The Times Nails McCain

by jsfox, Thu Jul 31, 2008 at 06:25:19 PM EST

Well once upon a time  John McCain was the NYT favorite Republican. Not so much any more. In fact they seem so displeased they didn't wait for tomorrows dead tree edition to get this out from the editorial board.

There was something surreal, and offensive, about today's soundbite from the campaign of Senator John McCain.

The presumptive Republican nominee has embarked on a bare-knuckled barrage of negative advertising aimed at belittling Mr. Obama. The most recent ad compares the presumptive Democratic nominee for president to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton -- suggesting to voters that he's nothing more than a bubble-headed, publicity-seeking celebrity.

The ad gave us an uneasy feeling that the McCain campaign was starting up the same sort of racially tinged attack on Mr. Obama that Republican operatives, some of whom work for Mr. McCain now, ran against Harold Ford, a black candidate for Senate in Tennessee in 2006. That assault, too, began with videos juxtaposing Mr. Ford with young, white women.

And for the money quote:

The phrase dealing the race card "from the bottom of the deck" entered the national lexicon during the O.J. Simpson saga. Robert Shapiro, one of Mr. Simpson's lawyers, famously declared of himself, Johnny Cochran and the rest of the Simpson defense team, "Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck."round

Sometimes it's better to have everybody else deliver the attack than the candidate himself.

Full Article: http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/0 7/31/say-what-john-mccain-barack-obama-a nd-the-race-card/




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Re: The Times Nails McCain (none / 0)

Obama himself needs to confront John McCain directly on this crap.   Say, a two hour debate on just this one ad and the comment of McCain's campaign manager accusing Obama of "playing the race card from the bottom of the deck".

These kinds of reptilian attacks work if they get to stay in the dark of the unconscious fears and hatreds and predjudices.

Obama needs to shed the light of consciousness and intelligence on all the underlying dynamics of these dirty tactics.   Once people see what's being done, most will be disgusted and resent the attempted manipulations.  In other words, when they see what McCain is doing for the EVIL that it is, they won't be able to vote for him in good conscience.

No one can do this for Obama.  He has to do this himself and he has to do it by directly calling out John McCain on a man to man level.

If McCain accepts the challenge; he loses because he's 100% in the wrong on the merits and Obama can kick his ass in any fair debate anyway.   If McCain chickens out in shame and fear; then the Obama campaign needs to RUB THAT FACT IN for the rest of the campaign.

John McCain is an evil scumbag who has sold his soul and whatever decency he had in order to have a shot at the presidency....the man is badly damaged goods.  

BUT, unless Obama is prepared to politically destroy McCain; then McCain will win.   If a Bush can beat a passive Kerry; then McCain can beat a passive Obama.

Obama has to come out swinging and he has to start kicking ass.....or we all lose.


by Nick Lento on Thu Jul 31, 2008 at 09:47:03 PM EST

Obama (none / 0)

needs to not risk coming off as an easily offended Sharpton-esque black guy. He has to fight back, but do it with a smile on his face. I caught The View today and I loved what Whoopi said about "This was beneat McCain." That's where I think Obama should, and feel he is, going with this.

It should be one of those Obama shakes his head; "For shame Senator McCain, you're so much better than this. So many people thought you were a maverick, a different kind of Republican, you're the same,  mean-spirited and heartless. I am not going there with you Senator McCain. I'm going to continue to discuss how to help those who lost their jobs in Michigan find new ones, and helping those suffering from the foreclosure-crisis in Florida get back on their feet...you can keep running disingenious ads comparing me to Britney Spears, I'll be in Missouri talking about bringing our troops home."


The American people; they were for the war before they were against it.
by nrafter530 on Fri Aug 01, 2008 at 01:35:54 AM EST
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