By James Gerber

Aug 1, 2008 5:06pm

Obama: McCain’s Race Charges ‘Troublesome’

ABC News’ Teddy Davis and Sunlen Miller Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told NPR’s "All Things Considered" on Friday that he finds Sen. John McCain’s, R-Ariz., eagerness to level charges of racism "troublesome".

"[T]he way that they’ve amplified this, you know, has been troublesome," said Obama, referring to the McCain campaign’s charge this week that Obama has been playing the "race card" "And the eagerness with which they’ve done it indicates they think they can exploit this politically."

Obama said McCain’s charge that he played the "race card" is "ridiculous."

He also said that in "no ways" does he believe the McCain campaign has "targeted race issues."

During his interview with NPR’s Michele Norris, Obama also defended his new proposal to force oil companies to share their record-breaking windfall profits for five years.

Earlier Friday, the Republican National Committee issued a missive to reporters arguing that a windfall profits tax is bad policy.

"It reduces domestic oil production, increases U.S. dependence on foreign oil, and harms consumers with increased energy costs" read the RNC’s anti-Obama document.

When asked to defend his proposal on NPR, Obama acknowledged that most economists buy into the theory that you "don’t meddle in the markets." The presumptive Democratic nominee added that he thinks the long-term solution to rising gas prices is to raise fuel efficiency standards and to spur the development of plug-in hybrids.

But in the short-run, Obama said that it is not "too much to ask" for oil companies to "give a little back" to make sure that "not just drivers but senior citizens on fixed income are going to have the ability to pay for heating this winter."

Starting at 7:00 pm ET on Friday, audio of the interview can be found here.

User Comments

Something historical is happening as we speak in DC and ABC is not even mentioning it. And you guys wonder why we watch Fox News. Sigh.
Unfreakinbelievable.

Posted by: Jo | August 1, 2008, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm

Obama is the one that brings up race. He is so condescending that he believes that if people do not like him, or will not vote for him, it has to be because of his (by his own words) funny name, or because he looks different. I will not vote for Obama because I believe he is not qualified to be President, this is not a time for on-the-job training, no matter if you have 300 advisors..

Posted by: vicki | August 1, 2008, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm

McCain keeps bringing the subject up because it’s true. Obama played the same game with the Clintons. Everything they did or said was somehow racist. Now he’s claiming the McCain camp and his surrogates will use race against him. Shouldn’t he have waited until they actually did use race against him before he attacked them on it? That’s why people are so upset. He used the strategy on the Clintons and it worked. Now he’s trying it on McCain, and McCains fight back. Good for the old man. I’m glad he’s finally in there fight.

Posted by: JB in St. Louis | August 1, 2008, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm

George Bush has educated us all very well on the blame tactics Obama is employing. Obama plays the race card then cries.

Posted by: Freedom | August 1, 2008, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm

Vicki i wish people like you would have used that same reasoning 8 years ago when you voted for Bush. Maybe this country would be in better shape.
Bush was so called qualified to be president, yet our nations economy is in turmoil.

Posted by: Poor Poor McCain | August 1, 2008, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm

Obama’s right. McCain should be ashamed of himself for trying to drive that racially charged wedge into the American electorate.

Posted by: jefferson | August 1, 2008, 5:41 pm 5:41 pm

I’m confused when a Black man gets in front of an audience filled with WHITE AMERICANS and uses the so called race card. How does that benifit him? How does that make WHITE AMERICA want to vote for him.
I never realized just how much WHITE AMERICA was affected by racism, when its miniroties in this country that are usually mistreated.
Can any of you good people explain that to me.
Now if it was done in front of a group of minorities, then this argument would have a little more substance.

Posted by: Obama Supporter | August 1, 2008, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm

When the surrogates and campaign handlers come out in drove to defend Obama’s remarks in Springfield, you know McCain has hit on a winner. Obama was clearly trying to insinuate that the McCain campaign and the Republicans are racists, and there’s simply no evidence to support that. If I were McCain, I’d hammer this issue to Election Day.

Posted by: McCain Dem | August 1, 2008, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm

Bullfeathers!! Race card, smace card. Obama spoke true: his name is “funny” compared to, say, Bush, McCain, Clinton; and he doesn’t look like any prior president the U.S.A. has had, you know, those guys whose faces appear on our paper money and some of our coins, but, hey! This country has long prided itself on being a “melting pot”. It’s not a prerequisite that a U.S. president be able to trace his geneology back to Queen Elizabeth I, or II, or some county in Ireland or Scotland.

Posted by: nanameow | August 1, 2008, 5:43 pm 5:43 pm

Poor Poor McCain: Why would you assume I voted for Bush, I didn’t think Bush was qualified either. I have voted for the Democratic candidate forever, just not this time.

Posted by: vicki | August 1, 2008, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm

Good for McCain. He is making a point to show that constant use of the race card isn’t going to be tolerated as it shouldn’t be.

Posted by: Cryos | August 1, 2008, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm

Well Vicki what makes McCain qualified to lead, when he thinks Bush has this country on the right path.
If you didnt think Bush was a qualified leader, then you must have doubts about McCain because they think just alike.

Posted by: Obama Supporter | August 1, 2008, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm

Posted by: mary | August 1, 2008, 5:57 pm 5:57 pm

BO keeps pushing back on race and McCain can’t stop talking about it. I smell desperation on McCain’s part since he is loosing, however close it is, McCain is still behind in polls. Watch for a bump for BO in aug and leading upto democratic convention I think it will simply be too late for McCain to catch up to him. What eventually matters is state-by-state polls and McCain is loosing if not all but in most toss up states.

Posted by: AP | August 1, 2008, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm

This whole non-event was pounced upon by McCain to see if yet again they could make something (anything) negative stick to Obama. This is their primary strategy since Karl Rove’s minions slimed their way into the McCain campaign. The champions of the Big Lie and Smear are now managing McCain to keep him on track and on message. The stench that arises from the Swift Boat style attacks on Obama is all too familiar. McCain himself was a victim of this filth in 2000. The fact that he needs to rely on this type of “thuggery” is proof positive of his feebleness as a candidate.
The Obama campaign managers have to take the gloves off and give back to McCain what his Karl Rove handlers dish out. Its time to remind people about McCain’s less than straight talk about he Keating Five for example. Many of the younger voters don’t know anything about those sleazy dealings. How about his blithering comments about Iraq when Lieberman had to practically wipe the drool off McCain’s face as Joe whispered corrections about Iraq into his ear. When the Swift Boaters went after Kerry he stood there like a deer in the headlights. Obama needs to strike back and quickly. The Rove team is counting on his stumbling in in the face of their relentless smears

Posted by: jefflz | August 1, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm

There he goes again. Will Barack ever learn. He should drop this now. It’s not helping him. People are on to him.
Well if he wishes to hang himself let him at it. I guess.

Posted by: coolrepublica | August 1, 2008, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm

Obama is a race-obsessed. Okay… we get it… you’re African-American.

Posted by: Gary | August 1, 2008, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm

Yes, McCain defending himself against an unfair cry of racism probably is troublesome for Obama…
Heck, it could be downright disastrous if his cry of racism isn’t enough to get him elected. It’s not like he has a record, or experience, or anything else to run on. He’d better hope he can play the race card… he doesn’t have much of a hand otherwise.
Unless voting “present” becomes a laudable achievement he’s going to need something to use to keep in the running.

Posted by: Gekkobear | August 1, 2008, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm

Too funny! I called this strategy yesterday:
1. Subtly drop hints that McCain is a racist old white man.
2. Deny that you were doing such when confronted.
3. Turn it around and say that since they accused you of trying to pull the race card, THEY are in fact pulling the race card.
Well-engineered Obama/Axelrod. Let’s see if you can make it 2 for 2. It worked like a charm on the Clintons.
PS I hope that you can face yourself in the mirror at night, or at least your little girls. You’ve set race relations back in this country 20 years.

Posted by: JA | August 1, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm

Obama, the most inexperienced candidade for POTUS in my lifetime, cannot win without playing the race card. I know it, you know it, and the liberal media is especially aware of that fact every time they cower in fear over writing any truth about our selected messiah.
McCain, another candidate I will not be voting for, is correct in calling Obama on this issue. It certainly upsets the Obama campaign to lose the only ‘issue’ they had.

Posted by: DannoJyd | August 1, 2008, 6:44 pm 6:44 pm

Posted by: Wildcats8833 | August 1, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm

Barry can’t believe that no Republican or McCain operative has actually played the race card to this point, so he decided to pretend they did anyway. He looks much smaller for his comments. He needs to present specific examples of McCain warning against voting for Obama because of his “funny name” or because he “doesn’t look like other Presidents”. Unless he can present proof of such comments from McCain or his surrogates, he should apologize.

Posted by: Bill | August 1, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm

“Obama is a race-obsessed. Okay… we get it… you’re African-American.”
Well that’s what sitting in a racist chruch for 20 years will get you. I guess he must have taken those sermons to heart.

Posted by: Mack | August 1, 2008, 7:04 pm 7:04 pm

When are we going to hear the SECOND major speech on race??
Axelrobama, we need you to lecture us on race as we are all racists… help us!!
McCain 08
Hillary 12

Posted by: fob1989 | August 1, 2008, 7:09 pm 7:09 pm

Obama is always the first person to mention race and that he looks “different” from previous candidates. Then when his competition, either Hillary or Mccain call him out on trying to make race an issue, he turns it on them and implies that they are racist.
Obama is the one that is fanning the flames using the race card. I bet he thinks people are stupid.

Posted by: Mike | August 1, 2008, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm

The notion that this phony is facing someone who will not take the heat of his accusing his opponents what they are “GOING” to do, rather than they have done anything as HRC, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Ferraro, … of the Democratic Party did is troublesome is a new demonstration of the notion that he is a true cry baby who does his race baiting and accuses people what they have not done to divert attention of his lack of substance.
His House Mommy will not save him in the general election, unlike the dems primaries to fish him out as an Affirmative Action candi.

Posted by: lazy to think | August 1, 2008, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm

In case if you are confused, that’s how this phony used this tactic to confuse and deceive dems primaries.

Posted by: lazy to think | August 1, 2008, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm

When asked to defend his proposal on NPR, Obama acknowledged that most economists buy into the theory that you “don’t meddle in the markets.” The presumptive Democratic nominee added that he thinks the long-term solution to rising gas prices is to raise fuel efficiency standards and to spur the development of plug-in hybrids.
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This phony has absolutely no clue what a long term energy policy should be. He thinks that inflating your tires will solve the oil-dependence problem. He wants to plug-in, where is he going to get the electricity without using coals and natural gas since he has no courage, or the intelligent of comprehending, to propose the development of Nuclear Energy.
Nuclear Energy is the only clean, and essentially unlimited energy source in this Universe.

Posted by: lazy to think | August 1, 2008, 8:49 pm 8:49 pm

You don’t want jobs moved to China and India? Have a plan on energy. China and India, each, will demand and use more energy in 10 years than the US. You are feeling squeezed now by gasoline prices, by that time, with 0bama’s inflating-your-tire-fuel-efficiency-standard and the tactic of taxing the hell out of companies that make only 6% of profit margin, you will pay 3 times more.

Posted by: lazy to think | August 1, 2008, 8:58 pm 8:58 pm

Race became a “troublesome” issue when Obama first played it when he referred to his grandmother as “typical” white person. Obama is a loser!

Posted by: sandy | August 1, 2008, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm

I find it troublesome that Obama is continually talking about race, ridicules white people, and attended a racist cult for 20 years but cannot remember a single sermon.

Posted by: pat | August 1, 2008, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm

Posted by: kravitz | August 1, 2008, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm

obama is an Arrogant, Radical FRAUD – and not qualified to lead our country.
That is the reason he will never be elected – has nothing to do with RACE.
How dare anyone say a negative comment about this glory-boy – or – not vote for him – you must be a racist -
Just STOP!
Maybe now would be a good time for obama to step aside – for the good of the party – and country.

Posted by: Abby | August 1, 2008, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm

McCain 08!

Posted by: Lil'Barack | August 1, 2008, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm

Posted by: Lil'Barack | August 1, 2008, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm

Obammy is now shifting on offshore drilling and says he supports limited drilling…what an idiot! He just continues to flip flop, with no substance!

Posted by: Lil'Barack | August 1, 2008, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm

“Bush was so called qualified to be president, yet our nations economy is in turmoil.”
Considering Bush inherited a recession (FACT dot.com bubble burst), and our economy was devistatingly crippled by 9-11…yet Bush brought the employment rate back to the levels Clinton used to brag about. In spite if your Democratic talking points, that sounds like pretty good stewardship of the economy.
Oh, now employment has been going down in the past year. Democrats took over Congress over a year ago. Coincidence? Hardly!
This comment will be deleted in 5…4…3…2…

Posted by: ynot4tony2 | August 1, 2008, 10:27 pm 10:27 pm

Posted by: Ludacris | August 1, 2008, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm

vicki, your words are perfect! And, I do not vote for Bush in 2000 or 2004, either. Guess the Obombs will have to think again!

Posted by: georgia | August 1, 2008, 11:09 pm 11:09 pm

Obama said that it is not “too much to ask” for oil companies to “give a little back”
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Does he not understand that, while earning a record $11+ billion in profits in the 2nd quarter, Exxon paid over $32 billion in federal taxes over the same period? I’d say they are giving MORE than “a little back” – wouldn’t you?
Either Obama is completely ignorant, or is convinced any of his potential voters are – or both.

Posted by: Adjoran | August 1, 2008, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm

Obama is an empty suit with a paranoid victim inside.
Sort of like the Wizard of OZ.

Posted by: Bob | August 2, 2008, 12:51 am 12:51 am

I’ve been maintaining that Obama is a clown, but I’m beginning to realize that except in the moments when he’s unintentionally hilarious, he’s really tedious. There’s not enough there even to make him interesting to criticize. It’s difficult to believe he can sustain voters’ interest in him and high regard for him for another three months.

Posted by: Kralizec | August 2, 2008, 2:20 am 2:20 am

Did you know that Barrack Obama is literally the most inexperienced candidate for President ever?
He lacks any military experience, never served as a governor, has a very brief US Senate tenure, never created any meaningful legislation — when compared to most presidential candidates in American history he comes up short.
The only thing Barrack is counting on to get him elected is race. That’s sad.

Posted by: Renzo | August 2, 2008, 8:35 am 8:35 am

renzo, school yourself in what it means to have been a state legislator:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/142892

Posted by: wake up | August 2, 2008, 9:25 am 9:25 am

So, by Obama’s logic, trial lawyers who make obscene profits also ought to be taxed on their “windfall” profits? Sell that one!

Posted by: jorb | August 2, 2008, 9:42 am 9:42 am

I’m no McCain fan but good for him for doing what the Clintons should have done – calling Obama out!
Playing the race card against the Clintons (who have a well documented 30 year history of enpowering African Americans and supporintg civil rights) is the reason I CANNOT and WILL NOT vote for Obama despite the fact that I have voted for every democratic presidential nominee since 1988.

Posted by: csh | August 2, 2008, 11:33 am 11:33 am

Only a racist would think Obama’s comments were racist.

Posted by: alvino | August 2, 2008, 7:27 pm 7:27 pm

I’m stunned by the foul comments out here. To believe Obama is playing a race card, one must be racist. Whether or not McCain’s campaign is or isn’t, it depends on how you look at it. They definitely are telling people to be very afraid — and then hoping to get the reaction I’m seeing in all these comments. It’s the same thing the Clintons did. People are doing what they think they can get away with to win. This election is about Big Business — nothing to do with Patriotism.
Obama 08

Posted by: suzyq | August 3, 2008, 12:20 am 12:20 am

McCain put Obama’s face on the dollar bill, the statue of liberty, and the Mr. Rushmore monument as a reminder to all racists that are supporting him that he is different. He did this a month ago. It is not so subtle a way for the scumbags running McCain’s campaign to inject race without doing it directly. So McCain has injected race and did it first a month ago. What a hypocrite! Sawyer gave McCain a free pass. Why? No courage. O guess.

Posted by: peter777 | August 3, 2008, 12:38 am 12:38 am

This is a racist country and it always has been. This nation was founded on it.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson | August 3, 2008, 12:47 am 12:47 am

McCain’s campaign is in a pathetic state. The attacks are getting more ridiculous by the day and it’s barely August. He has hired some seriously slimey characters to help run his campaign and it shows. I sincerely hope he is forced to address some serious issues facing the country before November. McCain may very well win the election, but I don’t understand how you can throw out buckets of garbage every day and expect people to take you seriously.
Posted by: mary
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Mary, unfortunately some people enjoy those buckets of putrid garbage McCain is throwing out there. Never had anything, that is all they know, so they relish in McCain’s putrid garbage. The man himself is beginning to look like a garbage can with little arms. I wonder why McCain waited until he was 64 to run for president?? Since he got beaten by GWB, he is now running again hoping to win the presidency before he keels over. The guy has NOTHING to offer this country, the only thing that would change is the man in the oval office; McCain does not want to change things….he is merely telling people what they want to hear, he will not follow through on his false promises, he won’t have to once he gets what he wants!! And he WON’T. Have you folks noticed that even McCain’s silly laugh has an evilness to it these days?? I am serious. You suppose the Devil does not like God getting all the attention, what with McCain MOCKING God, Jesus Christ (The Messiah), and Moses, the devil has to be really jealous so maybe he is now in McCain running the show. You suppose?? Seriously, you know, Jesus lives within our souls, I am sure the devil lives in some people’s souls as well, those who sell their souls to the devil which is what McCain has surely done!!

Posted by: NinaK | August 3, 2008, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm

Senator Obama is doing fine, he is ahead of McCain in all polls. McCain thinks he is being “cute” (isn’t that what little children think when they do something different, they think it is “cute”?) with his Ads. I think he is digging deep and trying to hit Senator Obama on his PERSONAL STRENGTHS. McCain KNOWS he would have NEVER drawn 200,000+ people to hear him speak and to hear him; he KNOWS he would have looked like grandpa standing or sitting next to the world leaders, he KNOWS are world leaders are not impressed with him and HIS speeches. McCain KNOWS he is too old to lead the country, but he wants to fulfill a coveted dream he’s had forever—be president at any cost to the country and its people. With McCain reviling and mocking God, Jesus, and Moses, for his OWN interests, you KNOW he is not only desperate, he is downright EVIL!! Think about it!!

Posted by: NinaK | August 3, 2008, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm

Senator Obama is doing fine, he is ahead of McCain in all polls. McCain thinks he is being “cute” (isn’t that what little children think when they do something different, they think it is “cute”?) with his Ads. I think he is digging deep and trying to hit Senator Obama on his PERSONAL STRENGTHS. McCain KNOWS he would have NEVER drawn 200,000+ people to hear him speak and to see him; he KNOWS he would have looked like great grandpa standing or sitting next to the world leaders, he KNOWS the world leaders are not impressed with him and HIS speeches. McCain KNOWS he is too old to lead the country, but he wants to fulfill a long-held dream—to be president at any cost to the country and its people. With McCain reviling and mocking God, Jesus, and Moses, for his OWN interests, you KNOW he is not only desperate, he is downright EVIL!! Think about it!! Fellow Christians, we MUST NOT REWARD McCain for his shallowness and blatant desecration of God, Jesus Christ, and Moses, the man chosen by God to lead the Israelites from bondage and across the red sea. By doing this, the man has sold his soul to the devil!!

Posted by: NinaK | August 3, 2008, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm

As citizens who care about this country, we now have to do our own research around, rather than with, our media.
McCain did indeed put Obama’s face on a bill in a web ad. And then he ‘blew up’ the image. As in explosion.
Crooks and Liars is noting that McCain played the race card from the bottom of the deck first with this web ad depicting Obama on a dollar bill.
This was the ad Obama was referring to earlier this week.
Yet Disney News wants to claim Obama is playing the ‘race card,’ And Since Disney News will never admit they are wrong, here’s the link if they dare print this comment.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/01/mccain-ad-did-make-fun-of-obamas-appearance/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shaw/reading-the-pictures-emdo_b_116451.html
McCain is having fun playing us all for fools.
Posted by: kravitz
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Kravitz, thank you! I had not seen this McCain Ad. Senator Obama did NOT bring up the race card, he was RESPONDING to this Ad. You know what bothers me most about this Ad? Is McCain stating he is going to blow up Obama?? I am serious, this is what immediately came to mind!! The old man is crazy enough….you know how “KILLING” seems to be uppermost in his mind. FBI should ask McCain just what in the hell is he saying!!! That’s it, McCain is the most deplorable person who has EVER RUN for president!!

Posted by: NinaK | August 3, 2008, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

McCain needs to change the logo on his chartered plane and his bus as well! “The Straight Talk Express” is no longer applicable! It must be changed to “THE EVIL MCCANE EXPRESS”
Why was this not shown all over the world?? Why?? Is this one of those things that was hidden by NBC??

Posted by: NinaK | August 3, 2008, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm

The swing vote in this election will not be Latinos, Independents, or any religious group.
The swing vote will be the Hillary supporters.
They know their candidate has one last shot…in 2012. And they know she can only run in four years if John McCain wins THIS election. He is only going to serve one term, he said.
So they are balancing their options. Do they stay loyal to the Party and vote Obama, or stick with her for the next election?
Thank you Ludacris, for pushing them to John McCain. After what you…Obama’s main iPod man…said about her, the swing vote has swung.
That little rapper’s song will be seen as the turning point in this election. Mark my words.
We Hillary supporters have spoken!
Congrats President McCain.
Posted by: Ludacris
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I am so sick and tired of those Hilliary supporters who think of her as some kind of Roman Goddess and insist she is the best candidate. Haven’t you heard, she is NO longer a candidate. The primary is OVER. Go vote for McCain if that is what turns you on. He is 180 degrees different in policies from Hilliary. So, what you and others like you are saying is: WE DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE ISSUES OR POLICIES, ALL WE CARE ABOUT IS HILLARY WINNING AND IF SHE DOESN’T WIN, WE ARE VOTING FOR MCCAIN OUT OF SPITE!! WE ARE THE TRUE DEMOCRATS!! You are not democrats at all, you are ONLY Hilliary fans, and the ONLY reason you are her fans is because she is a woman, nothing more. The Policies and issues are what count the most. Too bad you have your noses up Hilliary’s rear you cannot see past that!!

Posted by: NinaK | August 3, 2008, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm

Just how in the world can Obama play the race card? He is 50% black, 50% white. If he states he is black he is telling the truth–it is not a lie, it is not baiting, it is the TRUTH! We call ALL see his is African American, probably in the truest sense of the name. His father was from Kenya, AFRICA, and his mom was a young American White woman from Kansas, USA.
McCain has talked about OLD AGE, so does that make it okay for his candidate to refer to him as a senile old man?? Or that he is delusional due to the onset of dementia?? That McCain cannot stay on track because of his dementia?? Fair is Fair, isn’t it??
Senator Obama will keep to the high road, so do not expect him to criticize McCain for his old age.
McCain, just what is wrong with being African American?? These people are every bit as human as you are and Senator Obama is 100 times the man You are. Obama has values, you have none!
Obama has integrity, you have none! Senator Obama is loyal to his wife and family, you were not; Senator Obama praises God and Jesus Christ, you do not, you revile and mock God and Jesus Christ to mock Senator Obama; Senator Obama is in touch with all people, you are NOT, Senator Obama is the one to lead the country in this new century and new generations, you are NOT. Senator Obama is young, energetic, intelligent, intellectual, and smart, and bright, you are NOT; Senator Obama stays above the fray and keeps to the high road, you do NOT! Senator Obama has vision, you do NOT! Senator Obama has good judgement, you do NOT. Senator Obama has superb leadership skills, you do NOT. Senator Obama has gifted oratory skills, you do NOT. Senator Obama delivers awesome speeches, you do NOT. Senator Obama draws crowds of 175,000, 200,000, you do NOT. People from all over go to hear and see Senator Obama, they do NOT do the same for you! John McCain, you are jealous, nasty, resentful, and bitter old man because your youth left you a LONG TIME AGO amd all that is left is a jealous, nasty, resentful, and bitter old man!!

Posted by: NinaK | August 3, 2008, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm

Just how in the world can Obama play the race card? He is 50% black, 50% white. If he states he is black he is telling the truth–it is not a lie, it is not baiting, it is the TRUTH! We call ALL see his is African American, probably in the truest sense of the name. His father was from Kenya, AFRICA, and his mom was a young American White woman from Kansas, USA.
McCain has talked about OLD AGE, so does that make it okay for his opponent to refer to him as a senile old man?? Or that he is delusional due to the onset of dementia?? That McCain cannot stay on track because of his dementia?? Fair is Fair, isn’t it??
Senator Obama will keep to the high road, so do not expect him to criticize McCain for his old age.
McCain, just what is wrong with being African American?? These people are every bit as human as you are and Senator Obama is 100 times the man You are. Obama has values, you have none!
Obama has integrity, you have none! Senator Obama is loyal to his wife and family, you were not; Senator Obama praises God and Jesus Christ, you do not, you revile and mock God and Jesus Christ to mock Senator Obama; Senator Obama is in touch with all people, you are NOT, Senator Obama is the one to lead the country in this new century and new generations, you are NOT. Senator Obama is young, energetic, intelligent, intellectual, and smart, and bright, you are NOT; Senator Obama stays above the fray and keeps to the high road, you do NOT! Senator Obama has vision, you do NOT! Senator Obama has good judgement, you do NOT. Senator Obama has superb leadership skills, you do NOT. Senator Obama has gifted oratory skills, you do NOT. Senator Obama delivers awesome speeches, you do NOT. Senator Obama draws crowds of 175,000, 200,000, you do NOT. People from all over go to hear and see Senator Obama, they do NOT do the same for you! John McCain, you are jealous, nasty, resentful, and bitter old man because your youth left you a LONG TIME AGO amd all that is left is a jealous, nasty, resentful, and bitter old man!!

Posted by: NinaK | August 3, 2008, 6:52 pm 6:52 pm

Obama’s underhanded use of the race card against Hillary got him through the primaries full of liberals. But the broader electorate has seen this gutter politics played against anything and everything before (Republicans, racial preferences, welfare reform, immigration enforcement, etc.) and is inured to it. If everything is racist, then nothing is racist. Obama has been nominated based on the color of his skin and ability to read a teleprompter and has nothing else to offer America.
Posted by: Wildcats8833
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Why do some of you Hilliary supporters persist in telling lies?? It is now recorded history that it was the Clintons that played the race card! First by Hilliary in minimizing Dr. King’s work in Civil Rights by saying “it took a president to make it happen”. The Black leaders and community did NOT appreciate this and let it be known. Senator Obama did not get involved i this. Then shortly thereafter, Bill Clinton made racial slurs in an effort to minimize Senator Obama. Then Hilliary and Bill tried to blame it all on Senator Obama when in fact he had kept quiet about it. It was when the Clintons accused HIM of playing the race card that he spoke up and said it was not so. It was about this time that Bill was out there acting like a rabid pittbull with a bad case of diarrhea of the mouth! So, please quit believing something that is NOT true!! Quit twisting the truth to fit your own bigotry. The entire world KNOWS the TRUTH!! You can twist and spin the truth all you want, you cannot change it!

Posted by: NinaK | August 3, 2008, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm

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