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The Race Card

Race Cardby Travis Craw, Living Liberally

The McCain Campaign today uncovered the shocking and unexpected information That Barack Obama is in fact a black man. Senator John McCain discovered this after a comment Senator Obama made on Thursday that “Republicans would try to scare voters by pointing out he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."

Further investigation revealed that the democratic presidential hopeful does not only look different, but is a different race than any other president in American history.

In response to the Senators comment, Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager has said that Mr. Obama has, "played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck." It appears that for many years the race card has been kept safely out of site at the bottom of the deck, and only through some cheap slight of hand has the Illinois senator been able to pull it out. Fears are mounting in the McCain camp that in addition to being a savvy statesman Mr. Obama might also be a skilled Magician.

Davis further said that Obama’s remarks are "divisive, negative, shameful and wrong." It is shocking that the Obama campaign is trying to inform the American People about the senator’s history of being a black man. We should be sticking to the issues and not side tracking with things as irrelevant to the American people as race.

Without these sort of card tricks and evasion, the American public might have never even noticed Barack Obama’s alleged Blackness. McCain on the other hand has been committed to an unbiased policy-based campaign, being himself entirely unaware that there are other races or that he him self has a race. Shame on you Mr. Obama and shame on all of those who might dare to call this a historic moment in American history.

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July 31st, 2008 3:40pm
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Submitted by rmonihan on Thu, 2008-07-31 17:45.

Um, hate to burst your bubble here, but Obama's comment is racist. Nobody on McCain's campaign has commented on race.

While some dipwads in the nether regions of BOTH parties are playing dirty politics, both men have (largely) remained above the fray until Obama's comment.

Nobody really cares about his race. Really. Perhaps some rednecks down South, but they'd never vote for a Democrat anyway, so is that really the issue? Anyone who is making race, or considers race, an issue isn't voting Democrat - PERIOD.

So Obama's comment is outlandish and clearly designed to create a racial stereotype surrounding the McCain campaign. It was underhanded and low. Obama is quickly becoming what he said he was not, but he is quick at deriding all his opponents for doing what he does behind the veil of his racial "untouchability".

It is true this is an historic moment that we, as a nation, should be proud of. A man of his supposed shortcomings (skin color) has achieved a great thing. And could achieve more. But if he chooses to start using this non-shortcoming as a tool, which he most decidedly has begun to do, then his non-shortcoming shortcoming becomes "an issue" and he cannot run away from the fight he has started.

I am not a fan of Obama, but for reasons purely economic and political in nature. His race is immaterial. It's sad to see people, including himself and his supporters, continue to beat that drum when hardly anyone of intelligence or consequence is beating it.

Remember, it is Obama who frequently reminds people he has a white mother. And it was Obama who said of his grandmother that she had an attitude that was similar to "typical white folk".

Imagine if McCain pointed out that his mother was white? Or that someone he was close to was his supporter despite being a "typical black folk". Such uproar we'd see! McCain would lose because he said something "wrong".

Obama hides behind his non-shortcoming and is a charlatan about the non-race 'policy based' campaign.