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Bill Press
John McCain Plays the Race Card
Posted July 31, 2008 | 09:33 AM (EST)
"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 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/30/mccain-ad-links-pari... as "the biggest celebrity in the world." He's just another famous, pretty face, in other words, and not ready for the presidency.
True? No. Childish? Yes. But that's not all. This ad is also deliberately and deceptively racist.
Of all the famous celebrities they could have compared Obama to, why not Tom Cruise? Or Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Donald Trump, or Oprah Winfrey? Why Britney Spears and Paris Hilton? Why two white blond bimbos?
Only one reason. It's a somewhat tamer version of the white bimbo ad used so successfully against Harold Ford in Tennessee. In juxtaposing Barack Obama with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, the McCain campaign is simply trying to plant the old racist seed of black man hitting on young white woman. Not directly, but subliminally and disgracefully.
One thing for sure. This isn't the John McCain we first saw in 2000, running a campaign on the issues. And this isn't the positive McCain campaign he himself promised us for 2008. This is a campaign that, from the beginning, is nothing but negative, personal, dirty and, yes, racist.
Bill Press
John McCain Plays the Race Card
Posted July 31, 2008 | 09:33 AM (EST)
"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 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/30/mccain-ad-links-pari... as "the biggest celebrity in the world." He's just another famous, pretty face, in other words, and not ready for the presidency.
True? No. Childish? Yes. But that's not all. This ad is also deliberately and deceptively racist.
Of all the famous celebrities they could have compared Obama to, why not Tom Cruise? Or Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Donald Trump, or Oprah Winfrey? Why Britney Spears and Paris Hilton? Why two white blond bimbos?
Only one reason. It's a somewhat tamer version of the white bimbo ad used so successfully against Harold Ford in Tennessee. In juxtaposing Barack Obama with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, the McCain campaign is simply trying to plant the old racist seed of black man hitting on young white woman. Not directly, but subliminally and disgracefully.
One thing for sure. This isn't the John McCain we first saw in 2000, running a campaign on the issues. And this isn't the positive McCain campaign he himself promised us for 2008. This is a campaign that, from the beginning, is nothing but negative, personal, dirty and, yes, racist.
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raves posted Aug 01, 2008 05:07PM GMT (edited)
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raves Aug 02, 2008 01:43AM GMTStick around SodaHead for awhile (if you haven't already) and the racism will rapidly rear its ugly head...
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raves +2 posted Aug 01, 2008 04:05AM GMTjohn had been playing the race card all a lone ...and now he wants to blame it on Obama ....but that is the dirty pool repubulican play ....he is no better than bush ....i say it before he is all of bush's twin ...lets stick to the issues ...and i didn't know race was a issuse ...
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raves +1 posted Aug 01, 2008 04:04AM GMTmoderated...
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or their point of veiw they are a racist you know when i was in the army
i was called racist beause i didnt like gangster rap i didnt like it because
of the liricks not the person singing it , people are trying to make to big of a deal about it and trying to smear john mccain , i haveseen the ad i didnt make a whole lot of it it was dumb i admit but hardly a racist smear ad