Mccain escalates dirty attacks, ‘Race Card’ accusation – shows comtempt for Obama
“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?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-press/john-mccain-plays-the-rac_b_116042.html
McCain campaign has been pushing for the last few weeks that Obama is presumptuous, arrogant and well … just a bit uppity. Ron Fournier picked the ball up early in his reporting for the AP. And John King was pushing it over the weekend on CNN. Is it arrogant or above Obama’s station for him to meet with the Chairman of the Federal Reserve? If I’m not mistaken he is a sitting United States senator and also the presidential candidate of the Democratic party. Such meetings are actually the norm.
Now, I note that the Post, which has generally been in McCain’s camp, has a front page story today that comes about as close as they feel able to confirming that McCain campaign and McCain personally have spent most of the last week peddling what they knew was a lie about Obama’s called-off trip to the US military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. And there’s also this piece in today’s Times noting ‘concern’ among some Republicans over McCain’s increasing use of personal attacks on Obama with what are often demonstrably false claims. How many demonstrable lies does the McCain campaign have to push before it colors the portrayal of his campaign?
As I alluded to at the top of this post, it is the norm that obvious campaign tactics that are treated as obvious after a campaign is over are nonetheless treated by most reporters as ambiguous or unclear during a campaign. But in this case it would be nice if that were not the case. Because here we have a candidate, John McCain, who is running on a record of straight talk and honorable campaigning running a campaign made up mainly of charges reporters are now more or less acknowledging are lies. But there’s precious little drawing together of the contradiction. What’s more, as everyone will acknowledge after the campaign, the McCain campaign is now pushing the caricature of Obama as a uppity young black man whose presumptuousness is displayed not only in taking on airs above his station but also in a taste for young white women.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/206241.php
Berlin was less, it seems to me, about the celebrity of Obama than about the disaster of Bush-Cheney. Obama is the vehicle for the world’s hope for the return of the America they remember.) But the flipside of this kind of success is always an attempt to take the dude down a few pegs and I can’t get too worked up about that. Of course a candidate being greeted the way Obama was in Europe will prompt a raspberry from the back-row when he gets back home. I don’t see anything that awful about that. It’s actually quite healthy in a democracy.
Still, it also had the hallmarks of the usual boomer dust-ups. The arrogant-celebrity meme is a variation on the usual Rovian fare: empty of actual policy substance but evocative of playground loyalties and resentments. Basically, McCain called Obama a girl, to appeal to the jocks, and then called him arrogant to flatter the nerds.
Paris Hilton is a two-fer. Choosing a female celebrity is integral to the usual attempt to feminize the Democrat. I could see nothing racist whatever in the message, mind you, but it was, as Weaver noted, pretty asinine.
Less asinine was McCain’s two-pronged lie that Obama would rather lose a war than a campaign and that he snubbed injured troops in Germany. The former is repulsive and you can tell McCain knows it because he has a weird habit of saying it and then grinning broadly and humming a little to himself as a semi-laugh. He doesn’t own the statement even as he says it. The charge itself is about as uncivil as it is possible to be, close to calling Obama treasonous, right? And the troop snub jibe is simply, demonstrably untrue, as the McCain camp was forced to semi-concede.
So McCain’s main moves these past two weeks have been either childish or disgusting, and both times he has signaled he didn’t really believe his own message. He doesn’t seem like a serious president to me.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/08/how-shitty-was.html#more
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i agree,obama IS a …
i agree,obama IS a celebrity not a good president.
obama won by being …
obama won by being a kissass,he has never served this country,and he doesn’t even admit to the fact that he is half white,also,his mother raised him,not his father,so,shouldn’t he naturally want to be proud of his white half.he only just started supporting troops,he had the AMERICAN FLAG removed from the tail of a plane and replaced with “yes we can”,who would be so dumb as to vote for a candidate that removes the symbol of the very country he wants to hold office in???
Obama IS a …
Obama IS a celebrity. He is not a good president.
What would you have …
What would you have said if Obama lost? Obama’s negative ads were 3-1 against McCain’s to him. There were many things that Obama needed to talk about, which he never did. Many things left unopened, and unanswered. Naby shady characters, whcih we never did learn about. Then he would call “foul” when someone picked on him. Give me a break. Too bad we have to see up front how he will destroy this country. God help and be with us all! MSNBC, SUX and so does Andrea Mitchell. She should be ashamed!!
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Hahahaha, I like how you say GrandmasterMelleMel is being a hypocrite…. then you call Obama a chimp!
P.S. – Obama won.
yeah…that’s …
yeah…that’s because McCain’s ugly face resembles my a**s cheeks when I – and his mouth resembles my b*tt hole when I sh*t – picture that!!!
GrandmasterMelleMel …
GrandmasterMelleMel: Comparing McCain to a monkey? Seems a bit hypocritical. We all know Obama is an unevolved monkey. He even looks like a chimp.
McCain – piece of …
McCain – piece of white monkey shit!! I mean what is this country coming to???This just shows that people even uttering the word of McCain at this point in a positive way are a bunch ignorant, uneducated piece of red meat!!f**k heads havent read a book, don’t reads newspapers – that “paling” showed that in the interview w/Katie – I mean c’mon wake up people – we are going into the stone age if we go with this old wrinkly relic of a grumpy, angry and inarticulate old fart!!!
LOL…You have the …
LOL…You have the BALLS to say McCain is using “dirty tricks” when Obama has ACORN out there stealing the election with dead voters, underage voters, multiple voters…and my personal favorite…Dallas Cowboy linebackers. FUNNY!
lol im not …
lol im not republican and im not democratic but republicans cleaned the democrats clocks 2 ellections in a row and this is gonna be the 3rd. when it comes down to it no one wants a socialist.
Yeah come on now, …
Yeah come on now, calling Obama racist is so far fetched you’d have better chances of convincing us McCain is a 20 year old woman. Ridiculous. The dollar bill statement was a statement of fact: the faces on US money ARE white. Is that racist? Grow up, people.
Maybe this is why …
Maybe this is why McSame can not look OBAMA in the eye?
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Yes but that is …
Yes but that is typical of their mentality. When they really do not have a good strong, argument; they resort to standing across the street and name calling. The problem here is an issue of honesty. To merely regard Obama from a standpoint of supposedly being black is to is to patently and intentionally disregard that his mother is white and he was raised in a largely white family. They will try to convince people to judge him by what he looks like on the outside. That is their last card.
obama has lied …
obama has lied about FISA, troops withdrawal, Iran, gun control, what else?
Being born due to Selma? Lie
Relative at Auschwitz? Lie
Stop supporting Obama, children.
He is a pathetic …
He is a pathetic liar. You are lying Mr. McCain.
“What their …
“What their campaign has done this morning is the same game that has made people sick and tired of politics in this country. They seize on an innocent remark, try to take it out of context, throw up an outrageous ad because they know that it’s catnip for the news media,” Obama said.
McSame is a media …
McSame is a media whore.
obama has always …
obama has always played the race card..anyone can see it even black people themselves.
Why don’t you all search on youtube “obama pushing race”…MSNBC is so biased it’s disgusting. Especially Olbermann and Matthews
This info is 100% …
This info is 100% true. Facts are facts.
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Obama used …
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Obama used the race card again. That is obvious to everyone. McCain only called Obama on his use of it and rightly so.
If Obama is the post racial candidate he needs to live up to that designation by not using race as a political tool
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This is false info and you know it.
You took a snapshot of when the market was far done and not a long term average.
So pathetic.
Europeans are …
Europeans are stupid.
Americans do not like Europeans at all, especially France and Germany.
They are only good for slumming on our vacations.
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you be odd son
Obama the racist …
Obama the racist trash is done for. Dumb ignorant racist trash supporting Obama are also done. America is kicking you racist to the curb.