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Cyclo,
Specifically what "racist and xenophobic accusations towards Obama" has McCain made "these last few months"?

You know as well as I do that there are racists and xenophobes on both sides spouting all kinds of hate and venom, but those comments are not coming from the lips of either candidate. To imply they are coming directlyh from the Repub candidate is an outright lie and to imply it's only coming from the Repub side is disingenuous at best.

Michelle Malkin has captured some of the rage coming from the Democratic fringe here. Anybody who's been on A2K for more than few hours has seen bushels of similar comments of rage from Bush-haters right here.

When McCain and Palin talk about Obama's 'terrorist pals,' and ask 'who is the real barack Obama?' these are code words designed to point out that he is black, and nothing more.

cyclo wrote:

When McCain and Palin talk about Obama's 'terrorist pals,' and ask 'who is the real barack Obama?' these are code words designed to point out that he is black, and nothing more.

If you haven't noticed..the "terrorist pal" they are pointing to is not black...neither are most of the ones we are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.

And there have been reams of leftist fear-fomenting about Sarah Palin as well and who she really is i.e., "she's not really a maverik"..."she's not really a feminist"..."she's really a separatist". Calling into question who Barack really is (and he does have an extremely limited background from which to judge) is no more racist then calling Palin's background into question is misogynistic.

These calls about racism are simply Dem fear tactics designed to get folks to the polls...and completely unfounded.

Inland GOP mailing depicts Obama's face on food stamp


07:07 AM PDT on Thursday, October 16, 2008

By MICHELLE DeARMOND
The Press-Enterprise

The latest newsletter by an Inland Republican women's group depicts Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama surrounded by a watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken, prompting outrage in political circles.

The October newsletter by the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated says if Obama is elected his image will appear on food stamps -- instead of dollar bills like other presidents. The statement is followed by an illustration of "Obama Bucks" -- a phony $10 bill featuring Obama's face on a donkey's body, labeled "United States Food Stamps."

The GOP newsletter, which was sent to about 200 members and associates of the group by e-mail and regular mail last week, is drawing harsh criticism from members of the political group, elected leaders, party officials and others as racist.

The group's president, Diane Fedele, said she plans to send an apology letter to her members and to apologize at the club's meeting next week. She said she simply wanted to deride a comment Obama made over the summer about how as an African-American he "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."

"It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of his statement. I really don't want to go into it any further," Fedele said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "I absolutely apologize to anyone who was offended. That clearly wasn't my attempt."

Fedele said she got the illustration in a number of chain e-mails and decided to reprint it for her members in the Trumpeter newsletter because she was offended that Obama would draw attention to his own race. She declined to say who sent her the e-mails with the illustration.

I agree with the republicans here....this whole thread is a bunch of BS.

You are acting like a 3 year old.

Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
Round Three
By Joe Klein

"This really gets down to the fundamental difference in our philosophies," John McCain said, quite accurately, in the heat of the third presidential debate. "If you notice ... Senator Obama wants government to do the job. He wants government to do the job. I want you, Joe, to do the job," referring to a plumber Barack Obama had met on the campaign trail. The job, in this case, was finding health insurance. And in years past, McCain would have had the better of this argument " it is the classic division between liberals and conservatives. But 2008 has proved to be a new and frightening moment for the American electorate, and having the government help in finding, and funding, health care doesn't sound like such a bad idea anymore. McCain had a feisty debate, with some high points and a bit too much anger to make Americans feel very comfortable in his presence, but to a very great extent, his fate " like this election " was out of his control. This is simply not a good year to say, "Joe, take care of your health care yourself." It seems an impossible year for McCain's Reagan Republican philosophy.

McCain entered the third debate with Obama a chastened man. Half the Republican savants seemed to have given up on him; the other half were offering bad advice. Worse, he seemed to have realized " finally " the permanent threat to his reputation that his campaign had become. The moment of truth may have occurred at an Oct. 6 rally. "Who is the real Barack Obama?" McCain asked. "A terrorist!" a man bellowed. McCain seemed to wince, roll his eyes, retreat. He didn't admonish the man, but the incident was unsettling, and several days later, at a town-hall meeting in Minnesota, he did begin to push back against the ugliness of his crowds. A woman said, "I can't trust Obama. He's an Arab," and McCain replied, "No, ma'am. No, ma'am, he's not. He's a decent family man " citizen " that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues."

It wouldn't be entirely fair to blame McCain for the bilious mess his party has become. The most vehement of the Republican faithful live in an alternative universe, fermented by decades of Rush Limbaugh's brilliantly meretricious baloney and Sean Hannity's low-rent bullying. As McCain's audiences went out of control, Hannity stoked the rage with a "documentary" about Obama that featured, without qualification, a poisonously flaky anti-Semite who claimed to know Obama was a Muslim. But McCain had consistently stoked the rage as well, with nonstop negative advertising and by questioning Obama's patriotism and trying to make an Everest out of the anthill of Obama's association " passing, at best " with the former terrorist William Ayers. Those gambits, plus McCain's monumentally dreadful selection of a running mate unqualified for the presidency, have defined the Republican's campaign. According to the polls, the stunts and attacks have hurt more than they have helped, which is a wonderful thing: a very worried public is taking this election very seriously.

McCain's benighted handlers had been stuck too deep in the Rovian mud to pick up on that. But in the days just before the debate, McCain returned to the acceptable boundaries of presidential politics with a punchy new stump speech that was plenty critical of Obama but critical on matters of substance, not inference. Obama would raise taxes. He would spend too much. He would "concede defeat in Iraq." And then, in a perfect valedictory to his career, McCain said, "I'm an American. And I choose to fight." It is impossible to say what McCain's fate would have been if he had taken this tough but traditional tack and also chosen Senator Joe Lieberman, the Vice President he really wanted, as former George W. Bush strategist Matthew Dowd suggested he should have done. No doubt, given the political tides, Obama would still be ahead, but McCain would seem a more plausible alternative and still have his honor intact.

The structural weakness of McCain's position was evident every time Obama described a program " health care, education, energy " in the third debate. cnn's focus group of independent Ohioans would send the dials on their electric gizmos spinning into the stratosphere. They loved the idea that government would spend more on education or energy or regulate the health-insurance companies. They also loved the idea that government should do this carefully " McCain's best moment was when he described how he'd cut waste. But McCain always looked as if he were a kernel of corn about to pop. He blinked, he spluttered. He interrupted Obama constantly. At times, McCain's outrage seemed righteous, as when he thundered that he was not Bush. (The focus group punished Obama when he mentioned the "failed policies of the past eight years.") But even righteous outrage seemed much too hot this year. In his anger, McCain confirmed a sad truth about his campaign: that the prime source of the negativity was the candidate himself.

Find this article at:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1850940,00.html

The caller begins by announcing that he's calling on behalf of McCain and the RNC. the call continues:

"You need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge's home, and killed Americans. And Democrats will enact an extreme leftist agenda if they take control of Washington. Barack Obama and his democratic allies lack the judgment to lead our country."

The call concludes by saying it was "paid for by McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee."

Obama Slaying Joke Sent By GOP Fundraiser

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By WILLIAM MARCH

[email protected]

Published: October 16, 2008

TAMPA - Al Austin, a high-level Republican fundraiser from Tampa, sent an e-mail to his list of his political contacts Wednesday containing a joke that refers to the assassination of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

In an interview, Austin said it was a mistake and apologized, that he hadn't fully read the e-mail and wouldn't knowingly have circulated it.

Later in the day, Austin sent a follow-up e-mail saying it was "a serious mistake on my part" and that the joke "was entirely wrong and certainly does not represent my feelings."

The punch line says that if an airplane carrying Obama and his wife were blown up "it certainly wouldn't be a great loss, and it probably wouldn't be an accident either."

You are trying to make a false equivalence, while again spouting the same sort of **** that McCain does - that Obama is responsible for the actions of associates of his.

cyclo wrote:

You are trying to make a false equivalence, while again spouting the same sort of **** that McCain does - that Obama is responsible for the actions of associates of his.

ROFL...fine thing to say when you are trying to make McCain responsible for the actions of "associates of his"....Frankly, I doubt McCain even knows this lady...certainly can't say that he has a 20-year relationship on the same order as Obama-Wright.

But you still haven't given me a single instance of McCain or Palin "stoking the anger" of racism. You throw out one comment Palin made about "paling with terrorists" and immediately apply your own biases to make the leap that she is racist. Then you prove your case by saying she's using "code-words" of your own deriving.

What is clear to me is that Obama or more accurately, his minions are intent on whipping the base of his party into a frenzy by false accusations of racism. Your acceptance of this baseless falsehood demonstrates that it's working...

So according to you (and some unspecified dictionary on racist code words) "terrorists" is a code-word for black and "the real Barack Obama" is another code word for black....okkkk

If I wasn't so astounded by the stupidity of the comment, I would laugh.