Something historical is happening as we speak in DC and ABC is not even mentioning it. And you guys wonder why we watch Fox News. Sigh.

Unfreakinbelievable.

Obama is the one that brings up race. He is so condescending that he believes that if people do not like him, or will not vote for him, it has to be because of his (by his own words) funny name, or because he looks different. I will not vote for Obama because I believe he is not qualified to be President, this is not a time for on-the-job training, no matter if you have 300 advisors..

McCain keeps bringing the subject up because it's true. Obama played the same game with the Clintons. Everything they did or said was somehow racist. Now he's claiming the McCain camp and his surrogates will use race against him. Shouldn't he have waited until they actually did use race against him before he attacked them on it? That's why people are so upset. He used the strategy on the Clintons and it worked. Now he's trying it on McCain, and McCains fight back. Good for the old man. I'm glad he's finally in there fight.

George Bush has educated us all very well on the blame tactics Obama is employing. Obama plays the race card then cries.

Vicki i wish people like you would have used that same reasoning 8 years ago when you voted for Bush. Maybe this country would be in better shape.

Bush was so called qualified to be president, yet our nations economy is in turmoil.

Obama's right. McCain should be ashamed of himself for trying to drive that racially charged wedge into the American electorate.

I'm confused when a Black man gets in front of an audience filled with WHITE AMERICANS and uses the so called race card. How does that benifit him? How does that make WHITE AMERICA want to vote for him.

I never realized just how much WHITE AMERICA was affected by racism, when its miniroties in this country that are usually mistreated.

Can any of you good people explain that to me.

Now if it was done in front of a group of minorities, then this argument would have a little more substance.

When the surrogates and campaign handlers come out in drove to defend Obama's remarks in Springfield, you know McCain has hit on a winner. Obama was clearly trying to insinuate that the McCain campaign and the Republicans are racists, and there's simply no evidence to support that. If I were McCain, I'd hammer this issue to Election Day.

Bullfeathers!! Race card, smace card. Obama spoke true: his name is "funny" compared to, say, Bush, McCain, Clinton; and he doesn't look like any prior president the U.S.A. has had, you know, those guys whose faces appear on our paper money and some of our coins, but, hey! This country has long prided itself on being a "melting pot". It's not a prerequisite that a U.S. president be able to trace his geneology back to Queen Elizabeth I, or II, or some county in Ireland or Scotland.

Poor Poor McCain: Why would you assume I voted for Bush, I didn't think Bush was qualified either. I have voted for the Democratic candidate forever, just not this time.

Good for McCain. He is making a point to show that constant use of the race card isn't going to be tolerated as it shouldn't be.

Well Vicki what makes McCain qualified to lead, when he thinks Bush has this country on the right path.

If you didnt think Bush was a qualified leader, then you must have doubts about McCain because they think just alike.

McCain's campaign is in a pathetic state. The attacks are getting more ridiculous by the day and it's barely August. He has hired some seriously slimey characters to help run his campaign and it shows. I sincerely hope he is forced to address some serious issues facing the country before November. McCain may very well win the election, but I don't understand how you can throw out buckets of garbage every day and expect people to take you seriously.

BO keeps pushing back on race and McCain can't stop talking about it. I smell desperation on McCain's part since he is loosing, however close it is, McCain is still behind in polls. Watch for a bump for BO in aug and leading upto democratic convention I think it will simply be too late for McCain to catch up to him. What eventually matters is state-by-state polls and McCain is loosing if not all but in most toss up states.

This whole non-event was pounced upon by McCain to see if yet again they could make something (anything) negative stick to Obama. This is their primary strategy since Karl Rove's minions slimed their way into the McCain campaign. The champions of the Big Lie and Smear are now managing McCain to keep him on track and on message. The stench that arises from the Swift Boat style attacks on Obama is all too familiar. McCain himself was a victim of this filth in 2000. The fact that he needs to rely on this type of "thuggery" is proof positive of his feebleness as a candidate.

The Obama campaign managers have to take the gloves off and give back to McCain what his Karl Rove handlers dish out. Its time to remind people about McCain's less than straight talk about he Keating Five for example. Many of the younger voters don't know anything about those sleazy dealings. How about his blithering comments about Iraq when Lieberman had to practically wipe the drool off McCain's face as Joe whispered corrections about Iraq into his ear. When the Swift Boaters went after Kerry he stood there like a deer in the headlights. Obama needs to strike back and quickly. The Rove team is counting on his stumbling in in the face of their relentless smears

There he goes again. Will Barack ever learn. He should drop this now. It's not helping him. People are on to him.

Well if he wishes to hang himself let him at it. I guess.

Obama is a race-obsessed. Okay... we get it... you're African-American.

Yes, McCain defending himself against an unfair cry of racism probably is troublesome for Obama...

Heck, it could be downright disastrous if his cry of racism isn't enough to get him elected. It's not like he has a record, or experience, or anything else to run on. He'd better hope he can play the race card... he doesn't have much of a hand otherwise.

Unless voting "present" becomes a laudable achievement he's going to need something to use to keep in the running.

Too funny! I called this strategy yesterday:
1. Subtly drop hints that McCain is a racist old white man.
2. Deny that you were doing such when confronted.
3. Turn it around and say that since they accused you of trying to pull the race card, THEY are in fact pulling the race card.

Well-engineered Obama/Axelrod. Let's see if you can make it 2 for 2. It worked like a charm on the Clintons.

PS I hope that you can face yourself in the mirror at night, or at least your little girls. You've set race relations back in this country 20 years.

Obama, the most inexperienced candidade for POTUS in my lifetime, cannot win without playing the race card. I know it, you know it, and the liberal media is especially aware of that fact every time they cower in fear over writing any truth about our selected messiah.

McCain, another candidate I will not be voting for, is correct in calling Obama on this issue. It certainly upsets the Obama campaign to lose the only 'issue' they had.