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August 11, 2008

Another Racist Attack from McCain
— Ace

So where's the racism? Surely you know. But if you missed it, let Talking Points Memo explain it:

"We know he doesn't have much experience, and isn't ready to lead, but that doesn't mean he isn't dreamy," says the announcer, followed by footage of two women at rallies -- both of whom are white, mind you -- complimenting Obama's looks.
How long until "Barack, call me" ends up in a McCain paid TV ad?

That last bit about "Barack, call me" is a reference to another putatively "racist" ad, that one about Harold Ford's partying it up with Playboy Bunnies, which ended with an actress playing a Playboy Bunny saying "Harold, call me."

And.

She.

Was.

White.

I'm just curious -- if, hypothetically, the McCain camp begins showing black people going bananas over Obama, how soon will the left begin claiming that by showing black people McCain is attempting to underscore the fact that Obama is (half) black and attempting to sow racial animus that way?

You can't show white women, you can't show blacks at all. Apparently the only politically correct Obama supporter to show is a white man, a cohort that does exist, of course, but is hardly his base.

But if we do, say, show an obvious stoner college kid in a P-Funk t-shirt singing Obama's praises -- why, that will also be racist because it's associating Obama with pot smoking, thus painting him as one of those hop-headed jazz Negros who are corrupting the morals of German society.

I have a compromise -- let's show all of Obama's women supporters, both black and white, but with one of those blue-dots over their faces (the kind they use to disguise rape victims at trial) in order to hide their race and thus avoid the racism charge.

I'm sure TPM wouldn't have a problem with that.

PS: Is anyone else becoming rather annoyed at the left's insistence that white conservative men do nothing but sit around all goddamned day worrying that some black guy is going to take our womenfolk away from us?

PPS: Oh, I know! If only white men are allowed to be shown supporting Obama in McCain ads, how about we cut commercials of John Edwards endorsing him?

No? Ah, yes: Then we'd be stirring up racial stereotypes about black men being promiscuous (and having sex with white women, yet again).

How come Obama's allowed to show all the white women he likes fawning over him but when we do it it's racist?

More: Polls & Racism: Polls are discussed generally in the beginning of the post: at the end is a link to a Politico dweeb whining that Obama isn't winning enough and that must be due to racsim.

Liberal politicians have not managed to get over 50% of the vote since... well, who, Carter? Why is it such a surprise that Obama is more or less where Kerry and Gore were always stuck, somewhere between 42 and 49% of the vote?

I think that this whining is based on the liberals' frequent excuse that it's not their message that is frequently rejected by the public (and only accepted by the public when it's sufficiently disguised, a la Clinton), but only their messengers, and that the GOP only wins because of the superficial charm, likability, and normal-guy-ness of their candidates.

If only we had some "normal guys" running, we'd win every election, liberals think.

So here's Obama. Not only is he charming and likable, they think, but he's a "normal guy" -- and on top of that, a "normal guy" who is also the The One Chosen by GOD HIMSELF to Deliver the World from Its Iniquities Into a Period of Peace, Plenty, and Love. Now, that's some kind of super-duper normal guy!

Well, the problem is that a lot of people don't think Obama is especially likable or normal -- some of us think he's an effete, ineffectual, elitist prick, actually -- and that you can't play both the Normal Guy Everyman and Bastard Son of God Himself at the same time.

And besides, the liberals are wrong. The public is repeatedly rejecting their message and not merely their messenger So even if Barack was the nicest sweetest unassuming humble great normal guy who ever lived, there'd still be that problem that he's not just a liberal, but a liberal leaning left-liberal/radical.

Posted by: Ace at 01:12 PM | Comments (63)
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1 if, hypothetically, the McCain camp begins showing black people going bananas over Obama

Black people + bananas = Raciiiit!
You da racist, Ace. :-)

Posted by: grc at August 11, 2008 01:16 PM (h4JIA)

2 The only safe thing is to have Sponge Bob deliver the message.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at August 11, 2008 01:16 PM (Ub4J5)

3 You know he doesn't really believe that, right? It is a win at all cost measure. End justify the means type thing. He has to know how ridiculous he sounds. He treats his audience as a group of half-wits, trying to rile them up the way he percieves the right does to those southern hicks. He is a cretin.

Posted by: Judd at August 11, 2008 01:18 PM (BXHeE)

4 It won't be Barack's success or failure in getting elected or not. It will be portrayed as a success or failure of America to overcome their racism to elect him.

The press won't say that Barack's not ready to be President. They'll say America isn't ready for Barrack.

Posted by: Z Ryan at August 11, 2008 01:19 PM (PDeVA)

5 The only safe thing is to have Sponge Bob deliver the message.

Nah, that'll piss off the gays.

Posted by: mesablue at August 11, 2008 01:20 PM (5yNaE)

6 Ok, then. How about Patrick?

Posted by: Techie at August 11, 2008 01:23 PM (mhEbi)

7 Ok, then. How about Patrick?

That'll piss off gay starfish.

Olberdouche actually wrote about this.

Posted by: mesablue at August 11, 2008 01:27 PM (5yNaE)

8 OMG! The end of that video LOLOLOL

Posted by: Mark at August 11, 2008 01:28 PM (4hUuD)

9 Sponge Bob is gay? Who knew.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at August 11, 2008 01:31 PM (Ub4J5)

10 How about we just tell the left to take their 'racisit crap' and go fuck themselves silly with it?

Posted by: GarandFan at August 11, 2008 01:31 PM (eJ32B)

11 What about white dudes?

Chris "thrill up my leg" Matthews?

Keith Olbermunge?

Andi Sullivan?

Posted by: sulla at August 11, 2008 01:35 PM (Y4/VY)

12 sulla - which of those is a dude?

Posted by: bgates at August 11, 2008 01:42 PM (RzFhF)

13 What easy e said.

Posted by: Lou at August 11, 2008 01:47 PM (RNwpX)

14 You know what else is racist? Pointing out that Obama's plan on Georgia of calling for a UN Security Counsel vote is idiotic because Russia has a veto on that counsel.
That's racistly racist.

Posted by: joeindc44 at August 11, 2008 02:13 PM (QxSug)

15 "if, hypothetically, the McCain camp begins showing black people going bananas over Obama..." Bananas? Black people going bananas? Ace you racist bastard.

Posted by: Jason at August 11, 2008 02:23 PM (3rI4o)

Also, Carter '76 ran as a "Southern Democrat" which is to say, moderate-conservative. A bit like Clinton '92; a lot like post-welfare-reform Clinton '96 (when the latter almost got to that 50% mark). Even Dukakis tried to run as a conservative up to 21 July 1988, the day of that famous "17 point lead over Bush".

Carter's veep, Mondale, did run as a liberal in 1984.

Posted by: David Ross at August 11, 2008 02:29 PM (GwV+j)

17 a lot of people don't think Obama is especially likable or normal

Maybe if the donks figured out what is fatally flawed in their nomination process that they end up with obnoxious douches with giant sticks up their asses, they might actually be able to win something without putting out the poster boy for Meghan's Law. I mean this is just like windsurfer-knob 4 years ago trying to pretend to be a regular guy by throwing a football like a twat to a majorly ghey running mate and coming up with howlers like Lambert Field and Manny Ortiz. I think they need to tell cocksuckers like Kos to go fuck himself or tell Iowa and New Hampshire to go to the back of the line; that would be a start but there's probably lots more that needs to be done.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 11, 2008 02:32 PM (KdD+8)

"The UN Security Council, Sen. Obama? The members of the security council are: the United Kingdom; the Republic of France: the People's Republic of China; the United States of America; and Russia. Each has veto power for any Security Council resolution, and the Russian envoy will vote to condemn Russia's actions...in what world when?

And you want to be President of the United States? Tell me, what color or pattern is the sky on your world; paisley? On earth it is blue.

Posted by: Mikey NTH at August 11, 2008 02:36 PM (TUWci)

Ace,

Ask TPM to interpret the Official Barack Obama Campaign photograph of Barack physically intimidating a white dude while a white woman eyes Barack's crotch.

He's Barack Obama.

He Approved His Website.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at August 11, 2008 02:40 PM (2IG4D)

20 Is it racist to point out that normal guys do NOT dance with mannish dykes, unless there's a prospect of picking up one of her hot lipstick friends?

Posted by: Fritz at August 11, 2008 02:41 PM (zAvxs)

21 ok, well apparently we were a little quick to beat on Obie's statement. Apparently, Russia would not be allowed to use their veto if they were the subject of a security counsel resolution.

So, he was right, by accident.

racists.

Posted by: joeindc44 at August 11, 2008 02:41 PM (QxSug)

22 So is the logic here that all whites are racist? Then the Obamessiah is half a racist hisownself. Word, ya heard?

Posted by: Obama's IBM: WE BM. at August 11, 2008 03:11 PM (c+Jyx)

23 We are all racists now. Just imagine how this will amplify when Saint Barry O'Guiltwhite gets into the "White" House. Any opposition to this sorry biracial assclown will be pilloried as racist. It will simply not be permitted to oppose him without earning the label of "redneck." Jeff Goldstein was right, this megalomaniacal machine politician will set back race relations thirty years. No one will trust a black politician easily again. My wife is a teacher with a good liberal background, but she is changing. Even she sees that her district refuses to discipline or otherwise correct teachers who aren't doing their jobs... if they have a certain ethnic background. She hates admitting this, but there we are. Does anyone think this sort of behavior will abate or increase with Messiah running things from DC?

Posted by: George Orwell at August 11, 2008 03:22 PM (rf5CF)

24 So is the logic here that all whites are racist? Then the Obamessiah is half a racist hisownself. Word, ya heard?
Posted by: Obama's IBM: WE BM.

Obama is fully black because even one tiny bit of blackosity erases all whitenisity.

Funny how the Obamabots and the KKK believe the same thing.

Posted by: eman at August 11, 2008 03:26 PM (wOCCc)

I'm hoping that Obama will do for racebaiting what Bill Clinton did for feminism.

More of this please, leftists.

Posted by: Warden at August 11, 2008 03:33 PM (5OCC6)

26 Well that certainly explains it for me. Otherwise I might think he was a guilt-ladelling race-baiting piece of cross bred ghetto poverty pimp.

But I have no black in me, clearly leading me to be an overt racist.

Posted by: Avagadro's Numbers Runner at August 11, 2008 03:36 PM (c+Jyx)

27
People who call this stuff "racist" have no credibility with your average person. Its a negative ad, that's all. Calling it "racist" helps us republicans.

And that ad is GREAT btw.

Posted by: dan-O at August 11, 2008 03:37 PM (AEBFS)

28 You, Sir, be a racist. Word.

Posted by: Avagadro's Numbers Runner at August 11, 2008 03:46 PM (c+Jyx)

29 Sorry, you is a racist. My bad. Fashizzle.

Posted by: Avagadro's Numbers Runner at August 11, 2008 03:47 PM (c+Jyx)

30 They only criticize the women appearing in the ad because of misogyny, the same misogyny that was very well on display during the primary. (I say that tongue-in-cheek.)

Posted by: dorkafork at August 11, 2008 03:49 PM (kErJj)

(ahem) About that Harold Ford "Call me" ad that tried to imply that Hank liked the vanilla...didja know that his wife was white?

...and she's a Scandi?

With a name like Emily Threlkeld, you can probably safely bet she's not the daughter of a sharecropper.

Posted by: Saul Goode at August 11, 2008 04:22 PM (J6Dbb)

32 Racism: The cause of (and solution to) all Obama's problems.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at August 11, 2008 04:29 PM (rf03a)

33 So how do they spin the dude who was almost brought to tears? Homos say what? Exactly.

Posted by: Cock Rocket at August 11, 2008 05:18 PM (h/5U0)

34 I wouldn't be surprised if there are subliminal messages in that video about large black phallic symbols placed in there to intimidate white men.

Posted by: Talking Points Moron at August 11, 2008 05:28 PM (hXBPP)

35 Racism (n): A belief or statement that contradicts that of a Democrat.

Hypocrisy (n): A belief or statement held by a Democrat.

Posted by: Merovign at August 11, 2008 05:31 PM (UXoQt)

36 Good Khan mash-up.

Posted by: Talking Points Moron at August 11, 2008 05:32 PM (hXBPP)

37 checkout Khan macking on Uhura, then slapping her silly bitch ass with his Pimp Hand^tm

Posted by: Bart at August 11, 2008 05:33 PM (hXBPP)

38 Jeez- nearly his entire chicago campaign HQ staff is white and ' barely of legal drinking age'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnhmByYxEIo

Posted by: republicangirl at August 11, 2008 05:36 PM (1UNAD)

39 Is anyone else becoming rather annoyed at the left's insistence that white conservative men do nothing but sit around all goddamned day worrying that some black guy is going to take our womenfolk away from us?

Nah... If I fought a black guy over my wife, I'd have to drop my gun and my Bible.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 11, 2008 05:44 PM (lxCem)

40 As a spoof someone needs to create a new McCain ad featuring racially-indistinguishable stick-figures so as not to offend the Obamas.

Posted by: Bart at August 11, 2008 06:07 PM (hXBPP)

41 Just wait until the real racist ads come out by the Democrats posing as Republican 527c organizations.

Posted by: Bart at August 11, 2008 06:12 PM (hXBPP)

How come Obama's allowed to show all the white women he likes fawning over him but when we do it it's racist?

Cause I got Scandi fever!!111!!!188!!

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 11, 2008 06:12 PM (RWzXM)

43 Is anyone else becoming rather annoyed at the left's insistence that white conservative men do nothing but sit around all goddamned day worrying that some black guy is going to take our womenfolk away from us?

The Left creates its stereotypes of Conservatives to bolster its weak arguments, so I just take it as proof that they're showing they're losing the debate.

Am I scared of black men coming to steal the white wimmin? With the established statistics as to what great fathers/companions/providers black males in our current society tend to make? No, not really.

And, as for the myth of the Big Black Penis/Black Sex Machine, just let me say that, no, I'm not intimidated.

Posted by: Stinky Esposito at August 11, 2008 06:12 PM (MMC8r)

And, as for the myth of the Big Black Penis/Black Sex Machine, just let me say that, no, I'm not intimidated.

RACIST.

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 11, 2008 06:15 PM (RWzXM)

Ahhhhhhhhhhh......

To hell with the MSM whines about racist code behind every rock. If McCain had the cahones he'd hire that "Overstock.com" chick to do an ad. You know the one. "It's all about the "O".

It's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCu3HgWIhHI

Posted by: SlaveDog at August 11, 2008 06:17 PM (H6Jyg)

How come Obama's allowed to show all the white women he likes fawning over him but when we do it it's racist?

You are just trying to distract your readers from the real issues.

Besides, have I ever accused you of racism for all the attacks you made on Michelle? I *could* accuse you, an academic white male of priveledged background of being threatened by a strong, beautiful black woman. Or I could accuse you of having the same jungle fever which has led your ancestors from time immorial of rapeing and subjegating black women as a means of control and resentment over black male masculinity and sexual prowess, as illustrated by your use of black phallic symbols.

But I haven't and I won't because I am running a campaign that is post racial and will unite us behind my agenda.

And I condemn your attempts to drag race into this.

You will *not* be getting my VP pick via text message.

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 11, 2008 06:22 PM (uBtj+)

47 memo: to the McCain Campaign and the Media re: poll

The word "poll" is a racially charged word that might imply reference to Senator's Obama's black male appendage, thus intimidating white males. Please refrain from using that word.

Posted by: Obama HQ at August 11, 2008 06:24 PM (hXBPP)

48 Besides, have I ever accused you of racism for all the attacks you made on Michelle? I *could* accuse you, an academic white male of priveledged background of being threatened by a strong, beautiful black woman. Or I could accuse you of having the same jungle fever which has led your ancestors from time immorial of rapeing and subjegating black women as a means of control and resentment over black male masculinity and sexual prowess, as illustrated by your use of black phallic symbols.

Can't do the "watch spring in the teeth" thing wit yo bitches, Bro. Seriously, Hussein, I've tried.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 11, 2008 06:36 PM (lxCem)

49 Do you want 4 years of this? Most Americans don't. These guys are shooting themselves in the foot. If they keep it up St. Obama is going to lose.

Posted by: Ralph at August 11, 2008 06:37 PM (QZjCr)

50 Maybe if the donks figured out what is fatally flawed in their nomination process that they end up with obnoxious douches with giant sticks up their asses, they might actually be able to win something without putting out the poster boy for Meghan's Law.

The problem is simple: radicals and extreme leftists dominate their primary process and they encourage this by front loading the primaries with the most leftist states first.

Calling it "racist" helps us republicans.

I suspect so; it also enhances the Reverend Wright connection and conjures the specter of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 11, 2008 06:50 PM (0+Ggj)

51 My mind is reeling. Democrats think they have some potential candidates (including evidently St. Barack [can saints be normal guys?]) who are 'normal guys'?

Think about it for this past season. Gravel: old, crazy Alaskan douche.
Richardson: half Hispanic, lied for years about being drafted in MLB, Clinton associate, douche.
Kucinich: really crazy (but with a hot wife), gnome-like, Leftist douche.
Biden: plagiarizing, hair-plugged, entirely too loquacious, narcissicistic douche.
Dodd: Who? Oh. Senator who chairs Committee in charge of Banking who gets special mortgages but doesn't know it. Probably helped Ted Kennedy (Drunk, MA) at least attempt to force sex on a waitress, giant douche.
Edwards: dead-baby-channeling tort lawyer, lies about affairs while cheating on dying wife he used to prop up campaign, self-loving to the extent that he stars in a 1 minute movie in which he tries to make his hair perfect, preaches about Two Americas while building and living in a 28,000 sq ft mansion, uber-douche.
Obama, half-white, half-black non slave descendant African-American possibly not a natural born citizen (although I believe he is), Chicago Machine politician with extensive ties to corrupt types, whitey-hating black preachers, terrorists, and married to someone not proud to be American who thinks the rest of us are "just mean", full of himself, arrogant douche.

Hillary Clinton is the closest they have to a 'normal guy'. No wonder they're in trouble.

Posted by: JorgXMcKie at August 11, 2008 07:31 PM (1Sf5X)

52

I'm sorry, but was that asshole Jonah Michah whatever decrying the treatment of Justice Thomas? Wasn't he called a few names when people on the left thought he might be a dumb black guy? Wasn't there a shit-ton full of innuendo about Justice Thomas and promiscuity back when he was gonig through confirmation hearings?

Where was the left then?

Oh, perpetrating the smears.

Fuck them.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Olbermananananaaann at August 11, 2008 07:51 PM (vFeQi)

53 Stop criticizing the Lightworker!

Posted by: Mark Morford at August 11, 2008 08:28 PM (WCbIr)

54 "Apparently the only politically correct Obama supporter to show is a white man"

You would be accused of being homophobic.

Posted by: mark at August 11, 2008 08:55 PM (cYue7)

55 Hey, that's the most coherent comment I've read in some time... that Hillary was the closest thing the Dummycrats have to a normal guy! We are so fucked.

Posted by: George Orwell at August 11, 2008 09:59 PM (rf5CF)

I get into this argument all the time with my liberal friends.I tell them all the time if the retards who ran the party would nominate a somewhat normal person,you know,loves thier country,does'nt play class warfare,cuts taxes for EVERYONE etc;they would actually get more than 48% of the vote.

Of course after I get done saying this I break into uncontrollable laughter because I know it will never happen.These people don't live in reality.Facts don't matter to them,just ideology.Thank God for that too,because they would clean the Repubs clock if they ever got a clue.I only wish the Repubs were as viscous as they are when fighting political battles.

Posted by: vae victus at August 12, 2008 02:27 AM (MY0w3)

57 I kinda like seeing the donks stuck at 48 percent. I sometimes worry that we're teaching them too much, even though they never seem to learn anything :-)

Posted by: trentk269 at August 12, 2008 05:35 AM (WUM14)

58 Its a racist stereotype that rarely happens and you people on the right are the one's perpetuating it.

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Posted by: David M at August 12, 2008 09:46 AM (gIAM9)

Is anyone else shocked by the stunning competence of the McCain machine?

These ads -- celebrity, now dreamy -- hit exactly the right note. I can't believe McCain hasn't cancelled the series and issued an apology.

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