RUSH:...This guy, ladies and gentlemen, is diabolical. Barack Obama will do and say anything. This is a disgrace, and people should be furious with this kind of thing. It is the Democrat Party that brought up race.
Obama Calls Republicans Racists
Posted on 06/23/2008 4:16:41 PM PDT by Red Steel
American presidential candidate Barack Obama is preparing himself for a Republican campaign based on racially motivated adverts and images.
The slurs about Obama being the first black man to run for president have already found their way onto the television and campaign buttons across the US.
Jokes about his name being Hussein, the fact that he once wore a turban and a building that's called the White House but run by a black guy are being pumped out already.
Though the election is more than four months away, the campaigns of Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are shaping their strategies for dealing with such appeals.
The Obama campaign vows to fight back fiercely and fast, not repeating John Kerry's mistake of waiting to respond to the 2004 'Swift Boat' ads that Democrats saw as a smear of his military record.
McCain's camp is also on alert for attacks.
The McCain campaign promises to condemn any race-based political appeals.
But it also insists it won't stand still for false charges of racism or for allegations merely aimed at preventing criticism of Obama on legitimate issues.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a friend and adviser of McCain, said: 'Every word will be twisted to make it about race.'
But the Republican vowed that if he and others confront Obama on issues such as national security and the economy it will have 'nothing to do with him being an African-American'.
Obama adviser David Axelrod said the Democrat's campaign will be on high alert for code words or innuendo meant to play on voters' racial sentiments.
'We're going to be aggressive about pushing back on anything that we feel is inappropriate or misleading,' he said.
'It's not enough for McCain to say he cannot control independent groups airing racially charged ads on his behalf.'
'We've seen this movie before,' he added. 'And we're not going to be passive in the face of those kinds of tactics.'
Racially charged criticism of Obama already has surfaced in several states.
Shortly before North Carolina's May 6 primary, the state Republican Party aired a TV ad linking Democratic candidates to Obama, who was described as 'too extreme' because of his ties to the retired Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.
Obama eventually ended his relationship with Wright, his longtime pastor who had been criticized for sermons in which he cursed America and accused the government of conspiring against blacks.
The state party ignored McCain's repeated calls to kill the ad.
In South Dakota, a TV station briefly aired an ad that was edited to show Obama saying, 'we are no longer a Christian nation, we are also a Muslim nation.'
It omitted his saying, in the same speech, that the United States is not solely a Christian nation.
The ad, which included a photo of Obama wearing a turban as part of a traditional outfit given to him in Africa, concluded with a man saying: 'It's time for people of faith to stand against Barack Hussein Obama.'
A group called the Coalition Against Anti-Christian Rhetoric paid for the ad, which stations quickly dropped after the Obama campaign complained.
The Texas Republican Party recently cut ties with a vendor whose political buttons at a party convention included one saying: 'If Obama is president ... will we still call it The White House?'
Political professionals differ on how much racially tinged campaigning might emerge this summer and autumn.
Terry Holt, a Republican strategist who worked on President Bush's 2004 re-election campaign, said Republicans know that McCain has no tolerance for such tactics.
For the McCain campaign, he said, 'it's not about what Obama looks like, it's about what he's going to act like.'
'I think we can have an honest and tough debate without race being a major factor,' Holt said.
Obama’s the one doing the slurring.
“LYING SOCIALIST SCUMBAG” is a racial term?
Race based slurs?
WTF?? Does he really think that some Republicans are going to march around in pointy hats and yell “don’t vote for the n****r?”
Democrats are the ones that do that.
Vote Obama 2008! American's 1st Affirmative Action President!
Hillary doesn’t think he can attract:
“Hardworking Americans, White Americans”
‘Spose Hillary is implying that Black Americans aren’t hard working.
Just so we’re clear as to who throws racial mud. It’s Hill & Bill, Queen and King of the trailer park trash wing of the Democrat Party.
Seems to me the racists are in the Democrat party. The display over the last few months made that abundantly clear. The KKK was born out of the civil war, to keep Democrats in the south in power. There rule ended, the KKK and the Democrats, when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted, over a Democrat filibuster, led by Sen Byrd. History is your friend.
As to Comrade Obama, a Marxist who happens to be black, I don’t see his blackness as the issue, it’s his Marxism that I see as the deal killer. Comrade Obama’s new church is Environmental Marxism.
Obama plans to play that race card on Republicans like he did on Bill and Hillary Clinton , and a few other Democrats who got in his way.
[Lt. Col Allen] West Answers Obama:Run as a Man and Leader
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Allen West (Cong. Candidate FL 22) responds to Obama saying Republicans will use race to stoke fear
Calling Obama by his middle name Hussein is Racist.
Obama is a complete nut case. We’ve had some bad Presidents but this guy would bury this country and put the other 3/4 of the people on welfare.
Your a racist if you don’t vote for O!bama...Socialist is not a race.
ANY opposition to Hussein for any reason is a “race based slur.” That is how it is defined.
The only reason that Catholicism was an issue in the 1960 election is that the Kennedy campaign made it one. They were looking for the votes of people who wanted to feel better than those bigoted people.
Dig in, everybody.
We’ve got to do our spadework between now and November.
Keep in mind that London is ground-zero for the old Reds that used to yell “three cheers for world socialism!” at Labour Party meetings. That story is scurrilous. I wonder if the GOP could sue?
Aw, isn’t he just the widdle trooper! And NAME jokes no less. Just being PUMPED OUT!
Well, Mr Hussein, since you like metaphors sooooo much, did ya hear the one about kitchen heating?
The Audacity of Race-Baiting is a fine summation and the crux of obama’s campaign. According to this useless piece of hateful racist trash, if “you don’t vote for me, you are a racist.
(Damn! I just used a word with 'hood' in it. Got to dig out the thesaurus.)
Enough with the dark humor already. You're giving Freerepublic a black eye.
Saying anything critical about Obambi will be considered racist. Why do you think the Dims are running him? They want a candidate who they assume will be off-limits for any critical review.
“According to this useless piece of hateful racist trash, if ‘you don’t vote for me, you are a racist.’”
Which is why the Dims are running him: They know there are a whole slew of pantywaist Americans out there who are so comsumed by their sense of “white guilt” that they will vote for any black just to feed their desire for absolution.
On the other hand, I think there are millions of folks out there who are sick and tired of the entitlement mentality prevelant in the black community who are gonna vote a big NO for this socialist turd....
I sincerely hope the man loses big. Nothing would do my heart better than to see a whiner get rejected by the voters.
Obama drew the first race card seems to me and maybe the Republicans should just make adverts or campaign adverts using his own words against him...” words do matter..”
If it were possible to perform a survey of racists in the Dem and 'Pub party, I would bet a dozen donuts that there are an overwhelming number of racists in the Dem party.
Is calling Obama a half ass cracker a racial slur?
Off topic but applause to Bill O. tonight...he just drilled two college students ga-ga for Barry. He kept presenting what an Obama presidency would bring—socialism—and they were stuttering and stammering all over the place. They said that yes, it would fine if Bill was taxed at 50% because he was rich and it wasn’t fair...Bill told them if they worked hard they could be rich, too. What whiners these kids are today!
If you don't, then we will call you a racist!!!!!
Race based slurs?
Yup “The Looser” is a race based term. The presidential race based term.
Of course its not like we’ll have a winner either though.
Dem motto...If you can’t beat them, SILENCE them.
Hmmm, Mugabe does that.
He gets a big “f### you!” from me. I will tell many folks that BHO is calling me a racist. Many won’t get it and won’t care but they need to know anyway.
Both sides need to focus less on race. We are in a war on terror and we play into the hands of the terrorists when we as a nation are preoccupied with such a divisive issue.
Does anyone know where I could find a list of Obama’s campaign people, the top ones. I am curious as to how many have ties to radical organizations.
Sorry wholly on true. Only ONE side is focused on race. The Left. They are demogaging this issue. Any critism of Obama is responded to with "that ractists". NO ONE but the Left is focusing on Obama's race. To blame both sides equally is to ignore all reality in favor of a completely phoney knee jerk moral equaliency arguement.
You are right on...this is the collective guilt mind control that has been dumbed into our schools and Drive-by Media...it can only be overturned by Patriots that love America what she is not for what the left wants to destroy!
this is a Christian Nation Still...we must stick together and not be cowed into submission!
Is Obama hoping for a sympathy vote because he is black? If race is the issue he will lose. Four months of screaming heads telling us that we are racist if we don't vote for Obama will be a self fulfilling prophecy for more than just Republicans.
I'm wondering just how strident the BHO supporters will get in response to any perceived racism. And I'm wondering why BHO is raising the issue now.
Lighten up, Jeff. This was a wordplay used by Hillary Clinton earlier this year.
Oh, sorry. I hereby back down from my previous post (at the risk of being branded a reneger).
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