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Ah yes,The race card, I think irrespective they both did. It is a race bait. They both goaded each other on. John McCain is playing to the POW game. As A former Navy man myself, I am disgusted about John McCain using the POW card. When he made that comment about while I was in gthe POW camp I went with out a kitchen table for 21/2 years, commenting on the number of homes he has, well guess what Senator many people go with out kitchen tables there whole life. Wake up look, listen and feel. I am a die hard republican and its a prett sad state of affairs. Yes we need change.

I am an independent and will not vote for mccain, he is playing the race card. That is not the only reason I would not vote for him, look at the last sven years and tell me it what areas the country is moving forward. John Mccain plan to keep us going in the wrong (Bush)direction. Look at the economy and the war, for six years the president and a republican controlled congress destroyed this country. It is time for them to go.

So tomorrow morning we could save 3-4% by taking a little personal responsibility?
And any oil from offshore wells would be 10 years off (or if you want to say 4 or 5 years fine.
What is wrong with conserving with some personal responsibility?
I thought Republican's were for personal responsibility?
Or is McCain just against anything Obama is for?
Please be an informed voter and go to the primary sources for information!
God Bless You!

He played "The Race Card" screams McCain as if someone stepped on his $500 shoes!! It is negative,shameful and wrong he goes on to say----ahhhh
Brittney and Paris may feel you are negative ,shameful and wrong-putting Obama (Black) with two white women. What is that all about?? The pot sure looks like he is calling the kettle black. Mccain is very childish- The Republican Party always used their "famous tactic of choice"-FEAR- AND oBama is right -McCain want us to fear Obama when the one we SHOULD FEAR IS MCCAIN. He knows he has nothing to offer-The man is not smart -he told you he knows NOTHING ABOUT THE ECONOMY- and he wants to stay in IRAQ 100 years-He has already told the American people he in not qualified. American should listen.

Good on you, Senator. On what planet would Obama benefit by "playing the race card"...that game is won by McSame/Rove. The Republicans have been playing the race card in one form or another since LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and said "we've lost the south for generations to come."

Do any of you really think that it was a mere coincidence that the Democratic "solid south" turned Repbulican that year and has been Republican ever since?

As an African American woman, I am appalled by thr ignorance shown on these messages. Obama was clearly making a reference to the sordid web ad that John McCain and his henchmen put out. Obama just can't win with you people. if he replies to the stupid ads, he crying race. if he does not reply, then he's being a wuss. Where were you folk who say say that it is not mccain that is interjecting race when this scurrulious ad was placed? I did not hear a peep out of you. Wonder why. It's ok for the white male to attack, but not ok for the black male to answer back. And what was Mccain's answer to the ad. he was just having fun with his doners. if this is ot racist, then what is?

This is sort of amusing given Obama's admission.

Obama had made the comment before, but since then the Rove people have come aboard, and the tenor of the ad campaign has changed. McCain has been told that he damn well better agree with his ads, so he does. He is the epitome of what Senator Clinton was accused of: someone who will say anything to get elected.

Chea Prince, you misunderstood my comment.

What I was meaning was the person who is vehemently accusing someone of playing the race card is racist. That is McCain.

As David Gergen said today,
"On Sunday, longtime Washington hand David Gergen took umbrage with John McCain's recent attack ads, charging that the Senator was using coded messaging to paint Barack Obama as "outside the mainstream" and "uppity."

"There has been a very intentional effort to paint him as somebody outside the mainstream, other, 'he's not one of us,'" said Gergen, who has worked with White Houses, both Republican and Democrat, from Nixon to Clinton. "I think the McCain campaign has been scrupulous about not directly saying it, but it's the subtext of this campaign. Everybody knows that. There are certain kinds of signals. As a native of the south, I can tell you, when you see this Charlton Heston ad, 'The One,' that's code for, 'he's uppity, he ought to stay in his place.' Everybody gets that who is from a southern background. We all understand that. When McCain comes out and starts talking about affirmative action, 'I'm against quotas,' we get what that's about."

As has been widely reported on HuffingtonPost and elsewhere, back in June, McCain put out an ad photoshopping Obama onto US currency, Mt. Rushmore, and the Statue of Liberty.

Obama said that McCain and the Republicans are trying to say he "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills." Not really a stretch--especially considering how they made him look on that bill.

But this is a subject where Obama has to play very cautiously, perhaps with "one hand tied behind his back". Even so, he could have used a surrogate, spoken more deftly, or maybe even better just not taken any of the bait on this juvenile kind of ad.

But this blog also may have erred by jumping to the conclusion that Obama's comment sounded "pretty inflammatory", giving some cover to McCain's campaign to play the "race card" card now that they had some MSM support. I do feel that Josh Marshall may have stated some things too bluntly, but he is right on about the subtexts in McCain's campaign of late.

McCain is using subtle but clear subtexts, a whole host of schoolyard tactics like feminizing a male opponent and associating him with white females in a way reminiscent of the Harold Ford ad. Apparently "manliness" is going to be one of McCain's campaign themes.

Overall, though, I found McCain's series of recent ads and statements utterly revolting and a bit chilling, Obama's responses confused and not very effective, and this blog's reaction to be initially very biased toward McCain and a bit inflammatory itself.

Though I do appreciate the ongoing efforts here to follow up, be fair, and give equal time to both sides. And I can understand this blog's omission of any mention of McCain's initial Obama on the currency image when Obama's campaign doesn't even seem willing to bring it up.

Like David Gergen said on This Week, I've also been thinking that taking on these kinds of tactics might be a job for Hillary Clinton (though a video of her saying that she won the most votes is still up on her website!).

At this point I think I may need to just watch Wipeout instead of the real life version in the Presidential campaign. I'm not even kidding.

look into the ad mccain ran in late june for the source of obama's remark this week about not looking like other presidents on US currency ... it places obama's face on a dollar bill.
obama did not pull the line out of thin air and mccain & co.'s feigned outrage is confused and deeply cynical.

chea prince
hartwell, ga

"...nor does anyone scream louder about someone using the race card than a racist."

Um, Margaret, have you already forgotten that the one here who played the race card is Obama.

But I agree with you, he is a racist.

And it appears most people agree with me:

Only 22% Say McCain Ad Racist, But Over Half (53%) See Obama Dollar-bill Comment That Way

"We will know as a nation in November whether we have turned the corner or are still going in a straight line of status quo."

The Democratic Party says Americans are racist. Vote Obama.

The Republican Party says Americans are smart and capable. Vote McCain.

That is how Reagan Beat Carter.

How long before Obama plays the race card again?

Because you know he will.

It's all he has.

Just to clarify what the poster len intended to say:

Everyone agrees that Senator McCain is trying to inoculate himself against future charges of racism by preemptively claiming race baiting. While morally reprehensible, it is a viable tactic that both provides insulation if he does launch race-based attacks and draws the support of the more racially divisive elements of the electorate. Of course, no one is really surprised because this is exactly the sort of tactic we've learned to expect from the Bush-McCain crowd, and particularly from the Rove-trained team running their campaign. That's why McCain has spent the last two weeks attacking Obama and ignoring every issue that concerns the American people. It's also why experts agree--independent and partisans from both side--that McCain's campaign has yet to provide any policy details on the economy, national security, fiscal discipline, or anything else of consequence to the American people.

Everyone admits that Obama has been playing the race card. This is not the elephant in the room as Donna Brazille suggests: it is the Emperor's New Clothes.

The new DNC trial balloon as floated by Brazille is that only Obama can use this card. If that's not a stacked deck it sure isn't a new expensive suit.

I don't think DNC hypocrisy can be more clear but we haven't seen the convention yet.

The RoundTable was revealing. David Gergen says Obama needs to reconsider Clinton. Brazille says Hillary can't be considered with Bill in tow. So evidently the price of being VP is a divorce. Will says the color of Obama's skin is about as boring as Paris and Brittany. Brazille says only Obama can talk about race. Tapper says Paris and and Brittany are ditzes. Brazille asks if that is because they are blond. Tapper replies, no they are stupid.

It seems the DNC representatives are determined to use divisiveness as their campaign strategy. Why? To distract from the economic proposals. Think about it. Gergen was on CNN talking about the US taxpayer paying India and China to use less fossil fuel calling it a necessary sacrifice. Obama is talking about sending billions to the third world for poverty and another lump sum for reparations.

Only McCain is talking about energy policies to help the US. Only McCain is talking about tax relief for the middle class.

Only John McCain seems to be on our side.

Bill Clinton DEMOCRAT said Obama played the RACE CARD against him and his wife Hillary

But Obama did play the race card. And if elected, all indications are that he'll play the ultimate race card in the form of reparations.

"I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds," he said.

People! People! We need to recognize that these ads (ex:celebrity) and baiting about racism speak more about US as Americans than they do about the candidates. They give us what they think WE want to hear and they play on our fears. This is ALL about irrational motivations, not about the issues. The very best thing we could do for ourselves is steel ourselves against the negative ads and comments and concentrate on the issues of substance - admittedly hard to do. That's why these Rovian style campaigns work - let's learn and not get fooled again! I'm an ex-Republican (McCain 2000) who is now an independent because both parties play to our stupidity, and because this McCain isn't who I supported in 2000. I will support Obama this cycle because he is especially right about 1 thing: as they are currently constituted, the Republicans know how to run presidential campaigns like nobody's business but they've forgotten how to govern. It's that simple, folks. God bless us.

McCain has indicated the direction in which he will take America would he become president:

1. He is willing to give the oil industry more latitude to bilk us out of more money by continuing to grant tax breaks to them.

2. He lies at the drop of a hat - what wars has he won. Better yet, what war has he been in that we have won? He divorced his wife; a woman that stood by his carcass when no one knew whether he was ever going to walk out of Viet Nam. He has called his current wife a cu^t in front of a group of reporters. He is for perpetuating the ideas of Bush when it comes to economics, women, and repsect for the Law.

3. His economic advisor (Gramm, the former of Florida) called the people of America (the working class) a bunch of whiners who are mentally delusional with regard to the state of the economy.

4. He laughs like 'Chuckie' at the ads that his campaign has issued for our amusement. Ads that are childish and can only appeal to those who are mentally challenged to the point that they, the viewer, see substance in the ridiculous.

If McCain is your guy and you see truth in these ads, a solution in his rhetoric, then you are about to be 'Bushed' for an additional four years on top of the eight that you so ardently supported before.

As the story goes... Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, damn, but I am stupid... voting for McCain, you will be fooled thrice!

I am an -ex-marine and more patriotic than MccAIN in that I have fought more wars than MCain. I have served more years in the military than McCAIN. But it sounds ridiculous to hear McCAIN TAlKING about how he knows how to win wars but failed to mention one that he had ever won! I am a republican but I will never sell out my country to McCAIN. McCain is too risky to lead a country. Besides, I am flabbergasted to see the amount of MCcAIN PAID SUPPORTERS IN every web news who keeps arguing among themselves, changing their names and logging on and off with different unaccountable names fighting to dominate the sites with misrepresented information, news; attacking Obama and his supporters in evry corner and even attacking themselves. mCCain Supporters who are on weekly wages are unpatriotic and doll-eyed fools who for money can do anything just as their lord and master who ditched his first wife for a woman with money! With all his negative ads, MCcain has still not tell the public: (1) what qualifies him to be elected as President; (2) What wars he has ever won that he claimed to be a better commander-in-chief; (3) how many wars has he ever fought? (4) what does he have to say about trust, if he dared to ditch his faithful wife, will he ever be faithful to our nation? People, read the facts and do not be deceived by negative ads that conceal the true nature of its inventors. More than 2500 ex-marines and about 3000 marines are for Obama and we shall vote him - election day will be a shocking moment that may send many of MccAin's supporters to eternity.! I, now cast a doubt on MccAIN'S faith! He is absolutely not a christian, if he is, he will never taunt and discredit the Christian faith that upholds our constitution from time immemorial. Though republican and white, my vote will go for OBAMA.

McCain's a fool!!!!!!!!!!

McCain’s greatest priority is to define Obama as risky before the nomination. If McCain fails to accomplish this task, he is toaste since he would not have the resources to mount vigorous campaign during the Fall due to the constraints of public financing. On the other hand, Obama is going to have 4:1 resources at his disposal when it matters most to drive stake into the heart of McCain’s campaign. McCain has only one viable alternative, which is, throwing mud since he would not have the resources for ground-game organization and operation in ever expanding battle-ground states. Obama’s campaign is using this period for building ground operations, opening offices and registering voters, while McCain is seduced to hogging useless and meaningless polls that have no staying power. McCain is going to wake-up to the reality check after the first debate in the Fall where the visual contrasts between his opponent as to who looks far more presidential in comportment, mode of communications, elegance and graceful personality. The idiocy of those who claim that Obama is all hat and no cow or empty suite or airhead like the two blue-eyed blonds in the ad without recourse that Obama was once a professor of constitutional law at one of the best universities in the nation and graduated at the top of his class as Harvard. This election is going to be a landslide.

How about playing the age card! Mc cain should simply retire and let the vibrant and energetic future correct the wrongs of the past

Yeah, and I could say, "the sky is not blue." And, guess what? It's still blue.

How is John McSame like fermente grapes?
Answer: They both = whine/wine.

mcwhiney's comments don't bother me, he is sinking to new lows because he just doesn't have what it takes. what bothers me is that he still has supporters...I don't believe it...its unreal...sad, really...and scary.

Why did MSM take the ‘race card’ bait, they had heard Obama’s use a variation of these lines many times in his stump speech for months?

It is clearly McCain's strategy to race bait by whining that Obama is playing the race card.

I had expected better of him. When this election season began I thought we had a win win pair of candidates; that whoever won this country would be on a better path. I don't think that any more.

John McCain is just another of the ilk of thugs we have had in office for the last 7 years bankrupting this nation economically and morally. He is old and vain and bent out of shape that this young black whippersnapper might beat him. I can only pray that is what happens.

Obama made a big booboo. And now his supporters are just trying to cover it up. Obama should just own up and apologize. But he is not capable of that.

McCain does not want to talk about issues. He wants to distract voters from the issues, because he has nothing to offer them. So he trots out these ridiculous attack ads and then complains about the race card when Obama merely points out the tactics the McCain campaign and Republican party are already using. America, don't let it happen again, don't fall for another 4 years of the same mess that we're in now.

And so McCain has won this conversation, instead of talking about issues, the MSM, who are all in the tank for McCain are harping on this non-issue.

Any one who is NOT rich, white and male should not be voting Republican, the GOP does not have your best interests in mind. Their goal is to make the rich richer and the heck with every one else.

You would have to be a fool to vote for the failed GOP policies again.

Obama 08

Sabreen60, thankfully you are in the minority. I have always liked Senator McCain (although have been an Obama supporter since 2004) but his antics as of late have convinced me he is absolutely not fit to be POTUS. This behavior is unbelievably undignified for anyone, much less someone running to lead this country.

While it's been awful and sad to watch, he's carving out his own fortune and letting him continue only pushes more and more rational folks out of his camp.

Welcome independents.

More people now see how shady Obama is. He is not the rite person to be president,not a comfortable thought at all. McCain is not perfect, but he will be good for our country and he will be a great president. My prediction is that Obama may even quit at any time, i dont think he is very sure of himself or obout anything.

Of course, McCain is playing the race card. The Britney-Paris ad not only highlights him as the racial other to whites, but it also equates him with the 'dumb blond' stereotype. Then he reads an Obama statement as being exclusively about race when Obama was referring to his general difference from the standard POTUS profile (not only black, but young, new in the Senate, a Muslim name though he's Christian, etc). Meanwhile, another McCain ad appears stirring up the Latinos. Not playing the race ad? Come on!

Talk about bankrupt and immediately one gets a picture of clueless Mc Same-Bush trying to conceive ideas that will solve the many problems America is now facing.

His schoolyard gutter behaviour, which he has been demonstrating with consumate ease, is certainly plaguing his campaign.

At first I thought Obama's comment how he looked different than all those presidents on the dollar bills was meant to accentuate racial differences. Then I found out one of McCain's ads actually does Photoshop a rather goofy-looking Obama onto a 100 dollar bill. Obama was responding to an attack that had already occurred, not making something else. Since the McCain camp had to know about the ad thye produced (or are they that incompetent? Perhaps), then their claim that Obama played the race card is a patently false, and itself a playing of that card. I voted for McCain in the 2000 primaries. In 2008? Fogetaboutit.

Now everyone can see why Sen. Martinez appeals to so many of us in FL. He is truly a man of substance, and (based on McCain's ridiculus ads this week) is desperately needed at the top of the Republican ticket. Martinez in 2012!

I am thoroughly disgusted with Senator McCain and his campaign.

Since WWII we've gone thru the Korean War, Vietnam, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan I (the Soviets), Somalia and Iraq. What will it take for our fool politicians to realize that an occupying force will not defeat a determined group who does NOT want us to be in their country.

The vast majority of Iraqis do NOT want us there. How many more young men and women have to give up their lives or damage their souls just to carry out misguided policies.

We've watched our nation become divided and we are on the brink of all sorts of major social catastrophes, yet we have a major candidate insisting that we must "WIN".

"What gaineth a man who winneth the world but loseth his soul?"...

Trouble is, we ain't even close to "winning the world" either.

Oh McCain needs to stop acting like JAN BRADY. He's a jealous and angry man. When Obama said THEY he was talking about the right wing machine that McCain has backing him. And we ALL know it's true that THEY have been trying to make him into the "other" he's a secret muslim, HUSSEIN HUSSEIN HUSSEIN. He has the SAME PEOPLE WHO USED RACE AGAINST HIM ON HIS CAMPAIGN, Karl Rove as an informal advisor, please...give me a break. We all know that what he said is true. By trying to claim "reverse racism" that is a phrase that divides people. If he wants to talk about racism why don't we talk about what he calls his vietnamese captors? Hmm?

McCain or Schmitt or whoever is calling the shots in this campaign has crafted a clever, profoundly cynical and dishonorable strategy - walk right up to the line, with miscegenation innuendo or by saying "Senator Obama has challenged me to a duel, though I'm not sure what kind of weapon he plans to use," and then scream "RACE CARD RACE CARD" if Obama hits back in the slightest. Racism is such a serious accusation that the McCain camp figures it will get the benefit of the doubt, while simultaneously forcing the race issue, which ultimately harms Obama.

Truth is McCain Play the Race,and Fear Card and he played it from his sleeve.

P.S. don't stoop to stealing Screen Names to annoy people.

Also remember that Obama never said the Clinton's were racist either. Media pundits and citizens were outraged by Bill's comments, but Obama and his campaign NEVER said that Clinton was racist.

People try to blame Obama for everything, it is silly.
Have you seen the absurd and blasphemous McCain "Moses" commercial?

Sally

Your telling me Obama goes to 98% white IOWA and talks about nothing but Black values and race issues. I personally think Obama is confortable talking about race because he himself had an racial identity crisis. This gives him the unique ability to talk about race without being offensive and being fair to both sides. Also he taught constitutional Law, President of the Law review and once live on food stamps. You think he played the race card all throughout Harvard law.

The fact is Obama NEVER called McCain a racist. It is sad that they are trying to twist it into that.

The truth is nobody call anybody a racist. But quess what when you attack somebody feelings get hurt and people will say things like "your a racist". Obama's never or the champaign never called anyone racist. This is fact. But that doesn't mean Hillary didn't insult black leaders and that doesn't mean Obama didn't hurt woman leaders. Well McCain has no excuse because the only thing he has been accused of is adopting Bush policies, which is mostly true.

For all you Cynic bloggers. The Obamas are not racist. Most of you wouldn't understand what is to grow up black in America. So I don't think you could relate to someone like Rev. Wright who is a veteran by the way. None of the candidates are racist, but that doesn't mean they will not used that to MAKE YOU AFRAID OF THE OTHER CANDIDATE. Remeber Hillary played the gender card before any card was droped.
Americans assume if you criticize America, your unpatriotic, but really the people who are critical of their country love their country probaly more because they care enough to make it better.

fact of the matter is, there’s only one person in this race who is pre-occupied by race, and that’s Obama

We should be angry at McCain for adding Paris Hilton, and Britney Spears in the race. What is McCain vision for the future -- thats right Bomb Bomb Bomb, BOMB BOMB Iran. I am not voting for McCain becuase he is the guy who said we would be greeted as liberators and the war wouldn't last long.
Basically McCain is running on I know how to win wars. And he doesn't know anything else...

Fact is that Democrats have injected RACISM into this election. Mainly Obama.

Oh well, this is now yesterday's news - the fact is that Obama is just too thin to be president. Hey - what happened to the issues in this election? While our inrastructure is falling apart, our schools are a mess, we have no energy policy (oh yes, let's drill for more oil!) and we have two wars which are bankrupting the entire country, all we do is worry about the non-issues!Look carefully at McCain - this is truly 4 more years of the same!!!

The truth is Obama and the Media started playing the RACE CARD on Bill Clinton after he stated "This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen" about Obama

So i think we should compare Obama to Paris Hilton or Brittney Spears. People who are famous for being famous

The black caucus and neutral Clyborn said Bill Clinton's comments were offensive. Every black guy I know though it was offensive for Bill Clinton to compare Obama to Jackson considering the similarities are that they are BLACK and democrats. Hill let Bill be her attack dog and say things she can't say and it back fired.

Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck

The media plays the race card, Obama has never played the race card. In New Hampshire the media jumped on her comments, in SC Bill compare Barack to Jesse Jackson. Obama is not arrogant, or presumptuous -- everything he said he do he has done so far, and has followed lockstep procedure wise with what other candidates do in the process. McCain is officially the first candidate to the play the race card. It is telling that he is playing for the lowest common denominator in people to win the election. At least Obama is trying to inspire people to get involve. If you look close enough you'll notice McCain has left every value that made him likable to win the Republican primary. Now he is giving up is straight talk mantel with misleading ads and not talking about the issues!

does anyone remember Bill Clinton charging Obama bringing up the race card against Hillary and her supporters back when Obama was playing dirty politics agains a fellow Democrat?

That's not "playing the race card". That's pointing out an obvious truth that everybody knows, and he was trying to make an off-the-cuff joke about it with the dollar bill remark too.

The McCain campaign was waiting to pounce on this, I'm sure. They were just holding their breath for something, some mention of skin however obtuse to call him out on it. Fact is that its the Republican party who needs to coddle and court the support of a largely ignorant white racist lower-class electorate in the south to safely win an election, no the Democrats.

I think Obama is being way too nice to the press on this. When he criticized the McCain 'dollar bill' web ad, and the press made it about race, Obama should call them on it. Certain pundits seem intent on helping the McCain surrogates run this meme, no matter how slim the evidence. We all saw the McCain 'dollar bill' ad we all know Obama was criticizing something very specific without injecting race into it.

"Obama basically just admitted he injected race into the debate through his comments."
Do you have link for proof?

Love this, what Obama said about the Republican attack machine.

"They're very good at negative campaigning. They're not so good at governing."

He is unflappable and so succinct, I can't help but smile big and broad.

Obama 08.

John McCain: Same. Old.

Ok, so 4 or 5 (at least) different commenters have said the exact same thing, capitalizing the same exact word. Effective way to make that jump out. Hmm.. I hope the RNC is paying you guys good money for this. You interns do get paid right? Or do you have to wait until you're lobbyists to get your payday?

The Republican party is full of bankrupt ideas. And it's members have bankrupt morals and values. And now they are bankrupting our nation. It's time to turn away from the hate they sell year after year, election after election. They are part of the problem, and it's time to turn our backs to them until they are able to rebuild the party or regroup into something that is useful for this country.

Finally we have a Republican that is telling the truth. John McCain should be ashamed of himself. His use of Karl Rove attack and distract tactics is disgusting.

What is funny how the Obama fools and the media had to back track on this since they could not find any proof of McCain endorsing or doing anything racist.

Bill Clinton DEMOCRAT said Obama played the RACE CARD

Bill Clinton DEMOCRAT did say Obama played the RACE CARD

Bill Clinton DEMOCRAT did say Obama played the RACE CARD. OOPS Obama did it again.

Age card/Race card....it dosn't matter. When we move past this McSame will be destroyed on the issues. Wrong on Iraq, wrong on the economy. Do you honestly think the American people are up for playing games this time around? Those of us who are serious about America's future are going to laugh at the frat house candidate and pull the lever for the level headed candidate. Write it down.

Obama and his team just learned the lesson the McCain team is not going to take the RACE CARD Obama throws out laying down like the Clintons did.

It didn’t take too long before Barack Obama decided to play the race card again like he did against the Clintons, did it.

"Obama did not play the race card."
Of course he did: what did he means when he said he did not look like the others on the dollar bills? Perhaps he meant he was much uglier which I agree with as he is so ugly inside himself. He's an arrogant, egotistical, self centered liar. He even left off the U.S. flag from his refurbished campaign airplane and instead placed his "logo" on it. He's the worse example of a candidate for the office of U.S. presidency and especially commander in chief that our great Nation has ever had. Beware of this man; he will lead us to destruction.

Bill Clinton DEMOCRAT did say Obama played the RACE CARD

I'm changing my position also. I'll say that Obama did not play the race card. Instead he's playing the age card, by trying to paint McCain as a crusty old cynic. He's attempting to set up the code word cynic as a subtle attack on McCain's age. What is McCain cynical about? Obama's policies? Obama's experience. It's more like skeptical and not believing. Obama is unbelievable, but....
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Obama is also inevitable. No vetting allowed.
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Hopefully the best thing coming out of this controversy is that everyone on all sides of this issue will be a bit smarter about dealing with it in the future.

I still don't know what McCain's positions are on the issues. I used to think I knew what he was about but the negative attacks are starting to define McCain for me. He looks less like a maverick now and more like a crab in a barrel. If he keeps up this kind of campaign then we will have nothing to judge him on in November except that he's not Obama. If people feel unsure about what a candidate is about, they'll pick the one who told them his issues even if they don't agree with all of them. That's why McCain's strategy is hurting his campaign in the long-run.

brian
they have nothing to offer of any signifiance---just like mccain

jefferson
roll ove another rock and out comes another mccain

Rodney,

During the primaries, Romney said McCain was lying about his comments and shamefully misrepresenting his positions. Seems McCain has carried on with his deplorable "low-road" campaigning ways. The American people are ready for a real discussion and real solutions. McCain only offers fear, smear, and snark. He might make you proud but it won't work.

Out of ideas? Start an infantile tantrums to distract from real issues. Very much like John McCain.

obama stated that he looks a little different-----mccain makes something else out of it-
here comes the smokescreen again.---at time iwonder if he has gon insane---very low behavior for a candidate---more like rove and limbaugh every desperate day