Obama's calling McCain racist again

Actually, Obama didn't say a word about McCain being racist. He talked about having a 'funny name', but you don't have to even be from a different race to have a funny name.

It wasn't even his campaign that talked about race, but various 'Lefty Bloggers'. Now, shall we claim that the McCain campaign is responsible to the point that McCain should be blamed directly for everything proclaimed by Conservative bloggers? Because if that were true, there's a LOT more than racism that would be at issue.

According to them, the race is mentioned, certainly, but there's also being some kind of 'stealth Muslim', 'Christian Radical Black Liberationist', Communist, Socialist, (They aren't the same thing, you know), forging his birth certificate, actually born in both Kenya AND Indonesia...

So, now we get to say McCain called Obama all that?

Actually Obama is not the only one talking about his name. I know I've gotten at least 20 FWD emails saying something like "Obama=Osama" McCain might not be saying it, but lots of other people sure are.

McCain isn't a racist?

Actually, I'd never thought of McCain as racist until this came up. But of the half-dozen or so people I know who know McCain personally, every single one of them is white (I'm not). But two of them are gay.

It would be nice for the candidates to get away from this kind of junk and back to issues of substance, even if one of them is hotter than Paris Hilton and one of them colder than Jed Clampett.

Vote for me, I'm popular in EUROPE! You're kidding, right?

McCain needs to, and is doing, just what he is doing, IDENTIFYING the THREAT to AMERICA'S SURVIVAL and PROSPERITY as a nation and that threat is The OBAMANATION. The fact is The OBAMANATION campaign and orchestration by the Axis Media is being beaten back and as the ship goes down the LEFTY LIBS are like the crew and passengers on the TITANIC...how could this have happened?

The blame is at the feet of the LEFTY LIBS/DEMOCRATIC PARTY that chose a RACIST/MARXIST in The Obamanation and tried to cover it up with CELEBRIITISM. The gig is up and now the LEFTY LIBS are squealing foul because they know it's dooms day. They know that they can't fight the truth.

THE ENEMY to AMERICA'S SURVIVAL AS A NATION needs identified, clearly and soundly and that ENEMY IS THE OBAMANATION!

I've noticed that the only person bringing up race in this entire campaign is Senator Obama. Over and over, he keeps mentioning it. For someone (as Michele notes) who is trying to be post-racial, he's doing a poor job of it.

talking about race issues does not make one racist. on the other hand, declaring to vote against someone because of their race is (see guy's rantings here for racist drivel). there's a difference.

obama needs to keep doing what he's doing. attack the rumors, ridicule the desperation of the mccain campaign and republican rumor mills, but don't sink to mccain's level of lying about his opponent. mccain's latest tv ads (obama on gas prices and obama dissing wounded troops in germany) are blatant lies and deserve to be ridiculed. mccain should know better but his handlers know that this kind of red meat (even though proven to be untrue) is just what the republican base loves, like piranhas on a shinbone. this is the rightie base that wouldn't vote for obama anyway, so no loss there. so let mccain continue doing what he's doing, let the right wing rumor mill grind away. they're hurting themselves with smart republicans and independents.

mccain is not a racist, and obama never, ever leveled that charge, although Paul makes an excellent point that the republican party is purposefully turning a blind eye to the racist current in their party. if mccain were to denounce the emails and rumors, he would lose votes. obama does however address the right-wing rantings about the fear over his name (yes, i've received the emails many times from my right-wing friends) and his color (yes, i've gotten those emails and read those blogs, too). heck, all one has to do is watch fox news to see exactly what he's talking about. he's not playing the race card, but he's calling them on it - those who threw down the race card to begin with. these emails and the whisper campaigns have been circulating way before obama ever decided to address it. can blogs like this one talk about the issues and not race and not baseless attacks on his character? can mccain talk about the issues or maybe his plan for improving the economy rather than blaming the country's ills on obama with no facts to back up his lies? not if they want to win.

Plainly put, anyone who doesn't think that there were racial overtones to the McCain ad is either willfully ignorant, plain ignorant, or lying. Furthermore while you might have trouble directly linking McCain to any of it, there's been plenty of all of the types of things that Obama mentioned going on all the time on Fox News where they've said things likes "He's only winning because he's black" repeated his middle name like an insult, and "misspelled" his last name as "Osama" on multiple occasions. And, oh yeah, they've joked about him getting assassinated. Let's not forget this is the network that literally gets its talking points from the RNC every morning. So to act like there's a vast chasm of difference between what Fox says and what the Republican party is saying is not a stretch. The fact is that Republican Party IS trying to scare people with his race.

billy: "the world will end if they vote for Mccain,If you vote for Mcain nostrodamuses prediction was right WW3. Mcain is gonna declare war on iran.Obama wont attck iran and get rid of nuclear threat in the middle east PLEASE VOTE FOR OBAMA WE DONT WANT ANOTHER ILLITERATE SOUTHERN PRESIDENT TO START ANOTHER WAR.Actually americans are very stupid they probably will vote for mccain becasue he is good loojing for his age.AND HE FOUGHT IN VIETNAM OMG!!!!!!"

The post by "billy" here at 3:13 AM is a fine example of the kind of smears being put out against McCain by the left and their hardball operatives.

The Obama campaign is trying to have it both ways. On one hand, they whine about racist attacks, although it is their candidate who has consistently stoked this issue -- first against Clinton (and her husband) and now against McCain (and the Republicans). On the other hand, they prop-up addled-brained slimeballs like "billy" who haunt the blogosphere (in the middle of the night, no less) with their vile comments about McCain.

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

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.

"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".