McCain camp: Obama playing race card

Clara Kansas City, MO — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:05:20 GMT

Part 3. Been trying to get this one through

Oh, and here is dear old McCain - not speaking for the campaign, again!

Don - Dayton, OH (Sent Tuesday, July 29, 2008 12:13 PM) - Your comments yesterday are beyond moronic. Clinton lost because she didn’t understand delegate math and couldn’t balance a checkbook. Bill Clinton DID try to diminish Obama’s South Carolina win as a ‘black’ thing. I never ONCE witnessed or felt Obama played the race card and I’ve been paying close attention since the first Dem debate. He didn’t destroy the Clinton machine, they shot themselves in the foot and now have the gall to ask the rest of us to pay for the pleasure of her complete mismanagement. GET OVER IT! Her tactics from middle of February to the day before Unity, NH were appalling. If she couldn’t manage a quarter of a billion dollars any better than that, she shouldn’t be hired for the job. When I hear people say he is arrogant, I look back at her campaign. We will never know if she really is better than that campaign; but for the love of all things Democratic, get a grip. There is NO WAY in hell I would put her on my ticket. What kind of a political genius invokes an assassination in the final throes of a campaign?
Because I love sports – here’s a football metaphor: She fumbled the football in her red zone and he picked it up and TOOK A KNEE (he didn’t need to run it back, as he had already won). He took that knee in early May. No matter how low she went, he didn’t strike back because DESTROYING her isn’t how he rolls. He has been principled when his competitors have been churlish. You can have what ever emotional meltdown you want and rewrite the history of what I saw with my own eyes; but for PETE’S SAKE, stop blaming him for her failures. It was never a question of why couldn’t he close the deal – he was the unknown; but seriously, why couldn’t she? Now stomp your feet, take your toys and go away. (I’ll even give you the game ball she fumbled). You didn’t really come out to play, just to whine and complain. I’m sick of it! Really! Completely Fed Up! It is people like you and Bobbi and the other brats on here that make the adults in the room cringe. I’m sure your divorces were equally amicable. You probably used your children as bludgeons and weapons, too. Grow up, for the love of country, if for no other reason. My candidate does not deserve to be held hostage by your antics. He has proven to me that he has class, what’s your excuse?
PUMA= approx. 25% of 18M voters (4.5million for you without calculators). I am sure we need them; but I refuse to believe we don’t pick up those Midwest Independents in the same proportion.

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

jeff D Evanston IL — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:07:09 GMT

AMERICAN DON'T FALL FOR THIS CRAP!!!
john mccain he hoping that white american will jump on this and then the rep's can bring race into this. the negative ads are not working!!!

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MIA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:07:17 GMT

Couldn't wait to get this article up huh? Chuck, Mark and Domenico. This is the worst week ever for McSurge and camp but you the(MSM) will make it out to be a plus for McSurge and crew. What a bunch of idiot losers.

Not this time McSurge, not this time.

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lol — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:07:20 GMT

Too late, I am already distracted ... So what is this about Obama being black again?

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

jim gr — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:07:52 GMT

Distractions such as.....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/31/mccain-planned-to-attack_n_116091.html

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Clara Kansas City, MO — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:08:04 GMT

Well, if this is him playing the race card; I sit corrected. He's been saying this all along. But, if the old, white guys want to keep acting like he's not 'exotic' or 'otherness' - they need to be slammed on using the race card too.

It is not racist to acknowledge difference. It is racist to let that difference be WHY you don't vote for someone. Too aggravating for words!

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tj — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:08:31 GMT

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Belinda, Los Angeles, CA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:08:31 GMT

How is that playing the race card when he has been saying the same thing from day one.

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Pat Huntington NY — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:09:06 GMT

Wait a second! How is it playing the race card by noting the obvious - Obama looks different than any other Presidential Nominee in the history of this country. Now, it is clear that McCain is in fact running a racist campaign - his ad depicting Obama, a black man, with two white young blondes, is reminiscent of the republican racist ads played against Ford in the Tenn. Senate race in 2006. Subtle, but clearly with racist undertones [actually, some of the ads against Ford were anything but subtle - like the ones with jungle music playingin the background.]

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Jennifer — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:09:56 GMT

Wow, Mark, that's some of the most intelligent analysis I've seen of this issue yet (and, no, I'm not being snarky/sarcastic).

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Lisa — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:10:09 GMT

Rick Davis, John McCain and everyone who supports them are idiots. They are shameful and are a bunch of prejudice fools!! November can't come fast enough.

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Tim, Reading, PA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:10:22 GMT

Since Bush has an approval rating of less than 30% I can understand how McCain and the rest of the Republicans would not be used to any kind of popularity but if our population and other countries citizens are actually like our president things might actually get done.

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Grandma from Hawaii — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:10:48 GMT

He's definitely playing it since it worked against Hillary. It's his ace card especially when he's mostly talk and no accomplishments...

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shelby — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:11:41 GMT

Why isn't Barack Obama allowed to discuss his race any way he wants? It's his skin, isn't it?

I can't wait for the televised debate with those two occupying the same stage. One is a tall, handsome, fit, intelligent guy who looks like he would bring boundless energy to the Oval Office. The other guy appears and acts as if he's nothing more than a garden gnome hoping to settle down in the rose garden.

Obama's not playing the race card---he's pointing out obvious differences between himself and old dead white dudes.

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MSierra, SF — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:12:27 GMT

From Time Swampland via Huff Post”

‘…July 31, 2008 8:39
Hope Dashed (Again)
Posted by Joe Klein | Comments (23) | Permalink | Trackbacks (0) | Email This
A few months ago, I wrote that John McCain was an honorable man and he would run an honorable campaign. I was wrong. I used to think, as David Ignatius does, that McCain's true voice was humble and moderate, but now I'm beginning to think his Senate colleagues may be right about his temperament. From what I can gather, Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran, a Republican, reflected the views of many of his colleagues earlier this year when he said:

"The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine...He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."
The erratic nature of McCain's campaign seems to be confirming that judgment. The McCain I used to know would never have touted his own courage as he did a few weeks ago when he said:

"I had the courage and the judgment to say that I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war.It seems to me that Senator Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign."
Courage is grace under pressure. McCain showed it when he was a prisoner of war, and on many issues--yes, even on his stubborn insistence that the surge would work--but he is not showing it now. He is showing flop sweat. It is not a quality usually associated with successful leadership….’

And a blogger’s response:
‘…giveusfree:
I contend that John McCain was never honorable. He was a low achieving womanizer every step of the way. He simply muddled his way through life and lucked up with the press choosing him all those years ago to label him a Hero and a "Maverick". He skated by every step of the way. How soon we forget about the Forrester, the jilted ex-wife, Keating 5, MLK Votes, the "Rape Joke", the "maybe this is how we kill-em", his campaign being infested with oil lobbyists, the flip-flops, etc. McCain is no Audie Murphy and he does not have the intelligence nor the temperament to be President. What does he stand for?...’

What does McCain stand for ?

The McCain of 2000, the 'straight talk', the 'maverick'. the 'reformer' is gone....

Was the McCain ever real ?
I doubt it

This McCain is digging his own grave
By the time this campaign is over .....
........ McCain will have lost all his 'stature'

Wait a few weeks, this McCain strategy will backfire
This may end up being a blow out for Obama

John McCain, WHAT do you offer the American people ?
WHY should Americans VOTE FOR YOU ?

Obama/Biden '08
We're gonna need Joe !!

This does make Joe Biden more necessary on the ticket
No 'soft talkers'
No 'conciliators'
Get a tough guy with a sharp tongue
Joe Biden !!!
(or Edwards if he's vetted)
(and I hope he is, Edwards will eat 'em up alive)

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

BJ, CA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:13:08 GMT

Pride will pass the litmus test...
but we've learned nothing by bickering...don't go to his level Barack...Say Bye Bye to that stalker...
Distractions are Johnny's problems...
Playing the race card...Obama wrote the book on playing the race card...read "Dreams from My Father"
John.....his whole life is the balancing those issues..Your dead meat accusing him of doing that....
John you sound so desperate...

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Brian M. De. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:13:21 GMT

The people At John McShame headquarters should be ashamed. They are the very scurge of the bowels of modern politics.McShame is proud of silly comercials comparing Obama to teenie booper starlets. And lies about the real substance. And NObama if you see this why dont you factcheck.com the BS that you write .Oh yeah if you did that you would have that crap to right. Get a grip , Patty SD, is that you ? Low Ball Politics from The Crap Talk Express.

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give thyself a rest — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:13:45 GMT

Isn't "playing the race card" Old White Guy-ese for "help, there's a black man about to succeed at something i'm entitled to?"

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The - Democrat Soldier — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:14:19 GMT

Barack Obama campaign is on it. All Barack Obama has to do is talk and people listen.

John McCain talk and people began to see - he has no idea about anything.

Only John McCain's surrogates will speak for him, because John McCain can not speak intelligently about what going on in his campaign...because he's not running it.

John McCain has no idea what his own people are doing, how in the heck, will he be able to run our country.

Thank you and GOD BLESS AMERICA

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

Colleen, Ithaca, NY — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:14:37 GMT

"After all, the best way to play the race card sometimes is to accuse the other side of playing it."
Excellent point, FR.

We're in dangerous territory here. Looks to me like the McCain campaign is trying to start a race war. Don't fall for it! (Especially you, MSNBC pundits).

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Slime Dog — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:15:22 GMT

More truth coming from McCain and Company. Obama is slimy. Really slimy.

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Pat, Boston, MA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:16:08 GMT

"And was it inevitable that race was going to play a role in this campaign? Yes."

Nice article guys. But no, I really didn't expect it to reach the level it reached. Living in Boston and working in a pretty professional & diverse office, it's hard for us to fathom how Senator Obama is being treated out in the campaign.

And to be honest, most of my co-workers were initially for Senator Clinton because of the Clintons' long standing popularity in the area.

These are angry white republican old men in the GOP. They have always behaved like this towards the younger generations. They don't want to give up power.

And they will go to any means to make sure it doesn't happen. And they will use race right up until the very end.

The GOP party is as anti-American as you can get, in more ways than one.

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MSierra, SF — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:16:09 GMT

John McCain......
......the Incredible Shrinking Man

At least he's got a place in Hollywood if this Presidential scam doesn't work out

He can do Tidy Bowl commericals

Take a nap John; you’ve had a long morning and now you're getting cranky

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Jim — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:16:11 GMT

This truth really hurts all Obama followers but they are living in a state of denial and won't like to hear that their messiah is a phony who is really good in acting/talking. If he becomes president and four years down the road, our situation as a nation is the same or worse, who's to blame?

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Lyn, MD — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:16:27 GMT

Anyone who thinks that McLame, would make a good president and make their lot in life better is as delusional as McDecrepit is. You are most likely the same people who voted Bush in office twice. Give yourselves a big pat on the back!

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Thomas Elgin, Moorhead, MN — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:16:43 GMT

Looks like Mcain has had enough from Obama, and he's finally going on the attack to point out how inadequate Obama is. It's about time.

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John McCain is NOT my friend — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:17:03 GMT

Oh, that's right. Black people aren't supposed to point out that they're black. That's what white people are for.

Thank you, Mr. McCain. I'd forgotten that all things revolve around making old white men feel good.

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Pat Huntington NY — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:17:57 GMT

Obama - you need not be distracted by this nonsense. Get out your ads counterpointing this crap from McCain, while also explaining your positions on the issues - offshore drilling, for example. The people need to be educated, because the republicans spent the last 8 years dumbing them down, so they can mislead them into thinking offshore drilling will somehow bring gas prices down tomorrow morning, if ever, when we know this isn't true, we know McCain flipped on this to get oil indust. money, and we know the answer is in renewable energy.

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Laura, Boston, MA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:18:14 GMT

Obama did the same thing with Bill Clinton. He said that this whole thing was a fairy tale and somehow that became a racial comment against Hillary via Bill.

Once again Obama is using reverse racism against Sen. McCain's campaign. Nothing Senator McCain has said has had anything to do with race…This is Obama's way of making sure Black America gets offended and blames McCain.

I am not thrilled with either campaign but lets call it like we see it.

I wish Hillary would have won. We wouldn't be having these types of blogs. We might actually be talking about the issues because Hillary would have accepted John McCains offer to debate. She knew what she believed in and wasn't afraid to debate anyone, anytime, anyplace.

Oh well America….it was your doing. Hope you can live with the choice.

Laura, Boston, MA

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Doug, Kansas City, MO — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:18:21 GMT

McCain's campaign is being accused of jumping to crazy conclusions and pushing false information in its quest to go relentlessly negative, something no one in either party is backing. So what do they do? Make it worse and dig themselves in deeper, of course. Seriously, guys, do you want to be liked? Do you even WANT to win?

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R.Merrell — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:19:12 GMT

John McCain, like his mentor and twin GW Bush, has no place to go except to their tried and true brand of devisive, racist politics. Right out of the Karl Rove playbook. Not what's good for America, not ideas on how to solve this nation's problems. Just more of the same gutter politics all for the sake of power. Republicans love to wallow in their nasty brand of politics all the while waving their patriotic flags and talking about religion and the war on terror. They're the real terrorists: anti-democracy, anti-Constitution, pro-torture, pro-war, pro-divisive politics, pro-fear. Pathetic.

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Rick, NC — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:19:14 GMT

It was always going to happen...the republicans have been running for years with subtle and not so subtle racial undertones to their campaigns...remember

Mccain only has to con or scare a few million voters into thinking obama will turn us into a bunch of muslims or he will let the brothers take our women...you know its true

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Anne, Roswell, GA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:19:41 GMT

Can the McCain camp show their D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-I-O-N any more clearly? They are a truly pitiful, pathetic lot.

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DaveB from NLV — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:19:55 GMT

this is not a card
that either man has to play

for one is was played for him
when he came out of his mother's womb
with dark skin
for the other
it was been laid in the patchwork of a shameful
divisive history

and the more recent turns of the card
a fight against MLK in Arizona
Bill Clinton's rantings in South Carolina
Jesse Jackson's (un?)intentional whispers
and millions of people who admit
they will never vote for a black man
have taken the card out of both men's deck

it just that they now agree
that each of them see
the elephant in the room

http://latebreakingmuse.blogspot.com/

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ALSION, AR — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:20:35 GMT

McCain is playing the "Race Card" with the ad showing Blond white women all the while saying that these two are the top 2 celebrities, bull

Britney and Paris are ranked number 5,000 on the list of celebreties

This ad was Racist, Intentional, with Coded Messages to the American just like the one they ran against Harold Ford.

Americans are smarter than the McCain camp gives credit for. We will not be played with these gimmicks, the "gas tax holiday" drilling Off-Shore, accusing Obama of raising our taxes when Sen. McCain said Sunday relative to Social Security Payroll Taxes, "Nothing is off the table" and then on Monday Morning say No I will not raise taxes.

Apparently Sen. McCain and his bunch think the American people are "morons" and have no thought process, don't listen, and love him so much he can keep changing positions in our face, but we wll buy his decitfulness hook line and sinker

If Sen. McCain thought he lost in 2000 being Honorable, just wait until he sees the collossal loss in November from being totally "Dishonest"

Americans are wide-awake and we refuse to take the lies, decit,games and trickery, and bashing of the opponent all the while having absolutely no "substance, solutions, recommendations, while using distractions/ads to get our vote.

It won't work. C. H. A. N. G. E.

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Irish Rican for Obama — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:20:36 GMT

The statement refers to this Obama line yesterday: "So nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other Presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky. That's essentially the argument they're making."

Does anyone not feel this statement is accurate and true? Even conservatives that don’t like Obama recognize that the above stated strategy is the only way McCain can win. However, Obama is playing the race card if he points it out?

The McCain campaign crying that Obama is playing the race card in this situation is actually McCain playing his race card?

This man is unhinged and pathetic!!

Obama ‘08

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Owen, New York — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:20:52 GMT

People will claim that he isn't since he has been talking about this waaay back when. On second thought, he is pre-empting it so that it gets dumb down to the point where it becomes negligible. I believe Americans are wiser to know that he can't deliver at all except give us a good speech.

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LESD, New York City — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:21:08 GMT

I love the stories about how "uncomfortable" John McCain is with negative campaigning and what a high-minded guy he is.

Senator McCain, if you don't like the negative, low-road tone your campaign surrogates are taking, order them to stop. You can't control every right-wing blogger, talk-radio host, or GOP talking head. But you CAN control your paid staff.

It's called leadership.

If you aren't willing to do that, you should drop the pretense that you're any different from any other gutter-wallowing politician.

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Nashville_fan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:21:12 GMT

"Obama's remark yesterday seemed innocuous. In fact, it's similar to what he has said many times before. "I know that I don’t look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken in this great city," Obama noted in last week's speech in Berlin.

Perhaps more important, Obama's remarks wouldn't have been seen as playing the race card if Davis hadn't issued this release. After all, the best way to play the race card sometimes is to accuse the other side of playing it. "

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*stands and applauds FIRST READ!*

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! for not parroting Senator McCain's baseless attack! :)

I could get used to this kind of fair coverage - keep it coming - PLEASE!

P.S. donna - YOU ROCK!

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C.K. Steele Fort Lauderdale, FL — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:21:23 GMT

I told you it was coming. John McCain is willing to destroy whatever reputation he has and take the lowest road possible to the finish line. The purpose of Mr. Davis' faux outrage is to attempt to innoculate themselves for the huge racial attack that the McCain camp is about to launch. Sen. Obama has nothing to gain and everything to lose when race is the main topic and Mr. Davis in his actions right here has proclaimed that race will be front and center. McCain has taken all of the ugliest elements of the Clinton campaign and I hope that he reaps the defeats that she took tenfold. It is a shame what has happened to Mr. McCain.

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Brian M. De. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:21:59 GMT

High Five Clara KC MO ,you said that very real. Much respect for that. Arrogant is the modern day Uppity when referencing a AA remember the word Of Fat Cat Pat B. ,Obama needs to know his place. That is why so many people are so hypersensitive to all things Obama. You can see it in the eye's of Moaning Joe and his girlfriend Tucker The weenie Carlson. People have even used the lame ass excuse. The Obama supporters are so rude I cant vote for him because of his supporters. Yet go to a pro anybody else but him blogg and it's ok to spew hate and nasty remarks about him.

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BJ, CA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:22:38 GMT

Hey Slime Dog....if the name fits your it..

You like that low life stuff...do you smear it all over your judgment...?
Pigs lay in too..

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Dave in OC, Vets for Obama — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:22:44 GMT

More McSame hypocrisy - wow!

Really unbelievable!
Well, if McSame believes this, then he should come out with a big ad about it....

Play Obama's full quote about 15 seconds, then say "he's playing the race card from the bottom of the deck."

See how people respond. Their charge is outrageous, and McSame is running an end-to-end smear campaign!

Vets for Obama!

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Sue, Chicago — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:22:55 GMT

McCain campaign - morally bankrupt

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Sandycs1953 Texas City, TX — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:23:03 GMT

Clara, Kansas City, MO - I couldn't have said it better myself! Get over it people! We're on to bigger and better things. This negative ad campaign placed on the tube by the repubs just aint' working. I for one, always turn them off or change the channel. They are a waste of my time and intelligence. I, for another, can't wait for November. It can't come fast enough for me. I'll be the first one in line to vote and I predict a huge voter turnout. Why? Because the people of the USA are tired of the same old, same old. We need someone who thinks out of the box, and isn't afraid to stand on the box either. Why shouldn't Senator Obama look presidential. His appearance is the first thing you notice about him, how he carries himself, how he's dressed, how he is groomed. Then when Senator Obama speaks, he speaks directly to the heart of the people. We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore. Stand by and watch in November. Soon after we'll be saying PRESIDENT OBAMA and his beautiful FIRST LADY MICHELLE. Just thinking about that gives my heart peace. Go Obama!

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Teri from Ohio — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:24:08 GMT

The McCain campaign must not have looked at the Presidents on the dollar bills lately. Obama was not playing the race card. Those Presidents all look OLD!

McCain and his campaign just make things up as they go along. Not to mention he graduated 894th out of 899 at Annapolis.

"We desperately need a president who's smarter than the average American. And we desperately need a media willing to report the truth about candidates without trying to spin the story against them in a way that badly distorts reality." (John K Wilson – Huffington Post)

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MI Chick — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:25:36 GMT

I think that he was responding to McCain's underlying assertion lately that Obama is too "foreign" to be president. He did not specifically say because he was "black" - it's because he looks different. And he does - there's no denying that. Someone on MSNBC this morning stated as much - the subliminal message from McCain is that Obama is too "foreign", Obama's for McCain is that he's too "old". Both messages have an element of truth to them. It's how they are used to play on our fears is the problem. Personally, I am tired of being told to fear people because they have a weird name, or worship Allah instead of God, or whatever.

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Janie Diaz — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:26:32 GMT

For two weeks Tucker Bounds of the McCain campaign has sent moronic retorts that were clearly "out of bounds". But with Andrea Mitchell today Rick Davis went on an absolute rant! These guys are losing it. It seems impossible to have substantive debate. For McCain to use Schwartz from Rove camp to make such idiotic ads after what the same people did to McCain in South Carolina in 2000 indicates that he has completely flipped out of recognition. I agree the juxtaposition with the two young blondes had racial undertones. I continue to feel that McCain is so 20th century and Obama so 21st!

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Brian M. De. — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:26:33 GMT

Somebody said that Obama's campaign used the race card against HRC that is a crock too. Get a grip and I am not talking about tugging on your private parts in front of the puter.

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John Doe, Seattle, Wash — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:26:44 GMT

Good job Mark Murray.

Accusing someone of playing the race card IS playing the race card. Shame on you McCain.

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donna — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:27:06 GMT

Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro,

Gentlemen, Good for you. Blessings upon all your houses. Amen. The three of you have scripted wonderfully here. Thank you for pointing out the innocuous, (which means harmless, and inoffensive; for those of us reaching for a dictionary, like me), nature of Senator Obama's comments.

The neo cons want to have it both ways. They quite boldly tweak the narrative of Obama as being 'out of his place', (as in the front of the bus), but retreat to a place of hypocritical indignation when they are called on their shenanigans with righteous criticism.

Let me be one who proclaims Senator Obama innocent of these charges.

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Bee, NH — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:27:15 GMT

Typical Republican sleazy machine. Is that all McCain got? Playing the race card on Obama will not work.

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renegademom — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:27:51 GMT

John McCain as garden gnome. And, he could always get work doing ads for Travelocity.com.

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Anne/Ohio — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:28:01 GMT

Here we go again! Will you guys at NBC please stop with the race crap already! Here is something for or polls:
I am 44yr old white, non-college, single mother, very bitter against my goverment, and news media's, I am voting for BARACK OBAMA and Oh yeah I LIVE IN OHIO! north east by the way! Barack Obama gets it, believe it or not, he understands the the United States can not go on this way any longer, it is time to stop worring about someones skin color or the ethnic back ground or religous beleifs, (see told you I was not a college grad my spelling is horrid) So take that and stick it in your pipe and smoke it!

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Sue, Chicago — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:28:05 GMT

Laura, Boston, MA - Obama did accept McCain's invitation, just not to all 10 town hall meetings that McCain proposed - that would have allowed McCain to control Obama's schedule after having had a head start of several months already. I don't expect joint appearances to reflect favorably on McCain.

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Ron Indiana — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:28:10 GMT

I carefully read Chuck Todd's comments and they seem be be fair and accurate. It's the Pat B and Joe S, that turn a harmless Obama comment into something racist and ugly. It is MSNBC who allows racist comments of Pat and Joe to go unchecked. Well written Chuck et.al. If your analyst could be just as good.

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come on FR - don't censor me — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:29:13 GMT

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

THOMAS — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:30:03 GMT

Like higher taxes? vote for Obama. Like socialism/facism? vote for Obama. Like winning wars instead of losing them? vote for McCain. and on and on it goes. Never vote on emotion. That can lead to big trouble. Which is what most of the obama backers are doing. If you want to live in a communist country, or agree with the hard left and think that govt. needs to tell you what to eat, drink, when to sleep, when you can go shopping ect. then obama is your man. On his voting RECORD which is fact, obama voted 94 to raise taxes. Go to work just so you can pay this atrocious beaurucratic govt more of your hard earned money. Give em your home. It's not yours anyway. Give em your life. That is how this country is working right now and you can see it. It's right in front of your face. Stop and think. Who runs this country? YOU do. YOU are the boss of this country and YOU are the BOSS of govt. ACT LIKE IT FOR ALL OF OUR SAKES! Get rid of those in washington who want to tell YOU what to do. They do not have that right no matter what laws they pass. It is up to US. WE are the true owners of this land and I for one am not voting for either one of those weasels.
Valeria Lindholm Duncan, OK 73533 (Sent Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:51 AM

I would hope that people on the right have the good sense not to throw their votes away on Barr. No matter what you think of McCain he is the anti-Obama vote, he is the anti-Obama vote, he is the anti-Obama vote! Send the Dems a message on their affirmative action/ diversity candidate! Vote for McCain as the anti-Obama vote which he is!
Paul A Trouve, Montague, NJ (Sent Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:34 AM)

Witness the mentality of domestic terrorists, who join militias when they lose elections. They are neo con republicans. There is nothing patriotic about them. They DO NOT love democracy. It is their way or, hell to pay.

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

John B, Des Moines, IA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:30:28 GMT

The McSame campaign clearly understands that their nominee is up against a hard ceiling of popularity (approx 45%) therefore they MUST destroy the willingness of people to vote against the opponent. I thought the campaigns of GW Bush reached the absolute height of ugliness, but of course all those same people are working for McCain as well...including Karl Rove pulling strings behind the scenes while Fox pays him to be an "analyst".

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

Janet, Texas — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:31:24 GMT

This is what's so frustrating about the McCain camp especially. These sledgehammer attacks as using the "race" card, only puts up more divides and doesn't move us forward. McCain camp, stop trying to divide for purposes of winning an election, and try providing us with substance that shows us you're dedicated to bringing us together.

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

Terrence — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:31:26 GMT

The problems of this nation is obvious but does not take even an Obama to fix if we work together. Sad fact is that all Americans need a rock-star president FIRST to inspire everyone to work as a team rather than taking initiatives similar to that of our forefathers when they built this country.

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

Mike, Chicago — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:31:34 GMT

This is pathetic. I can't wait for McCain to blow a fuse. I predict this election will be all but over when he does.

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

grace, san jose, california — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:31:48 GMT

IT WAS THE "FOREIGN" WORD NEXT TO HIS FACE STUPID!
YOU DO NOT CALL THAT USING RACE? WAKE UP! WHAT DO YOU THINK WE ARE? BLIND?

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

DH, Houston, TX — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:32:51 GMT

It's funny how the press has been playing the Race Card since at least February, and that's cool. You guys crack me up. We are so screwed.

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

annie — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:33:02 GMT

Have you listened to Rick Davis?! Boy, did he sound torqued, piqued, basically out-of-control. Andrea Mitchell couldn't get a word in edgewise. I would have been infuriated, trying to interview him in that state. The McCain campaign is losing their grip.

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

Cindy Lou, TX — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:33:18 GMT

McCain is trying to drown Obama in a cloud of gnats. The Republicans played the race card a long time ago (or doesn't McCain remember the "terrorist fist jab" or "Obama Baby Mama"?)

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

BJ, CA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:33:45 GMT

Thanks Rick Davis!!!!

He said Barack Obama "won the election"

YEAH!!!!

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

Rick,Ky — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:33:48 GMT

Golly gee, and all this time i thought Barack was a very intelligent man with exordinary Judgement of Critical Importance to America's national security.Now i find out he's Not White.

Keep building those submarines with screendoor's GOP!

John Mccain & the Gay Ole Party, several fries short of a happy meal.

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

Jim, the Mississippi Delta — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:34:48 GMT

McCain is becoming increasingly desperate and even bizarre at times. I can't beleive the media is not calling McCain out on his "Festival of Lies."

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

subgruvet, ok — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:35:07 GMT

The RNC is relying on low IQ low info voters in a big way again. John McCain is on the verge of mental and physical breakdown and is possibly the worst candidate I've ever seen. Vote Obama

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

Donna-Charlottesville, VA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:35:31 GMT

Hei Teri from Ohio, you hit the nail on the head.

Sen. Obama is different from the rest, he's intelligent, no he's brillant, and he is liked. McSly, the GOP and the pundits are simply jealous...Obama has been one step ahead of everyone connected to this election and all the while taking the high road.

McBush will bring more of the same...we need and want change. McOld bumbles his sentences, misspeaks and simply doesn't know his international facts. McDesperate also lies and then forget he's lied!

The truth always catches up!

Everyone remember, without a solid middle class, the upper class will crumble.

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

John, New York, NY — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:35:55 GMT

Keep this up McCain, and you'll be headed to your long overdue retirement.

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

JANE, VA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:36:11 GMT

ANGRY ANGRY, MCCAIN" If you don't agree with me on the Surge I will make up stuff"

EACH AND EVERY TIME WE SEE MCCAIN HE'S ANGRY JUST LIKE THE SENATORS IN THE SENATE HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR 25+ YEARS. NO MATTER HOW HARD HE TRIES HIS TEMPER IS SHOWING.

MCCAIN SHOWED HIS TEMPEPR WITH ROMNEY HE FOCUSES IN ON HIS OPPONENTS AND GOES FOR THE THROAT, NO SUBSTANCE, NO PLANS, NO POLICIES

AMERICAN WE CANNOT AFFORD A PRESIDENT WITH THE "TEMPLER TANTRUMS THIS GUY THROWS DAILY"

McCain’s Temper

July 31, 2008 8:39
Hope Dashed (Again)
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A few months ago, I wrote that John McCain was an honorable man and he would run an honorable campaign. I was wrong. I used to think, as David Ignatius does, that McCain's true voice was humble and moderate, but now I'm beginning to think his Senate colleagues may be right about his temperament. From what I can gather, Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran, a Republican, reflected the views of many of his colleagues earlier this year when he said:

"The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine...He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."
The erratic nature of McCain's campaign seems to be confirming that judgment. The McCain I used to know would never have touted his own courage as he did a few weeks ago when he said:

"I had the courage and the judgment to say that I would rather lose a political campaign than lose a war.It seems to me that Senator Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign."
Courage is grace under pressure. McCain showed it when he was a prisoner of war, and on many issues--yes, even on his stubborn insistence that the surge would work--but he is not showing it now. He is showing flop sweat. It is not a quality usually associated with successful leadership….’

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

John B, Des Moines, IA — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:37:29 GMT

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

C A, Tuscaloosa, AL — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:38:39 GMT

Well McCain: When the shoe fits wear it, and Im' not talking about your $520 pair of shoes. I'm talking about every innuendo your campaign has made trying to paint Obama different. Let's see, we have traitor, and whimp and celebrity and arrogant and yes Black. Someone apparently made a false and misleading post that you were overheard without your knowledge on a hot mic making the comment that "Obama is sure a uppity n-----." I would bet both my arms and legs that you and some of your staff have really made such comments in private. The fact is you are a biggot McCain.

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

Peacemonky — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:38:40 GMT

He doesn't look like the old guys on the money. Not only is he not white he is young. Maybe he just means he is different. Not old and stupid. Different is good.

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

Ian — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:38:53 GMT

Why would Obama play the race card? To get the 2% of african americans that are not voting for him? McCain had to inject race into it somehow and this is the closest he could get because the game was not coming to him.
tj (Sent Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:08 PM)
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This is, of course, an excellent point. However, the outcome in Nov. depends on the votes of a bunch of poorly educated, white, low-information voters. I'm surprised McCain's ads aren't cartoons.

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

Brenda, New Jersey — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:40:07 GMT

To the PUMA. No if HRC had won we could discuss her latest money scam, her husbands affairs, and whatever other trash the ho could heave. Drop dead PUMA

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

FL — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:40:08 GMT

The media is really in the trash. All they do is rerun campaign ads by the candidates and then talk about it. And they call this journalism. The truth is its tabloid journalism and you get the same from reading the “National Enquirer’. It really is sad to see how far American Journalism has fallen.

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

Colleen, Ithaca, NY — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:40:15 GMT

McCain played the race card when he voted against Martin Luther King day!

McCain camp: Obama playing race card

McWhitelikeme — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:40:25 GMT

McUppity plays the "race card" card. Uses a famous quote from the OJ saga to do it.

Do you know how much it hurts when you drop a sledgehammer on your own foot?