<p>I believe that Judith Miller’s “reporting” on Dick Cheney’s Iraq invasion intelligence marked the end of whatever credibility the NY Times may have once had.</p>
<p>Here is the “blog” post that has the McCain camp so upset. Just more truth-telling to a campaign that is increasingly relying on direct lies (such as the invented claim that Obama wants to tax electricity):
[Say</a> What? John McCain, Barack Obama, and the Race Card - The Board - Editorials - Opinion - New York Times Blog](<a href=“http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/say-what-john-mccain-barack-obama-and-the-race-card/]Say”>http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/say-what-john-mccain-barack-obama-and-the-race-card/)</p>
<p>And here is how it all looks to another columnist (Washington Post):
[RealClearPolitics</a> - Articles - So Much for St. John](<a href=“http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/08/mccain_tries_to_make_popularit.html]RealClearPolitics”>So Much for St. John | RealClearPolitics)</p>
<p>I consider them as opinion news when I read anything written by one of their “journalists”. I don’t take them serious anymore.</p>
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<p>Where can I get the koolaid? I am yet to drink some. I don’t agree with McCain on almost all social issues, I am pro-choice, for gay marriage, for gay adoption, etc.</p>
<p>But you take the t.v. pundits seriously? I mean… I don’t see how anyone in their right mind could listen to what Obama actually said and claim that he was playing “the race card” or complaining of racial victimization in any way. He certainly did not use the word “African American” or “black”, nor did he say anything about “racism” or “race prejudice”. So you have to read a whole lot into his comments in order to leap to the conclusion that he’s bringing up race. </p>
<p>But my point isn’t that the NY Times is speaking the truth (which I believe it was). My point is that the issue of race was RAISED by the NY Times and NOT by Obama – and I think its pretty clear that the mock outrage by the McCain campaign was probably far more directed at what was coming from them from a NY Times post that was being read by millions of people than some offhand remark Obama had made along the campaign trail. Even if you disagree with the NY Times piece you can’t deny the timeline, nor the fact that THEY (not Obama) are the ones who branded the “celeb” ad as racist.</p>
<p>Calmom, I don’t believe the pundits, they don’t know anything. </p>
<p>What do you think he was referring to when he said he was different from those on the dollar bills?
How do we know that McCain will be making race an issue?
The McCain camp has not talked about Obama’s race (I know some members of the GOP have made it an issue), so why lump McCain with all the other groups?</p>
<p>The racist branding was started by the left-wing blogs, and it was picked up by the Times.</p>
<p>He was referring to ALL the ways he is different, including his youth as well as the <em>fact</em> the he is dark-skinned, and he was also referring to the McCain campaign’s scare tactics.</p>
<p>The only way you can see the comment, in context, as bringing up “race” is if YOU yourself inject race into it. That is, he says, “I’m different” – and the “difference” YOU see is race. </p>
<p>My personal opinion: I ALSO think that the big issue being made about “inexperience” and “arrogance” have racial undertones. I’m old enough to remember use of the word “uppity” and the phrase “knowing one’s place” and it seems to me that the same sentiments are being expressed with new words. </p>
<p>Maybe some people who are so quick to cry about the so-called “race card” should be doing some introspection and asking themselves why they are so quick to buy into the various accusations against Obama on so little evidence.</p>
<p>Comments from Dan Balz of the Washington Post:</p>
<p>*Four things are already clear from the controversy. First, Obama campaign officials, lacking any example of McCain ever pointing directly or indirectly at Obama’s race as an issue in the campaign, have backpedaled rapidly away from any suggestion that their Republican opponent is using the very tactics Obama suggested on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Campaign manager David Plouffe was pressed hard during a conference call on Thursday for examples and could not point to any. An inquiry to the Obama campaign later in the day produced no immediate response and later no answer to a direct question asking for evidence to buttress Obama’s suggestion that McCain would try to scare people into not voting for Obama because he’s black.*</p>
<p>See: [Race</a> Card Charges and Campaign Discord Mark Dog Days of Summer | The Trail | washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/01/race_card_charges_and_campaign.html?hpid=artslot]Race”>http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/01/race_card_charges_and_campaign.html?hpid=artslot)</p>
<p>Whatever. I think it was a good political move by who ever said the negative first. Takes the issue off the table so that the other party could not and now can not use this issue. </p>
<p>I the moment I think the last two whitey’s have done a pretty good job in this Office. Don’t you think? :)</p>
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<p>Quit playing the “playing the race card” card. </p>
<p>The McCain camp is injecting race into this race. Would anyone have been talking about race had it not been for Rick Davis’ comment? No.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Davis quoted Robert Shapiro, OJ Simpsons’ defense attorney, in his statement. They want to distract and divide people.</p>
<p>This is all just a matter of clumsy phrasing on Obama’s part, and McCain is so desperate to win that he’s willing to throw his moral compass and character out the window and put himself and his ambitions to become president ahead of what is in the interest of America that he took advantage of it. The country should be having a substantive debate on which direction to take over the next four years not Obama’s dietary habits.</p>
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<p>It’s just so mean that people hold The One, Barack Hussein Obama, up to scrutiny like that. If his campaign doesn’t want to backpedal from his clumsy language, maybe they should give him his teleprompter at press conferences.</p>
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<p>Yes, NewJack you are correct it was clumsy, I agree (I mean that honestly), however, I find it interesting if McCain is clumsy he is senile according to you. How is it your candidate is clumsy and the other is senile!</p>
<p>Be real these candidates are on the road non-stop McCain will falter and so will Obama…what is good for the goose is good for the gander…you can’t pick and choose!</p>
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<p>Hey genius, Obama was at a townhall not a press conference. </p>
<p>Also, do any politicians use teleprompters at press conferences? How would that even possible?</p>
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<p>McCain would be the oldest president to be elected for a first term. I think his age is relevant in certain circumstances.</p>
<p>Just wondering, everyone always suggests McCain will live a long time just because his mom is old, what about his dad? How old is he?</p>
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<p>This one is pretty funny though:</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Mc Caine in Hot Water with babies](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_MrwkyGe1w&feature=related]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_MrwkyGe1w&feature=related)</p>
<p>Watch the response video. It is a classic.</p>
<p>Also, McCain struggles with teleprompter:</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - TPMtv: McCain Leaves Fox Speechless](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aMDJP4VxY4]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aMDJP4VxY4)</p>
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<p>This is when McCain straighted painting Obama as “risky.” He even said Obama is the “wrong kind of change.”</p>
<p>ad hominem attack</p>
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<p>You are joking…right?</p>
<p>Of course they have teleprompters…have you never seen that clear screen?
They come out and give their little speech from the prompter and then go into the Q & A.</p>
<p>Hate to tell you Newjack, Obama is infamous for not taking Q & A from the media, this has been an issue since Wright. Whereas, your arch enemy is known to spend too much time taking Q & A…such a big deal when Obama went back in the jet to talk to the media it made Drudge, Huffington and Politico!</p>
<p>Newjack…did you think Jackie Kennedy thought she would be a widow at the ripe old age of 44! </p>
<p>JFK died at what age? 46?</p>
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<p>I was thinking about the ones that are more on the Q&A side. Also, Obama has too been taking questions from the media. In fact McCain criticized him for taking questions with Sarkozy in France.</p>
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<p>He was murdered though. Do you think the same thing would happen to Obama if he were president?</p>
<p>I would surely hope not!</p>
<p>President Harding died at 57 of a heart attack, while Reagan in 1984 ran the electoral board at age 73 (only lost Minn. and DC)</p>
<p>So go for the age thing! BTW what about FDR running a country as a paraplegic, which everyone knows is more suspectible to infections than a 71 yr old…would you not say he was one of the best presidents ever? Would you also not say his health was an issue, you must admit a paraplegic at the age of 61 in 1940 is not the same as an able bodied man in 2008! FDR was elected in as a polio victim in 1941 at the age of 61.</p>
<p>IMHO I believe health care is much better now, as a woman we now have 95% remission rate for breast cancer compared to 95% death rate in 1941!</p>
<p>bulletandprima:</p>
<p>I was kidding. I know you wouldn’t hope for that. I was playing the “do you think Obama’s going to get shot because he’s black” card. In case you didn’t know there is a card for everything nowadays. :P</p>