John McCain Plays the Race Card »
Posted By scott4261 1 year, 5 months ago in News"I have great admiration and respect for Senator Obama." If so, McCain has a funny way of showing it. All we've seen and heard from him for the last month is a string of personal attacks, culminating in yesterday's ad smearing Obama as "the biggest celebrity in the world." He's just another famous, pretty face, in other words, and not ready for the presidency....
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jovial1 year, 5 months ago
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There seems to be no depth limit on these attacks of McCain on Obama. Maybe he thinks that since Obama has no responded in kind that this is a sign of weakness. What a brazen coward to attack someone, because he thinks he sees weakness. This just confirms it even more that he is just like our current President. He attacks with negative campaigns that are as ruthless as the rumor that was spread on McCain about illegitimate children. McShame, McSame.
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Beau78901 year, 5 months ago
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McCain's supporters will argue that we're reading too much into the ad--that there are no racist overtones.
For anyone who says that, trust me on this one--any advertising professional worth his or her salt thinks those things through when creating ads. And there are usually at least a dozen who review such ads and discuss the subtexts they contain.
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Mdiar1 year, 5 months ago
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I don't know. I saw the ad and I laughed. The comparison is totally preposterous. I actually wanted to vote for Obama more after seeing the ad (c'mon America, you can't say you didn't enjoy seeing 200,000 Germans waving American flags)! Maybe its just because of the era I grew up in, but I didn't notice the slightest thing racial about it... then again, plenty of voters grew up in a totally different era. Its totally possible, even plausible, but I personally didn't see it until this pointed it out.
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Candida1 year, 5 months ago
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I agree. Even though I grew up a few decades earlier, it would have never occurred to me that the ad had racist undertones, but it is possible that for some people that message comes through. Even without it, however, the ad is childish, stupid, and shows the shallowness of the party that has created it and the candidate who has approved it.
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dandt16121 year, 5 months ago
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Obama, his campaign and a lot of his supporters have used and still use the race card all the time if anything is said about or against Obama. I saw nothing in the ad that had anything to do with race. Obama simply doesn't have anything he can really use so if something is said about him or his family the race comment ALWAYS shows up.
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StillUnashamed1 year, 5 months ago
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"We know what kind of campaign [Republicans are] going to run. They're going to make you afraid. They're going to try to make you afraid of me. 'He's young and inexperienced, and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?'"
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Who is making race an issue? Obama! From the beginning of his campaign anyone who disagreed with his positions would be labled a racist.-
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StillUnashamed1 year, 5 months ago
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And if Obama did not wish race to be an issue, why did he take so long in disowning Rev. Wright? Mark my word: if Obama fails to win the Presidential Election, (and that's a big IF) liberals and Democratics will insist the reason is racial only. Yet if a white liberal candidate ran with the same positions as Obama, he would lose in a landslide (case in point, John Edwards).
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mesodude1 year, 5 months ago
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McCain crossed the line (as in I would never vote for this jerk in a million years) starting with the lies about Obama's recent travels. The racial crap he's sunken into (after what Bush cult members did to derail McCain's campaign--using his daughter as fodder, no less) just crushed any respect I ever had for him and I actually did once have respect for McCain. McCain and his drug thieving wife are absolutely filthy lying, mud-sucking cretins who only weeks ago said they weren't going negative. There is no way in hell they deserve to be in the White House. ;-(
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tbkennedy531 year, 5 months ago
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That McCain acting like a "typical white person". McCain has not used the race card. Anytime someone gets too close on issue with Obama he brings it out again. He must have learned this from Coleman Young. The best ever at using the race card.
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Tangent0011 year, 5 months ago
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I really don't think there was any 'race card' played here. I thought the ad was simply laughable, but I could see how it would be effective with people who didn't have the time or the energy to look into the positions of each candidate.
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If anything, I think it is playing off baby boomer distrust for the youth movement that has largely thrown itself behind Obama. The basic message is: if something is popular, it is necessarily empty. -
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bruhaha1 year, 5 months ago
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For all you people who sit back and say it was Obama is the one who played the race card....I suppose you expect him to sit back and let the Republicans use racist attacks against him. You want him to be like Kerry and Gore and not respond to the lies and slanders because you figure that's how you'll win, like you did before.
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Poulenc1 year, 5 months ago
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The flurry of personal attacks by McCain and Co., and especially this barrel-bottom-scraping one--O's just too famous to be president: huh?--reveals desperation.
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And something worse. The recent McCain ad, in which he accused O. of playing the race card represents a page torn from the Rove playbook: you elide your own defects by accusing your opponent of them.
As I said on another thread, only in America would any traction be given to the accusation that a guy (who's as white as he's black) is a racist for pointing out racism.
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