Obama: "In no way do I think John McCain's campaign was being racist"

He should be thankful for any distraction at all, because it calls attention away from the fact that he's made of smoke and vapor and has no real ideas or abilities other than talking nice and looking good in a suit.

He has one chance to win this election and one chance only: shame. Play the race card and play it early and often. Shame everybody into voting for him because of his color. It's a nearly foolproof policy, and will give the DNC central committee what they want: a rubber-stamp president that will go along with whatever their union bosses say.

Wait a minute. Obama wouldn't be backing down from earlier statements if he didn't make them.

McCain is no racist. But there are plenty of racists supporting McCain, even though, and who would have thought it, the Black racists (Wright, Jackson, Pfleger the white priest who manages to be a Black racist, etc.) seem to resent or want to undercut Obama.

it's like i said before, he didn't call mccain a racist. there are no remarks for him to back down from. however, there are those political opportunists who parse every word obama says that could be interpreted and spun that way. how many many of the majority white people in his audience thought that it was a racial remark? case closed.

and now that most people understand that mccain was distorting the truth about the landstuhl dust up, why isn't mccain still pushing it? why isn't the campaign running their "remember landstuhl!" ads? because, it was designed to inflict the initial wound, but after the ad was discredited it became a liability where mccain might be seen as the dishonest politician that he is. same old swift boat tactics. well, it worked against him in 2004, why not against obama today?

will mccain stand up and be the post-racial man that he now pretends to be and denounce the undercurrent of racism in the whisper campaigns and the email campaigns within republican circles? don't hold your breath.

he's explained what he meant. do you need for someone to find it for you?

if you want to speak frankly about appearances, what do you think he meant? what if he did mean his skin color? is that playing the race card if he points out the obvious? it's not like he would be lying about righties making his color, his religion, and his name issues for voting against him.

how is it that the moronic, ignorant right is smart enough to turn on a computer (except for mccain) but stupid enough to believe the emails that they forward? these emails were on "the series of tubes" called "the internets" for months before obama had to address the issue of race. don't tell me that you're unaware of them, or who circulates them, or of the blatant racist comments by righties - the likes of guy thomas and zz - on conservative blogs.