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Leave it to Tom Brokaw to further GOP media narratives.  In asking about John McCain's fifth-grade bully attack ads, he asks Obama supporter and former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry if Obama is "playing the race card."  Question: is there any way for Barack Obama to directly confront these ads without being accused of the pasty white GOP (and their mouthpieces in the media) as "playing the race card"?  I don't think so.  McCain used that whole mocking "Obama on the currency" analogy in June.  But Obama can't say that because he's playing the race card.  Project much?

Kerry, no stranger to these kind of character assassinations himself, calls it a Rovian strategy: 

KERRY: But this is, you know, this is a complete contradiction in John McCain. John McCain has said he wants a campaign of ideas, not insults. John McCain, who said the American people want a campaign that's respectful. Even you, Joe, ten years ago you went to the floor of the United States Senate and you said our public life is coarsening. You said that the society's values are shrinking. That's an ad that plays to the worse instincts in America, which is to diminish someone's character...

BROKAW: But what Senator...

KERRY: And then Karl Rove turns around, and Karl Rove brings up another statement, saying Obama's like the guy at the country club with the beautiful date and a martini and a cigarette in his hand. What are they trying to do? They're trying to say to America, ‘Somehow, he's not like you; he's not like us.' Last point, Joe...

LIEBERMAN: Karl Rove doesn't work for the McCain campaign...

Is that right, Holy Joe?  Liar, liar, Democratic turncoat pants on fire.

transcripts below the fold

BROKAW:  Sen. Kerry, by using the language that he did, saying ‘I don’t look like the president on the dollar bill, the five dollar bill,’ wasn’t he in effect saying they’re picking on me because I’m black?

KERRY:  No.  What he was saying is they’re trying to scare you.  They’re trying to scare the American people.  Believe me, I’m an expert on how they do that.  They are engaged in character assassination, even John McCain’s partner in a number of initiatives in the Senate, Russ Feingold, said yesterday, ‘they’ve decided they can’t win on the issues, so now they’re going to try to destroy his character.’  That is exactly what this ad is calculated to do. But it’s the [Brokaw interrupts] NY Times…let me just…Tom, the NY Times said this is the Low Road Express.  John McCain himself, you just quoted him, John McCain said I want to have a campaign, not of insults but of ideas.  I mean, Joe, what’s the idea in there?  What’s the idea…no wait, let me just ….

LIEBERMAN:The idea is Barack Obama is not ready to lead and is against off-shore drilling.

KERRY:  I’m going to come to that.  No, it doesn’t mention not ready to lead…

LIEBERMAN:  Yes, it does.

KERRY: …doesn’t mention off shore drilling.  What it talks about, it tries to insinuate his celebrity is somehow all he has.  Now, I’m going to get to the other.  But this is, you know, this is a complete contradiction in John McCain.  John McCain has said he wants a campaign of ideas, not insults.  John McCain, who said the American people want a campaign that’s respectful.  Even you, Joe, ten years ago you went to the floor of the United States Senate and you said our public life is coarsening.  You said that the society’s values are shrinking. That’s an ad that plays to the worse instincts in America, which is to diminish someone’s character…

BROKAW:  But what Senator…

KERRY:  And then Karl Rove turns around, and Karl Rove brings up another statement, saying Obama’s like the guy at the country club with the beautiful date and a martini and a cigarette in his hand.  What are they trying to do?  They’re trying to say to America, ‘Somehow, he’s not like you; he’s not like us.’   Last point, Joe…

LIEBERMAN:  Karl Rove doesn’t work for the McCain campaign…

KERRY:  Well, partly…they just hired Karl Rove’s top protégé to help produce these kinds of ads and believe me, they talk to Karl Rove.

 

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Kerry, Lieberman, Brokaw? It's like the punchline to a joke nobody wants to hear.

Lieberman's pants on fire? Huh. Too bad someone wouldn't throw that roach-infested rug he wears on the flames.

Lieberman takes the *lie* in his name seriously.

Was that spokesman for the Mcain Campaign named Rick Davis?
Sounded more like Jefferson Davis.
BTW, let me take this oportunity to say that I truly despise Joe Liberman with all of my heart and soul.

[...]
Whatever you think about Barack Obama, he does not want the race issue to be front and center in this campaign. Every day that the campaign is about race is a good day for John McCain. So I guess we understand Mr. McCain’s motivation.

Nevertheless, it’s frustrating to watch John McCain calling out Barack Obama on race. Senator Obama has spoken more honestly and thoughtfully about race than any other politician in many years. Senator McCain is the head of a party that has viciously exploited race for political gain for decades.

He’s obviously more than willing to continue that nauseating tradition.

from Running While Black
by Bob Herbert

i'd copied that for the previous thread... works here also...
and, a must read.

i beg to differ i will listen to kerry. he is both well spoken and accurate. people/public say they don't know obama so the (RNC) and NEOCONs have decided to take on that role........with negative linguistic framing. there are people of the (R) and independent persuasion that aren't sure how they're going to vote.....some will tell you they are unhappy with the current administration..economy...iraqi conflict
etc....they may vote for obama that makes the (R) nervous. so they are giving them reasons to dislike/hate this guy they don't know.....what's scary it works. as long as they convinced because they were told that he is NOT like them it will be okay. the culture war(s) continue..if your not them you must hate them otherwise why would you be different it's weird

Dear Joe ...

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

What party is Lieberman in?

"McSame's promise to run an honorable campaign is holding up
about as well as his wedding vows to his first wife..."

FedUp @ 8:

What party is Lieberman in?

The LIE Party

LeaverMann Is Everything.

I'm glad Kerry is addressing the issue, I just wish he could actually make a point!!
The man's command of english seems to leave out the subject!!
McCain's ad with the girl on his arm reference and the Britney is PLAYING THE RACIST CARD!!

Oh and Joe Lieberman is LYING about Rove!!

Lieberman is Lieberman... nothing new there BUT I'm surprised and disappointed in how the "Network Media" (ABC, CBS, NBC) has started using the attack dog against all sides.

They seem to think that by attacking everybody they can:
1. Make both issues and non-issues interesting;
2. Come across as impartial; and,
3. Appear to be reporting news.

Sad

I'd be a hell of a lot more willing to listen to Kerry if his Skull and Bones ass hadn't shrugged his shoulders and said "meh, you win" in 2004. After 2000, after 4 destructive years of Bush, that was absolutely unforgivable. Let him spearhead the impeachment effort and maybe I'll give a damn what he has to say.

I'm trying to figure out which of these three creatures I like the least. Tom Brokaw, Director for the Council on Foreign Relations, John Kerry, Skull and Bonesman from Yale and CFR member, or Joe Lieberman, also from Yale and also a member of the CFR and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

This is scripted garbage. Just a bunch of crap to make you think all three of these people aren't working to achieve the exact same goals. And of course, Obama is also a member of the CFR. So this entire segment is for you (the sheeple), by the CFR. They should change the name of the show to "Meet the CFR." Our country (corporation) is a joke. And we're about to get what we deserve from our complacency and ignorance about the people who run this planet.

Nice to see Kerry being aggressive and specific. Joe has to be a spy for GOPpers. Notice how he made sure to force-in every Republican talking point, even when it was off topic! I thought I was listening to those perma-grin blonds, that are on all week. I'm glad that Brokaw stayed somewhat out of the way so Kerry could complete his sentences, and points.

In his appearance before the Urban League, McAyn said he's 'been to Canada and been to England and their health systems are a failure' = a Big Lie. No wonder Lieberman is not comfy in the Dem. party.

It makes me sick that twisted perverted douchebags like lieberman are allowed to live in this country outside a prison cell, since our laws say that's where they belong. And why the hell is Brokaw trying to help spread the false meme that it is Obama not Mccain who is inserting race into this race? What the hell kind of journalism is that? Oh yeah that's right, yellow journalism.

katy @ 5:

He’s obviously more than willing to continue that nauseating tradition.

from Running While Black
by Bob Herbert

a must read.

Recent polling disproves Herbert's baseless accusations, katy...

Rasmussen: Only 22% Say McCain Ad Racist, But Over Half (53%) See Obama Dollar-bill Comment That Way

According to Obama's statements made yesterday, he concurs with what those polling numbers are telling us. He said John McCain was not a racist, and he was talking about race when he made the dollar bill comments. It was big of him to say that.

John Kerry, not so big.

Don Davis @ 10:

Dems Considering the Ultimate Sanction Against Joe Lieberman

Funny.

How 'bout some of McCain's favorite jokes-
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/10086

Karl Rove and his minions work for McCain.

Tell your friends, relatives and neighbors.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

"Leave it to Tom Brokaw to further GOP media narratives.".....

Well, Brokaw was one of the leftist victims targeted in the Anthrax Political Assassination Attempt of a few years ago, wasn't he????

I guess sending a signal to a guy that you are going to kill him can actually change his behavior......

I love your "liar liar" comments Nicole!

Why is Lieberschmuck still on t.v.? Why don't they just draw in a Droopy Dog in his chair? A Droopy Dog animation would have more veracity.

Browkaw called these guys the "top" surrogates of the two candidates. When did Kerry rise to that position? If Kerry is going to be the point man for Obama on these national networks, Obama will lose. Kerry is not a fighter. Leiberbush cleaned Kerry's clock today by talking over him all of the time and got in the last word on every issue. Kerry sits there, quits talking, listens, and shakes his head. Lame. He never once told Joe to stop interrupting and let him finish. Kerry is NOT a good point person. Maybe the democrats do not have a good point person. Hilary would have been very good in this role, but she can't be on point now because of her own attacks on Obama. The Obama campaign needs to search deep into the possible choices of new faces and find an extremely capable voice to put on the air. A new face going up against Leiberbush would have been better than Kerry.

Ruth @ 17:

In his appearance before the Urban League, McAyn said he's 'been to Canada and been to England and their health systems are a failure' = a Big Lie. No wonder Lieberman is not comfy in the Dem. party.

Frontline has a good documentary that compares several countries where it works fine....less GNP used...mccain lying about healthcare doesn't surprise me...they will try to scare people regarding this topic also.."social medicine"....if mccain gets elected we can kiss goodbye universal healthcare for probably 15-20yr.

When is the moron Joe going to switch parties and join the party of Reslugs, since he fits right in with all the criminals and habitual liars ass-kissing McBush.

Otay @ 24:

Why is Lieberschmuck still on t.v.? Why don't they just draw in a Droopy Dog in his chair? A Droopy Dog animation would have more veracity.

He's on because they think that, like McSame, he's some kind of "independent" even if the truth is he's a sleepy smarm like...McSame.

I bet the people of his state are reallllllllly proud of Lying Joe. I swear when you hear Joe speak sounds like he is on drugs.

is it normal for me to hate Lieberman more than regular Republicans?

Southern Yankee @ 29:

I bet the people of his state are reallllllllly proud of Lying Joe. I swear when you hear Joe speak sounds like he is on drugs.

Elmer Fudd on drugs. LOL!

Oh, I see, LIEberman! So Karl Rove, who ISN'T working for McCain (*cough!* accordingtoyou *cough cough!*), is neutral, right?

Go split hairs on someone else's time; you make me sick.

Otay @ 24:

Why is Lieberschmuck still on t.v.? Why don't they just draw in a Droopy Dog in his chair? A Droopy Dog animation would have more veracity.

Then there was his career between voicing a cartoon dog and stabbing the Democratic Party in the back:

Willie!

How the Democrats let Joe Lieberman be in charge of anything above a lemonade stand is beyond me. He is so disgusting. Kerry did a great job with this. This is exactly how you handle this.

Two fools blathering!

Obama has much better surrogates than Kerry!

Hn, who's side is Lieberman on again?

Meet The Press With The Senior Republican Hit Man

NBC, who is the parent company of MSNBC, could not be more deliberate with the temporary addition of Tom Brokaw. He's a stated Republican and therefore a bias host. I have asked myself why does the Democrats allow themselves to be subject to interviews in a bias climates such as "Meet The Bias Press." These interviews can be edited, manipulated, and used as Republican talking points later. In an earlier C&L story, I commented the following on a interview Brokaw had with Barrack Obama:

I was watching Tom Brokaw on “Meet the Press.” He was interviewing Barack Obama during his European trip. Brokaw was so dismissive toward anything positive Obama did during the trip and wanted only to talk about hypothetical scenarios. I sat in front of the TV calling Brokaw every kind of bastard I could think of. He made me feel unimportant and I was not even there or running for president. After the program, I pondered what would happen if all of the media treated Obama in this way. There is no doubt Obama would have a problem. We would have to brace ourselves for another 8 years of Republican rule. I don’t think this country can live through another conservative administration.

Joseph

Although John Kerry held his own, I wonder if the Democrats should risk going on bias shows like "Meet The Bias Press." Dammit, I made the mistake twice and this time forgot to put a strike through the word bias. Oh well.

Joseph

I think we know were that missing Billions from Iraq went. Lying Joe was bought and it was enough money for
him to kiss Roves very large an lying ASS.

Well, I read this, I'm a Democrat, and I think Lieberman was correct.

I thought Obama's comment about looking like people on dollar bills had to do with McCain's gray hair & age more than anything. Thank god I'm being told to look at it as race now.

Lieberman is a traitor and an ass. He called the McCain add about Obama "cute".

Lieberman better not show up at the Democratic party..he is pathetic!

If I was Sanctimonius Joe Lieberquisling, I'd be extremely worried about being fried by a bolt of lightening.

What a douchbag.

Thomas Van Orden @ 39:

Well, I read this, I'm a Democrat, and I think Lieberman was correct.

I'm not a domocrat, and I believe that Joe Liberman is full of shite!!

I'm surprised Sen. Quisling McLieberman can say anything intelligable considering just how far McSame's choad is down his throat and for good measure he raises his hiney for Rove to get a little action in too.

What a f*ckin' putz!

Great...so now we can add Meet the Press to the neocon hack sites. My God, can't these networks come up with someone, anyone, who is not so blatantly on the attack against the Democratic Party?

tom brokaw is just another hack. he seems to think he is the voice of wisdom, when in fact, he acts like just another hack that wants to bring up the most petty, minuscule bullshit to distract the American people from any measure of issue.

Disgusting sleaze bag. When will WE ever hear about "issues"...you know, the things these candidates have the potential to affect that are taking this country down the toilet???

Obama is playing the race card?

ExCUSE me?

What possible freaking interest would Obama have in "playing the race card"? The tone of his whole goddamn campaign is about deemphasizing his race.

There is simply no advantage to Obama in making a big deal out of his being a Black man.

Mccain, on the other hand . . .

Who is the protege that Kerry mentioned? It has to be either Schmidt or Wallace. Wallace, I believe, was closer to Rove than Schmidt.

And she's also the one that had the AUDACITY to say on national televion that the recent McCain commercials were intended to "celebrate Obama's celebrity."

Does Rove work for McCain or does McCain work for Rove?

I can't keep that straight sometimes.

LIEBERMAN: Karl Rove doesn’t work for the McCain campaign…

during that conversation, had anybody said he DID?

i heard one of the talking ladies, on ABC?, this morning, mention "george clooney" in a mcWHINE ad...
huh?

Thomas Van Orden @ 39:

Well, I read this, I'm a Democrat, and I think Lieberman was correct.

be more specific about what you think is "correct" about what lieberman said

The Party of The Southern Strategy talking about playing the race card. Now that's rich.

Don't you just love the way that liar Brian what's his name ascribes the accusation to a third party not present?

He makes the accusation while averting his eyes from Kerry because the basic lie is coming from HIM.

This tactic has grown VERY VERY OLD.

Guilt through FREE ASSOCIATION. The CORE ROVE DOCTRINE.

"Is that right, Holy Joe?"

Yeah?! Does too!

Interesting how Brokaw so quickly jumps in to say Rove isn't on the McSame team. Just how intimate is Brokaw's relationship with the McSame team?

Would Lieberman just announce that he is joining the Republicans already! It sounds like he likes all their bad ideas. No one will be surprised if he switches sides.

Jeon Ji-Yung @ 14:

I'd be a hell of a lot more willing to listen to Kerry if his Skull and Bones ass hadn't shrugged his shoulders and said "meh, you win" in 2004. After 2000, after 4 destructive years of Bush, that was absolutely unforgivable. Let him spearhead the impeachment effort and maybe I'll give a damn what he has to say.

No lie. Can we just scrap the entire Democratic party and start over fresh?

...'cause as it is, they're just going on their merry way without us.

Brian @ 56:

Would Lieberman just announce that he is joining the Republicans already! It sounds like he likes all their bad ideas. No one will be surprised if he switches sides.

No one was surprised when he originally did...just that the voters of Connecticut shrugged it off and re-elected him anyway.

John Kerry has lost it. Lieberman has MUCH more integrity and I value his opinion MUCH more.
Some Dems can try to say Obama wasn't playing the race card, but the fact is, HE DID! Even Donna Brazile said exactly that.

Jessica Wilson @ 59:

John Kerry has lost it. Lieberman has MUCH more integrity and I value his opinion MUCH more.
Some Dems can try to say Obama wasn't playing the race card, but the fact is, HE DID! Even Donna Brazile said exactly that.

If Donna Brazile said it it must be true.

Jessica Wilson @ 59:

John Kerry has lost it. Lieberman has MUCH more integrity and I value his opinion MUCH more.

What else do you value? You must have very low standards value LIEberman's opinion over Kerry's, no matter how bad Kerry did today.

Wow, John Kerry is freakin' smart. I'd rather see a Kerry/ Obama presidency this time around, then Obama could run after 8 years.

Tom Brokaw cannot handle these interviews! Lieberman was way too vocal and broken-jaw-Brokaw was either totally unable or unwilling to keep the conversation on the topics at hand!

RobertD @ 58:

Jeon Ji-Yung @ 14:

I'd be a hell of a lot more willing to listen to Kerry if his Skull and Bones ass hadn't shrugged his shoulders and said "meh, you win" in 2004. After 2000, after 4 destructive years of Bush, that was absolutely unforgivable. Let him spearhead the impeachment effort and maybe I'll give a damn what he has to say.

No lie. Can we just scrap the entire Democratic party and start over fresh?

...'cause as it is, they're just going on their merry way without us.

The Dem party establishment is going out of their way to do the opposite of what we want. They think that way they can appeal to the 30% dead-enders in the Repug party. Not to mention they've bought the Crappola spoon-fed to them by the beltway bobbleheads, about their base being "far left" and thus radioactive. Being innumerate, they haven't figured out that their base is 75% of the country.

Otay @ 65:

RobertD @ 58:

Jeon Ji-Yung @ 14:

I'd be a hell of a lot more willing to listen to Kerry if his Skull and Bones ass hadn't shrugged his shoulders and said "meh, you win" in 2004. After 2000, after 4 destructive years of Bush, that was absolutely unforgivable. Let him spearhead the impeachment effort and maybe I'll give a damn what he has to say.

No lie. Can we just scrap the entire Democratic party and start over fresh?

...'cause as it is, they're just going on their merry way without us.

The Dem party establishment is going out of their way to do the opposite of what we want. They think that way they can appeal to the 30% dead-enders in the Repug party. Not to mention they've bought the Crappola spoon-fed to them by the beltway bobbleheads, about their base being "far left" and thus radioactive. Being innumerate, they haven't figured out that their base is 75% of the country.

And obviously their innumeracy is rubbing off on me...

;)

Jessica Wilson @ 60:

John Kerry has lost it. Lieberman has MUCH more integrity and I value his opinion MUCH more.
Some Dems can try to say Obama wasn't playing the race card, but the fact is, HE DID! Even Donna Brazile said exactly that.

you better watch that a few more times than report to uslieberman more integrity no way....kerry much brighter not nearly not even close as dirty and snide as lieberman

Wait a minute...did you see the same program that I saw. Lieberman sat there while Kerry was speaking and only opened his mouth to inject tired old talking points. Kerry spoke and his points were made. I wish that whatever you are inhaling as far as believing the BS that Joe and others are spewing out, that you do it with clear vision and not just misguided rhetoric. They are trying to swiftboat Obama and its not going to work. These same tactics were used on Kerry in the last election and judging by the fact that Rove is involved, there need to be some dignity in this campaign because his crebility is zilch. Anyway, why isn't Rove in jail instead of being allowed to inject more of his BS into this election.

John @ 25:

Browkaw called these guys the "top" surrogates of the two candidates. When did Kerry rise to that position? If Kerry is going to be the point man for Obama on these national networks, Obama will lose. Kerry is not a fighter. Leiberbush cleaned Kerry's clock today by talking over him all of the time and got in the last word on every issue. Kerry sits there, quits talking, listens, and shakes his head. Lame. He never once told Joe to stop interrupting and let him finish. Kerry is NOT a good point person. Maybe the democrats do not have a good point person. Hilary would have been very good in this role, but she can't be on point now because of her own attacks on Obama. The Obama campaign needs to search deep into the possible choices of new faces and find an extremely capable voice to put on the air. A new face going up against Leiberbush would have been better than Kerry.

DMS @ 56:

Interesting how Brokaw so quickly jumps in to say Rove isn't on the McSame team. Just how intimate is Brokaw's relationship with the McSame team?

good question... but, it was joe who jumped in with that unsolicited lie:

LIEBERMAN: Karl Rove doesn’t work for the McCain campaign…

A) 'Other Democrats complained in the spring that McCain's first general-election television commercial -- which ended with the line, "John McCain: The American president Americans have been waiting for" -- was an attempt to exploit doubts about a candidate with an African name.'

How would McCain camp react it if Obama should counter the celebrity charge by saying that McCain is trying to hide his natural defects that would make hard for him to sell as a celebrity? Why did McCain appear on the "Late Show" if he is not seeking celebrity status? Is McCain so out of touch, and so ignorant/confused that he could not understand that David Letterman's Late Show is principally for fans of celebrities such like the ones that McCain camp is trying to deride out of jealousy? The painful problem for McCain is that he introduced himself as "John McCain: The American president Americans have been waiting for" and wanted to be treated as such but he received no such reception neither at home nor from abroad. Rather it was Obama who humbly refused to be compared with the past presidents that is receiving the kind of presidential reception McCain is craving and passionately soliciting for.

That explains the furious rage and the attempt from the McCain camp to make a mockery of that Obama's positive advantage that is seriously eroding what McCain arrogantly perceived to be his own advantaged area in the race for the White House, namely in the AREA OF ABILITY AND THE EXPERIENCE TO LEAD AT HOME AND ABROAD IN BOTH DEFENSE AND FOREIGN POLICY as the story line indicates. McCain knows very well that Americans want a president that will restore the badly damaged image of the country abroad as President Bush admitted saying he should not have said some things he said the way he did. Comparing the reception that the two candidates received from abroad as the respective nominees of the two major Parties, McCain can no longer dare to raise the issue of foreign policy credentials Obama seems to be far more likely to succeed in restoring the US back into the leadership position. McCain is trying to downplay that great reception given Obama abroad as the same as the ones given to celebrities like Britney and Paris, but those European State leaders that Obama talked with may not like the idea of being compared to Briney and Paris. A simple act of courtesy in diplomacy.

"Barack Obama may be The One," the announcer says. "But is he ready to lead?"'

McCain thinks Obama is not ready to lead, but Americans and the rest of the world believe he has the RIGHT ideas and is heading in the RIGHT direction and they welcome him to lead and are ready to follow his lead. By contrast, McCain thinks he is ready to lead but Americans and the rest of the world believe his ideas are WRONG and that he is heading in the WRONG direction and would not welcome him to lead, and would not follow his lead. That is the very point that Obama's responses must not miss out, because that is the very fact that McCain is afraid of and would like erase. That is the fact that McCain is trying to distort and draw attention away from and wish people would ignore. McCain is trying to SCARE Obama from exploiting it.

I am Abbarick. And I approve this message.

I was more disturbed by Lieberman's condemnation of Obama's willingness to work with the other side in order to get energy legislation through. Then, out the other side of his mouth, praises McCain's desire to reach across the aisle to pass Social Security legislation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTqyOJwxVGI

B) Yes, I quite agree that the McCain camp is bent on playing the race card. After all, Obama took the pain to humble himself by reminding his audience abroad that he is just a citizen and refused to be compared to past US presidents who also gave speeches abroad. He was not by that employing the race card except one who is seeking to and wants take any chance to interpret it that way. He was only making a distinction that those others were presidents who made presidential speeches while his, as an ordinary citizen, was not. The McCain camp and the Republican Party may have reason to be unhappy to the kind of presidential reception given Obama as compared to the little attention paid to McCain during his own European tour. However that grudge should be directed at the European hosts and not at Obama.

On what ground is the McCain Campaign describing Obama as arrogant if not on racial ground? Obama is campaigning against McCain on the basis of equality as American, period! That is making McCain furious because Obama is not going about as a victim of something begging for and looking for pity. To McCain that is arrogance for a minority. What is wrong with Obama undertaking a European tour just like McCain did? Was it Obama's fault that he received a far better welcome abroad than McCain? Was it Obama that arranged his own receptions in Europe? Was it Obama that arranged for 200,000 people to come to listen to his speech in Germany? Was it Obama's fault that his trip abroad naturally received a far better press coverage than McCain's due to the same reason(s) that make him more attractive to people at home in the US and abroad? If it is Obama's skill that is responsible making him inspiring to many people, maybe McCain should go and learn some too if its not too late. But if its a natural gift in him, as is more likely, then maybe McCain should pray for some too if its not too late. Whatever the case may be McCain has no justification for grumbling over Obama's success where he had tried and failed. That would make him look like a bad loser.

For McCain to come out to defend that indefensible foolish ad by his camp is completely irresponsible. He has greatly undermined his integrity by showing that MAKING BAD JUDGMENT IS HIS NATURAL ATTRIBUTE. It is most probable that those celebrities that McCain is ridiculing are paying more than the McCains in taxes because they TALK STRAIGHT about their incomes while the McCain couple would not, thus showing greater sense of responsibility than the McCains in that most important part of funding the government which McCain is aspiring to lead. Maybe Americans want and deserve a responsible leader that leads with good example of TALKING STRAIGHT about his family taxes and how he hopes to fund his no JAW-JAW but WAR-WAR government.McCain has failed the test. He should quit now before its too late. But then, maybe it does not really matter, because its already too late for any Republican after eight years of blunders in every front by the Republican Bush administration.

I am Abbarick. And I approve this message.

Oh, poor old McCain! I'm old too, but I do thank God for blessing me with two lovely children, and I do take great pride in the youthful attraction of my son and daughter as God' great gifts. God is good! The younger ones naturally have their own appeal which we as old ones once had but no longer have. Do we have the right to use that natural attributes against them when they are not to blame for our own loss of such attributes because we are now old? Now McCain, if Obama were your son campaigning for the presidency and not you, will you be saddened by the fact that he is drawing, gaining and receiving much attention like some celebrities? Will you take that as an offense, and use that to attack his youthful appeal? What if those young named celebrities, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton should take offense and start to attack McCain would he not be blamed as irresponsible for starting it all? Is that what is expected in responsible and a respectable elder statesman aspiring to be the leader of the United States of America? McCain should know that any attack on the natural youthful attributes of the younger ones like Obama by old ones like McCain will only help to draw attention to his old age. If that old age is not matched in him with integrity, wisdom and understanding, good vision and foresight, and good judgment, and temperament, then it is not worthy.

It is a good show of wisdom and understanding, as well as good sense of responsibility for Obama not to attack attack McCain on the basis of his natural attributes that come with old age. That is quite respectable. Obama has also proved himself to be better than McCain in good judgment, foresight and vision as demonstrated in their different positions about the invasion of Iraq and the war that followed. Surely all evidence point to the fact that Obama has much better leadership qualities than McCain.

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Abba Ricky @ 73:

Oh, poor old McCain! I'm old too, but I do thank God for blessing me with two lovely children, and I do take great pride in the youthful attraction of my son and daughter as God' great gifts. God is good! The younger ones naturally have their own appeal which we as old ones once had but no longer have. Do we have the right to use that natural attributes against them when they are not to blame for our own loss of such attributes because we are now old? Now McCain, if Obama were your son campaigning for the presidency and not you, will you be saddened by the fact that he is drawing, gaining and receiving much attention like some celebrities? Will you take that as an offense, and use that to attack his youthful appeal? What if those young named celebrities, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton should take offense and start to attack McCain would he not be blamed as irresponsible for starting it all? Is that what is expected in responsible and a respectable elder statesman aspiring to be the leader of the United States of America? McCain should know that any attack on the natural youthful attributes of the younger ones like Obama by old ones like McCain will only help to draw attention to his old age. If that old age is not matched in him with integrity, wisdom and understanding, good vision and foresight, and good judgment, and temperament, then it is not worthy.

It is a good show of wisdom and understanding, as well as good sense of responsibility for Obama not to attack attack McCain
on the basis of his natural attributes that come with old age. That is quite respectable. Obama has also proved himself to be better than McCain in good judgment, foresight and vision as demonstrated in their different positions about the invasion of Iraq and the war that followed. Surely all evidence point to the fact that Obama has much better leadership qualities than McCain.

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Hmmm, repeating the GOP line and pointing out that respect is something of a novelty in the US opposed to the norm ..........

Kerry sat there and let that droopy jawwed man-bitch get away with his lies about Obama playing the race-card.

Kerry is another useless Democrat that has been in DC tooooo damn long!!!

Jessica Wilson @ 60:

John Kerry has lost it. Lieberman has MUCH more integrity and I value his opinion MUCH more.
Some Dems can try to say Obama wasn't playing the race card, but the fact is, HE DID! Even Donna Brazile said exactly that.

You are an insane twit! Check this out silly.

David Gergen took umbrage with John McCain's recent attack ads, charging that the Senator was using coded messaging to paint Barack Obama as "outside the mainstream" and "uppity."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/03/gergen-mccain-is-using-co_n_116...

Karl Rove (TURD BLOSSOM) does work for McCain just check it out. LIE-berman and McCain have a cople of things in Common, One they LIE with a strate face, another they lie cover another LIE. and the CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA loves there LIYING.

If Lieberman's lips are moving, he's lying. And he's representing McCain in this election. We in CT like to think of him as another Benedict Arnold.

But of course Kerry won't mention the deeper intentions...two white women and a black man...two morally lost souls and Obama and more.... the message is loud and clear. Would you be more or less likely to vote for Obama if you knew that he had a black lovechild with Britney Spears?

joe lieberman: head of the fecal coliform party