For Obama it’s the 61% that matters, too, because the 44% are probably going to vote for him in mass quantities anyway.

But Andrea Mitchell said all the reporters she talked to said they did not think it was racist.

Shows where they all stand

…but you have to wonder how many of the poll respondents were aware that McCain actually made an ad with Obama’s face on currency in June. I think Obama made a mistake in thinking that people were aware of that ad.

And the band played on…

Just because something wins in a poll doesn’t mean it’s right. Here’s what happened…

1. McCain has so far run a campaign centered around the narrative that he is a TRUE American and Obama is…a bit less than American. Other, vaguely foreign. What is that but a race issue…

2. Then, he creates a narrative about how Barack is “uppity,” too big for his breeches. When have we ever heard of a presidential candidate being hammered for being overconfident? Never before. If a white man is confident, he is just self-assured. If a black man is confident, he is “uppity”…

3. Finally, McCain releases an ad juxtaposing Obama with Paris Hilton and B. Spears, young white women with a reputation for sexual scandals. We’ve seen this kind of subtle messaging with black male candidates before – casting them as oversexualized and tapping into racialized fantasies involving black men and white women.

AND, AFTER ALL OF THIS…AFTER ALL OF THIS…When Obama says in a speech that McCain is attacking him because he doesn’t “look like” traditional candidates, McCain starts waving his hands in the hair and screaming “Race Card! Race Card! Race Card!”

Only in America.

If you want to talk about racism all you need to do is reference the speeches and video from the Reverend Wright. Obama has still not explained how he sat in that anti-white, anti-American church for 20 years. Obama is suppose to be this great light worker who transcends all other politicians, politics, and ideas, yet he was not intelligent enough to know the church he attended for 20 years was racist and espoused a black liberation theology that should and did offend the vast majority of Americans. Either this is a very dumb man, which means he is not fit to lead, or he is so naive as to have the intellect of a four year old, which also means he is unfit to lead. If he couldn’t understand the racist rants of his own Reverend and call him out on it how is he ever going to stand up for the American people and the American way with despots around the world?

If William F. Buckley or Milton Friedman or any of the great conservative thinkers saw the infamous Hilton/Spears ad, they would be ashamed. You have to admit that these ads are silly; they make vague, personal attacks and don’t discuss the actual issues at all.

The conservative movement was once the party of ideas, folks. I remember reading Buckley, Friedman, Hayek when I was younger and they all left a profound effect on me. They were all civil people, who whether or not they disagreed with you, always believed in respectful, serious discourse.

McCain has assured that this election is not, however, going to be about ideas. He has assured that it is going to be about “winning the next news cycle,” “spinning” each word out of Obama’s mouth, slandering his character, attacking his integrity. This is not the conservative movement I grew up respecting.

thinkers” you wish to beat us over the head with, Karl, how about this? John F. Kennedy himself would be struck dumb with horror at the candidate that is leading what used to be the party of national defense.

Remember JFK’S own words” Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country?” Obama and the rest of the leadership in your party have twisted that exactly backward. John F. Kennedy couldn’t get nominated in his own party these days, much less elected by them. That’s how far down the tubes you folks have gone.

As to Buckley and Friedman, given your chosen candidate this year, I can’t see that you agreed with them about much of anything.

man switches positions more often than Kerry did, it’s tough to tell what his issues truly are.

As to “big-government politicians”, but parties can be tarred with that brush, unfortunately. Many of us here are federalists, wishing that the size of government would be heading in the opposite direction. And you are wrong that Obama wouldn’t expand the size of the gov. more than President Bush has. He has stated some ideas that would expand it so far beyond what it is now that it is breathtaking–not to mention hideously expensive. How’s about that National Civilian Troop idea that he has proposed?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/soren-dayton/2008/08/03/msnbc-cnn-say-britney-ad-racis-american-people-do-not#comment-675948
And yet we see the press seeing McCain as the racist, again demonstrating the massive gap between the media and the public with the press AGAIN being far to the left of the general public. This should be shoved down their throats too.

David Gergen, former Reagan advisor and current Harvard professor, talking about McCain’s subtle messaging…Watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq7Ig00YsWg&eurl=http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq7Ig00YsWg&eurl=http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

Obama now wants 50 billion dollars to create jobs. But when you look at is plan it is another government stimulus plan to give people money. Why can’t this guy understand if you want to create jobs you lower taxes for businesses so they can invest and create new jobs. Once again, why am I suppose to believe this guy is intelligent?

The problem for Obama is that we’ve seen this movie before. During the Democratic primary, Obama tried to imply that any legitimate criticism of him was racist. It was clearly a way for him to “take issues off the table” that were unflattering to him. Pat Buchanan called it “the intimidation card” in an excellent column that he wrote (linked below).

For instance, Bill Clinton pointed out that Obama was inexperienced by calling him “risky” and a “roll of the dice”. The Obama campaign cried “racism”. Bill Clinton pointed out that Obama had never really been some staunch anti-war advocate (and had never really had a strong position on Iraq one way or another during his time in the US Senate), and that Obama had voted the same way that Hillary had, when he called Obama’s Iraq opposition a “fairy tale”. Again, the Obama campaign cried racism. Hillary pointed out a weakness of Obama’s to the USA Today editorial board when she pointed out that he was weak with the white working class voters, that she was winning over. Predictably, the Obama campaign cried “racism”.

So now, when McCain runs a perfectly legitimate ad that implies that Obama is a vacuous, unaccomplished celebrity (like Paris Hilton), who is simply famous for being Barack Obama, Obama again cries “racism”. Enough!! We’ve seen this movie before and it wasn’t that good the first time. Obama is simply trying to intimidate his opponents into not raising legitimate issues about him (i.e., concerns about his experience, flip-flopping on Iraq, and patriotism), by bullying them with false charges of racism. Well, the problem for Obama is that he has become “the boy who cried race” and we are all, now, wise to his game. The jig is up.

[Pat Buchanan]
(http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26483)

[Fox News]
(http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/21/obama-suggests-gop-will-use-race-to-scare-voters/)

here. A number of you have accused me of being a progressive. Some of you remind me o gang members intimidating the neighborhood.

Is it possible to not be so quick on the trigger to blamstick someone just because their ideas differ from one or two of the blamstickers here?

I mean, can’t we all just get along. (jk)

What is the meaning of “Be Respectful, or be banned.” Does it only apply to a certain few?

“Let it be known that the day I am elected will be the day the oceans stopped rising and the planet began to heal.”

“I’m the one that you have been waiting for…”

We will know what we are in for when he makes his Rose Garden appearance in full Islamic beard with prayer callous on his forehead and demands that we all fall to our knees and worship him.