<p>Wow. This is pretty low.</p>
<p>Obama’s joke:</p>
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<p>Rick Davis in response to Obama:</p>
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<p>Robert Shapiro (he defended OJ Simpson):</p>
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<p>Regardless of whether or not you think Obama is or isn’t “playing the race card,” this sort of politics is unacceptable. It is totally unneccessary and unacceptable to bring the OJ Simpson trial into politics especially now when the country is fighting two wars and in an economic and energy crisis.</p>
<p>This is all before the South Carolina’s primary</p>
<p>Let us examine what Hillary said:</p>
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<p>This is what Obama siad:</p>
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<p>Did her comment diminish King’s role in bringing about the Civil Rights Acts? </p>
<p>The Obama Campaign sent Donna Brazile, Jesse Jackson Jr, Jim Clyburn, and his media choir to do the racist branding for them. Bill Clinton has helped raise money to fund HIV outreach programs in New York for poor income neighborhoods (which will benefit poor Blacks) is all of a sudden a racist. </p>
<p>Any criticism of Obama was considered racist by his media choir. At some point, any White person who voted for Hillary was branded a racist. </p>
<p>There is nothing innocent about Obama’s comments, he knew exactly what he was doing. He was trying to use the same strategy that he used in the the primaries, but this time around the other party was more aggressive to push back before it got out of control. </p>
<p>Good for McCain for bringing a sledgehammer to a knife fight. If they had not addressed this issue now, it would have hampered them the whole election cycle; any criticism they would have leveled at Obama about his bad policies would have been interpreted by his media choir as racist (with the help of the Obama campaign).</p>
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<p>The dollar bill part of the comment is playing the race card, what else could he be talking about, that he doesn’t wear a wig or have long side burns?</p>
<p>But it’s true. There ARE people who won’t vote for him either because he’s black, or because they believe he’s muslim. And it’s true that SOME republican’s are using that fear to get people not to vote for him. So why is it racist of him to point out the obvious?</p>
<p>Let the republicans get down in the dirt, but I think Obama is wrong in responding and than saying that’s not what he meant about the dollar bill…I am still trying to find a different meaning…it was disengious to say that.</p>
<p>I would treat the racial statements like I treated my kids when they were little and having a temper tantrum…just ignore them…after awhile my kids realized I would never acknowledge them while they were kicking and screaming.</p>
<p>But what about the Black people who wont vote for McCain?</p>
<p>[Race</a> Re-Enters the Spotlight As Candidates Turn Negative - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121751166651600765.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_topbox]Race”>http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121751166651600765.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_topbox)</p>
<p>This is going to be a disgusting fall election cycle…I just wish it was over already!</p>
<p>It really bugs me when Obama says things like, “They’re gonna try to make you afraid of me”, or “* They’re* gonna say he’s risky”, or They’re gonna say he has a funny name", or They’re gonna say, By the way, he’s black".</p>
<p>Who’s gonna say that? Who has said that? I don’t hear the McCain people saying anything of the sort. It’s really underhanded to stir up indignation about something you project someone is going to do. The nature of the comments is fear-mongering & divisive in the worst way.</p>
<p>Obama says he doesn’t race to be an issue - then why does he keep bringing it up?</p>
<p>Kinda smacks of desperation, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>Several different media outlets and pollsters this morning was discussing this fact. Most have stated that it was the worse thing for Obama to invoke the fear image. He should have chosen his words wiser. I am not positive, but I believe that quote came after remarking about McCains ad and said is that all you’ve got? Then went into the fear isuue.</p>
<p>I don’t think it is desperatiion, but I think it is out of frustration. The media/pollsters are bringing up the issue that he can pack a stadium and McCain does not have the rock star appeal, but Obama can’t seem to get passed the 50% marker. They had expected by this time Hillary supporters would have banned together and his % would have double digits over McCain.
Obama needs to ? why he has the same % after a long drawn out campaign that he had back in Feb. This was the time that pollsters were saying people didn’t know him…if you don’t know Obama now you never will</p>
<p>I think the “big trip” hurt him - why did he have to make it such a sensation? He could’ve quietly gone over w/ his Senate staff (not campaign staff), visited Iraq & Afghanistan, talked to the military, visited the troops w/ no fanfare - Just fact-finding. What’s with all the speeches in Foreign Countries? He didn’t have to do that & for some Americans, it could’ve been a turn-off.</p>
<p>This is so funny. Obviously Obama is dark skinned. However just what defines Race? Skin color alone? Degree of skin coloration? Shape of Eyes or nose or mouth or hair? Heritage? So Obama is of mixed colorage (mother mostly white, and father mostly dark) which makes him, Black?</p>
<p>There is a young chinese student girl working for a friend.
Your mind’s eye sees a certain stereotype.
She very pretty and curvatious, Hint of tannish skin. Beautiful long hair.
She is from the far western part of China. Is she white or asian?</p>
<p>Room for coffee?</p>
<p>This is so stupid. I don’t think most people especially non-minorities understand what the race card is. One time one of my white friends tried to convince me that discrimination no longer existed and I asked him how could he know that since he’s not even a minority and he said that was playing the race card.</p>
<p>Obama is not playing the race card. Playing the race card would be saying that if you don’t vote for Obama you’re automatically a racist.</p>
<p>Lastly, if anyone thinks people haven’t been trying to use race against him, go look up the Obama monkey stuffed animal.</p>
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<p>I hope you aren’t serious. Are you unaware of the fact that African Americans have voted for white candidates in every election since they could vote.</p>
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<p>Yes, she did diminish King’s role. King is the one with the holiday not Johnson and there’s a reason for that. How is this similar to what is going on right now?</p>
<p>Anyway, I think it is over for Obama. 
McCain though has demonstrated he will do anything to become president.</p>
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<p>Why do you say that, NJ?</p>
<p>Surely you’re not throwing in the towel already!</p>
<p>The idea of “playing the race card” has now changed, and I think the change is dishonorable. It used to be that “playing the race card” meant decrying race as an unfair disadvantage in a contest where race in fact has no role at all. During the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, for example, Thomas was hammered relentlessly so that his confirmation was in doubt. His accuser was black, so the idea that his assault was based on race was ridiculous. Yet he reached beneath the deck, slipped out the race card, and it ultimately helped him win the contest. That is not what has happened in Obama’s situation. His assaults are real and they have been intensifying since the primaries. Hillary and Bill stealth bombed Obama with it, softening him up so that now the right-wingers can finished the job. They have so viciously attacked him here that he has spent an enormous amount of time, money and effort just to fend them off, effort that no white candidate has had to make. The attacks have hammered his race and religion constantly, and have even included calling him a monkey.</p>
<p>[Bad</a> Ideas: The ‘Racist’ Barack Obama Monkey Puppet](<a href=“http://gawker.com/tag/bad-ideas/?i=5016520&t=the-racist-barack-obama-monkey-puppet]Bad”>http://gawker.com/tag/bad-ideas/?i=5016520&t=the-racist-barack-obama-monkey-puppet)
[Restaurant</a> Owner Under Fire For Obama Monkey Shirts - News Story - KNTV | San Francisco](<a href=“News – NBC Bay Area”>News – NBC Bay Area)</p>
<p>One merely needs Google the terms “Rose garden” and “watermelon patch”, two terms that seem completely innocuous, to see the persistent and widespread racist assault that Obama endures from McCain supporters simply because of his race. This is undoubtedly the “they” Obama has in mind when he talks about the attacks “they” will attempt against him. “They” have already tried it, and still are trying it. It was so obvious to me that even as far back as [January</a> I said it would happen]( <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1059720925-post405.html]January”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1059720925-post405.html).</p>
<p>How is Obama to combat this, if not by mentioning it? What we are asking him to do here is unreasonable. We demand that he endure the racist fear-mongering, and not say a word about it, while McCain supporters increase their racist assaults. Should he mention the assaults to try disarming them, he is accused of “playing the race card” when in fact he does nothing of the sort. Race is actually being used against him here, openly, unapologetically, and McCain benefits of it. Because McCain supporters are so vigorous with their racist attacks, and because the attacks are so widespread, McCain himself merely needs mention them marginally for them to have an unusually potent effect.</p>
<p>*"In a year when polls show an easy victory for a generic Democratic candidate, McCain has until now been loath to employ the tack many strategists see as essential and which anonymous e-mailers and commenters with no apparent links to his campaign have been practicing since last summer: hitting Obama not on his record or his platform, but on his values and person. </p>
<p>[The</a> Democrat’s Achilles’ heel in this model is an inchoate sense among some voters that the new arrival on the national stage with the unusual biography — who’s the first black nominee from either party — isn’t American enough.](<a href="McCain takes aim at Obama’s character - POLITICO;
<p>We wonder why Obama’s polling numbers are not higher. But I think many of us are simply being dishonest, covering our eyes and ears while a pink, blue spotted elephant runs around defecating among us, and trumpeting “It’s his race, stupid!”.</p>
<p>Newjack88, I think we have to agree to disagree on this issue. </p>
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<p>And Obama wont do anything to become the president?</p>
<p>I’m no fan of John McCain, and I would never vote for him, but I cannot see how the quote in the OP has invoked the Simpson trial. There may be more that was written about it, in addition to the quoted passages, but, come on, do you honestly think that Robert Shapiro coined the phrase about playing the card from the bottom of the deck? And do you honestly think that Rick Davis was thinking of a murderer when he made his comment?</p>
<p>Obama playing the race card? What else is new?</p>
<p>He raised his family in a church that preaches Black Liberation Theology. Hard to get much more “race card” than his spiritual mentor, Rev. Wright. He campaigns with anti-white racist code language from Spike Lee’s portrayal of Malcolm X.</p>
<p>I, personally, decided that I could never vote him when he disgustingly played the race card after his New Hampshire primary loss, sending his campaign co-chair on national TV to accuse Sen. Clinton of not caring about Katrina victims. Truly despicable.</p>
<p>If you look at what Obama says, in describing his grandmother and the voters of Kentucky and Ohio and the undefined “they” he continually references, he has a long history of making accusations of racism. But, somehow he and his media sychophants are shocked that those he accuses of racism won’t vote for him.</p>
<p>“Obama Camp Admits Playing Race Card”</p>
<p>[ABC</a> News: Obama Camp Admits Playing Race Card](<a href=“Obama Aide Concedes 'Dollar Bill' Remark Referred to His Race - ABC News”>Obama Aide Concedes 'Dollar Bill' Remark Referred to His Race - ABC News)</p>
<p>While there may be no denying that there are in fact racists in this country (both dems & repubs) who won’t vote for Obama b/c of race, there are plenty of people who WILL vote for him based on race. Are there more who “will” or more who “won’t”? (I’m guessing more who “will”).</p>
<p>I still have an issue w/ Obama claiming that those who “won’t” vote for him based on race would engage in so many “scare tactics” that it becomes a dominant issue in the campaign. </p>
<p>And I firmly believe that those who would “try to make you scared of him, etc.” are not part of the McCain “campaign”. **I don’t think McCain should be accused of “playing the race card” **- in fact, it appears that neither he nor his “campaign” have even brought up the subject.</p>
<p>Today’s Gallup tracking poll showing the election to be tied (a drop of nine points in the last week for the Democrat) explains why the Democratic candidate played the race card this week. He played it after every primary loss, blaming racist voters for his failures. So it comes as no surprise that he is playing it after a nine-point plunge in the polling.</p>
<p>The McCain campaign watched the Democratic candidate play the race card throughout the primary and is having none of it. Here’s what McCain aide, Steve Schmidt, told The Politico yesterday:</p>
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<p>[Race</a> issue moves to center of campaign - Jonathan Martin and Ben Smith - Politico.com](<a href=“http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/12224.html]Race”>Race issue moves to center of campaign - POLITICO)</p>