you McCain supporters put your sister down and explain it to me?
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