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Jul 08In McCain’s defense, he considers anyone under 50 a boy.
Sen. John McCain accused Obama of playing the race card today. After Obama told voters in Springfield that “they” were trying to make voters scared of him, and that he “doesn’t look like all those other Presidents on those dollar bills,” McCain’s manager claimed that “Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck. It’s divisive, negative, shameful and wrong.”
Whether or not Obama was trying to play on voters’ racial sympathies (he probably was), he was a lot smarter about it than the McCain camp, who are apparently content to play Wile E. Coyote to Obama’s roadrunner. McCain’s flailing isn’t going to make those longstanding claims that his temper makes him unfit for leadership go away, either.
Tangent: My favorite example involves a 2006 incident, after McCain repeatedly called an Arizona Republican Congressman “boy.” Attempting to explain the incident away, strategist Mark Salter pointed out, “There were no punches thrown or anything.” We’re a slim Obama lead away from the cell phone video that breaks YouTube.
Tagged: politics
August 4th, 2008 at 9:30 am
martin. you persist in hating freedom.
the reckoning will come.