Obama addresses 'race card' accusation

So the bugs come out from under the rocks throw their barbs and run away anonymously because its easy. EASY to defame easy to smear, easy to lie, easy to distort facts, easy to dehumanize any one that you don't like because they look different than you, speak different than you, have ideas that are foreign to you, because your minds are closed. I suppose that fear will do that to you, especially when you are told that the Boogie man is coming to get you. and when the powers that be tell you then it must be so. Well that belief factor is just like 9-11 and all the lemmings that crapped their pants hid under rocks and asked a bunch of simpletons to save them .John McCain is cut from that same arrogant intitled mold. that is what you got and what it seems like what many of you want again WAR not change. We have been doing this for a long time with the same actors the same script and expect a different ending instead of changing the writer, Why? Fear, along with lack of education and failing to be informed is the best way to control the population, and when they have control by Fear it takes a long time to over come. SO follow the lemmings or make a change to someone whom actually knows something about the world.

Yeah Obama looks different that the other Presidents and it has nothing to do with race. He short hair and big ears. I am sure that is what he means.

Does he think we are stupid?? What a jerk.

I suppose if he told people the sky is green they would go along with that too.

I don't get it! If I said I did not look like the slaves from the 1800s, what would he think of that comment? Seems like a reference to race to me! Oh...maybe I could say that I do not look like I came from central casting when it comes to slaves. That would be ok! It amazes me that Obama can play the race card whenever and wherever he wants. He does not see it as negative or the effect that it has on the country...it is a shame for all of us.

Next, they will try to accuse Obama of causing McCain's skin cancer. These are desperate people who will do or say anything to discredit Obama because their campaign has not generated any interest and has nothing to offer.

Either candidate is going to a shame on the presidency, but I would rather it be McCain.

Race card? Barack Obama is black. No one has to point that out. If people won't vote for him because he's black, so be it. If people will vote for him because (or in spite of the fact) he's black, so be it. One of Obama's parents was black and thus Obama is considered black. But one of his parents was white. But he's not considered white. If one of his grandparents had been black and the others white, he'd be 1/4 black. Would he still be considered black? If one of his great grandparents had been black and the others white, he'd be 1/8th black. Would he still be considered black? See where I'm going with this? At what point in a person's heritage does our society make the call that someone is black or white? Using the term race card to point out racial differences is a total joke.

Obama is not playing the race card. He was calling McCain on playing the race card, fear card, and any other card that has nothing to do with the issues at hand!

Rasmussen's most recent poling: Obama 47% vs. McCain 46%. That's right Oaklynne...the McCain campaign clearly has not generated ANY interest...and certainly has nothing to offer (except an alternative to a Socialist candidate)...I mean, why even hold an election?

As for this Race Card crap, it's hardly a big deal, but Obama's statement was clearly a reference to race.

One point everyone seems to be missing... Obama does NOT look like any other recent presidents. That's not a racial comment, but the fact is that being black is a difference. Yawn. Whatever.

Now, on to the important point - he's got the biggest ears in a Presidential contest since Ross Perot. In fact, he looks a heck of a lot like Ross Perot, just darker. Maybe it's a diguise! If he starts pulling out "charts and graphs" and mentions paying "short term costs with long term loans" then watch out!

INSTEAD OF ALLOWING MCCAIN TO DISTRACT US FROM THE REAL ISSUES, LET'S TAKE A MOMENT TO REVIEW HIS RECORD SINCE THIS IS WHAT WE AS AMERICANS SHOULD REALLY BE CONCERNED WITH:

September 2007: McCain voted against the Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments. At the time, nearly 65% of people polled in a CNN poll indicted that "things are going either moderately badly or very badly in Iraq.

July 2007: McCain voted against a plan to drawdown troop levels in Iraq. At the time, an ABC poll found that 63% thought the invasion was not worth it, and a CBS News poll found that 72% of respondents wanted troops out within 2 years.

March 2007: McCain was too busy to vote on a bill that would require the start of a drawdown in troop levels within 120 days with a goal of withdrawing nearly all combat troops within one year. Around this time, an NBC News poll found that 55% of respondents indicated that the US goal of achieving victory in Iraq is not possible. This number has not moved significantly since then.

February 2007: For such a strong supporter of the escalation, McCain didn’t even bother to show up and vote against a resolution condemning it. However, at the time a CNN poll found that only 16% of respondents wanted to send more troops to Iraq (that number has since declined to around 10%), while 60% said that some or all should be withdrawn. This number has since gone up to around 70%.

June 2006: McCain voted against a resolution that Bush start withdrawing troops but with no timeline to do so.

May 2006: McCain voted against an amendment that would provide $20 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for health care facilities.

April 2006: McCain was one of only 13 Senators to vote against $430,000,000 for the Department of Veteran Affairs for Medical Services for outpatient care and treatment for veterans.

March 2006: McCain voted against increasing Veterans medical services funding by $1.5 billion in FY 2007 to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.

March 2004: McCain once again voted for abusive tax loopholes over veterans when he voted against creating a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Veterans' medical care by $1.8 billion by eliminating abusive tax loopholes. Jeez, McCain really loves those tax loopholes for corporations, since he voted for them over our veterans' needs.

October 2003: McCain voted to table an amendment by Senator Dodd that called for an additional $322,000,000 for safety equipment for United States forces in Iraq and to reduce the amount provided for reconstruction in Iraq by $322,000,000.

April 2003: McCain urged other Senate members to table a vote (which never passed) to provide more than $1 billion for National Guard and Reserve equipment in Iraq related to a shortage of helmets, tents, bullet-proof inserts, and tactical vests.

August 2001: McCain voted against increasing the amount available for medical care for veterans by $650,000,000. To his credit, he also voted against the 2001 Bush tax cuts, which he now supports making permanent, despite the dire financial condition this country is in, and despite the fact that he indicated in 2001 that these tax cuts unfairly benefited the very wealthy at the expense of the middle class.

So there it is. John McCain is yet another republican former military veteran who likes to talk a big game when it comes to having the support of the military. Yet, time and time again, he has gone out of his way to vote against the needs of those who are serving in our military. If he can’t even see his way to actually doing what the troops want, or what the veterans need, and he doesn’t have the support of veterans, then how can he be a credible commander in chief?

The 98% white audience cheered and applauded the line.

The phony outrage by talk radio host who routinely play the race card
card and McCain who refuses to denounce them is disenguous at

Let he who has not heard anyone campaigning for McCain including talk radio host use race against Obama cast the first stone.

Change is only good if it has logic behind it. Obama is a clueless johnny come lately riding the low level brainwaves of liberals In case you were wondering, yes, he knows he is black, and riding the sympathy bandwagon for all he can, and you bunch of fools are sucking it all in like he has a clue on what to do, if by some chance Americans are stupid enough to contiunue to ride his media fueled bandwagon. Listening to his followers remind me why Ron Popeil is wealthy.
People buy into anything. I wish there was someone smarter then McCain was on the republican ticket, but there isn't. We have our choice of 2 less then desirables. I know this is Mass. and anyone with a "D" behind there name gets your votes, but I am thankful the rest of America is smarter then we are.

I am Obama supporter, man did Obama play the race card there. Intended or not that line "I don't look like I came from central casting'" is a race card.
What makes him different from previous presidential/candidents? His speaches, nope, his stances, nope, his hair cut or ears, nope, Just his skin color.

Bad Obama, Bad, no soup for you, just a presidency.

"using the race card" is a racist term in itself. It is a term white people use to degrade while describing an action or comment made by a person of color. For instance, McCain can use the fact that he is white and Obama is not, without saying a word, to help him get votes from bigots but if Obama calls him out on it, he will be "using the race card." I don't think Obama is "using any cards" or "doing any dances" or "shuckin and jivin" or whatever, but then again, I'm not racist and politics are.

McCain plays the race card and says Obama played it first. Obama is just stating the obvious: It would be as if McCain brought up his age. Oh wait, he has! He played the "age card"!

See how easy and juvenile it is to play "gotcha" politics. We're electing a President of the U.S.A., not the senior class. It is time for McCain to grow up and act his age.

Obama is playing a hazardous game with race. AP has a video of a young black guy accusung him of not addressing black issues at a town meeting in St. Petersburg, and one of the answers he gives is that you have the choice to vote for somebody else. That's incredibly cold - after all the work that a lot of african-americans did for him, after he got his start in politics in the african american community - vote for somebody else? Who? Maybe his delegates to the democratic convention should vote for somebody else. Who would that be?

Everybody expects him to move toward the center, and to make nice with "majority" america. But the man owes people, just like any successful politician. And if they feel betrayed, they will exercise the choice that Obama didn't mention - they will stay home.

A vote for McCain is a vote for WAR. He has no other platform. Obama is going to flip the script once he is elected President.

tired of mccain blowing every statement out of poportion... he has no substance...

Race card? How about the resume card? Obama has none. No wonder Bill Clinton called this a "fairy tale."

Bear with me for a second. Go to Wikipedia and look at the bio of Sen, Webb (D-VA). His resume makes Obama look like a "girlie man." How Obama got this far is beyond me. My point is Obama has done NOTHING except give flowing, JFK -like speeches, but JFK was a war hero.

Hey #18, talk about blowing statements out of PROPORTION, Obama got pretty good mileage out of distorting McCain's statement about staying in Iraq for a prolonged period like in Germany and South Korea (non-combat), but Obama called it a 100-year war...

Yes, McCain should be "disappointed" in his failed campaign strategies and the tone of his discussions/distractions. It was McCain who posted on his website a web video of Barack Obama's Face on a $100.00 bill and when Obama responds to this web video, McCain hollers "racism"! And, as an iconic landmark of where we are, a man (McCain) who espouses to be the most powerful leader in the planet seeks to convince us of his fitness for office with images of Paris Hilton being used (by inference) to demean his opponent. Ouch. Yes, we have a very long way to go, however, it is not hopeless!

Obama said, "There was nobody there who thought at all that I was trying to inject race in this. " How did he know? Can he substantiated that, or is he just making it up? If Obama seriously wants to become President, he needs to learn to talk responsibly. That will take years of experience, SO GET OUT OF THE RACE, OBAMA! YOU ARE DRAGGING DOWN THE STANDARDS OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES! YOU DON'T QUALIFY, PERIOD!

The best defense against the Schmidt/ Rove/ McCain offensive. Focus on the people behind the negative strategy, the new McCain campaign. Use their strength (the negative campaign) against them, repeatedly.

The takeover is now complete. The McCain campaign is now run by the Schmidt/ Rove/ Cheney/ Neocon/ Haliburton/ Swiftboat/ Smear apparatus. The same team that gave us Bush, the same dirty politics, the same distractions, the same disaster awaiting the country and economy, is now controlling the McCain campaign. The same team that smeared McCain, his family and his adopted Bangladeshi daughter Bridget in 2000.

And while they know how to win Presidential campaigns they also know how to the strongest the economy into the ground, lose 50,000 jobs per month to China and India, send billions a month in US wealth to middle east oil despots who stoke terrorism, lose prime US assets to our enemies, lead us into record national debt, the subprime crisis, Enron and more.

Does Rove/ Cheney/ the Neocons/ and Haliburton really deserve another 8 years?

Hey all you libs.. McCain has been steadily climbing in the polls since Obama's world tour. Let's hope he keeps opening his mouth because the guy is only hurting himself. McCain is now up by 1% in the polls as of this morning and guess what, he will win because of the lack of substance and experience.

Let's face it.. the guy cannot speak off the cuff (can you say, Town Meeting??) and is SCARED of facing the public in a debate because he knows he will stammer, stutter and blow it.

Both these candidates are weak, but McCain is still far more experienced than Mr Hope.