Bill Press: John McCain Plays the Race Card

[babylonsister]

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John McCain Plays the Race Card
Bill Press
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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 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.

[CTyankee]

1. Yet Harold Ford said yesterday on Countdown that he did not

find McCain's ad racist. And he certainly isn't saying anything when he's on Morning Joe. I guess he knows that in order to get rich in TV he has to STFU about race.

[nc4bo]

3. Of course he did. Like alot of racism is simply not the overt, in-your-face type...

that's what makes it so difficult to prove.

I've always gone by the saying, where there is smoke, there is fire and it's best carry along a hose or an extinguisher.

[Cha]

2. Bill Press comes through..

with good one no less~!

[Supersedeas]

4. when Kkkarl Rove's surrogates are in charge of the puppet--the same song and dance will ensue