McCain campaign accuses Obama of playing race card »
Posted By casino2gamble 3 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsDemocratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., applauds as he is introduced at a town hall-style meeting in Rolla, Mo., Wednesday, July 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Klarissa3 months, 2 weeks ago
"Stumping in Missouri, Obama, the first black candidate with a shot at winning the White House, argued Wednesday that President Bush and McCain will resort to scare tactics to maintain their hold on the White House because they have little else to offer voters.
"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.'"
Obama himself didn't make clear what distinctions he thinks McCain is likely to raise regarding the presidents on U.S. currency — white men who for the most part were much older than Obama when elected. McCain has not raised Obama's race as an issue in the campaign; he has said Obama lacks experience."
And this isn't the first time Obama has said, "they are going to........." and Obama puts in a not subtle racial comment
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crespi3 months ago
So instead of Americans paying taxes to cover thew cost of Bush's Iraq "war" ourselves we borrowed nearly a trillion from China.
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How is this better than being self reliant like Americans used to be befdore the Republican debt creating machine took over?
Seriously wolfie, how is pitting our country in hock for sdomething we couldn't pay fore ourselves a good thing.
Please explain your party's dependence on usury and borrowing.
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Wolfie20073 months, 2 weeks ago
Here is what we'll get if Obama is elected:
INCOME TAX
MCCAIN (no changes)
ngle making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $31,250OBAMA
(reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K - tax $8,400
Single making 50K - tax $14,000
Single making 75K - tax $23,250
Married making 60K - tax $16,800
Married making 75K - tax $21,000
Married making 125K - tax $38,750Under Obama your taxes will
more than double
How does this affect you? No explanation
needed. This is pretty
straight forward.
INHERITANCE TAX
MCCAIN 0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax)OBAMA Restore the inheritance tax
How does this affect you? Many families
have lost businesses,>farms and ranches, and homes that have
been in their families for generations because they could not
afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved
ones will not only lose them to these taxes.NEW TAXES BEING PROPOSED BY OBAMA
New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than
2400 square feetNew gasoline taxes (as if gas weren't high enough already)
New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating
gas, water, electricity)
New taxes on retirement accounts and last but not least....New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same
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Wolfie20073 months, 2 weeks ago
Of course, he plays the race card every time he get in front of the camera he makes those stupid remarks about not looking like any other candidate for President of the United States ever looked before. Then he sort of laughs like, "oh I'm so cute and funny" .
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donald513 months, 2 weeks ago
Thanks Nature, I saw starting to think only the repugnants would be comming on her to back each other with more repugnant lies ans deceptions! Alph, PC, wolf and Klarris always back up eachother's lies and Un-American behavior! The country would be better if they plain left as their total lack of judgement, no scruples or a conscience as well as repug sycophancy shows!
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Natureboy3 months, 2 weeks ago
They are at a high level of abstraction doing what most folks are doing - watching their country do the slow swirl down the porcelain bowl, and freaking out, hoping there will be a "leader" who will save them. They just picked a different "leader" than other folks.
It's what we've all been trained to do. We've been told it's "democracy" and it will solve all our problems.
But we've been doing it for 200 years and it has only gotten us to where we are today - with corporations ruling the country and working people losing their homes and their savings.
We need to find a different way - but it is not a way we have been enculturated into. We need to build strong, local communities and economies which can keep trucking independent of the global economy and the federal kleptocracy - it is our only hope to withstand what is to come.
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normallysilent3 months, 2 weeks ago
donald51,
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I do beleive you will find your way of thinking does not represent the majority point of view. If you spend your days on here I see where you could come to that false assumption though.
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JoseMadre3 months, 2 weeks ago
Obama has made comments about the opposition trying to scare voters because he does not look "like the guys on dollar bills." The only logical way to take that comment is that Obama is accusing his opponents of using the race card. If there is another logical way, in context, to understand it, please explain it.
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Bonded3 months, 2 weeks ago
What is truly disgusting about this is that he is resorting to fear mongering and stereotyping. This is astounding behavior from a man who probably endured stereotyping himself. McCain and Obama have both been playing with kid gloves until now; why would he accost Republicans for something they haven’t done yet, or even expect to do in this sissified campaign?
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How could Republicans even pull this off? Every time some Republican says something slightly controversial, (even old friends like Graham) he gets thrown under the Straight Talk Express and the comments are disavowed.
Obama on the other hand, gets all of these strange associates of his to say the most radical things and are eventually disowned by Obama after the stories start to take traction. He also usually claims that he didn’t know these supporters were so radical. Just wait until he really gets know the Iranian president. I can hear it now; “I just thought his talk of nuking Israel was political posturing.” And “This is not the Ahmadinejad I knew.”-
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donald513 months, 2 weeks ago
Before he was put on Cheney's carpet on his own Anti-torture Bill, he used to believe that torture only produced lies! He has flip flopped on everything since! I can't beleive this man is an acadamy graduate and the only stisfaction I get is that the graduates of he Naval Academy are known as the greatest offfenders of the honor code... and McCain is validation of such!
McCain Has disgraced the Naval Academy! Perhaps this should be expected from a guy 2 from the bottom of his class who probably only graduated because his dad was an admiral... kinda like the only reason Dumya graduated from that Ivy league school or why he was bumped over a thousand more qualified pilots in the Teaxas Air Guard to get out of Vietnam! Worthless, truly un-American Repugs! McCain has negated any goodwill he earned as a former POW!
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JoseMadre3 months, 2 weeks ago
I'm a Puerto Rican originally from New York. My grandmother, after being widowed, married a half Greek-half Jewish man. My current girlfriend is half black and half Vietnamese. Alpha, etc., all know this and have NEVER made it an issue of any sort. The ones who make these things issues are, for the most part, Victicrats who see all opposition as a personal attack on their ethnicity. I don't attribute such base motives to those who disagree with my multi-ethnic, multicultural family. Those on the left should not, either.
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JoseMadre3 months, 2 weeks ago
Obama's a demagogue, summarily dismissing his opponent's positions without even engaging the arguments. His playing the race card - which is EXACTLY what he did with the "look different" remark - is unseemly, but is part of a calculated program to eliminate all opposition by labeling it as racist. Disagree with his health care plan? You're a racist. His tax plan? Racist! Social positions? Racist!
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go-fish3 months, 2 weeks ago
Of course he is playing the race card, you can hear it in his voice and see it on his face, that's what he's all about! To him being elected has nothing to do with a change for the better for Americans or the world! For him it's all about being president. Can't understand how anyone can be so blind and so stupidly desperate to not see this! Look, I care solely about what’s good for our country and not about political party devotion, for me Obama was finished when I found out he was a faithful member of “the church of hate” most of his life until he found out very publicly that it was hurting him in the polls.
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crespi3 months ago
Fox"News" AND CNN ran a statistic last year that 3 out of 10 (white) Americans admitted to being racially biased.
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debo4you3 weeks, 4 days ago
Obama nor his wife would do any of our delcining dollar any justice anyway bad visual....leave jefferson on the money
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lynguista2 weeks ago
Of course it's about race. All my black & hispanic students tell me their families are voting Obama - and why? Because he's black.
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So be it. I didn't vote for him, but I don't care if he wins. He won't be able to push his policies without them being co-signed anyway. -
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andohawk5 days, 22 hours ago
yeah yeah wolfie2007 can you repeat after me
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NO INCREASE IN TAXES FOR THOSE MAKING $200,000 OR LESS A YEAR.
HAVE YOU NOT BEEN LISTENING..RIGHT WING CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN SCARE TACTIC..DOES NOT WORK HAS NOT WORKED AND WILL NEVER WORK AGAIN..OBAMA IS HERE TO CLEAN UP 8 YEARS OF FAILED POLIICIES-
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clarkarjcg5 days, 21 hours ago
u r extremely stupid to belive promises made by a rasist person.!!!
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