Will Mud Slow Juggernaut That's Obama? (Barf Alert!!!)

It's awfully early for John McCain to be running such a desperate, ugly campaign against Barack Obama. But I guess it's useful for Democrats to get a reminder that the Republican Party plays presidential politics by the same moral code that guided the bad-boy Oakland Raiders in their heyday: "Just win, baby."

The latest bit of snarling, mean-spirited nonsense to come out of the McCain camp was the accusation, leveled by campaign manager Rick Davis, that Obama had "played the race card." He did so, apparently, by being black.

On Wednesday, at a campaign stop in Missouri, Obama had predicted that Republicans would try to "make you scared of me. You know, 'he's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name,' you know, 'he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.' "

So what does Davis do? He promptly tries to make voters scared of Obama by feigning outrage over the presumptive Democratic nominee's "divisive, negative, shameful and wrong" remarks.

Of course, the McCain campaign isn't really offended that the first black major-party candidate for president in American history might mention this distinction from time to time. The idea is to slow Obama down before he runs away with this thing, and the weapon of choice is handfuls of mud.

Remember St. John the Reformer, who promised a high-minded campaign and said he wouldn't question his opponent's patriotism? Clearly, he's been replaced by an evil twin. The switch seems to have taken place during his opponent's world tour, when Obama's prescriptions for Iraq and Afghanistan began to look prescient — and McCain's began to look irrelevant.

This Liberal was calling the Clinton campaign racist earlier in the year. Now he does it to McCain.
Here is the script:
1. Other campaign makes standard critiquie of Obama’s inexperience and radical frieds.
2. Obama campaign plays race card by calling such criticism
3. Other campaign truthfully calls such allegations wrong and outrageous
4. Pro-Obama media piles on by accusing other campaign of ‘injecting race’ into the campaign.

They did it to Hillary and now they are doing it to McCain. Fortunately, we’ve seen the script before in Obama v Hillary so we know that it is hollow and false. See:
http://no-bama.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-played-race-card-from-start.html

And so it goes.

“According to the audience in St Pete, FL, blacks didn’t think the Obamanable Snowman was black enough.”

That was true in 2007. Hillary was winning about 50% of the black vote in late 2007 and was set to win the nomination. Obama needed to win the black vote hands-down to win the nomination. what to do? ... OBAMA PLAYED THE RACE CARD, ACCUSING HILLARY’S PROXIES - ALL THE WAY TO BILL CLINTON - OF RACISM EVERY TIME THEY SAID EVEN INNOCENT THINGS THAT COULD BE MISCONSTRUED AS A CRITIQUE OF OBAMA’S RACE.

More on this shady campaign is recounted in a Sean Wilenz New Republic piece, linked here:

http://no-bama.blogspot.com/2008/08/obama-played-race-card-from-start.html

Just so you are keeping score, here is what Eugene Robinson - who now accuses McCain of introducing race into the campaign - was saying in January, quote from Wilenz’ piece:

“Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, a cheerleading advocate for Obama, went on television to suggest the Bradley Effect explained the New Hampshire outcome, then backed off—only then to write a column, “Echoes of Tom Bradley,” in which he claimed he could not be sure but that, nevertheless, “embarrassed pollsters and pundits had better be vigilant for signs that the Bradley effect, unseen in recent years, has crept back.”

In fact, the Bradley Effect claims were utterly bogus, as anyone with an elementary command of voting results could tell. If the “effect” has actually occurred, Obama’s final voting figures would have been substantially lower than his figures in the pre-election polls, as racially motivated voters turned away. Later, Bill Schneider, the respected analyst on CNN, several times went through the data on air to demonstrate conclusively that there was no such Bradley Effect in New Hampshire. But even on primary night, it was clear that Obama’s total—36.4%—was virtually identical to what the polls over the previous three weeks had predicted he would receive. “

ROBINSON WAS INJECTING RACE INTO THE CAMPAIGN IN JANUARY 2008! Obamedia enablers play the race card!

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