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MRS. OBAMA, WHITEY, AND THE N-WORD With the stock market in an unprecedented freefall, with disturbing tales of banks and bailouts filling our newspapers and TV screens, and with Obama breaking out with a commanding lead over McCain, a little levity is in order and you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ooBhnjl5v4&NR=1. That link is to a parody of the whole, “Did Michelle Obama use the derogatory term, Whitey, at some point in time brouhaha” and, being a parody, that YouTube tape sheds no light on the question but is nevertheless amusing at the same time it raises some questions. (Mrs....

THE SMITHSONIAN, AMERICA’S TROJAN HORSE? The Smithsonian Institution, a private/public enterprise founded by James Smithson, a Brit who had never even visited the United States, was designated to be built, “for the increase & diffusion of Knowledge among men” and by 1855 by act of Congress it was established and fully constructed on the Washington Mall. By any estimation, the Smithsonian complex of 19 museums, 9 research centers, and 140 affililiated museums worldwide has to be considered the pearl of Washington, D.C. It opens its huge doors free to millions of public visitors annually who marvel at its exhibits even...

SENATOR JOHN McCAIN’S ARTICLES OF SURRENDER John McCain still doesn’t get it. A good man, a proven war hero and a patriot, Senator McCain seems ready, willing, and able, to surrender the presidency rather than backtrack on his longstanding tendency to “reach across the aisle” and work with Democrats to find solutions for the many ills our nation faces. That’s all very charitable and diplomatic of the senator from Arizona, this self-characterized maverick, but it makes no sense when sitting on the other side of the congressional aisle are other senators and congress people who have repeatedly demonstrated they care...

THE LITTLE ACORN THAT COULD CHANGE AN ELECTION The Democratic machine politicians in Obama’s adopted home town of Chicago virtually codified that party’s injunction to its ward-heelers to get out the vote by any and every means necessary, to vote early and often. Amazingly, even the dead were known to vote in the Windy City. Now, the shamelessly corrupt organization, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN, is taking the Chicago model national. From tiny acorns the mighty oaks do grow and this shadowy ACORN has been growing new voters mightily, and suspiciously. Its office in Nevada was...

Two words kept popping in and out of my head during the second Presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain – disappointing and tedious. Setting aside the fact that the proceedings seemed to drag and on at an agonizingly tortuous pace with little more than eye-watering yawns from my end to disrupt the monotony, this debate had the personality of a lima bean can. Add to it the fact that there seemed to be more passion exuded by Tom Brokaw, the moderator, when asking the candidates to step aside from blocking his view of the teleprompter than anything either...

It is indeed wishful thinking on both sides, and superfluous fodder for the media, to believe more than seven states will ultimately decide the 2008 election

So even though I would rather not go through a recession, and I would definitely not want to go through a depression, I am totally against the bailout bill. There are several factors about it that make me sick. First, I don't think it would solve anything. I haven't heard anyone say that this will solve the problem with our economy, simply that it would soften the blow. Second, I don't think we should reward the companies that got themselves into this mess. Why would we give money to companies that made poor business decisions? They got themselves into this...

The piece of excrement that passed the Senate last night was another orgy in the mud for those sows on Capitol Hill. They are nothing but a bunch of crack-whores who simply cannot resist spending hundreds of millions of dollars of our money on ridiculous projects in a time of economic hardship. And the only unanswered question is what the hell do these projects have to do with bailing out the mortgage industry that the Democrats f'ed up in the first place. This bill is a made-to-order issue for McCain. He is not the president, so he had to...

The Obama campaign has some splainin’ to do. Only problem is will the proper authorities investigate these questionable donations from overseas? (There is) a hijacking of our political system that makes the Clinton and Gore fundraising scandals pale in comparison. And no one here wants to touch it.”

ELLEN ADVOCATES MAKING (LESBIAN) LOVE, NOT WAR, AND DEFEATING PROPOSITION 8 Ellen Degeneres, sometimes less than affectionately known as Ellen Degenerate, used Leno’s “Tonight Show” podium last night to advocate against Proposition Eight in California: http://television.aol.com/tvtop5/ellens-plea-the-tonight-show/2261100?icid=200100397×1210673684x1200657447. Ellen contended that millions of dollars are being raised by proponents of the proposition, which–radically, it appears– amends the California constitution to state that marriage always has been and always should a contract between a man and a woman. It would therefore effectively ban “gay marriages.” Ellen generously suggested that those millions would be better spent on people whose mortgages are being foreclosed rather...

OBAMA–MOVING ON UP IN CHICAGO POLITICS: PART TWO (Please see, “Obama’s Tainted, Adoptive Town, Chicago: Part One [http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?paged=3, September 23, 2008.] ) Part One discussed Chicago, the early corrupt years, and Senator Obama’s middle years when he changed his nickname from Barry to his given, Muslim name, Barack, or “blessed one,” in Arabic. He was moving on up. Barry moved on up—to booze, pot and coke, according to his book—before entering Occidental College, then Columbia, and then up to the corporate world for a while. He moved, laterally, to Chicago in 1985 and became a “community organizer” and joined Reverend...

A FOND ADIEU With this post, I bid the many visitors to my website, to those who agree with my articles and to those who consider them a profound insult to humanity and examples of pretentious writing, a fond adieu. This is not a farewell, just an adieu, and I hope that in my absence of a few weeks visitors will look back into the archives of a few hundred articles and read some since I believe they are all still relevant and topical. Okay, most are still relevant and topical. This website has garnered a greater degree of traffic,...

Anyone else get the feeling this election is rigged and being orchestrated in newsrooms? Thirty years ago, pre-Fox News, pre- Washington Times, and pre-Drudge, unfavorable political stories could be interred so deeply in liberal newspapers’ and television networks’ files that they never saw the light of publicity. Today Fox and the Times out them but with little effect. We can almost dismiss the media’s ignoring scandals such as Speaker Pelosi paying off her hubby with PAC money: http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/01/pelosis-pac-pays-bills-for-spouses-firm/. That can be considered just more Democratic same-ol’. DrudgeReport.com features two other reports today which are far more relevant for November 4th...

ELECTION DAY UNTIL JANUARY 20th, 2009 Thirty-five days until Election Day, and counting. What can we expect for the eleven weeks between November 4th and January 20th when the forty-fourth president of the United States takes the oath of office? If Senator Barack Hussein Obama wins: —Reverend Jeremiah Wright will reappear in full glory. He will be seated behind Obama in all his regalia, sneering and thinking, “We gots them now! God HAS damned America!” —Michelle Robinson Obama will be released from captivity and named Liaison to Recently Proud Americans and Ambassadorette to Nigeria so she can re-organize the efforts...

KIERAN LALOR, REP/CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS--19th CD (NY) This may be breaking all of FreeRepublic's rules and get me banned from posting here, but it's worth the risk. Kieran Michael Lalor, former Marine, Iraq vet, teacher, family man, is challenging the liberal, Hollwood darling, John Hall, in the 19th congressional district (NY). Taking on this one-term incumbent was a daunting, monumental task but Kieran took it on anyway because he has a deep love of our country and believes the people of his district would be far better served by a conservative congressman in Washington. With barely a month to...

PALIN UPDATES: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE DIGNITY OF WOMEN? Joan Walsh of Salon.com seems to have a sick thing for Governor Palin. In her latest vitriol, she rips the governor and says, “I believe Palin would be a menace as commander in chief, and she’s got to get off the GOP ticket.” http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/election_2008/2008/09/30/palin_gaffes/. If I understand Walsh correctly, she has no problem with a totally inept and inexperienced guy at the top of the Dem ticket but a Republican woman as McCain’s running mate would be a menace?...... ………………………………………………………………………………… Despite all the mean-spirited ridicule visited upon her by the mainstream...

As a survivor of Catholic upbringing, former altar boy, choir boy, and after eight years of Catholic elementary school, four years of Catholic high school, four years of Catholic college, and umpteen years of Catholic post-graduate studies, I think I’m entitled to comment on the state of Catholicism today. When I say I’m a survivor, I don’t mean to imply that I survived anything but normal life in Catholic schools. I survived in the sense that I never succumbed to what I can call excessive Catholicity, an embrace of policies antithetical to the best interests of America. Normal Catholic schooling...

GOLD, GOD, AND OBAMA Will Rogers, the Garrison Keillor of a distant generation, famously said that he wasn’t a member of any organized political party, since he was a Democrat, and that people should invest in real estate since it’s the only thing not being made anymore. In this market, I wouldn’t invest in real estate, or bonds, or most common stocks; I’d buy gold, silver, and other precious metals and stuff them under your mattress until things shake out. (See: http://money.aol.com/.) ……………………………………………………………………………………. Rush A-home-a: Just because the legislation represents the most significant excursion into socialism in our nation’s history,...

RACE AS A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION My grandfather often repeated the old saw that people should never discuss religion or politics since those topics often resulted in endless conflict with never a chance of resolution. That advice goes back a good while since I’m a gramps myself now. I’ve never abided by it anyway since both religion and politics are sources of excellent discussion. The advice is passe’ today but if politics and religion were still off-limits in 2008, another more volatile subject would have to be added to the injunction, namely, race. To mention a person’s race either directly...

DEBATE BUST? All that talk about this being a watershed election year may be overblown. At least based on reports that no records were set in viewers watching the first presidential debate, most people were more interested in watching something else than watching McCain and Obama square off last Thursday. http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/09/debate-ratings.html. If that proves accurate, this statistic skeptic thinks the numbers could mean a number of things. Either the mass of people are suffering from election overload due to the longest primary season in history or the Obama camp hasn’t ignited a blaze under as many new voters as it...

PATRICIANS: ONE. PLEBEIANS: ZERO California is said to lead the way when it comes to cultural upheavals. At least that used to be the case before Governors Grey Davis and Ahnold turned the place into a socialist paradise driving industry to Nevada and driving taxpayers to distraction. It’s bad enough that English has been relegated to a secondary language out on the Left Coast, supplanted by Espanol. It’s bad enough that the “Nation of Aztlan” has designs on “reclaiming” California, and most of our Southwest for Mexico. It’s bad enough that California is home to that bastion of Leftist “thought,”...

PALINCIDE? I’m not sure what’s going on with Governor Sarah Palin. I should re-phrase that to, What’s going on with regard to Governor Palin? Sarah Palin hasn’t changed an iota in the last month since her designation as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, but ever since the Obamarmy of character assassins/lawyers descended upon Alaska, her mainstream coverage has gone from initial infatuation to vile insinuation to positively nasty. That’s a pretty fair barometer of Leftist feelings: They’re terrified of Sarah! The preliminary attacks focused on her attractiveness and scant experience of two years as governor and six years as mayor...

ACORN AND ACORNS Two different acorns: a·corn (?’kôrn’, ?’k?rn) n. The fruit of an oak, consisting of a single-seeded, thick-walled nut set in a woody, cuplike base. (American Heritage Dictionary) ACORN: The Association of Community Organizers for Reform whose president, Maude Hurd, reflected on last night’s debate as follows: ”Senator McCain failed to acknowledge the trigger of this explosive crisis: predatory lending, . . . If Mr. McCain is unwilling or unable to acknowledge such facts, how is he suitable to lead our country out of the worst financial mess since the Great Depression? Senator Obama acknowledged foreclosures as the...

JERUSALEM DEBATE PRE-QUEL: FEAR AND LOATHING OVER PALIN American expatriates in Israel staged a pre-debate debate with stand-ins for McCain and Obama battling over American issues: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=36384. Unlike the real debates, this proxy affair included audience Q & A. Aside from the incongruity of staging an American “presidential debate” on foreign soil, the exercise highlighted the conflicts at home, principally over Governor Sarah Palin, to wit, ” ‘I’m absolutely terrified to have someone who is considered a fundamental Christian in the White House, who supports creationism. How [can] an American Jew” support Palin, a fundamentalist Christian, a young woman from...

AOL’S DEBATE POLL: NATIONAL SECURITY PLACES A DISTANT SECOND AOL News, not your classic example of conservative opinion, published some early poll results on Friday’s McCain-Obama debate: http://news.aol.com/elections/debates/article/obama-mccain-wrestle-over-war-taxes/172887?icid=200100397×1209889398x1200623043. According to that poll, Obama won by 2% and seemed more presidential by 2%, a statistical and surprising tie. On handling the economy, McCain won by 54%-46%. On dealing with the Iraq War, McCain won, 56% to Obama’s 44. On choice for president, McCain won by 12%. Those figures seem fair and accurate enough. What baffles me are the answers to the question on “the most important issue” in the election. Some...

PSST, YOU WANNA BUY A HOUSE, POR NADA? Liars, damned liars, and lying politicians. Those three terms are pretty much interchangeable in Washington. (See articles, “That Smell…” and “Maybe Alfie…” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/.) The so-called Party of the People Liars, the Democratic Party, led the charge and, individually and as a political party, benefitted the most from the easy money era. The self-same blowhards such as Senators Obama and Dodd, are now blaming the AIG crisis on the G.O.P. This is not to say Republicans are saintly choir boys, either, but in the most current scandal, mess, debacle, crisis, or scandalous, messy,...

THAT SMELL FROM D.C. ISN'T CHERRY BLOSSOMS Something stinks in the former murder capital of the United States, Washington, the District of Columbia. It isn’t just the usual greed, corruption, and hypocrisy which are hallmarks of our capital and of our congressional representatives. We should be accustomed to that by now. Washington in the past week or so reeks with such a stench of socialism that visitors should be cautioned on all roads leading to it to carry copious supplies of Lysol and air fresheners and to invest in a sturdy face mask to ward off the rancid smell and...

PARIS PUTS DOWN JOY It usually requires a willing suspension of disbelief to buy into anything the Priceless Princess of Poptarts, Paris Hilton, ever says but her slapdown of Joy Behar on “The View” was, well, priceless. http://www.popeater.com/television/article/paris-hilton-joy-behar-the-view/189305?icid=200100397×1209839457x1200609269 Paris made an appearance on the show and the View Crew showed the commercial clip in which the bikini-clad Paris defended her hotness and celebrity status and mocked the “white haired dude” running for president. That, I’m guessing, was a reference to Senator John McCain whose white top reflects not only his age but the torture he endured during his 5 1/2...

Bush told the country that we are in an economic crisis and his Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, came up with an idea that would, it is claimed, end up actually making money for the U.S. Treasury in the long run. That's all well and good, but the Democrats already have a plan to siphon off any repayment of the people's money back to the treasury by adding one little line to the agreement that would end up stealing money from any repayments and giving it to left-wing political advocacy groups like ACORN, the National Urban League and the Hispanic group...

PORNOGRAPHY, CIGARETTES, VOTING? PICK ONE This short video of young actress Hayden Panetierre extols the merits of voting over buying porn or butts: http://video.aol.com/video/vote-instead-of-buying-porn-and-cigarettes/2253872?icid=200100397×1209972655x1200615668. Hayden directs her words of wisdom to voting age teens and suggests that voting makes them more adult than, for example, buying pornography or indulging in a nicotene high. Considering most of what teen role models such as Lindsay, Britney, and Miley project to their audiences, voting sure beats the alternatives of drugs, booze, rehab, as well as porn and cigarettes, and she should be commended for her recommendation. The question I have is whether entering...

MAYBE ALFIE HAS SOME ANSWERS? What’s it all about, Alfieeee? Alfie Elkins pondered that profound question about life, sex, and love in a 1966 movie and today economic novices such as I and most of the rest of us are pondering the same question as it relates to what in the blazes is going on with AIG, Freddy Mac, Fannie Mae, and, mostly, what is going on in Washington. There are a host of givens with this crisis. That many people are hurting is an obvious given. That many people screwed up is another. That politicians haven’t the foggiest notion...

THE ROOTS AND PROGRESS OF “FEMINISM” What is it that the prototypical male pig Rush Limbaugh believes, something about feminism being created to enable ugly women to gain societal acceptance? That’s rather harsh, unless one considers the founders of modern American feminism. By “modern” I don’t refer to the first wave of feminists such as the racist, abortionist Margaret Sanger or the anarchist Voltairine de Cleyre who, as fruitcakey as they were, at least were not offenses to the human eyes. I rather refer to such people as Betty Friedan and Bella Abzug who, if they didn’t shatter camera lenses...

SOME EXCELLENT ADVICE HERE! Mo Rocca’s suggestion here is really directed at both Obama and McCain, some non-partisan advice on getting real: http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/09/24/obamas-anger-problem/?icid=200100397×1210278745x1200562138. Basically, he’s saying that Americans don’t want a wimp as president, that, especially today, we not only want but we need a president who shows some emotion, some anger, when it’s called for. This is not to say that he, or she, should flip out, turn purple, jump up and down in a debate but we do want/need someone who will do a Megyn Kelly and, figuratively, grab his opponent by the scruff of the neck and...

The picture is at the link, seriously, this might not be Ayers, but it looks damn close, if it is, would be very damaging, if not it is still funny.

<p>David Letterman let his hair down and really exposed his liberal side. When John McCain canceled his appearance on the Late Show Letterman proceeded to mock John McCain with McCain’s replacement guest Keith Asswipe Olbermann.</p>

Published in September 24th, 2008 Please see “The Jewish Vote on November 4th,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/ and http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/jewish_organizations_choosing.html.) “Death, do not be proud,” wrote John Donne in the eighteenth century. Today we can say, “American Jewish organizations, do not be proud.” The brouhaha over Governor Sarah Palin’s “disinvite” to the Jewish anti-Iran rally at the U.N. apparently came down to Palin’s commitment to the pro-life movement, and the “disinviters” won. According to Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post, Jewish American “Democrats threatened to bring down the organized Jewish community” over the issue and Israel be damned. The rally was intended to protest...

(I would like to thank those many "freepers" who labelled my previous post on Biden and the Dem ticket as old news. It's great that so many people have so much time that they can crawl the internet 24/7 and keep the rest of us advised. Actually, I knew some of it was "old news" and attempted to provide my own comments and insights but only to those who viewed the whole article. With that in mind, more old news, this time from Drudge:) DRUDGE GEMS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE JUST DAMNED DUMB! THE GOOD: The Obama/Biden head...

DIRECT FROM RUMOR CONTROL: BIDEN DROPS OFF TICKET! Rudy Giuliani said that Joe Biden had better get Obama’s VP nomination in writing and the rumor mill has been percolating since the Democratic convention that somehow, some way Hillary would get the job even though Joe had the nomination. Now it’s in from Rumor Control Central, (an authoritative doctor I know), that Joseph Beauregard Biden will shortly contract a mysterious illness and be “forced” to remove himself from the Dem ticket. As Bubba pronounced on “The View,” (See: “Straight From the Horse’s, Umm, Mouth,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/), Hillary didn’t want the VP nomination...

THE VIEW STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE’S, UMM, MOUTH I’ve always appreciated the existential query as to why God made so many more horse’s asses than He made horses. Actually, there doesn’t seem to be anything very existential about the question but since Charlie Gibson threw the word around in his interview with Governor Palin I thought I too could be pretentious and use it. In any event, the reason for my confusion on horses and their body parts came to mind after reading some of Bill Clinton’s remarks made on “The View” and watching those five prime examples of feminine...

50 RICHEST MEMBERS OF CONGRESS: D–23, R–27 A VIRTUAL DEAD HEAT Republicans beat out Democrats, 27-23, in the race for deepest pockets in Congress: http://www.rollcall.com/features/Guide-to-Congress_2008/guide/28506-1.html?type=printer_friendly I guess that proves the former are the party of the rich and the latter are the party of the poor and downtrodden. And, maybe not. Three of the top five are Dems, including Numero Uno, Senator John Kerry at the top of the heap who is worth almost a quarter billion dollars. Other notables include Uncle Teddy (D) with $48,000,000, McCain (R) $20 million, Pelosi (D) $19 million, Hillary (D) $10 million, and bringing...

THE JEWISH VOTE ON NOVEMBER 4th A topic such as how Jews will vote in any election is always fraught with certain dangers, one of which is baseless charges of anti-Semitism. Why single out one religion for analysis and critiques, some people would say, when other religions are not subject to such scrutiny? First, that’s not even close to being true since the “Catholic vote,” for example, is often the subject of scrutiny and analysis, the Hindu, Zoroastrian, Sikh, and other religions not so much since they do not represent significant voting blocs in America. Catholics and Jews do represent...

Washington Post Writer Philip Kennicott sees all the worst in America at the reopening of the famous Gettysburg Cyclorama. Talk about a skewed look at history. On September 20, the Washington Post's Philip Kennicott unleashed a tirade against everything Civil War in a story that was supposed to be about the re-opening of the revamped Cyclorama painting in the America's quintessential Civil War town, Gettysburg, PA. Not only did Kennicott denigrate in every way possible the over 100-year-old painting in the round of the battle of Gettysburg -- it's a mere "relic" that doesn't live up to its hype he...

A pro Obama PR firm has produced anti Sarah Palin videos disguised as home made videos. The Videos raised false allegations that Palin belonged to an Alaskan secessionist political party along with alleging she has radical anti-American views.

OBAMA’S SLIME AND SMUT MACHINE GOES ON AND ON AND ON… Politics isn’t always a dirty business. It becomes an obscenely filthy business when practiced by the Obama/Biden campaign. This agent of change tries to keep its dirty hands clean by employing surrogates to perform its dirty work and in 2008 those obedient surrogates are doing a simply mahvellous job. Thus, Saturday Night Live suggests a whole lotta incest is going on between Todd Palin and his pretty daughters: http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75852. “What about the husband?” asked a Times reporter during a mock assignment meeting for the paper. “You know he’s doing...

THE NAKED CITY BETRAYS ITS HERITAGE: THE END OF YANKEE STADIUM The old and gritty ”Naked City” television series invariably closed with, “There are 8 million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.” That naked city, of course, was and still is New York City, the city that never sleeps, the crown jewel of the Empire State, but it’s a very different and very tarnished jewel today. The following is another story about the Naked City. It’s now a Manhattan city predominantly populated by... We’ve heard a great deal about change this election year and change...

This is priceless. Allan Stewart Konigsberg, aka, Woody Allen, has thrown his support to Barack Hussein Obama for president of the United States: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080919193927.ite7zfed&show_article=1. Apparently with a straight face, Hollywood’s most heralded movie director of movies that virtually no one ever sees, Mr. Konigsberg-Allen said, “It would be a disgrace and a humiliation if Barack Obama does not win,” reports Breitbart.com. “It would be a very, very terrible thing for the United States in many, many ways,” he said. Democratic hopeful Obama, Allen said, is “so much better” than Republican rival John McCain, and “represents a huge step upward from...

WHAT IS IT ABOUT LEFTISTS? As a former liberal, albeit going back to 1960 when I was a callow college freshman and supported Jack Kennedy even though I wasn’t old enough to vote for him mainly because he was of Irish extraction, I once thought liberalism was liberal. And what 18 year old wasn’t, “liberal?” As Churchill wisely pronounced, “If you’re not Liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not Conservative when you’re 35, you have no brain.” Even if that Winnie quotation is now being challenged by liberals more interested in parsing and qualifying rather than...

Travelling sucks! I’m not even talking about real travelling here, some of which we will be doing next month. I’m talking about minimalist travel of just a few hours, which is bad enough for both mind and body. (The joy of air travel is explored on such websites as http://www.eturbonews.com/3926/why-air-travel-sucks-explanation but I’ll postpone my new insights on that topic for another month.) We’re told that traveling is broadening and if by that is meant that it increases the waistline due to regular restaurant eating and lack of regular exercise, then I would agree. Other than that, it just sucks rather...

This subject is so controversial, that many people simply don’t talk about it. Well, this may come as a surprise, but I’m not afraid to talk about it, because I feel my beliefs are correct, and I shouldn’t be ashamed or afraid of the truth. I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman. I don’t support gay marriage, because I believe it is morally wrong.

Raines Stains September 19, 2008 Karen Tumulty’s article in TIME is way over the line. She spins her own web about McCain’s intentions and declares him a racist. An unsavory association pointed out between two black men is not racism. It is, in this case, a reality. The point of McCain’s ad is that Senator Obama is relying on advice from the man that nearly brought down Fannie Mae. The ONLY thing that has to do with race is the fact that both men are black. Well, one of them is half black. So what about the facts of the...