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Thu 31 Jul, 2008 10:02 am
John McCain Plays the Race Card
by Bill Press
July 31, 2008
"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.
Um, that's not the race card - that's the dumbmasses card.
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H2O_MAN wrote:Um, that's not the race card - that's the dumbmasses card.
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You've made yourself the clear frontrunner as A2K's resident dumbass. Your posts consist of lame graphics and propaganda pilfered from some right-wing site. God forbid you put as much thought or detail into politics as you do water softeners.
Just trying to help you out and explain why you're so absolutely irritating. More advice: go outside today, talk to a woman, see what happens.
Gargamel
Gargamel
Salude!
BBB
Re: John McCain Plays the Race Card
BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:John McCain Plays the Race Card
by Bill Press
July 31, 2008
"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.
Get over it. Politics is what it is. Obama can be criticized for the same things.
Re: John McCain Plays the Race Card
BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:John McCain Plays the Race Card
by Bill Press
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.
You have got to be kidding! "black man hitting on young white woman"? If anything McCain's calling Obama a "bimbo", just like Britney and Paris both of whom are known for little more than their name, antics and money. Like them, Obama is more popular for being Obama than any substantive achievement.
That Mr. Press has read between the lines and come up with this assessment is more indicative of his own racism than McCain's.
Re: John McCain Plays the Race Card
slkshock7 wrote:BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:John McCain Plays the Race Card
by Bill Press
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.
You have got to be kidding! "black man hitting on young white woman"? If anything McCain's calling Obama a "bimbo", just like Britney and Paris both of whom are known for little more than their name, antics and money. Like them, Obama is more popular for being Obama than any substantive achievement.
That Mr. Press has read between the lines and come up with this assessment is more indicative of his own racism than McCain's.
Nah; it's a redux of the ads used against Harold Ford successfully; designed to conflate black men with sexualized young white women. Clear as glass.
Pathetic as hell. What a bunch of losers running the McCain campaign, resorting to trash like this.
Cycloptichorn
Poor pitiful Gargoyle.
You have no friends, no self respect, no sense of humor, no balls, no clue
and you have no fu*king idea how bad it looks to everyone when of all people,
BBB gives you props. I would point & laugh at you, but that would be cruel & inhumane.
Re: John McCain Plays the Race Card
Cycloptichorn wrote:
Nah; it's a redux of the ads used against Harold Ford successfully; designed to conflate black men with sexualized young white women. Clear as glass.
Pathetic as hell. What a bunch of losers running the McCain campaign, resorting to trash like this.
Cycloptichorn
Yeah, you're probably right. I'm sure McCain is really concerned that he won't get the Ku Klux Klan vote.
found this on a blog somewhere (and pardon if it's already been posted in another thread):
Quote: Chicago Tribune's Minority of One blog -- Was Berlin crowd boosted by interest in the opening acts? "I've gotten some e-mails complaining that the mainstream media didn't mention something about Barack Obama's speech in Berlin: He was preceded on stage by a couple of popular rock bands, which could account for the size of the crowd. That's a fact worth knowing, and one the major U.S. newspapers didn't report."
so maybe Obama isn't even the biggest celebrity in Germany, let alone the world. (i hope this keeps the GOP from trying to compare him to Hitler, but wait, that *might* cost them the KKK vote, so i needn't worry bout it)
You are right BBB!
As we all know, empty-headed celebrity is a universaly recognized African-American stereotype.
Comparing, in any way, Obama to Paris Hilton or Brittany Spears is an undeniable playing of the Race Card.
So here we are, as expected, in an election where any criticism of Sen. Obama is declared to be racism.
And such a strategy doesn't have the Race Card as its foundation?
I don't know if it is racism, but it stinks and is untrue. If anybody is full of empty air it is McCain. He has no new ideas just a continuation of the same Bush ideas and his entire campaign strategy seems to be taken from the Carl Rove playbook of campaign 2000. He has learned all the wrong lessons from getting stomped in that primary and instead of beating them decided to join them and become them and drop every maverick ethical idea he has ever had in the process. If this is the best the GOP can come up with up with; it won't be too hard to beat them in the fall.
Gargamel wrote:H2O_MAN wrote:Um, that's not the race card - that's the dumbmasses card.
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You've made yourself the clear frontrunner as A2K's resident dumbass. Your posts consist of lame graphics and propaganda pilfered from some right-wing site. God forbid you put as much thought or detail into politics as you do water softeners.
Just trying to help you out and explain why you're so absolutely irritating. More advice: go outside today, talk to a woman, see what happens.
That's ok Pitcher... it is only read as the joke of the day.
Do you think it can talk? And to WOMEN?
I think not.
Obama calls McCain campaign cynical but not racist
Since the federal gas taxes hasn't been raised since 1993 and many state gas taxes haven't raised their taxes since 1997. I honestely don't understand why McCain is going on about gas tax relief. However, I am glad that Obama seems to be willing to compromise in order to come to solutions. We need that after years of this administration.
Quote:The federal gas tax of 18.4 cents a gallon has not been increased since 1993; 24 states have not raised their gas taxes since 1997, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-09-20-roads_N.htm
The party of racism - the Democrats - are doing their damndest to project their racism onto the right.
Don't let it happen.
They are the party of slavery, of segregation, of Jim Crow laws, and the KKK is the terrorist arm of the Dems. Don't forget it.
The next time some left wing dumbass calls you a racist, kindly point out their hypocrisy.
Aside from the topic, May i get a rational response from any of the A2K members to my following quetion?
How to civilize USA citizens to elect a Resident of USA to stop war?
Gergen: McCain Using Code Words To Attack Obama As "Uppity"
by Sam Steinstein - Huffington post
August 3, 2008
On Sunday, longtime Washington hand David Gergen took umbrage with John McCain's recent attack ads, charging that the Senator was using coded messaging to paint Barack Obama as "outside the mainstream" and "uppity."
"There has been a very intentional effort to paint him as somebody outside the mainstream, other, 'he's not one of us,'" said Gergen, who has worked with White Houses, both Republican and Democrat, from Nixon to Clinton. "I think the McCain campaign has been scrupulous about not directly saying it, but it's the subtext of this campaign. Everybody knows that. There are certain kinds of signals. As a native of the south, I can tell you, when you see this Charlton Heston ad, 'The One,' that's code for, 'he's uppity, he ought to stay in his place.' Everybody gets that who is from a southern background. We all understand that. When McCain comes out and starts talking about affirmative action, 'I'm against quotas,' we get what that's about."
At the same time Gergen was calling out the Arizona Republican on ABC's This Week, Mike Murphy, McCain's campaign manager during the 2000 Republican primary, was describing the Senator's recent spot comparing Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton as "clumsy, juvenile, and a mistake."
"I think it was a dumb ad," said Murphy, during an appearance on Meet The Press. "Not because it asked the question, 'is Barack Obama ready for the job?' That's a very legitimate criticism, and I think Barack Obama made it a little bit worse by his stumbling response later. The problem is that McCain -- McCain's strategy has to hinge, in my view, on one thing: how does a Republican survive in October and November a huge anti-Republican vote? Luckily for the party, McCain is a different kind of Republican. So everything in the campaign ought to build toward that case. And when if you get off into the small juvenile stuff about Britney Spears, I think you distract from that."
Gergen and Murphy's criticism of the McCain ad capped off a several day period in which the suitability of using Spears and Hilton in a presidential campaign was hotly debated. Surrogates to the Arizona Republican, including Sens. Joseph Lieberman and Lindsay Graham (both appearing on separate Sunday shows) said the advertisement was legitimate as it called into question Obama's readiness for the White House. Earlier in the week, another former McCain campaign manager, John Weaver, described the ad as "childish" and wondered aloud if it diminished his stature.
The Senator's own mother, Roberta McCain, while acknowledging that she had not seen the Britney spot, called the idea "stupid." And Kathy Hilton, Paris' mother, took to the Huffington Post Sunday morning to deride McCain from dragging down the intellectual thrust of the campaign.
"It is a complete waste of the money John McCain's contributors have donated to his campaign. It is a complete waste of the country's time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs. And it is a completely frivolous way to choose the next President of the United States."
Obama is a racist, arrogant & uppity man and it's a complete waste of money for him to continue his bid for president.
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