The "Race Card" Card
Well, it finally happened: As ABC news reports, The McCain campaign is using the "Race Card" Card. That is, they're accusing Barack Obama of using the "Race Card" to his benefit, which itself has become a cliché political move, for saying this:
"Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," Obama said. "You know, he's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name, you know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
As the article pointed out, McCain has personally vowed not to use race as a factor in the campaign, and has, gone to great lengths to stop his supporters from doing so. But apparently, he hasn't vowed that he won't use the "Race Card" Card.
But the truth of Obama's statement is demonstrated by fact that McCain has had to disavow supporters who have used race as an issue, as in North Carolina and with his campaign's crowd warmer who kept repeating Obama's full name, emphasizing his middle name, Hussein. Republicans/Conservatives HAVE tried to use Obama's race as a way to turn voters away from him, and hopefully toward McCain. Since Obama was only speaking the truth, he was not using the "Race Card."
"To make an observation about oneself, about one's race, it's not necessarily creating an unfair advantage," [Virginia] Clarke said, adding that McCain's accusation "seems like a cheap shot, seems like pandering."
Today, McCain appeared before the National Urban League, and while one article claims that Urban League participants didn't ask McCain about the controversy, this blog which also includes interviews with attendees like Virginia Clarke, quoted above, after McCain's talk, says McCain's attack did not play well.
Both articles are describing the same set of people. The reason McCain was not asked about the Race Card issue was aptly put by one attendee:
"We've got five hundred thousand people without jobs. We've got two million foreclosures," said [Bruce] Williams, a Democrat who supports Obama. "Game time's over. It's time to get real."
Here's an interesting take on how the "Race Card" Card is being used.
If that interpretation is correct, the best thing we can do about the Race Card debate is to stop talking about it. Hmmm, should I delete this post?
I said it was going to get ugly, and neither candidate has even been nominated yet!
"Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me," Obama said. "You know, he's not patriotic enough, he's got a funny name, you know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."
As the article pointed out, McCain has personally vowed not to use race as a factor in the campaign, and has, gone to great lengths to stop his supporters from doing so. But apparently, he hasn't vowed that he won't use the "Race Card" Card.
But the truth of Obama's statement is demonstrated by fact that McCain has had to disavow supporters who have used race as an issue, as in North Carolina and with his campaign's crowd warmer who kept repeating Obama's full name, emphasizing his middle name, Hussein. Republicans/Conservatives HAVE tried to use Obama's race as a way to turn voters away from him, and hopefully toward McCain. Since Obama was only speaking the truth, he was not using the "Race Card."
"To make an observation about oneself, about one's race, it's not necessarily creating an unfair advantage," [Virginia] Clarke said, adding that McCain's accusation "seems like a cheap shot, seems like pandering."
Today, McCain appeared before the National Urban League, and while one article claims that Urban League participants didn't ask McCain about the controversy, this blog which also includes interviews with attendees like Virginia Clarke, quoted above, after McCain's talk, says McCain's attack did not play well.
Both articles are describing the same set of people. The reason McCain was not asked about the Race Card issue was aptly put by one attendee:
"We've got five hundred thousand people without jobs. We've got two million foreclosures," said [Bruce] Williams, a Democrat who supports Obama. "Game time's over. It's time to get real."
Here's an interesting take on how the "Race Card" Card is being used.
If that interpretation is correct, the best thing we can do about the Race Card debate is to stop talking about it. Hmmm, should I delete this post?
I said it was going to get ugly, and neither candidate has even been nominated yet!