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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Rich Lowry :: Townhall.com Columnist
Obama and the Racism Card
by Rich Lowry
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Jesse Jackson must have been forgiven by the Obama campaign and welcomed into its inner circle. Because it sure seems as if he's giving the campaign advice.

Responding to a McCain ad knocking him as a world celebrity, Barack Obama essentially accused the McCain campaign of race-baiting. It was a hair-trigger resort to the charge of racism of the sort that Jackson built a career on, making himself radioactive and anathema to the political center.

In 24 hours, Obama had lurched his carefully crafted brand in Jackson's direction. And for what?

The McCain ad intersperses footage of Obama's massive political rally in Germany with images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton before asking "is he ready to lead?" It's rare that a political candidate is criticized for being too popular, but that's the import of the ad, and its inclusion of Spears and Hilton has been called even by McCain sympathizers "stupid," "childish" and "juvenile."

But the McCain ad had a serious point, one the Obama campaign obviously felt it couldn't ignore. Obama can be as arrogant, gassy and remote as other members of the country's aristocracy of fame. If this celebrity framework is successfully imposed on Obama, the entire repertoire of Obamania -- the mass rallies, the soaring eloquence, the picturesque cool of the candidate himself -- risks becoming a liability.

In a statement Obama repeated three times, he said what George Bush and John McCain are "going to try to do is make you scared of me. 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 those dollar bills." Translation: Bush and McCain are going to go all Bull Connor on me.

Neither has done any such thing, of course. McCain has distanced himself from attacks with the remotest hint of racial undertones. When a talk-radio host mentioned Obama's middle name several times in the course of an introduction of McCain at a rally, McCain roundly denounced him. When the North Carolina Republican Party ran an -- entirely aboveboard -- ad linking Obama with his longtime pastor Jeremiah Wright, McCain loudly objected. Obama's charge is a flat-out smear. Continued...
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Reply # 1
Date: Aug 2, 2008 - 1:56 PM EST
Ditto KaeSea in Pa
Nobody wants to affix blame on the Social Engineering That The U.S. government has created and the Bureaucratic Fraud that is being carried out now at every level of government. Everybody got on the Pork Band Wagon, and Created The Mess we are Now Stuck With.

If you point out Crime, Drugs, Rapes, Murders in these Slum Areas that Government Policies made Possible with the Destruction of Work Ethic in Favor of Entitlement Programs; Destruction of Family Values by Telling Unwed Pregnant Teens and others that We Keep Your Entitlements if You Marry; Then, if You Tell Who You Suspect is the Daddy of Yo Baby, we Will Hound Him if he Gets a Job and let The State Take Child Support from Him. The Whole Social Engineering and so-called Anti-Poverty Programs Became Their Own Bureaucratic Empires, and Have No Intention of Ending Poverty because if it did, Their Bureaucratic Empire Would Crumble, so they, in Fact Enlist New Victims all the Time and the Band Plays On.

So, you Get South Chicago that was A Creation of The Welfare State, and then, the Saviors, Other Communists such as Obama and Their Fronts such as ACORN to bail you out, etc.

This is not just true in South Chicago. It has existed in Liberal Democrat Cities for a Long Time. Beginning in the Mid-1960's, the Federal Government Forced This Socialism Down The Throats of the Rest of The Country, and Now you Have This Whole Socialistic Nightmare Being Played Out in Small Towns and Communities all over the Country.

And they Destroyed Public Education in the Process, because they know that Informed and Literate Citizens Would Say No To Government.
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Date: Aug 2, 2008 - 1:44 PM EST
Obama--Kinder-Gentler Race Baiter/Hustle
Obama is not held to any Standards by the MSM because the MSM is on the SAME PAGE AS OBAMA, THE DNC AND THE UN AND WORLD COMMUNISM.

It is up to US U.S. Citizens to stay abreast of things and Not Pay One Bit of Attention To Polls or the MSM. The Media Have An Agenda--To get this Stooge Elected. They see it as a Media Event. I am sure they are Producing Specials Now that Read: The U.S. Elects It's First Black President--See How Far We Have Come???

And, If the Media Plan Does Not Work, the MSM is already Producing the Antithesis to this "First Black" Scenario, that probably goes: "America Does Not Elect Obama---Racism Won Out--Americans Proved that Deep Down The U.S. Is Still Racist Because They Would Not Elect Obama."

See, that is why Obama Was The Perfect Candidate for The Media. They Get To Make The News Themselves no matter how it turns out.

But, in the meantime, they keep Reporting Polls That Try and Brainwash Us Into Believing Obama Is Already Going To Win. They Give Us These Poll Numbers in the Hopes That We Non-Obama Voters Stay Home since the MSM News believe that Their Propagand Polls are Working, and we just Throw Our Hands Up and Say, We Surrender, Why Vote.

But we Are Not That Dumb. The MSM, the DNC and others have Misjudged The Sentiments in Mainstream America, the one's of us who Love Our Country, It's Flag, Our God, Our Families, Our Work Ethics and Loyalty to Our Country Generally.

This MSM Candidate, Obama, Scheme has BackFired on them. They will see the Largest Turnout in History for a Landslide Vote For McCain and Against Obama, And The DNC and The One World Government Crowd.
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