The 2008 Presidential Campaign...the final racial gambit...these are the continuing meanderings of the starship messiah, mission to fool the American people into voting for an empty suit strictly because he is black.....
"Shields up, Ensign Axelrod, warranted criticism coming my way that I must deflect with racial innuendo...."
"Yessir, Captain Hussein, let me write a speech deflecting logical arguments to Republican Racism..."
"Officer thinking, Axelrod..."
Yep, Obama is already playing the race card....again...still...whatever....
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama said on Friday he expects Republicans to highlight the fact that he is black as part of an effort to make voters afraid of him.
“It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy,” Obama told a fundraiser in Jacksonville, Florida. “We know what kind of campaign they’re going to run. They’re going to try to make you afraid.
“They’re going to try to make you afraid of me. He’s young and inexperienced and he’s got a funny name. And did I mention he’s black?”
He said he was also set for Republicans to say “he’s got a feisty wife,” in trying to attack his wife Michelle.
For someone who does not want to make this about racej, who transcends it, Barry seems to be injecting it whenever he can...as Protein Wisdom points out:
He made similar comments to his fatcat San Francisco donors in conjunction with his claim that people in small-towns in flyover country are bitter and cling to their God and their Guns for economic reasons.
One might have hoped that locking down the delegates necessary to secure the Democratic presidential nomination might have resulted in some personal growth. Instead, he is still nursing a grudge over all of the slights he thinks he received from Hillary Clinton and her supporters and remaking the Presidential seal in his campaign’s image, while thinking everyone is too stupid to notice.
But instead of stepping up to the gravity of his own historic achievement, it appears that Obama Barry O is going to stick with his gameplan of making any mention of his threadbare resume (and equally threadbare public accomplishments) or even his name grist for his mill of racial grievance.
Make no mistake: the man who admits he looks like Urkel is sounding about as post-racial as the Rev. Al Sharpton. Or about as post-racial as someone who spent the last 20 years under the spiritual tutelage of the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Fr. Michael Pfleger. Someone with that background ought to have some humility when it comes to dealing the race card, but he has chosen it as his opening gambit. If John McCain and the GOP allows someone who increasingly sounds like someone struggling to suppress his own prejudice to frame the general election in this manner, they will deserve to lose the election even more than they already do.
We have got to call him on his. We cannot allow him to continue to try to frame any argument against him, his judgement, or his policies as racism....and we have to increasingly start asking questions about his motivations....Whatever happened to wanting to be president of all Americans?
Well, I can tell you...this doesn't play well to me, and I don't think it plays well to flyover country, either....
Let's check some reax:
This is just pathetic . . . . Most people couldn't care less about your name and your color, Senator Obama. They fear being led by you because you have no substantive legislative record, you're a chronic liar and, after explicitly stating that you choose your friends carefully, you have repeatedly and systematically made friends with people who hate this country.
You would "bridge the divide," Senator, by burning that bridge.
Ahh, but obviously Juliette didn't get the memo about we can't look at hs judgement....
But, as Sister Toldjah points out, as cited by Julie, it hasn't been the Right who have focused on Barack being black....
