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Race Man (How Obama played the race card and blamed Clinton)
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=aa0cd21b-0ff2-4329-88a1-69c6c268b304 ^ | February 27, 2008 | Sean Wilentz

Posted on 02/27/2008 8:51:59 AM PST by Lancey Howard

After several weeks of swooning, news reports are finally being filed about the gap between Senator Barack Obama's promises of a pure, soul-cleansing "new" politics and the calculated, deeply dishonest conduct of his actually-existing campaign. But it remains to be seen whether the latest ploy by the Obama camp--over allegations about the circulation of a photograph of Obama in ceremonial Somali dress--will be exposed by the press as the manipulative illusion that it is.

Most of the recent correctives have concerned outrageously deceptive advertisements approved and released by Obama's campaign. First, in Iowa, the Obama camp aired radio ads patterned on the notorious "Harry and Louise" Republican propaganda from 1993, charging falsely that Senator Hillary Clinton's health care proposal would "force those who cannot afford health insurance to buy it, punishing those who won't fall in line." In subsequent primary and caucus campaigns, the Obama campaign sent out millions of mailers, also featuring the "Harry and Louise" motif, falsely claiming that Clinton favored "punishing families who can't afford health care in the first place." A few bloggers and columnists, notably Paul Krugman in The New York Times, described the ads as distorting, but the national press corps mainly ignored them--until Clinton herself, seeing the fraudulent mailers reappear in Ohio over the past weekend, publicly denounced them.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; blame; hillary; obama; racecard; somalielder; yobama
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1 posted on 02/27/2008 8:52:02 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard
"Right. Whatever...."


2 posted on 02/27/2008 8:53:30 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

In my view, Obama looks really stoned in that pic...


3 posted on 02/27/2008 8:59:30 AM PST by astounded (The Democrat Party is a Clear and Present Danger to the USA)
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To: Lancey Howard

Sean Wilentz is an eminent and very left-wing US historian, who was behind the ad featuring 400 historians (some of the not actually historians) which appeared in the fall of 1998 attacking the investigation of Bill Clinton in the build-up to impeachment. So he has been in the tank for the Clintons for a long time...but it’s interesting to see that he hasn’t jumped ship to support an even more left-wing candidate.


4 posted on 02/27/2008 9:04:44 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Lancey Howard

Hildebeeste probably could’ve actually swung this election in a U-turn if she’d have simply said last night, “Why, Obama, I thought you looked cute in that outfit!”


5 posted on 02/27/2008 9:12:13 AM PST by Migraine (...diversity is great... until it happens to YOU...)
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To: Lancey Howard

No one honest can accuse Obama of playing the race card. Klintons have always played race cards and tried here and fell on their faces. Even yesterday when they circulated the Somali-Elder picture, it was another attempt to play race-card and it backfired again as even Conservatives called that campaign ridiculous.


6 posted on 02/27/2008 9:14:41 AM PST by The_Republican (You know why Chelsea Clinton is so Ugly? Because Janet Reno is her Father! LOL! - Mac is Back!)
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To: Lancey Howard
Sean Wilentz is a Princeton professor with whom I've had some dealings. He is in the tank for the Clintons, and has no hesitancy about being dishonest in quotes and cites to that end. This is written to sound reasonable, but it is twaddle from the desk of a Clintonista.

There are many reasons why Obama should NOT be the President of the US. But those offered by Wilentz are not among them.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "Swiftboating" the Swiftboaters

A Freeper in Congress? Now is the time.

7 posted on 02/27/2008 9:16:30 AM PST by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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To: Lancey Howard

What’s wrong with people? We can’t have Joe Camel in the White House. Think of the children!!!


8 posted on 02/27/2008 9:23:43 AM PST by isrul
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To: isrul

Are you kidding or serious? I cannot tell.


9 posted on 02/27/2008 9:38:28 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Both. Just trying to point out what certain people should be expected to say if someone other than Stanley's little boy was a smoker and presuming to run for the office. The MSM would actually make it an issue.

Now I'm not sure whether this picture is a fake. But Obama is a smoker.

I doesn't matter to me, however.

10 posted on 02/27/2008 9:50:57 AM PST by isrul
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To: astounded
In my view, Obama looks really stoned in that pic...

My first thought exactly.

11 posted on 02/27/2008 10:32:10 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

thanks, bfl


12 posted on 02/27/2008 7:32:47 PM PST by neverdem (I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
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To: isrul

What’s this reference to “Stanley’s little boy” supposed to indicate, if you would be so kind?


13 posted on 02/27/2008 7:44:59 PM PST by neverdem (I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
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To: Lancey Howard
By mentioning Jackson alone, the former president was being accurate--and, perhaps, both modest and polite. But Obama's supporters willfully hammered him as a cagey race-baiter.

b.hussian.obama's team called a spade a spade.
Weak sauce from Sean Wilentz

That said, b.hussian.obama's team see a lot of spades that are not there.

14 posted on 02/27/2008 7:54:49 PM PST by TeleStraightShooter (The Right To Take Life is NOT a Constitutional "Liberty" protected by the 14th Amendment)
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To: neverdem
Obama’s mama was named Stanley because her father wanted a boy.
15 posted on 02/27/2008 8:30:28 PM PST by isrul
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To: isrul

LOL! A girl named Stanley. Thank you very much!


16 posted on 02/27/2008 9:24:44 PM PST by neverdem (I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
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To: neverdem

You’re welcome.


17 posted on 02/27/2008 10:03:59 PM PST by isrul
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To: Migraine

a good a.m. chuckle for that. And you’re probably right!


18 posted on 02/28/2008 2:01:47 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: The_Republican
No one honest can accuse Obama of playing the race card.

Really? Did you read the article? Did you note Drudge's source for that photo -- an anonymous private email between Clinton campaign staffers, not meant for public consumption. I imagine a lot of senders of Freepmail don't mean for their correspondence to appear on Drudge, either.

The author is obviously a Clinton supporter, but the Clintons are too damn politically savvy to intentionally stir the race pot. The problem with Republicans is that they've wallowed in Clinton-bashing so long, and are so positively ecstatic to see Hillary go down, that they can't see that the alternative, Obama, is a potential national disaster.

I loathe the Clintons, but Obama has played and will continue to play the race card, with superbly crafted plausible deniability. McCain is next on the radar. You can bet on it, and if he's true to form, he will groveling at the media's feet, begging forgiveness for some Obama-concocted racial slur that wasn't.

19 posted on 02/28/2008 3:14:38 AM PST by browardchad
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To: neverdem
LOL! A girl named Stanley. Thank you very much!

And a boy named "Sue"?

20 posted on 02/28/2008 6:53:46 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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