Posted on 04/04/2008 8:46:28 AM PDT by GVnana
Campaign to Portray McCain as Racist Gets Under Way
Dog-Whistling Dixie
By JAMES TARANTO
April 3, 2008
Dog-Whistling Dixie
With Barack Obama's "postracial" appeal having proved illusory but Democrats likely to nominate him for president anyway, the party faces a difficult problem: how to persuade Americans to vote for the spiritual protégé of a man who espouses crackpot anti-American and antiwhite views.
One response, born less of strategy than of reflex, is to claim that opposition to Obama is racist. A pair of recent posts by prominent Angry Left bloggers show just how intense is the desire to impute racism to the other side, and how far they are willing to depart from logic to do so.
The first post, titled "John McCain's Racist Dogwhistle in Meridian, Mississippi," went up last Friday on the blog of Matt Stoller. He faulted McCain for planning a speech this past Monday in the Mississippi town where, as the candidate said in his speech, "I was once a flight instructor . . . at the air field named for my grandfather during my long past and misspent youth."
According to Stoller, though, that wasn't the real reason McCain went to Meridian: Meridian, MS, is 40 miles from Philadelphia, MS, the place where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. . . . Meridian itself is significant because one of the civil rights workers was actually from the town.
Stoller was echoing his elders, including former Reagan adviser Paul Krugman, who have spent years smearing Ronald Reagan for giving a speech--a "racist" speech, Stoller baselessly calls it--seven miles from Philadelphia in 1980, when Stoller was 2½ years old. (We wrote about this in November.) McCain's planned speech, Stoller wrote before the fact, "clearly looks like a dogwhistle to racists within the Republican Party."
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Waist high boots needed for combat in mother-of-all culture wars.
The MSM has already started their process of cutting McCain down. They are all behind the Muslim.
These guys are demented.
They are warming up McCain’s “GOOK” comments for YouTube. They will try to make “GOOK” McCains “McCacca” moment.
And if “the campaign” is successful at installing their race-baiting candidate into the WH, there will be a lot more than John McCaniac that will be portrayed as racists.
Anyone (even any of the whites who voted for him) who dares object to any of his “policies” will be dubbed “racists”. Or in the case of blacks who object, “Uncle Toms”.
People need to go into this election with their eyes wide open and realize what they’ll be getting _IN REALITY_ with that racist.
Except for the cynical opportunists on the hard left, it will not be the realization of their dreams; it wll be a realization of their worst nightmares.
That’s why Obama says we shouldn’t say “God BLESS America” we should say “God D-— America!”
Yes, brothers! Yes, sisters! Right on! Right on! Right on!
Big deal. McCain has already dubbed me, and anyone else who doesn't believe in his amnesty for invaders program, a racist.
LOL.
“Dog-Whistling Dixie - Campaign to Portray McCain as Racist Gets Under Way”
Is this the part where everyone is to step in and defend the crazy little backstabber?
True. Everytime someone objects to one of B. Hussein’s stupid ideas (and there’ll be plenty of those), his surrogates or that rancorous wife of his will play the race card.
It was pretty expository to me that I couldn’t get ANY liberal to take this bet:
I’m betting that, if Obama is the nominee, that there will be attempts to portray anyone who doesn’t vote for him as racist.
No takers. I guess they know who they are.
He was talking about the gooks that were his prison guards when he was a POW.
The girlfriend of our former mayor last night pretty much said that opposition to Obama is racist. One example she gave is a friend of mine on WRKO. After listening to him yesterday she said she was “horrified” to learn he is Black. I guess she’ll determine how Blacks are supposed to think.
Once again, there’s not much choice for President. Hillary is socialist, Obama is racist......listen carefully to each of his speeches, he talking to the blacks. McCain may or may not be racist........but who else is there? I don’t want Hillary and I don’t want Obama...........so?????????? Don’t tell me to write someone in. That doesn’t get us a President. It just makes a statement and it may be mentioned on one news show.
If the RATS have to get tips on campaign smears from Krugman, they’re really hard up. He’s so stupid even most libs pretend they’ve never heard of him.
So I guess referring to Obama as the “Black Panther Party’s trojan horse” or “Leon ‘Obama” Trotsky” in every communique is back in the mix then?
Go for it! :)
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