John McCain Plays the Race Card

[kevinmc]

Huffington Post - Bill Press

"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.

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.

[Tim4319]

1. I was thinking the same thing.

It all goes back to the good ole days of black men are not to fraternize with white women.

[Eric J in MN]

2. I don't agree that was their intent.

Maureen Dowd, columnist of the NY Times, has written that Obama is a "starlet" and a "debuntante."

McCain's people were probably following Maureen Dowd in trying to portray Obama as feminine by comparing him to women, rather than implying that he's had sex with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.

[Egnever]

3. Thats a stretch

[still_one]

4. mccain is not an honorable person

being a pow does not make someone honorable

voting against a day honoring Martin Luther King is not honorable

voting against benefits for our soldiers is not honorable

in fact most of his voting record is not honorable

if it walks like a duck talks like a duck its a duck

[MoJoWorkin]

5. Damn, I wish someone on TV would say what you just did.

All the media cowers, as they would be called unpatriotic if they told the truth about McCain. Somehow, though, it is ok to repeat the smears and lies about John Kerry and Max Cleland, etc. It appears to be ok to smear all Democrats but NEVER tell the truth about a Repuke, and NEVER NEVER speak ill of St. McCain.