Let’s see if I’ve got this right
The Obama “dollar bill” remark wasn’t about race before it was about race.
Getting dizzy, anyone?
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The Obama “dollar bill” remark wasn’t about race before it was about race.
Getting dizzy, anyone?
Interesting…I tried to select and copy a phrase from the ABC article, but it wouldn’t let me. I’ve never seen that before.
“”I will not allow anyone in this campaign to attack John McCain on race. It’s never happened before, and it never will again,” Davis said.”
Works for me.
Nicely put.
(It turns out that I was able to use Copy from the menu, but not with the keyboard command. Not sure why.)
Gah. I wish you had preview on this blog, neo.
Here’s the quote I tried to quote:
The comment had triggered a charge Thursday from Sen. John McCain’s campaign manager that Obama had “played the race card… from the bottom of the deck.”
I’ll be danged. It worked. 🙂
He also want to drill for oil now….after he was opposed to that….and the guns thing…and taxes…and black supremacy.
I can trust one thing….Obama is not to be trusted!
sociopaths are not to be trusted, and sociopaths who are post turtles put up by others are puppets. however, they tend, once they get power, to throw off their strings and beleive their owh rhetoric. as a defector once said, the kind of people that are on top in socialism are the kind that can look you in the eye and lie outright without batting an eye or showing a sign.
We’ve seen some nasty, even brutal, presidential campaigns in the past, but Obama’s running the most Orwellian, 2+2=5 campaign I can remember.
Update summary:
Barack calls it “troublesome” that McCain eagerly defends himself against charges he(McCain) made a racist attack. Barack accuses McCain of trying to score political points via defending himself.
Barack’s unstated assertion: Race is such a sacred topic that a person may not touch it even during an effort to defend themselves. To touch race, even then, is unvirtuous. To touch race, even then, is to dirty one’s hands. When a person (a white person? any person who opposes me?) is accused of race sin, such person must simply take it on the chin. To do anything else is to betray insensitivity.
McCain’s campaign spent weeks and months establishing a much racial senstivity bona fides as they could. Meanwhile, they were obviously ready, if Barack made the mistake of hinting at racism, with a McCain campaign plan of counterattack.
This is good strategy. I hope the McCain campaign is resolved to counterattack again and again, with larger and larger ordnance. McCain has this going for him:
More voters have been falsely accused of racism (by the racial generalists) than have actually felt the sting of racism. Black persons have felt the sting of racism more deeply; the white population has felt the sting of false accusation in greater numbers.
This was only an advantage for McCain if Barack embraced the role of racial victim. Barack (inevitably? given his BLT beliefs and his political inexperience?) complied.
Huxley,
Well put. Though I think it’s Obama and a vast majority of the MSM along with a host of progressive useful idiots and young hipster naifs.
Neo, c’mon, what’s not to understand?
Obama said that he didn’t look like the other presidents on the dollar bills? (Do they have different presidents on dollar bills? I thought only Washington was on dollar bills? Who knew?) Though he was obviously referring to the fact that he’s black (at least 1/2 anyway), he wasn’t referring to race. But for McCain, or to say that Obama was playing the race card is plainly racist. Any criticism of him is racist too. But he’s not trying to use race in this race, understand? /sarcasm
But seriously, post Nixon, the democrats only successes have been with candidates who were ciphers on the national scene. First there was Carter, who barely got elected on anti-Nixon resentment. Then Clinton, who masqueraded as Republican Lite. Both did little in office an precipitated Republican multi-term administrations.
Whenever, the democrats have actually had the courage to try and articulate their core policies (socialism), they have failed miserably. Witness, Mondale& Dukakis. The Dems also tried to field a phony war hero, Kerry and failed. Gore should have been a shoe-in, even with the lingering Clinton resentment, but was too incompetent to capitalize on his advantage.
So we have finally come to 2008, when the Dems’ having nothing to offer but identity politics, because they dare not speak of progressive trans-nationalism, boil it down to women vs. blacks.
Race trumps gender in the calculus of politically correct identity politics. So, going back to what worked before, we are left with a Dem candidate who is again a complete cipher on the national scene and solidifies the Dems’ solid core black constituency. A candidate with little experience and no real accomplishment. Someone that nothing could be hung upon. He talks vaguely of ‘hope & change’ a change we can believe in, but he never really articulates that change. When his close associates become liabilities, he is quick to distance himself from friends of over 20 years.
We now see him flip-flopping on all sorts of positions, saying anything to anyone, as long as he thinks it’s what they want to here.
But don’t you dare criticize him! Our founding fathers must be spinning in their graves.
Whither Peter?
The word of the day is…
paralipsis
is it not?
If this election were not so critically important, observing the Obama campaign would be terrifically fun.