You don't have to be a hyper-sensitive liberal to think the latest McCain ad is deisgned to stimulate racial resenment. Conservative Rod Dreher explains.
Man, they're letting it all hang out, aren't they? Telling white working-class people that Obama's going to take their money and give it to the nigras. There's good ol' Joe the Plumber at the start of the ad, and the background country music, and the misspelled word "everbody" for "everybody" -- it so happens that many uneducated blacks pronounce the word "everbody."
Conservative religious leaders are often claiming they get a bum rap on racial issues. I wonder if any of them will comment on this ad.
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I used to greatly admire John McCain. His ads and McCarthy style nonsense about Bill Ayers (whom McCain constantly admits is a washed-up old radical) and others have completely drained me of that respect.
But this is not the worst ad of the season. That "honor" belongs to Elizabeth Dole. Someone else for whom I used to have respect.
It's beginning to look like the Republican Party has reached moral bankruptcy in its desperate efforts to hold on to power.
As a believer in a strong two party system, this deeply disappointes and distresses me.
Does anyone have any idea why Obama has thrown the conservative media journalists off his plane just a few days before election day. There were so few voices that question him- he can't take any hardball questions or views? Is this a preview of how he will run his administration? Isn't this a strategy that we have seen before? No one better take a critical look at Obama or you will get the "Joe the Plumber" "Barbara West" and now any "conservative journalist" treatment.
I love how McCain is criticizing EITC and tax credits when 1. historically Republicans have supported EITC as an alternative to welfare and 2. the entire McCain health plan is based on tax credits.
I heard Palin going medieval on the whole concept of "tax credits" during a speech this morning in Pennsylvania. Goin' rogue again ...
PS -- Yeah, this is bad, but Liddy Dole's ad was still worse.
They could learn to spell, too. Or is that elitism? 'Everbody' instead of 'Everybody'?
Several of these comments opened several issues for me. First, is the One Trick Pony that is Liddy Dole, she is only interested in surrounding herself with power at any cost, it has been her life quest. The next item is the worry that Conservative Media was removed from the Obama plane. In the final days of the campaign they want to get out a positive message. It is about the same as McCain removing Maureen Dowd from his plane, no big deal. Barbara West is a TV news reader that happens to have a husband who is a Republican Media Strategist.
Another concern is why Democrats are potrayed as people that are not Christian and Patriotic? I can even remember when Kennedy was campaigning and people were actually afraid the Pope would run our government because he was Catholic. We have moved from there to a point that its now necessary to have specific Christian beliefs to be on the correct side to be President. Why do you even have to be Christian to be President, we are actually a secular government that offers religious freedom.
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