Please, Let's not confuse:

GoBama with Go Bama. I like my football team waaaay more
than this guy who thinks he is ready to be the President.
There has got to be a movie made about this election.
"The Rise and Fall of Obama".

Having heard the entire Obama speech that contained the "race card" line (thank you, POTUS '08 on XM), I can say that it was clear that he was trying to be humorous while making a point about the Republicans attempting to make Americans afraid of Obama, since they aren't making any headway on the issues. In retrospect, it may not have been the smartest attempt at humor, but the fact is that the commercial was offensive - if the point was to show someone famous, why not use Mel Gibson or Kevin Costner? I thought he showed great restraint in not losing his temper and lashing out at McCain on a personal level. Watching McCain foolishly stand by the commercial only reminds me of Bush foolishly standing by some of his more ludicrous statements, acting as if he repeats it enough, we'll start to believe him. Vote for Change!!!

Isn't fearing "the politics of fear" also just another version of same 'ol politics? Obama is scaring votes his way, and he is playing from the old politics handbook like a pro.

That just makes him an even sleazier hypocrite. I just wish more of America saw through the sheep's clothing

John McSane,

Please stop wasting time of the American people! Come up with a campaign strategy and campaign! Tell the people of your strategy, your plans, what you will achieve!

This is not campaigning, this is grabbing at straws. Your trying to find something that works!

Let's get right to the facts, "I'm racist and G.. D… proud of it" and I'll vote for the caucasian male candidate.
You people for the other thing better prepare yourself for what will follow the election if he is not the chosen one on Nov.4th. It won't be pretty.

I would never ever vote for a man over seventy for president. I am 71 and I know what I am talking about. I especially wouldn't vote for such a mean and ugly party as the republicans appear to have. If one has to elect a president by how disgusting their negative ads are then we ARE definitely heading in the wrong direction. I will always vote for a calm, intelligent thinker over an airhead.

If Mc Cain is grovelling already and having to use such lame tactics what will he do this Fall? He needs a new perspective. One that concentrates on the issues not pettiness and devisive inane tactics.
They say we resort back to our childhood when we grow old. McCain it proving it.

I WILL NOT VOTE FOR EITHER IDIOT BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE IN OBAMA AND MCCAIN IS STILL A GEORGE BUSH.
I GUESS I WILL WRITE IN A JOHN DOE

OBAMA'S LATEST DREAM IS HAVING HIS FACE ON DOLLAR BILL.
ARROGANT PHONY CANDIDATE… THIS IS REALLY DISGUSTING…

You knew it was coming why worry about it. The voters are going to make their choice no matter what. I just wish there was someone running that you could trust and knew what they were doing.

If you want to discuss racism then look at Obama's church. Obama would still be attending if he wasnt trying to become President.

I agree with Milwaukee… In this struggling economy Exxon- Mobil is doing wonderful. It is obvious that anyone with half a brain has to see the rebublican party for what they are… Crooks. The recent indictment of one of their longstanding senetors proves that…. SO ARE THEY ABOVE USING RACETACTICS AGAINST AN OPPOSING CANDIDATE….? NO…

Time for Change…

OBAMA 08…

P.s. CNN post this…

THE RACE CARD YOU PLAYED ON BILL & HILLARY WILL NOT WORK THIS TIME OK???????????????? THE REPUBLICANS WILL NOT TAKE IT AND HILL & BILL SHOULD NEVER HAVE PUT UP WITH IT EITHER. WHAT ARE YOU BRINGING TO US - LUDUKRIS OR WHATEVER HIS NAME IS UH?????? PAINT THE WHITE HSE BLACK??? HE IS YOUR BUDDY JUST LIKE THE REV. WRIGHT OF 20 YRS!!!!! WE'RE WATCHING AND WE WILL REMEMBER YOUR DIRTY RACIAL TRICKS INSIDE THAT VOTING BOOTH COME NOVEMBER - JUST WAIT MR. BHO

Take two steps back and look at McCain. The most horribly run campaign in US history. It's got it all - Negativity, Super-gaffe marathon, green-screen challenged, calling a person of color racist, a rather small candidate with no platforms to stand on (unless you count his flip-flops), war, and the ever present Big Oil scenery looming behind him and in his 'plans for success' (maybe their's).

This could be comedy at its very best. But there are people who are actually drinking this up as reality. ONLY in America!

we are not scared of him because he is black i could care less. what else did he mean about the presidents on the money he played the race card.

normi,

Especially the dark green ones.

Hey you people - just remember McShame has almost as much experience as Stevens. Probably the same kinds of experience.

It's no wonder the whole world thinks Americans are idiots.

Most of you are !!!!!

Obama '08

WE ALL KNOW IT IS ABOUT RACE — NOTHING ELSE!

Barrack Obama is continuing to do the same thing he has all campaign season since he started and that is play the race card. In the democratic primary, everyone was way to scared to say it for the fear of being called a racist. Well times have changed and Obama will be called out for what he is doing by John McCain. McCain is not scared of Obama.
There is a reason the polls are tightening in Ohio, Penn and Michigan. People are starting to pay attention to the race and realizing what is at stake

People supporting John McCain are those that are seeking the good ole days of 1932.

Forget McCain and company. What race card? Just because Obama said he doesn't look like past Presidents on money? He is just telling it like it is. If you listened to conservative radio they talk about Obama being "uppity" This means this black man should stay in his place who does he think he is? No one said anything about the uppity word. Which is race baiting. Obama is being bashed by fox, conservative radio and TV hosts, and fighting against the Republican party. McCain is just "chillin". They barely say anything about the "old geezer".

McCain complains about everything Obama does or does not do. McCain is a big joke!. This man is too old to run this country we already had 8 yrs of a stupid man running this country. I don't want another 4 more yrs of another dummy that was a "D" student in college as President. So people need to stop hating on Obama. One thing about it he is the most intelligent , articulate man for the job and he is not senile like McCain. He doesn't need experience he has good judgement. John needs to retire and is too old to answer the phone at 3am. YES WE CAN AND WILL!

Obama never said that McCain was playing the race card. He said "they", as in supporters of Bush and McCain, were. And I don't see how you can deny that - I've seen tons and tons of ignorant trolls on the internet and on talk radio and network news smearing Obama as a "militant black", "black racist", and "secret Muslim", and linking his name to Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and talking about his alleged "ties" to terrorists and black supremacists.

CNN is displaying journalism unprofessionalism in falsely claiming that Obama accused "his opponent" - John McCain - of those things.

McCain will play the race card just like the republicans play it in the south to keep the south solid in the republican corner.
The republicans have mastered playing the race card in the southern state so they will vote solid republican, but that may change this year with Georgia and maybe even North Carolina going for Obama.

McCain is right on drilling . What will we do five years from now,walk.
If you like to eat what are you going to do when the diesel trucks stop hauling your produce,meat ,toliet paper,etc. There is no way for electric cars to make 600-800 miles in one day on overnight charge.
Hydrogen and fuel cell have been underdeveoplement for over 30 years, President Carter inagular parade had a fuel cell powered cadallic in it. Allis Chalmers had a fuel cell tractor in 1958, was not practical. Drill now and go ahead and develope the rest, but for the time being oil is are only way to get the country by.

How come I don't hear anyone complaining, about the new Ludacris song? He calls Sen. Clinton *itch, says McCain should be an old white man in a wheel chair. Oh! I know why no ones pissed, it's okay to disrespect a White woman, but you dare not say anything negative about Black women or your a racists. All women, should be out -raged by these remarks. But wait she's Sen. Clinton, you can say mean and evil things about, why ? BECAUSE SHE'S WHITE

Why can't Obama say somethign about controlling Big Oil companies ?
Does he not have guts to do so, instead he is harping to stop offshore drilling, because all his "friends", Edwards, Kennedy have bunglows near the scenic Ocean drives, Right Mr Bama ?? Corrup the is from bottom

I can't believe some of the opinions on here. How blind are some of you people. If I were to use the "n" word I would be called racist because I'm white but it is acceptable for black people to use it amongst themselves.

So? Obama isn't playing the race card when he tells people that "Obama told audiences that his opponent is trying to make voters “scared” of him because he doesn’t look like past presidents". Have we also forgotten that just prior to wrapping up the primary that Obama referred to his race specifically in a similar statement? He said "They're going to try and scare you by saying that I'm inexperienced. They're going to say I'm a Liberal. They're going to tell you I'm black"? Do your research and check it out.

After you all review all of this, don't think of these words as if they were coming from Obama, think of the as if they were coming out of my mouth or another white persons mouth. I'll bet you those comments would be racist should they come out of my mouth.

Let's get this right; McCain is complaining about Obama fighting dirty.

Eight years ago McCain was a nice guy, someone I wanted to win the White House, now he has become a pig in politics. He is the reason we need someone like Obama, someone new. McCain has become more personal against Obama than any other Presidential candidate in American history. I now despise the pig. He does not deserve to be treated with the respect one should give a Presidential candidate or a war hero. His actions since he left the service leave a lot to be desired, starting with the Keating Five. I am also starting to despise those who support him. For the record, I have not voted for a Democratic President since I started voting, starting with Richard Nixon, but I will this time, and I am going to give him lots of money. It is time for change and McCain is demonstrating he is not the one to do it.

The Straight Talk Express has taken a nasty turn into the gutter. Sen. John McCain has resorted to lies and distortions in what sounds like an increasingly desperate attempt to slow down Sen. Barack Obama by raising questions about his patriotism. Instead of taking the Democrat down a few notches, these baseless attacks are raising more questions about the Republican's campaign and his ability to control his temper.

The most offensive line comes from McCain himself. The Arizona senator has repeated that Obama "would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign." That is one of the more outrageous statements by a major political party candidate seeking the presidency. The looming choices about the long-festering war in Iraq are not between winning and losing but about how quickly or slowly the United States can reduce its military forces without jeopardizing recent security gains. Even McCain acknowledges that, and insulting Obama in such a reckless way is not presidential.

That is only one example of the darker tone enveloping the McCain campaign since several of Karl Rove's acolytes took the wheel. A new McCain ad suggests that while Obama traveled abroad last week he "made time to go to the gym but canceled a visit with wounded troops. Seems the Pentagon wouldn't allow him to bring cameras." That's a compelling punch line, but it's below the belt.
That's intense. McCain chose this path. He sold whatever was left of his soul to the Rove machine. It was a risky decision and it sure doesn't look like it's paying off. Instead, in the past few weeks, McCain has completely reshaped his image. He's become another puppet of Karl Rove, just like George Bush.

And, the Obama campaign decided to fight back with a new ad, "Low Road," documenting just some of independent sources criticism of McCain — and linking McCain to the candidate he's morphed into — George Bush: John McCain how much lower can you go. And your wife will be working with CASTRO GET REAL MAN…WE DON`T WANT COMMANDER WITH CASTROL IN THERE POCKET….GEEZ

John McCain does not have clean hands on this one. Attacking Obama and comparing him with celebrities like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton is playing the white trash card!

You are dumb..you are dumb..you are dumb.. and you are too old McCain.
I thought you are the race card holder.. again you flip-flopped on it?

Yea I guess race statements like, 'painting the White House Black' is ok for some folks when drumming up votes. Go Check out Ludacris' lyrics since CNN won't let me post them. Talk about a double standard.

I miss where Obama speech said that McMiniBush was playing the race card. Quit playing the victim McMiniBush and start telling the American people WHY you deserve to be president. These negative ads are exactly what the American people don't want to see, and thats why your place in the same category as Bush…MCCAIN + BUSH POLICY = MCSAME!!!

Prepare yourselves should this guy be president…God help us all.

"Obama told audiences that his opponent is trying to make voters “scared” of him because he doesn’t look like past presidents – an apparent reference to being black — and has a “funny name.”

If Obama isn't saying he's black, what is he saying?

The fact seems to be that hypocrites, opportunists, and unbelievably, arrogant people think they can anything.

Shame on McCain……………….Can't wait for the debates to start. Will he be able to keep the facts straight or continue to LIE?

There is one issue McCain probably won't touch……………MORALS (Cindy/Drugs/Ex Sick Wife abandonment)

DUH, I'm a PUMA…DUH, I'm a PUMA… GO HILLARY… DUH, I'm a PUMA!!!!!

Does any part of this conversation solve the problems we are facing? Staf focused candidates.

Not pressing Obama? Didn't McCain challenge Obama to a Town Hall tour? Who said no? Wake up and see the truth. Now Obama wants you to believe his "duel". If he wanted a duel he was offered and chickened out. Style over Substance should be Obama's slogan.

The people who continually whine about oil company profits should take a look at who the shareholders of those companies are.
They are your parents and grandparents (and pension plans and mutual funds) who count on the dividends from those companies to help them buy their groceries.
You seem convinced that the owners are some secret cabal who enjoy sticking it to the little guys.
Sure EXXON made $11Billion this quarter, but that was AFTER paying $32 Billion in taxes. And you want them to pay even more taxes??
GET A GRIP!!

Only an idiot wouldn not agree that Obama has played the "race card" all through the primaries, negating the most qualified candidate (Hillary Clinton) with his "bottom-of-the-deck" — as well as dirty Chicago politics — tactics.

The ENTIRE basis for the Obama campaign is that he is black and should be elected as the first "black" president (because "it's time" to elect a "black president" ?????).

But not all of us agree. I, for one, have no problem with a black candidate (e.g., would love to see Colin Powell or Condi Rice run — because they demonstrate true leadership ability rather than blatherings) — BUT Obama is GREEN! THAT is the ONLY color I see when it comes to Obama.

And I really don't care a diddly-wink what the Obamabots call me ("racist," of course — because anyone who doesn't agree with Obama is a "racist"). THAT has been Obama's greatest impact! NOTHING else!

Obama said and he is the one who is being dishonest. He is the one trying to play the victim role to get elected President. Shameful. What else would you expect from a Chicago style machine politico with no experience? Dems are getting desperate.

McCain and his aide are True. Obama is trying to get sympathy and for whites to vote for him to not be considered racist.

HI ALL…..NOW DID Any one hear Sen.Obama say my FACE ONE THE DOLLAR BILL IS BECAUSE I AM BLACK …..NO …..HE COULD HAD BEEN SPEAKING ABOUT HIS EAR`S OR ANYTHING. COME ON SEN.McCAIN IF YOU CAN`T STAND THE HEAT THEN GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN…….

LINDA…OMAHA

Obama's been touting his race for his entire campaign, it's really disgraceful. What's even more disgraceful is that people are voting for him just because he's black, not because of his politics.

Uhm…"Catty"…..many of those smear campaigns about his race and his supposed religion were from republican sources and i am still getting emails saying essentially the same thing from folks I know who are staunch republicans. Hilary wasn't the only one with a computer. You are the one who needs to dig a little deeper. Feel free to write in but try to get things correct. To be sure, Hilary's folks made an issue of his race and religion but they weren't the only ones. John McCain himself may not be making this an issue but his people, everywhere, are.

MR OBAMA DO NOT LET MR. MCCAIN DISTRACT YOU FROM THE REAL ISSUES OF TODAY JUST IGNORE HIM AND DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO BECOME PRESIDENT DO NOT FEED INTO HIS WAYS DO NOT GO BACK AND FOURTH WITH HIM BE THE BETTER MAN AND JUST AGAIN GET THE JOB DONE DO BE PETTY LIKE HIM AND YOU WILL SEE WHO WILL COME OUT ON TOP BALTIMORE MD MARIA

Why is this being spun this way?They have spent months saying Obama doesn't look Presidential.Then when Obama says he doesn't look like the Presidents on the bills he gets accused of the race card.This is outrageous.The Republicans make me sick.

Obama plays the race card, the blue collar card, the Jew card, the senior card, the women card, the Latino card - any card he can get his power-driven hands on. We all know that 99% of Blacks are voting for him. Isn't this racist? Voting for someone based on skin color - listen to all those vulgar rappers - Obama's their man. This is disgusting. Had a white pop singer sang trash about Obama - we would have Al Sharpton marching in the street and cries of racism all over the place. Why is White America tolerating this reverse racism?

Obama, you made the racial remark about the presidents…… it was a very stupid mistake. But don't blame McCain for your mistakes. What does that say about your charachter?

How do you spell "desperate"?
J-O-H-N-M-C-C-A-I-N

Take your geritol and take your geritol, Old Man! You're pitiful!

This is the first time he did it, but he pulled the race card for no reason. There was NOTHING racist about the McCain ad. Again, too emotional and too defensive. Go to a psychiatrist and get the right chemicals for your imbalance. Calm down. Relax. Take deep breaths. If someone used racism against you, everyone will let them know, but you are imagining things this time. You are acting emotional and NOT presidential.

McCain is acting like he doesn't have anything to say that's worth hearing, so covers that fact with a lot of negative comments about Obama. McCain is really lowering himself or possibly revealing the real John McCain that shouldn't even be considered for the office of President of the United States. He doesn't sound up to it considering his lack of maturity or ability. He just doesn't come across as even intelligent.

Midgea notfallinginline.org….you are almost as pathetic as your candidate Hillary. Losers need to go to the back of the line and hush.

Just more smoke from the McCain camp.

My god, I am so sick of Obama and his campaign whining about race. Every time there is anything negative he goes right to the racist thing. Obama is the one who plays the race card, he did it against Hillary Clinton and now he is doing it against McCain. Is this what we can expect four years of listening to him whine about how he is picked on because he's black. Seriously, he is running for President, how much prejudice can he face, he is running for the most important job in the world. It's time for the Obama campaign to grow up, and accept that not everyone wants to vote for him. As a Democrat, I would vote for anyone over Obama.

mccain has played the race card. he's been perfecting his game since he voted against the mlk holiday. point is that he never stopped playing it. nor have many of the repugnicans. a bunch of elitist, supremist styled mccaininites. i see the black repunican talking head that is supposed to be a preacher trying to make sense of what he does for them. the fact is that the repugnicans don't care anything at all about him or that lovely black lady that is aways on cnn.

McCAIN'S CAMP HAVE SLYLY PLAYED THE RACE CARD.

I really rather not go there. Too many people have played that card frivolously. But somebody has to say it, because it is most appropriate and true and the right time.

The false "arrogance" accusation against Obama is old Jim Crow for "uppity negro". McSame''s supporters over 50-years old know this, as do older Hillary''s supporters. As a reminder it was the Clinton campaign that first leveled the bogus charge, when we all know Obama has been the most humble and gracious Christian nominee in generations.

Obama has been hounded to go dirty, to return lies for lies. But he remained above board, first with Hillary and now with McCain. And with utter humility Obama showed Hillary respect and acknowledged her leadership as a model for his two girls. This while Hillary was throwing everything at him including the "kitchen sink". If Obama was arrogant, he would have told Hillary where to jump off when the "Delegate Math" was in his favor back in March. If Obama was arrogant, why would he turn down a high paying Chicago law job for something as unpromising as community organizer?

People, this "arrogance" thing is a horrible lie with its roots back in the Jim Crow days when a Black man that could read and write and think was considered an "uppity negro".

Fortunately, a lot of people over 50 are turning from the Jim Crow ways and are starting fresh. While our young are refusing to buy into the racist ways of old.

LOL LOL LOL LOL

Of course Barack Obama plays the race card, every single fricken day of the week!!!

The man is black, winning all the black vote, and he seems to embrace that. But question the whys and he freaks out at ya saying youre a racist.

LOL

Barack is the new Black Panthers.

I actually had liked McCain once upon a time. Admittedly I was looking to vote for Obama when I first heard that he would be in this election. I was wishing that he would have run against "W" in '04. It doesn't change the fact that I had honestly liked McCain a whole lot and felt that his politics were progressive and smart. Now I see a man who I do not recognize at all. What happened? Why so much back tracking? Why does this man who once opposed Bush sound so much like him now.

There was a time when I thought that this election was win win and now I'm no longer a believer in this. If McCain wins this one, it will be utter garbage for us all. You guys need to pay attention to the actual facts and stop listening to the yellow journalism and other garbage.

Print my post,CNN.

I repeat…..I saw the interview with John King, and MCCain rightfully walked off when he got into his face. I also said that I thought Suzanne Malveaux sounded a might too emotional while reporting on Obama today on CNN. Some say she has become close to the obamas. Is that so?

McCain's new campaign mgr., Rick Davis, is one nasty dude! Wow. And he's got McCain thinking it's the right thing to do. Apparently, what mind is left is not his own!!!!

I heard the full recording from the Racine speech - and I was appalled at the lies McCain said throughout the speech. He said several blatant lies that have already been debunked in the press - but he said them anyway. So either he doesn't care that they're lies, or he's oblivious that they're lies. He said that Obama voted to raise taxes on people earning as low as $32,000, and he said that Obama wanted to remove troops from Iraq within 16 months regardless of any conditions on the ground. These have been debunked in public already, but McCain has no problem saying these lies again. I am apalled at how low McCain has sunk in his desperate attempt to malign his opponent.

for all of you uninformed people outthere, did you all miss the online political ads as well as people purposfully emphasizing his middle name??? He has definetly had those things brought against him! Remember the picture of him in traditional African garb and what a huge deal people made of it? Tell me race has not been made an issue by the repubs!

Same thing I heard from the Clintons. I guess its just everyone being mean to the poor little Obama. I wish people would just stop picking on him and just take what he says as the truth. He wants to make a cake out of rainbows and butterflies to feed the world so that one day, all nations can hold hands and sing camp songs.

Yes, McSame finally starts to show his true colors. Here is the pitiful excuse for a man that cheated on and divorced his injured wife. Here is the hot-head blow hard that is more full of his "maverick" image than his lock-step conservative voting record shows. Here is the disgraced Keating bag boy that pretends to be humbled and above such low-level politicking these days.

Keep rolling out the negativity, John, so the American voters can see the truth: a shallow politician like the current president that they really don't want to vote for again.

Willy wrote July 31st, 2008 4:30 pm ET

"BHO, and with the help of the meda, has been playing the victim card for this election you know , I'm black oh poor me I need to be a president."

YOU ARE A RACIST.

To all the racists who posts Barack "H" Obama to imply that Barack is a terrorist, TIMOTHY IS A LOCAL TERRORIST. Does it mean all "TIMOTHY'S" ARE TERRORISTS ? Go figure.

The conservative neocons and the closet racists were shocked to see the unprecedented reception Obama received in foreign lands. They are bitter because a half white man can energize the whole planet.

VOTE FOR YOUR McPUPPET If you support the following:

McCain voted for the Iraq war = quagmire

McCain voted for troop surge = he did not have to ! if he did not authorize the iraq war in the first place

McCain voted against the GI bill = is he really a vet ?

McCain voted against VA hospital funding in 2003-06 = Then ,why is he sending our troops to war ?

McCain voted against MLK holiday = Yeah right, he is for civil rights movement !!

McCain is against Roe vs Wade = he will change the supreme Court balance to overturn the roe vs Wade = listen PUMA / W V W V

McCain Remember the Keating Five

McCain is ignorant. He attacks Obama by using race. However, when Obama defends himself, he wants to say he is using the race card. McCain your a desperate. I don't want you as a leader. Learn how to use the internet.

mccain has done nothing for arizona - his "hero' statis is a sham! check it out other viet nam vets know the truth about him. he is old politics and will stab you in the back whether is ptsd is in flair up or not - the republicans have no leadership - they're game is up! the world is changing and so too must we as a nation. the day of the norman rockwell painting is over. this country is not all white christian and meat eaters. a vote for maccain is a vote for the death of our nation. the republican party will be known is history as the polit6ical party that destroyed the united states of america for money… and mccain is there new sub-zero iq puppet. i'm fed up with the whole thing!

Sandra:
Britney Spears has no contrast to Obama? In your effort to make McCain look stupid, you instead did it to yourself AND supported McCain point! When you say "no constrast" that means they're the same!
Also can you enlighten all of us not-so-enlightened Obama voters with what it means when you say the McCain campaign is getting "fully elementary?"
As for your guy getting us out of Iraq…only one thing to say….Afghanistan…
Obama's reality will bite his blind followers!

I am an Obama supporter and as much as it pains me to say this, Obama did in fact play the race card in the speech he gave. He would have been just fine with the speech had he not mentioned that "he does not look like the other presidents on the dollar bills". I have herd all of what he commented on either from the McCain campaign or it’s surrogates except the reference to him looking like other presidents on the dollar bill. Now the few negative ads I have seen from the Obama campaign have been very subtle but this one was out right wrong. I hope he will acknowledge the fact that he made a mistake and apologizes for it and then reverts back to the high road. Leave McCain in the gutter and let him sling all the mud he wants. Senator Obama is a better candidate than all of that.

'Cards' is a game and now McCain is playing his own game of race-baiting. The name of the game that he is playing is called the Race Card.

Sen. Obama won the primary by avoiding the lows taken against him. He will continue to follow that winning strategy while pointing out exactly where Sen. McCain is killing his chances by insulting the voters' intelligence.

I thought McCain was above this but I should not be surprised.

I keep hearing about Obama playing the "race card". How? By being born dark skinned? As to his statement that the other side will point out he does not look like past presidents—it's true, they have. Hillary did it towards the end of the primaries and the Republicans have pulled it out too.

I hope that the voters see through this tripe.

How can Obama be part of the ruling elite while still acting like a victim? He's a rock star who attracts 200,000 in Berlin and needs a football stadium to accept the DNC nomination. Then he turns around and acts like a victim the next day. If his campaign is going to play the race card then they are the racists! Hillary was rolled over by the race card but it's time for it to come to an end. It is UNTRUE that everyone who is going to vote against Barack Obama is a racist. Stop it!

I can't understand why John McCain would allow his campaign to be so inept and useless. Someone on his staff must have convinced him to just go negative as your positives just won't cut it.

I don't know if McCain is as useless as his campaign has projected him but any middle of the road Republican must already be in a political transition. After all it's their country and future as well.

McCain is so transparent, he is just opening the door so he can play the race card. Not falling for it, not this time. Say no to McCain, this is your brain, this is your brain on McCain… sizzzle…

Obama '08

Get out of the gutter, John.

I'm not defending what Obama said, because "they" (the Republicans) will try to paint him exactly as he stated. I believe where the flaw may have come in is if he said, specifically, that McCain would say these things. As an African-American, though, I will say, as the old folks used to say, "A HIT DOG WILL HOLLER!!!!" Take that for what you will.

Let's face it, McCain is a racist. He's loosing and now he's sunk to the lowest depths. The Replublican Party should dump McCain now. He should never have gotten this far. That's it! I'm going to vote for Obama. I've had enough of John McLoser.

Obama used the race card against the Clintons and he used it again 3 times yesterday comparing what he looks like to the portraits on our dollar bills.He is not as clever as in the ge as he was in the primaries.People have gotten wiser and and are more familiar with his little code words this time around.Too bad it is too late to change his nomination.As a Democrat I have moved on from the entire corrupt party.

Obama played the race card during the primary with Hillary and is doing it again.

mcsame has nothing to offer the american public. that is the reason every word out his mouth is sen. obama this, and sen obama that. he has absolutely nothing. nada. zero. could you imagine him in the white house? get real people..

Hillary was right!

And some Americans consider McCain a real American hero…..what a phony! McCain is a shameless liar, who lacks honesty, character and integrity. He is a hypocrite!

DEBATE! Someone find Barack and bring him to the debates. Choreographed sound bites and canned speeches are lame. Come to the forum, Barack! It's time…

The "Race Card"? That's pretty thin gruel coming from the GOP that found it's niche bashing immigrants and gays.

I guess McCain would be happier if Obama just sat back and ignored all those anonymous, false, and slanderous emails about Obama's religion, and background.

McCain will be four more years of Bush. His campaign is making that point loud and clear.

I would like to ask Senator McCain - Why do you allow people like Pat Buchanna represent you and say things like " Senator Obama need to prove he is one of us" When supporters of yours make statements like this on Sunday news shows I can't help but think they are your mouth piece. Why does Obama have to prove he is of of you? What does Buchannan mean by that? What I find more surprising is that no one in the media challenged Mr. Buchannan including the Obama camp? These supporters are using "fear" tactics to appeal to certain type of voters (Obama knows this) and this what Obama is objecting to. Senator McCain can pretend not to be aware but I for I'm not buying this.

The RNC has been using people like Hannity, Limbaugh and even Lou Dobbs (self proclaim independent) to shove their agenda down our throats. When these folks make comments it goes unchallenged. I'm tuning out from CNN because I find some of their reporting "tabloid like" there is no substantive issues being discussed. Jack Cafferty has a point - we should not carry water for McCain camp, we need to talk about jobs, taxes, gas prices, energy, etc. I'm still waiting for McCain to outline his economic plan other then say he will not raise taxes (maybe he won't)?

Please post this because I'm really concerned the road this election coverage has taken in the past week.

The race card has always been a big part of the Barack Star's playbook. He acts like he's taking the high road while tossing R-Bombs at his critics. If you are not voting for Barack then you are a racist. Sad!

Why have the pictures of Sen. Obama on Barakbook.com been altered to make Sen. Obama look angry and like a monkey? If this is not full blown racism… The only way that Sen. McCain knows about the "race card" is because he is the one who dealt it from the card deck.

The country is going down the tubes and we're borrowing money in order to throw it away in Iraq. In this environment, brought to you by eight years of George Bush, John McCain, and the Republican Party, all John McCain can offer is to whine that Obama is too popular. How sad.

John McCain is a crybaby.

I think McSame is going senile or something is wrong with him. I cannot believe he is running for President ,he cannot give a speach without a telepromter or smaller speaches he has to read off a paper what a laugh and you people want someone like that. Send Obama to Canada we people will have him as he is a smart man.

Instead of wondering if anything the Republicana say about Senator Obama is racist, I ask how could it not be? White people are already fearful of blacks whether they admit it or not. (I'm white by the way and was married to a black man for many years while living in a confederate area of the U.S.) So, when his middle name is made to stand out, his love of country is questioned, and he shows up on the cover of a major magazine in a muslim outfit (even if it was meant to be funny), I would say that it feeds on the fear whites already have and pushes them toward McCain or not voting at all. If McCain wins the election it will be because of the above. Just because no one wants to admit that there is a "grey elephant" in the room, doesn't mean that it isn't there, it just means that everyone refuses to admit it or can't see because they don't have enough awareness of race relations in this country to be able to see it. I guess this won't get online!!!!!!!!!

This is how BO operates. "Vote for me, I am the black guy and you owe it to us! If you don't, then you must be a racist, McCain is one, that's why he's running against me."

"Obama told audiences that his opponent is trying to make voters “scared” of him because he doesn’t look like past presidents"

That above comment is not the "race-card" folks, sorry to tell you. It states the obvious. If you took that comment as playing the "race-card" them maybe you need to do some soul searching on yourself. Maybe race is an issue with you if that's the conclusion you came to from that statement.

Once again, we get off topic with the McCain campaign.

My friends,

McCain = Recycled Bush

Is that what you want for 4 more years? Will there be anything left of America after that?

I wish PUMAs would just give it up and accept reality……Hillary ain't going to be VP …….or President eeeeeeeeeeever !!!!!!

Oh McWar give me a break, so we put two white girls in a negative ad with Obama , the same thing the Republicans did with Harold Ford in Tennessse the only difference this time, you have an intellegent person that threw your garbage back in your face. So take it like a man, you started the fight . As that old saying, if you can't run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.

I love CNN post… it brings out the Left wing nuts… You have had control of the house and senate for almost 2 years…. and in less then a year gas prices double and housing collapses… Good job.

And mcCain not talking about the issues.. Y won't obama debate McCain.. Cause he has nothing but crazy promises…

Obama is using the race card… Plan and simple… it worked for him before…Y not again right…But good call on McCain for calling him out on it… Something hillary wouldn't….And it killed her….

I heard Obama saved a group of children from a burning building with one of his speeches……

You need to PUT OR SHUT UP, McCain.

Stop the fear mongering and Obama can stop the race card… but, you haven't.

Obama '08

I have YET to hear Senator Obama, or any of his campaign, "play the race card". All I've ever heard him do is DEFEND himself against stupid attacks like this, and others. Get over it McCain…

Funny how the Obamites squeal whenever their mistakes catch up with them. I dare anybody to look on youtube.com and enter "Obama race card". There are videos of Obama claiming that others will bring up his color when nobody has! And, the liar then turns around and denies doing it. What an arrogant jerk!

Of course Obama played the race card. In the game of politics it's the only card he is holding. He can't really play " the things I've done" card or the "things I stand for card" ( seeing as how no one knows what he stands for). He is playing the hand he was dealt. A bunch of nothing and one smiling race card. It won the primary for him, why not whip it out again?

McCain i really like you but it seem you've got no original idea. All you do is talk about Obama. It is begining to look pitiful.

Please can Obama go back to Europe so he can have anohter 200,000 people adoring him. But please keep him there make him a German citizen and maybe he can run for presiendt there after all he is doing better there than in USA. He is so arrogant ane full of himself. He has played the race card fro, the very beginning an also he like to paint himself of being a new kind of politician. And yes he is he is a new generation of corrupted politicians frm the school of Chicago.

Hillary supporters please stay home of write her name in.

PUMA here

norml "green people should be outraged!' Lol!!!!

What DO you mean by race card McCain? I believe McCain is dissing about 1/3 of the country here.

dems play this card every election. what else is new. but to be fair, using paris and brit in the add was stupid.

McCain's strategy - Anything but reality. Smokescreens & Mirrors. Don't worry about that man behind the green curtain.

Well aren't the rethugs trying to appeal to that deep down fear in certain key battleground states that Obama does not have a similar value system or morals. McCain makes me sick!

LOL, what cards have the republicans been playing the last 8 years? For those that put bush in office and now maybe McCain should listen to this…and this is very true…..The Bigger the Lie, the Easier they will believe it. (IRAQ of course and add everything else)

O'bama 08-16

It is so so sad that a man that has earn a reputation for being fair, honest,and an honorable military person would allow it to be destroyed by a bunch of low lifes. It is also so so sad that this man has reach a level that he cannot comprehend when he is is making statements and saying things that is so so fair off the scale.

McCain knows like the nose on his face that Obama never made a statement implied a race statement. The statement was they are making me scary - apply to the rumor of Obama not being a christian, of him being (like Paris Hilton-rich little air-heads) , that Obama is an Each of these issues would make most folks not aware of the game too believe McCain statement.

Obama, please please change this game - let's leave McCain out their with his no brains and child like mentality - let's start please please turning the page, and start ADDRESSING THE ISSUES - ECONOMIC, EDUCATION, WARS, HIGH GAS PRICES.

May God keep McCain, a confused, dumb man out of the White House

McCain is proving to be an idiot just like his buddy George W. Bush currently in the Oval Office. How scary is that?

Okay we'll let's label McCain as an 'OLD GROUCHY MAN" as having repeated "SENIOR" moments in his speeches and comments.

I think this is another one of these "senior moments".

Numerous press has found that McCain has repeatedly made false accuastions against Obama. What does he do when he gets caught? He blames Obama and then shifts to a new negative tactic. He can't take on policy issues as the difference, he has to go ad homenen and even if he does address a policy issue, he can't do it without commenting on how Obama is wrong. Doesn't he trust the public to figure it out for himself?

10 years sober and discusted with myself over my past weakness.

I am getting disgusted with all of this. It is a shame that people are dragging Obama in the dirt like this.

I am giving up on all of this politic stuff. Too much stress for me. This will be my last blog. My vote is what counts - not this blogging crap.

goodbye CNN.

John McCain hasn't said a non political, decent, honorable thing since Tim Russert died.

Lets talk about risk, Obama at lease offers high return, McCain just offers the same steady declines. We've had two wars, two recessions, MULTIPLE crises, and have swiftly been loosing our standard of living, our liberties, and our peace of mind. Why isn't it time for a different course of action?

A person who points out the obvious is "playing the race card"? I think McCain needs to know what that really means — ala Jesse Jackson's blame / victim mentality!

Obama, on the other hand, advocates taking personal responsibility. He doesn't say that his race should be used as a weapon to gain favorability. Instead, he is honest and forthright about who he is and what he believes in.

obama as pulled this kind of stunt since the primaries. he accuses the opposition of what he himself brings up. nobody as said anything about obama except how they differ on policies, the rest is made up by obama just like he did with hillary. he keeps talking about what they will probably say about him, not what they say about him. i think his problem is he knows his background will come up and he is trying to soften the damage by making the public think what they say won't be true. myself i still would like an explanation on why he doesn't buy his kids christmas and birthday gifts.

When Obama's people do everything they can to get black people registered so they can vote for him because he is black, then they definitely are playing the race card. And it should be called what it is — racism.

Without a doubt Obama has been playing the race card. He used it against Hillary and now he is using it against McCain. How quick people forget about Obamas mentor Rev. Wright.

Remember Obama is half white and half black. He plays both sides of the aisle depending who his audience is. Ive never seen a bigger hypocrite in my life.

Do not be fooled by a man who bases his decisions on what is going to benefit him the most on that paticular day.

Go McCain

I saw a piece about how older women do not like Obama. Well if they vote for McCain they are voting against themselves. McCain is anti choice and against equal pay for women in the workplace. In addition Obama has promised to roll back taxes on social security recipients who make les than 50 K. I am an older women and I think Obama is the answer to our problems in this country.

Pretend Obama was white for a minute…. think of the rumors that he wouldn't have to deal with…

then ask where do these rumors come from? and Who benifits most from these rumors

Perhaps when Sen. Obama stated that he didn't look like the presidents who are currently on our currency he meant that he wasn't wearing a powdered wig or that he was thin or maybe that he had big ears! Why did McCain automatically think he meant race!!!

Well, well, karl rove is back. you would think that McCain would not use his tactics since he was roved in 2000, when the bush campaign spread lies about McCain fathering a a black child in Alabama and the south. but McCain has not scruples, no values. He cheated on his first wife and divorced when she was ill and married Cindy who was younger, richer and better looking. What an opportunist.

McCain is right all the way that oboma is playing the race card one would have to be blind to see it and that is wrong on oboma's part he is suppose to be an all american president white ,yellow, brown, or what ever color he even acts like a celebrate like a real actor maybe he is an acter but he sure isn't running for the president more like an actor for a part in a movie

McCain hears what he wants to hear! Sometimes that is worrisome.

Please vote Republicans. The best thing happened to Developing countries is a Repub. presidency.

While you guys are busy with other things, we (Brazil/India/China/Russia, the BRIC ) prosper economacilly.

Sure McStupid, we definetly think obama is playing the race card..

This is same type of treatment the Obama campaign did to the Clintons. Senator Obama is despicable and does not offer anything but words. They are always playing the race card.

America will not be fooled by this shallow, inexperienced politician. I guess he thinks portraying a victim is a winning strategy.

We will choose experience, judgment, and a genuine war hero over a zero every time!

Democrats for McCain!

Obama is a "race baiter". He used the same tactic in the primaries against Bill Clinton.

Obama may be inexperienced on the national scene, but he sure likes to show his slimy Chicago-style political savy whenever he can. I think he will do anything to get elected.

I hope he loses the election as I really think he would be better as a model in GQ Magazine. His poses all seem so picture perfect. Phoney, but picture perfect.

Maybe McCain will have a heart attack. Call it cruel. My Nation has been under attack by these lunitics for 8 years. This is no place I want to leave my kids. DISGUSTING OLD MAN. SICK.

It's not playing the race card when people believe things about you that are not true and the lies are based about your race. When you tell someone to not look at you only for your skin color and to not fear you because of your name, that is not playing the race card. That asking people not to be simple and idiotic. Please people are you really going to fall for this?

I am sick and tired of people complaining about people of color "pulling the race card." Well, when people treat you due to your outside appearance, accent, or whatever and you get called on it. DON'T GET MAD. If you really believe "we're all Americans" then treat everyone accordingly.

Give me a break. The Obama campaign from the very beginning has defty made race an issue. His campaign stump speech refers to how he became a "community organizer" in the South Side of Chicago rather than a big time money making lawyer. His surrogates blasted the Clintons for their "racist" remarks. Come on America! Obama has used his race to his advantage by accusing anyone who says anything remotely negative as being racist. This detracts from the real issues of his errors in judgment (Rezko, Wright for example) and his charactert (20 years a member of a black liberation church where the pastor preached words of hate and racism) and his super light resume.

Too bad CNN has become a pimp for McCain. You guys accept this stuff and throw it out to the public giving credence to the lies. Do your jobs or just admit you are entertainers.

McCain campaign “using the same old low-road politics to distract voters from the real issues.”Karl Rove Play book !!!

Mccain Old pissy Pants !!

Well when you are nothing else—do nothing, say-anything, ineperienced, empty vessel—you gotta do something. Obama has to use the race card, that is all he has. Vote for me or you are racist. No way anyone could doubt or disagree with the messiah.

John McCain. Gettin' ready to scare the white folks! God this is sickening. I am a White male - Portland, OR. How could this country even think about rewarding this ridiculous, murderous, economically reckless party with another 4 years? We can't let it happen folks.

Let's play the age card McCain:

McCain is too old.

Bad breath OLD!
Wrinkly skin OLD!
Shuffles around on stage OLD!
Can't remember the difference between Shiite and Sunni OLD!
Doesn't know how to use the internet OLD!
Falls asleep in the Senate OLD!

OLD! OLD! OLD! OLD! OLD! OLD! REALLY, REALLY, REALLY OLD!!!

CNN and their love fest for McOLD wild probably not even post this!!

Of course he thinks they're fair. As long as they get him into the White House. Whatever it takes ehh Old-Politics McCain?

Wow… Now McCain is trying to race bait… after all of the negative campaigning he's been doing. All this after promising to run a positive, respectful campaign.

Americans need to ask ourselves is McCain worthy of the American people?

More importantly… has McCain completely lost his mind?

Yes, Obama has been playing the race card for his benefit, since the very beginning. Search for the % of black donors in his campaign. If Obama has the 94% black voting for him , how come he shows 98% whites sitting behind him on every rally?
ThANKS,
NIL

CNN when will we be introduced to the 10 year old little girl who is runninng McSlime's Campaign? If McSlime is "proud" of the juvenile Spears, Hilton ad he is the most immature 71 year old on the planet and is in need of psychiatric help. John McSlime= PATHETIC!

P.S. To all of those McSlime supporter morons calling for a debate, be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. Just get used to saying President Obama!

I think it's about time SOMEONE said it, and I'm glad that McCain did. Obama used sexism and race against Hillardy Clinton, and he has been using race against McCain. Obama and his supporters have been making everyone feel that if they don't vote for Obama, then they're racists. If anyone has taken the low road, it's been Obama all along. I am proud of McCain for standing up to this sort of stuff, when everyone else is too afraid of being called a racist for not voting for Obama. Thank you Senator McCain, this is exactly what we need in Washington.

McCain 08!

Most people who claim to have seen Obama play a "race card," even on these comment boards, seem to go on and say ridiculous things like how he "whines" or demands preferential treatment because he's black.

But making other people's racism apparent isn't playing a "race card."

I think people would (and often do) accuse ANY black politician of playing a "race card." Obama could literally be the savior of the world and it wouldn't matter to those saying he was "arrogant" (read "uppity") or an "affirmative action candidate."

McLame doesnt have time to keep track of the ads he is toooo busy with those many thousands of folks standing in the weather at his Town Halls to see this dried up old man repeat his previopus message SurgeSurgeWar War ,Bomb Bomb Iran and keeping up changing depends and naps take the other part of each day .
He is an avid fan of Star Wars

I am amazed that people in America don't realize that this race is a factor in the election. If there were two white men, this would not be an issue. Face it, Barack Obama is getting 98% of the black vote because traditionally African Americans vote party lines usually voting for a Democrate.

Let's face it, there are some people in America that are racist or an undercover racist. Some individuals are not telling the truth. Be real.

This is the first time America is faced with the first African American candidate. Most Americans cannot relate to Obama, he has a rare ethnic background.

Race is an issue.

We need to get real on this issue.

Obama will play every trick in the book = same old politics. All McCain's camp did was call him out on this, as they have been doing all along.

I love the excuse given by Obama's campaign -
“What Barack Obama was talking about was that he didn’t get here after spending decades in Washington,” Gibbs said. “There is nothing more to this than the fact that he was describing that he was new to the political scene."

"New to the political scene"? Finally some self-truth about Obama's lack of experience.

Oh McCain Camp. The truth hurts doen't it. You are pathetic. The American People have had enough of your party and your kind.

Obama did not play the rce card. he was saying what he already knows. the racists gop ALWAYS play the race card.

Tara Wall is Horrilbe,she should just go bleach her skin

Well, I am reminded that the current President looks somewhat like those past Presidents. However, I am also reminded of how dissappointed I have been in the current President's leadership. Maybe that is why a completely different way of doing things is so appealing. I just wish that Obama would let us know with whom he will surround himself if he achieves the office of President. I would still feel better if I knew that Hillary Clinton was Obama's VP choice.

Obama has played the race card since the beginning and no one stopped him. He started it, blamed the Clintons, and now he is blaming McCain. Grow up Obama.
PUMA

McCain is nuts out of his mind. If anyone votes for him we are in trouble.Voting for a white crazy man is better than a progressive black man? I think not.

Obama can't say it - but McCain is doing extactly what the HC campaign did when she was loosing - GO NEGATIVE - hopefully it won't work, and people are more aware, more educated enough to see through this - it's too important to fall for the old style politics, too much is at stake for 4 more years of the USA being run by corporatations, special interest groups - the money that has been made by large corporations, investment banks, oil is a disgrace - when the rest of us are struggling these people are rolling in cash!
How any normal person with a brain can consider voting for McCain is beyond me - look at the last 8 years how could Obama possilby do any worse!!!??? Also it does matter what the rest of world thinks of the US - it's blind ignorance and the hight of arrogance not to this so!

HE IS PLAYING THE RACE CARD. HE HAS BEEN EVER SINCE THE SC PRIMARIES WHEN THE MEDIA AND HIS FOLLOWERS ATTACKED BILL CLINTON UNFAIRLY. SURELY THE AMERICANS ARE AWARE OF THIS CONNIVING MAN BY NOW. VOTE OBAMA DOWN.

Mr. McCain needs to do anything he wants to do because Obama has Brain washed everyone into thinking he is a Black God! Obama made this fake fame up and lied his way to the top trashing the Clinton's anyone in his way. The Media is one side when it comes to Obama great fame. It really makes me sick to turn on the Tv and watch CNN news. Thank God someone with nuts can stand up to Obama lies!!

I Am Casting My Vote Based On Looks! Mccain Has Too Many Neck Wrinkles To Get My Vote! I Have Just Played My Age Card!

There is nothing more pathetic than scared Republicans. If you can't dig up dirt on your opponent, then make stuff up. Hillary threw the kitchen sink, John McCain is throwing the septic tank! I am still in shock that the only person they can find is John McCain. I can't wait to vote in November and send this man to a retirement home.

This is simply an underhanded way of bring race into the campaign by McCain himself. He knows there are still tons of racists in this country so by throwing the "race card" allegation out there he is targeting these exact people. It doesn't matter if it's true or not, the mere fact that it might be will give these racist Americans fuel for their hatred.

A rather ingenious Rove move, actually. It gets people to focus on the superficial, meaningless ways in which Obama is different from many of us instead of the substantive, meaningful way in which he is unified with all of us (interest in fixing the economy, solving the energy crisis, etc.).

Basically, it's a way of obliquely 'playing the race card' by directly accusing your opponent of 'playing the race card'. Brilliant - but GOP hypocrisy FIRMLY on the low road, to be sure.

nobodys playing the race card look in the mirror when you make the charge of someone playing the race card. this is what you race dividers wanted all the long. its the republicans ACE IN THE HOLE.

A shout out to - "A Nightingale Sings in Berkley Square". It's Barkley Square.

Is there anything that the McCain camp have said or done in the last week (to discredit Obama) divisive, negative, shameful and wrong? McCain seem to be acting as if he is the adult chastising a child………….then he ran those childish Ads.

Give me a break.

To all the PUMA's out there. I won't even begin to discuss the very fact that McCain pretty much stands against EVERYTHING that Hillary stood for and that your vote for him is as much a vote AGAINST HER as it is against Obama and the DNC.

But, this delusion that a vote against Obama this fall will make HIllary a sure thing in 2012 doesn't take into account that there are a lot more dedicated Democrats who will hold Hillary libel for his losing the election. Obama loses, and Hillary's political career, at least as a Democrat, will be put to an end by those look