Obama Plays The Race Card Again

Barack Obama played the race card again today saying "nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," Obama said. "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 the dollar bills." He made this stupid dollar bill comment in three seperate speeches. This is not the first time that Obama has implied that his race is an issue that Republicans will attack him on. John McCain nor anyone else has attacked Obama because of his race. Why does Barack Obama feel like he is a victim of some conspiracy to foster racism against him? Obama needs to stop these senseless lines about Republicans making race an issue. It makes him look like a petty fool with a victim complex. Perhaps he feels if he says it enough times people will actually start to believe that Republicans are attacking the color of his skin. Either way, it is inexcusable. Does anyone out there really believe this narrative that Obama is trying to create has anything to do with reality? I can already predict that if Obama loses the election they will say it was because of his race.

In case your wondering why I say Obama is playing the race card "again" it is because he has. Earlier in the campaign he had this to say. “They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”

The New York Times jumped into the racial nonsense and falsely attacks the McCain campaign for racism. They make believe that McCain had actually done something that was racist. In an online editorial they wrote that the McCain "celebrity" ad "gave us an uneasy feeling that the McCain campaign was starting up the same sort of racially tinged attack on Mr. Obama." The ad had nothing at all to do with race. This is crazy. The New York Times also commented on Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager, and his condemnation of Obama's racial rhetoric. The NYT says Davis had a "snappy answer" when he said “Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck. It’s divisive, negative, shameful and wrong.’’ I agree with everything that Davis said, Obama was being divisive and wrong playing the race card as he did. But in the eyes of the NYT "the retort" was "not only contemptible, but shrewd. It puts the sin for the racial attack not on those who made it, but on the victim of the attack." Cry me a river for Barack Obama, who has been the victim of racism. Give me a break. There was no racial attack! How dare the NYT try to paint Obama as the victim of some racial attack by the McCain camp. It is utter and complete nonsense. The NYT continues and says that "it also — and we wish this were coincidence, but we doubt it — conjurs up another loaded racial image. The phrase dealing the race card 'from the bottom of the deck' entered the national lexicon during the O.J. Simpson saga. Robert Shapiro, one of Mr. Simpson’s lawyers, famously declared of himself, Johnny Cochran and the rest of the Simpson defense team, 'Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.'" Does anyone out there really believe that this was some hidden reference to O.J.? For a phrase that "entered the national lexicon" I have never heard it before, nor have I heard of anyone else that has ever heard it. Do you think that Rick Davis actually was drawing some hidden subliminal parallel between Obama and O.J. Simpson? This is conspiracy theory nonsense. This is a repulsive article that the NYT should feel ashamed of. It exposes the Times as being unbelievably biased mouthpiece for the Obama campaign, and not even a good mouthpiece either. Barack Obama was wrong for claiming McCain is making race an issue and Obama needs to cut that rhetoric out of his speeches. There is no excuse for what Barack Obama said, even if the New York Times works as hard as they can to conjure one up.

Here is the McCain "celebrity" ad that the NYT claims is "racially tinged":



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