The Poverty Pimp and the Political Punk, laughing about the career each has made soaking whitey.
Posted on 07/30/2008 8:30:32 PM PDT by keepitreal
Correct me if I'm wrong, but does it not seem as if Obama just said McCain and his campaign -- presumably the "they" in this construct -- are saying that Obama shouldn't be elected because he's a risk because he's black and has a foreign-sounding name?
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Then in Union, Mo., this evening, Obama seemed to specifically accuse McCain and the GOP of peddling racism and xenophobia.
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"But, since they don’t have any new ideas the only strategy they’ve got in this election is to try to scare you about me. They’re going to try to say that I’m a risky guy, they’re going to try to say, 'Well, you know, he’s got a funny name and he doesn’t look like all the presidents on the dollar bills and the five dollar bills and, and they’re going to send out nasty emails.
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There's a lot of racist xenophobic crap out there. But not only has McCain not peddled any of it, he's condemned it.
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With one possible exception, I've never seen McCain or those under his control playing the race card or making fun of Obama's name -- or even mentioning Obama's full name, for that matter!
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I've seen racism in campaigns before -- I've seen it against Obama in this campaign (more from Democrats than Republicans, at this point, I might add) and I've seen it against McCain in South Carolina in 2000, when his adopted Bangladeshi daughter Bridget was alleged, by the charming friends and allies of then-Gov. George W. Bush, to have been a McCain love-child with an African-American woman.
What I have not seen is it come from McCain or his campaign in such a way to merit the language Obama used today. Pretty inflammatory.
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Agree with your race-baiting theory. It won’t work. LOL!
From now on let’s refer to him as “Obama, that dark complexioned White manâ€
I keep thinking it’s strange how race comes into this campaign. Everyone labels Obama a black man, when he’s half white. That part seems to be ignored, but it is the most important part of him. He grew up in a white culture, thanks to his mother, and that’s why he has been such a success. The black world Obama would have been raised in disdains the academically motivated.
Most cults do not end pretty. I expect Obama's followers are going to be dangerous to be around when he loses. And I do think he will lose.
How I pray that you are right.
Obama would have been better off to have lost the primaries relatively early with his glow intact. Then his supporters could’ve played the “what if” game for 4 or 8 years, while Obama built a resume. He could have then sweep to the nomination and probably election. If McCain is not totally incompetent, Barry’s gonna lose bigtime. He ought to have 60% in the polls today, but he can’t break 50%. For a Dem, that’s weak, weak, weak.
He may have felt he could get away with hinting McCain is a racist because McCain called his N. Vietnam prison guards “gooks.” Referring to Asians by that word is akin to calling blacks the n-word.
And for all those anti-mcCainiacs... screaming that McCain is SO in the tank for "illegals"... it is alleged that Hearst was "anti-minority".
Just a public notice here...
ANY criticism of the Obamessiah is Racism!
Paul Krugman thinks the latest McCain ad was subliminal racism because it had a black guy (Obama) with white women (Spears and Hilton) in it.
KING: “Now, Paul, he uses Paris and Britney in that ad to begin it.
Again, the same question, what’s going on?
KRUGMAN: You know, what it really is saying is that McCain’s got nothing. I mean they haven’t got anything substantive to run on. You know, he’s trying to say Obama’s bad for the economy. It’s, you know, we’ve had — we’ve had a Republican administration for eight years. It hasn’t done so well. You know, it might work. People — you know, God knows, there’s a little bit of maybe subliminal, you know, black man/white women. Who knows what they think is going to happen here.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/07/31/jake-tapper-obama-smeared-mccain/
So far, the only people I’ve seen connected to a campaign opposing Obama to inject racism into the fight have been Bill Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro.
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