July 2008 - "McCain Camp: 'Obama Has Played the Race Card'" - GOP Insults The Public's Intelligence

[TomCADem]

The only racism being spread is not by Reid's clumsy private remarks, but by the Republicans' very public attempt to stoke racial tensions.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/07/31/mccain_camp_obama_has_played_t.html

Raising a politically-explosive issue for the first time this election, Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) campaign accused Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) this morning of invoking the specter of race in order to bolster his electoral prospects.

The charge came in reaction to comments the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee had made at three separate stops in Missouri Wednesday, where Obama suggested Republicans were trying to scare voters away from him.

"So nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," he told voters in Springfield. "You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other Presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky. That's essentially the argument they're making."

McCain campaign manager Rick Davis countered this morning with a terse but harsh statement: "Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck. It's divisive, negative, shameful and wrong."

[Webster Green]

1. Is there any group more irrelevent than the McCain campaign?

Not many. :eyes: