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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Mccain goes to day, clinton goes today
Obama doesn’;t go and the blacks say it’s OK but I bet if the other two candidates didn’t go then the same blacks would be saying it;s a slap to MLK and they must be racist
double standards again have been shown
when will it stop, it’s getting out of hand now
These are the Clinton minions trying to keep the black folks on the plantation after Hillary steals the nomination from Obama. Poll after poll has shown over 20% of Obama supporters unlikely to vote for Hillary. So here comes the race card. So predictable.
No, it’s the part where everybody has to decide if they really want to allow a communist like H. Rotten Clinton or B. Hussein Obama to become commander in chief.
Upon the nomination of Juanito, America lost already. This is not a choice, it’s a travesty. Oh by the way, POTUS is more than just CIC.
Ahhh, well, hmmmmm... I’ll get back to you on that. ;-)
Agreed
Couldn’t agree more...
I think you’re right about that!
This was a great observation too. Nice.
That's excellent, except for the spelling, which has been corrected.
That's tagline material
Calling people who don’t vote for him racists will cost him every state.
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