Not very post-racial of him but then we all knew that was crap when we found out what kind of church he went to:
"John McCain right now, he's spending an awful lot of time talking about me," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said today in Rolla, Mo. "You notice that? I haven't seen an ad yet where he talks about what he's gonna do. And the reason is because those folks know they don't have any good answers, they know they've had their turn over the last eight years and made a mess of things. They know that you're not real happy with them."This is the reaction to McCain's calling him inexperienced and a media darling? Where has McCain ever mentioned that Obama's name is funny? Obama's charges are ridiculous and everyone knows it.This kind of thing isn't going to work, he needs to figure out a response to the attack, not whine about it. And anyone who has been paying attention knows that McCain has been doing ads that focus on his own record and what he plans to do when he gets in office.Obama continued: "And so the only way they figure they're going to win this election is if they make you scared of me. So what they're saying is, 'Well, we know we're not very good but you can't risk electing Obama. You know, he's new, he's... doesn't look like the other presidents on the currency, you know, he's got a, he's got a funny name.'
[...]"But, since they don't have any new ideas the only strategy they've got in this election is to try to scare you about me. They're going to try to say that I'm a risky guy, they're going to try to say, 'Well, you know, he's got a funny name and he doesn't look like all the presidents on the dollar bills and the five dollar bills and, and they're going to send out nasty emails.
"And, you know, the latest one they've got me in an ad with Paris Hilton," Obama said, referring to a McCain campaign ad launched today. "You know, never met the woman. But, but, you know, what they're gonna try to argue is that somehow I'm too risky."
BTW, I think its telling that he keeps bringing up the name issue even though he's the only one doing it. It seems he's got some issues with his own name. Smells like childhood angst to me.
Another BTW, this is absolutely ridiculous and typical of lefty bloggers:
"I note with interest today, John McCain's new tactic of associating Barack Obama with oversexed and/or promiscuous young white women," writes liberal blogger Josh Marshall. "Presumably, a la Harold Ford 2006, this will be one of those strategies that will be a matter of deep dispute during the campaign and later treated as transparent and obvious once the campaign is concluded."It's clear from the ad that the celebrity of Obama is being compared to Spears and Hilton. Heck! Even Obama's compared himself to Hilton:Continues Marshall: "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."
"Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame. I've already had an hour and a half. I mean, I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse."
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John McCain has been gratuitously using the word "gook" since he returned from Vietnam. While speaking about his new book, John McCain's Racism and Why it Matters, Irwin Tang explains that McCain's use of this dehumanizing war term in the mass media reflects poor character and judgment and perpetuates racism in this country. Do we really want a president who has proven himself grossly insensitive to war victims and racism?
-Elizabeth Giegerich
Carolyn,
If you had been held prisoner and tortured for 5 years, left permanently disabled (ever wonder why McCain never lifts his hands above his head?), do you think you might call the people who did it some bad names? Despite uninformed reports, McCain does not refer to Asians as "gooks" - he reserved that term for the Vietnamese guards who tortured him.
Obama's team is doing everything they can to make this about race, to try to shut down any possible criticism of him as "racist". His sole appeal is that he is the first viable black candidate for president to make it this far. He has no record of acomplishment, and his policy proposals come straight from the far left of the Democrat party, so he is not putting forth some new and exciting ideas. If he was white, with the same experience, same political history and same policy positions, he would have never made it this far (see: Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards).
One more time: the only one bringing up race over and over in this campaign is Obama. In his post-racial new politics way, of course.
omg... can you imagine? he made a mistake. sure glad we have mcsame to vote for ... he NEVER makes a mistake! oops, i think i got that wrong, he rarely gets it right, that's it.
mcsame rarely gets it... let's vote for him.
iraq is now next to pakistan. bilocation?
the us has the best health care system in the world!?!?!? The World Health Organization (WHO) in 2000 ranked the U.S. health care system first in both responsiveness and expenditure, but 37th in overall performance and 72nd by overall level of health (among 191 member nations included in the study).[9][10]
czechoslovakia is still alive and well except in the czech republic which it has been for over 20 years.
During his fact-finding mission to Iraq, John McCain was quoted that it was "common knowledge" that Sunni members of Al Qaeda routinely travel to Shiia Iran for training. huh?!?!?
and you worry because obama didn't get it right?
hey, let's vote for someone who NEVER makes a mistake... if we can find them.
"If you had been held prisoner and tortured for 5 years, left permanently disabled (ever wonder why McCain never lifts his hands above his head?), do you think you might call the people who did it some bad names?" --I guess using this philosophy, any black person should be able to call all white people "crackers" or some other derogatory term since African Americans as a whole group have been tortured and improperly treated for much more than 5 years, starting with slavery --- do we really want someone who views Asians as "gooks" and is hostile to them running our country? - especially since he has to deal with these same "gooks" who own so much of this country's debts? Imagine him making some important policy decision at a summit with the Chinese or Japanese under the influence of a PTSD flashback from his experience as a POW. I give him a lot of credit for being a POW - but knowing how to suffer should not be a sole criteria to represent a multiethnic and "religiously" diverse nation. Some adages are true - "you can't teach an old dog new tricks".
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