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 looking for somebody to blame.

OK…OK…I know you may say they would do this just to be bitter…but whose bitter now???? PLEASE…there is too much at stake this fall. If you are a TRUE Democrat…no…ANYBODY who wants the nightmare of the last 8 years to end…you MUST vote for Obama. Even if you don't vote for McCain, a vote for Nader, Barr, a write in for Hillary, or no vote will do the same damage.

Ask yourself…do you really care about America and it's future???

McCain is getting desperate.
He has made no real ground for weeks. While Obama gradually moves into the mainstream, solidifying and enhancing his led.

Obama and fans have from the beginning made the white people
of this country out to be unfairly judgemental of the black race, when
in fact that is not true, he has played the race card from the very onset
of this campaign.

Senator John McCain is a fine one to talk – HA. He has been attacking Senator Obama even before anyone knew that he would be the Democratic nominee. Those attacks have intensified of late and it looks like real desperation on Senator McCain's part. As far as race goes it could be said that he played the race card with his commerical using Hilton & Spears. Senator McCain has to recognize the reality of it – Senator Obama is running an impeccable campagin in comparison to his.

Catty is right on the money, the Clintons were not so quietly bringing up race in the primary.

This will be the ultimate card the Obama campaign,and the media, will play over and over when the polls go against Sen Obama.

Are you serious? McCain puts two, Caucasian women (no males) in a demeaning ad against Obama, and John is somehow not playing the race card, much less a sexist card. Does McCain think no one would notice this apparent hypocrisy?

Fair, McCain? Please try to explain that to Paris Hilton's parents, who donated to your campaign.

It's ridiculous to say Obama played the race card. McCain doesn't have a plan for turning this country around so he's trying to win by attacking Obama. He is running a dishonorable campaign and is not an honorable man. He is unworthy of the presidency.

Darn right it's fair, and it's about time someone called the Obama camp on this incessant playing of the race card.

I stood by and watched them do it throughout the Democratic Primary, and I'm sick and tired of watching them do it now.

PUMA
McCain '08

Yup McSurge. the race card charge is fair and come on now…adnit it. You think the voters suffering from this Republican ruined economy. Are a bunch of Whiners. Oh by the way. I saw a close up of your custom Italian, farragamo shoes. Very nice.

McCain conveniently forgets that if Obama is playing the race card, it is because his campaign dealt it to him. When McCain was nominated by the Republicans, I was pleased, and I thought we'd get an honest debate. However, that has proven not to be the case with the McCain campaign sinking to a new low each week.

For someone who has been saying all along that he wants to run a fair campaign based on the issues, McCain is running the most negative campaign I have ever seen. He harps over and over about things, as if we all are so stupid we can't figure anything out ourselves. He must protect us from our own judgment.

This is really getting old. keep to the issues, McCain!

At a point it looked like McCain was going to pitch a hissy with John King. The press should keep getting in his face then the people will see the real mccain out of control. I was insulted that mccain compared Obama with those B*****s, That certainly was low ball. McCain's attacks are certainly about race and he knows it. Wake up America. What's this I hear about McCains wife selling her beer in Cuba?

Oh My God. I hate it when people say this. "The race card" — 1) it's dealt, not played (think about it); 2) Isn't McCain the one bringing up race? When did Obama say the McCain camp was being racist?

Answer: He didn't. He said they were trying to scare people because he is different than what we've had before, which is true. They did the same thing with JFK, RFK, tried it on Hillary. Looks like McCain is the one playing the race card to me. This accusation is scurrilous and pitiful. To borrow a phrase from Madame Clinton "Shame on you", McCain!

Obama 08!!!! that is the real deal America, let Mcsame go to bed

McCain is taking is plays Bill Clinton's play book. It did not work for Hillary and it will not work for McCain.

These are signs of dementia
Please excuse him… This is really unfortunate

We watched it with Hillary and now Obama pulls it out with McCain. The media calls it white guilt. Could someone please explain that to me. What is white guilt. I was hoping to vote for the person who would be able to move this country forward and clean up Bush's 8 year mess. The problem either Obama or McCain are not capable of doing it.

Barack brought up a point of the Repubs trying to define who he is.. His comments are not race playing cards… McCain is working the spin doctor to try and look humble.. listen to his tone and THAT "my Friends" is because McNegativead has been called grounchy, confused and angry..

quote yesterday- the "grouch-n-chief.." ..

Beside — Barack is right… he DOESN"T look like anybody on money.. They are ALL green..!!

The only one trying to drive the race card is the distress talk express..

You all scream about "distractions" but have you ever noticed that this is the crap you live for. Blogs on here about issues never get many hits, however, throw race in and it lights up with comments. The problem here is you.

Now as for Obama…he does use race as a shield. He has done it from day one, used it to make many hate Bill and Hillary, and now his campaign will roll it out again. If Obama wants to be treated like everyone else, he should stop making comments that create the race debate.

TAKE IT FROM A BLACK MAN, YOU O-BAMBI IS AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN TRYING TO PLAY THE RACE CARD. YET JESSE JACKSON DON'T EVEN LIKE THE GIRLY-MAN.

THE RACE CARD IS OBAMA'S FIRST HAND PLAY FROM THE BEGINING.

McCain makes me sick!

You play the race card when you declare that people will not vote for me because my face is not like the faces on the American currency.

You play the race card when you accuse ex-President Clinton, of all people, as playing the race card.

You play the race card when you accuse people who will not vote for Obama and call them racist.

ETC.ETC.ETC.

PEOPLE WILL NOT VOTE FOR YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT EXPERIENCED ENOUGH, NOT INTELLIGENT ENOUGH AND NOT PRESIDENCIAL ENOUGH.

McCry is an old senile man who desperately needs a lot of growing up to do. The SAME mud that he throws out to Obama comes back and slaps him in the face. What does he expect? The man needs to GROW UP !

Sandra, You think your special, he wasn't talking about you african americans….he was talking about the democrat positions. You Idiot, always trying to find a racist comment in a simple statement. Oh and I'm democrat btw.

HAHAHAHA !!! That wussy O-bambi is just as much girly as Brittney and Paris anyway. Quit whinning already, you are lucky I am not the one putting those ads together. I would explain just how close a friend and partner Rezco the project lord is to him. And just how the people of Chicago have suffered under Rezco and just how much O-bambi has recieved from Rezco. So just QUIT YOUR WINNING, Hillary is more stronger than you are. You don't like the ads, TOO FRIGGIN BAD !!! If the shoe fits wear it. If you don't like people exposing the true O-bambi, then man-up and quit acting like a girl. HAHAHAHA !!!

McCain is getting to be a joke.

Obama's tax plan LOWERS taxes on everyone here than McCain's plan does. Obama's health plans cover MORE people than McCain's non-plan. Obama's plans lead to a LOWER deficit than McCain's plan. Those are FACTS – google it.

Obama is for lower taxes and a lower deficit. That's conservative ideals I can believe in. McCain provides fewer tax breaks to those making less than $230,000 a year and gives us a bigger deficit to boot. The republicans are lying to you about their economic plans. Don't be fooled.

I agree. Barack will do anything to bring in his race card. he wants to have sympathy from hardworking american people. It shows that he is lacking experience. It was too soon to get into Presidential race. Barack has no achievements and no decency.

Obama doesn't have to bring up race because a lot of McCain supporters have done so already. I have seen so many blogs and interviews of McCain supporters that say they would never vote for a black man for President. It's a shame that Obama's strong policies and issues, Harvard education and high integrity of a man still isn't good enough for some people.

Whatever!!! It's good enough for me and is good enough to lead this country!!!!

He has been since day one and the press only helps him by trying to make the other side to blame.

Obama has used even stronger language. According to a June 20 Reuters wire service story, Obama said at a Florida fundraiser,"they're going to try to make you afraid of me," Obama said. "He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?"

While, I agree that maybe Obama's statements were racially charged, I do believe that he has a good point. A lot of the republicans that I work with have been spouting comments, such as, "Obama is a muslim" and "Obama=Osama". It is comments such as these that fuel the fire and force him to publicly state that he is just another American even if he has a funny name and doesn't look like the other candidates. The Republican party has been undermining themselves and their goals by pointing out these differences because it makes them look petty and childish. And we should hold the people that want us to elect them to higher standards. I would also like to point out that JFK went through the same difficulties that Obama is especially with the older crowd. He was younger, good looking, and different. Both Obama and JFK may have star-like quality but it doesn't and didn't negate their ability to lead. Wouldn't it be nice if we had a president that could speak English properly, didn't make ashamed that we were from Texas or the United States, perhaps one that gets us away from the "good ol' boys" who play favorites? I'd also like a president who didn't lie to me and gave me hope, but that may be too much to ask for. God, forbid we actually think the person we are voting for is a decent fellow and likable enough.

Some of us are smart enough to know what McCain and the Republicans really mean when they call Obama arrogant.

We need not say any more … but we will remember and hold the GOP accountable.

Does anyone have a hanky??? Let me get this straight…McCain can put out an ad likening Obama to notorious celebrities but Obama is not allowed to reference a legitimate argument Republicans are making concerning his ethnicity?? I bet McCain didn't play in the sandbox well with others. What a cry-baby!!!

Is it not enough that there are a vast array of policy differences among the two candidates that we really need to see commercials about Obama's celebrity status??? Who cares??? My guess is that McCain is jealous…and to say that Obama's reference to being black is devisive but that commercial isn't is absurd!!!

God help us if McCain is our next president…

Hey McCain, how about talking about the issues instead of trying to use fear and slander to smear Obama?

Oh right, cause you haven't got any new ideas to get things done the right way in America.

McSame for the lose.

On another note: Let me address this "empty suit" theory. IF Obama is just as some of you say "an empty suit", I'll take that empty suit anyday over the one filled with moth balls.

"What's that… you're challenging me on my imaginary economic plan? You don't agree with my 'soak the rich' tax plan either? Then you Sir, are a racist."

McCain is the one mentioning "The Race Card," therefore he is the one who is playing it. The very term "Playing the Race Card" is racist because it implies that a black man is not permitted to defend himself.

"It's divisive, negative, shameful and wrong,"

If the McCain handler is talking about their lobbyist tabloid trash, he's right.

But McCain is "proud" of his bimbo ad.

Go home.

The truth is blame Hillary. She gave the republicans all they need to win this year against Obama. Yes, I know many don't want to hear this but it's true. She did. McCain is just finishing up where she left off. I don't hold him responsible on this one. He's just using what she already used. Why not? There are plenty of racists out there just willing.

I'm actually scared if McShame is elected. His rhetoric would be worse than W's when it comes to dealing with the "Axis of Evil". So far McShame is only offering rhetoric and no substance (wait didn't his Spears ad just accuse Obama of this), except that McSame's words definately will not change the tone in Wasington.

TEPID WEENIE

John McCain is angry and old nothing help him he need to go home and chill out. He is winning and gallous of Obama 's trip and love that people have for him. I still remember his interview that he had and said we do not want negative Campaign HA HA HA . McCain may have experience, too much experience as a solder, but I worry about his judgment in coming years as president

I hope McCain loses his seat in the senate as well!

McCain shouldn't have to defend himself. Obama DID throw out the race card. He did it during his campaign against Hillary and he's doing it now. It's become his standard operating procedure. Throw the race card out there. Then when he's called on it tell everybody "poor me, they're attacking me because of my race again." It's become so predictable, it's laughable. And, you people keep falling for it every time. Get off the Kool-aid and come back over to the reality side of the fence.

As low as he can get…sick and tired!

What race card has been played?! McCain says that a race card has been played, but doesn't elucidate as to what that specific card was.

Quote or it never happened, McCain.

Sad to see Mccain like this. He's let Rove dictate what to do. Each day Mccain stoops lower than the day before. It's really unfortunate because he is only hurting himself and his chances. At times, it seems as though he really doesn't care (oblivious) about what he does or says. Probably because others are running his campaign and he's only notified later about what transpired. I don't know what's going on there (at Mccain campaign) but it went from being funny to just being pathetic and sad.

After many gaffes, he now lets his people say things for him, he is planning to limit media access and let the superlatives do the talking. From what I gather, Mccain believes that Bush won by being mean and negative. He thinks that is how to win, he's letting other people run the show the way they see fit. They see Americans are gullible fools.

Nonetheless, we should cut Mccain some slack, the man is OVER 70 and it's ok to make gaffes and mistake (more often) at that age. For a few months, Mccain has said little to nothing about issues. He is seemingly obsessed with Obama and talks in a way that he is really angry at him, can't bear the notion of someone challanging him. Temper? Mccain is the oldest person to ever run for President. He runs a lame campaign and any person with good head on their shoulders, logical people (not the ones using Rush's talking points) can see that he is simply too old and can't fix the monumental problems facing America.

Obama knows that there are people who simply will not vote for him, they're not concerned with the issues facing America today, only to militantly oppose Obama and make no secret of their obsession with him, as well. This election, thanks to Mccain, Rove, has taken the shape of the '04 election.

LOL just heard his manager. They are desperate and going down in flames!

McBush can't seem to discuss issues intelligently so he attacks him for the popular reception he got overseas. Unlike a Bush visit Obama was well received and there was no protesting and burning of american flags. McBush has milked his POW status for years and now he whines like a child who has no friends. He seems to have forgotten the thousand of other POWs who chose not to exploit their captivity. If not for the rank of his father he would be just another POW, that's the only reason he was offered an early release. Get over it McBush today's first time voters, don't care when they see the struggles of their families and they certainly don't want to look forward to 100 years of war. Act like a grow-up!

John Mccain is one nasty minded old man and he scares me.

They are trying to make "blue collar" Americans more blue collar by making them believe that Obama is not "one of us". They know how to play the race card and turn it around when Obama uses the same words they used. The Republicans are so low. I cannot understand how Americans vote for these people. These are really low humans that do not deserve to be Americans.
Obama '08

What should we be talking about more…Obama's statement in reaction to four consecutive negative ads…

or not knowing the difference between Sunni and Shia (John McCain)…

or flip-flopping on offshore drilling (John McCain)…

or supporting the high wage earner tax cuts of George Bush (John McCain–the same tax cuts he OPPOSED for 5 years prior)…

Or FORGETTING how he voted against insurance companies covering birth control like Viagra, forgetting that he opposed the new GI bill and 2 other pieces of troop-friendly legislation, forgetting that the so-called "Anbar Awakening" happened 5 month prior to his precious surge, or forgetting that he predicted the Iraq war would be a short affair that would only cost us a few billion dollars AND we'd be greeted as liberators, to boot.

Now. WHO LOOKS like a President here?

America, in the 21st century do you want to be led by a 72 year old jerk who does not know how to use computer. Are we going back to the stone age

Please someone explain to me what a "race card" is and how a person of a certain race can pull "a race card" on his own race? Why are Americans still so concerned about race?

Seems to this outside observer, Obama is fighting the inaccurate smears that he has faced right from the primaries. I would think the best way to debunk these is to openly challenge them.

Is MCain not playing POW card. When you're dumb and you are shot down at war and you think that qualifies you for president.

Guilt trip? How about 'I'm a poor victim POW in a hospital bed -vote for me-McCon artist ads?

Mcstretcher is really at a point of having nothing to stand on. He is old
grumpy and whining. please call the nurse and give him a sedative.
he is loosing his marbles. what happened to honesty. NO STRAIGHT TALK.

John McCain is loosing it !

McCain campaign was “using the same old low-road politics to distract voters from the real issues***”An Attack a Day will keep the Issues Away**** Can we all get alone …H_LL No! HA! HA! HA!
This is funny Grown A_S Men ..he's playing the Race card no he did it during the primary ……Shut the H_LL up I need some Gas in my SUV and some Food Stamps

CNN Plz Post 3rd try

I'm so tired of race card politics. If anyone needs to play the race card it's Caucasians being discriminated against because they are what they are. It's like apo;ogizing for being alive and breathing on the planet.

Talking about the race card is a great tactic when your campaign is starting to see the horizon. [Nov. 08] Using the patrotic card is also not a bad idea. The media blamed Hillary for whining about the the Obama campaign this spring. I guess the media will not do the same for the Mcsame 08 campaign. Ratings need rule the media.

What makes us think that his saying he doesn't look like any of the other pres. is the race card? It could have been the age card. Besides, it's the truth. He doesn't look like the others. McCain looks like an Eisenhour dime to me, but I'm going blind. McCain is pushing the envelope and drawing at strings. I guess McCain's going to dissect every sentence Obama says. What a waste of time and money. I hope Obama rises above it.

Can SOMEBODY tell me how it benefits OBAMA to play RACE????

HALF OF THE COUNTRY WON'T VOTE FOR HIM 'BECAUSE' OF IT !

DUH !

Obama didn't say "HIS OPPONENT". He said "THE REPUBLICANS." There is a difference here, and I hope people actually pay attention. McCain hasn't played the race-fear card YET, but the Republicans have, and that's what Obama was hinting at.
BUT having said that, Obama has to be careful not to talk about the "cards" until he gets provoked. 'Cause they will go ahead and play the race card, while he cries wolf.
CNN, I'm a big fan of yours, but please quote the candidates word for word.

I am really glad someone had the guts to finally call Senator Obama on playing the race card it is inappropriate for Obama to state that the GOP is trying to scare people becuase he does not look like the president on the dollar bill. If the GOP does not meet this head on, the Obama campaign will be getting away with giving the impression that they are racist. This is precisly Obama's plan and this Plan is out of line and definately the Obama Low Road of politics…

Democrat from California

McCain says 'race card' charges are fair……

well, of course HE does…..

DOES MCCAIN SPEAK FOR THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN TODAY?

When Obama played the race card in his own party he knew it will put the Clintons on offence. The McCain campaign needs to expose this race card playing right away, and every single time they play it.

"I'm sorry to say that it is. It's legitimate," McCain told CNN's John King. "And there's no place in this campaign for that. There's no place for it and we shouldn't be doing it."

"Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck. It's divisive, negative, shameful and wrong," Davis said in a statement sent to reporters.

Repeat, repeat, repeat.

Old Man McCain is doing well in the polls, but is still running scared of Obama. Very strange.

Some one asked if McWar was the best GOP had to pick from since they all go the Low Road spending their time on negative comments know nothing else they could pick their candidates in the dark I bet thats what they did?
The only thing they want is SURGE SURGE SURGE , Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran /MORE WAR WAR WAR .

You McCain defenders on here are idiots. You have no facts, you just spout opinions and lies.

1) I don't see Obama whining. McCain and camp ARE running ads that portray Obama as non-white and scary. Just because he has the courage to ask people to look beyond that BS doesn't make him a whiner. It makes him more of a man than McCain.

2) I don't see Obama making America weak. Just because world leaders embraced Obama more than McCain doesn't make him weak, in fact it makes Obama more likely to get things done in the world to our advantage. We (Americans) can't step foot in the middle east without a helicopter convey under Bush/McCain leadership.

3) Obama supports the troops and the military much more than McCain. McCain lies and says veterans groups all prefer him more than Obama, when in reality if you read the voting record McCain is absentee at best. Obama has a much better record of voting for veteran's right that McCain. He's just hoping voters are too stupid to notice the difference.

4) I don't see him playing the victim card. Both Clintons, Ferraro, McCain and other Republicans have made racist statements. Obama didn't say the words, and he didn't think the thoughts. Obama asks people to get beyond this and solve problems. If McCain lovers want Obama to stop asking people to look past race and gaining sympathy, then stop making racist statements trying to hurt him based on skin color. Easy.

5) Obama is a snake? Slithers away? Maybe. He's a politician, moron, and if you think he's doing it anywhere near as much as McCain and Clinton did, you need to adjust your medication, because you can't see clearly or accept facts.

And clearly since the Internet forum here gives you complete anonymity, you feel justified in coming on here and spewing hatred and ignorance and complete BS. God bless CNN. Let's hope Darwin does his thing long before you get near a voting lever.

WHO CARES WHAT COLOR YOU ARE—You are an AMERICAN MAN RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, aren't you? QUIT the broad strokes, quit the smoke and mirrors and TALK DETAILS ABOUT YOUR PLANS!

Racism ISN'T ONLY against African Americans….what about the Illegal Immigrant that got BEATEN TO DEATH in PA Senator Obama?

INSTEAD of pointing out the color of your skin, what do YOU plan to do, as President, to get RID of the racism in our country?

McCain will do anything to win but this I must say was very low.

Obama
08

Come on people.
Who has brought up race in this campaign ever since the primary's started? Barack Obama.

Clinton – "His campaign is a fairy tale."
Obama – "What's that supposed to mean? I'm black?"

Voter – "I'm just not sure he has enough experience."
Obama – "It's because I'm black, isn't it?"

McCain – "His policies and his views are not what this country needs."
Obama – "If you don't vote for me, you are racist."

I don't remember this country ever electing a pair of twins to the Presidency, so what else does "I don't look like the other Presidents"
refer to? His height?

McCain is such a fool. I'm sick of it. All I want is for this election to be over and for Obama to be President. McCain is so childish and it sickens me because this just reminds me of a Bush campaign. Great…

People are not afraid of you Obama. Your arrogance disgusts them! You are totally responsible for this!

go to hell old man. you are worth nothing!

What people need to understand is that when this is all over were going to be here. I mean in the same house,same job if we still have one they are going bavk to their lives. The key is that thier both rich so once their play time is over our hard time will either get better or stay the same. If you don't fix whats broke it will say broke. Mcain=bush if not tell me something he will do different.

McCain's accusation is far more STUPID than it is offensive. What is he complaining about exactly?? Why should the voters be offended because of what Obama said?

And most importantly, WHY SHOULD ANYBODY VOTE FOR MCCAIN???

Give it up Obama!

You have played the race card from square one. Shame on you!

Hillary had you pegged Barack! And, you will lose!

If you really wanted to discuss issues with Senator McCain you could have done Town Halls with him!

Obama, you are an arrogant phony with nothing to offer but narcissism and lust for power!

Eric, you are so correct. Obama is making America look weak by showing how stupid some of its residents are. Can anybody tell me anything that McNuts plans on doing when he is president other than stay in Iraq and drill for oil in America? Anybody?????

So, anybody like me claiming to be from a battleground state and then claiming to be a Hillary supporter that hates Obama is a fake post by a Republican.

I am not actually named Jan, and I am not from Boca.

I guess the Republicans have been lowered to the point that they have to trick voters into not voting for Obama.

Hillary supporters: We are all Democrats. Vote your interest. Vote your values. Vote your issues. Vote Obama!

Since when does McCain give a crap about what's "right" in these campaigns??? Heck all he's done is gone negative since Obama went on his trip that McCain thought at first would be a good idea. He's an A$$.

Talking about racial undertones Mr McCrutch, Your whole campain is spitting undertones with ever word spoken or written. But then again Mr McCrutch, your dementia prevents you from remembering. Hey John the nursing home call and it time for you meds..

McCain is Uggh!

Go away Please

Obama, his supporters, and his campaign play the race card every time someone says something negative about him. He played the race card with Hillary and Bill Clinton when, in fact, their comments were historically correct (Jessie Jackson did win South Carolina but lost the election for President; President Johnson played an important part in the civil rights movement and so did Martin Luther King., and now with John McCain. Those are facts and yet, Obama bamboozled both Hillary and Bill Clinton into making public apologies for their comments.

Senator Obama proclaims to be the great unifier (I wonder if anyone in the media has the nerve to ask him just what has he ever unified?) and how can that be when he tells a crowd of supporters "that McCain and others make fun of anyone who looks different from the faces on our dollar bills or has a funny name". That is a bald-face lie and it is a royal flush in using the race card.

This self-proclaimed redeemer, who with a snap of his fingers, is going to right all the wrong of the USA and then the world is a whiner who should go back to the Senate floor and serve out his term so that it equals more than 143 days of actual duty.

Simply Put America: IF OBAMA WERE WHITE AND HAVE THE POWER TO WALK AND TALK..we would be worrying about other things like buying our kids back to school supplies…BECAUSE IF OBAMA WERE WHITE..the media would be trying to anticipate HOW MUCH OF A LANDSLIDE OBAMA WOULD WIN BY IN NOVEMBER…stop acting like RACE DOESN'T MATTER..BE REAL

Of course McCain is playing the race card.

Every time he uses the term "arrogant" what he is really saying is "uppity." Here's another black man who doesn't know his place.

McCain makes me sick to my stomach!

McCain campaign was “using the same old low-road politics to distract voters from the real issues***”An Attack a Day will keep the Issues Away**** Can we all get alone …Hell No! HA! HA! HA!
This is funny Grown A_S Men ..he's playing the Race card no he did it during the primary ……Shut the H_LL up I need some Gas in my SUV and some Food Stamps

I'm going to start calling McCain Two-Face after the Batman villain. This negativity is disgusting, as well as the candidate's constant declarations that he's above it all as he turns around and spits venom out of the side of his mouth.

I am not a McCain fan but when it looked like he was going to get the nomination I thought great because he will talk about the issues and stay above the fray. Well, I was wrong – McCain is really getting down in the gutter and it is very disappointing. I am an Obama supporter but I at least want to be able to respect the other candidate…

Doesn't it sound like McCain's campaign is being written by kids? I mean their comments are childish and all they do is pick apart what Obama says. Pretty soon he'll just start playing the repeating game. Oh wait he already has with Afhanistan and the time "horizon" in Iraq.

Is this jerk McCain, really going to run for President.

He is a discrace to America.

By the way I am white.

I just read some frightening comments on the blog about the Ad.

Does the Republican who wrote to McCain talking about how impressive it is that the two blonde bimbettes pictured in the ad have done so well increasing their income over the last few years (oh, and I'd be SO PROUD of how they conduct themselves! PUH-LEEZ!) that he thinks Obama will bring more money to the US in tourism because of his "celebrity"???? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? When is the last time you picked YOUR vacation spot because of the President of that country????

I'm disgusted with this whole election and the name calling towards McCain. Have a little respect for the man, regardless of if you support him or not. Stop acting like the children you obviously are.

Whenever someone falsely accuses another for doing 'something' it is usually a reaction to a guilty conscience.

Sen. Obama said that they are trying to make them "scared" of him… and they are…

The McCain campaign obviously feels guilty and are offended because they KNOW that they ARE trying to use Obama race to scare voters.

Back in June of 2008, Obama told the public ," They're going to try to make you afraid of me." He's at it again, whine, whine, and more whine. Historian Sean Wilentz dubbed this tactic, "race-baiter card". Smear your opponents as racists, and if there's no evidence for the claim, accuse then of using"coded language". There is no authoritative racial code-book, so the charge is easy to lodge.

Obama played the race card starting from South Carolina all the way now to McCain. During NEVADA DEBATE, Tim Russert showed Obama MEMO from his OWN CAMPAIGN to use RACE CARD AGAINST HILLARY, Obama acknowledged it.

WHO IS GOING TO DENY THAT?!?!?!

what's new, he's played the race card on many occasions, it shows weakness on his behalf and does nothing to help race relations.

Barack Obama: The Paris Hilton of Politics.

LOL!! I Love it!!!

When all else fails, you can always resort to "he's using the race card". That is a call many people tend to make when it's to their advantage these days. No, it's you McCain, who's playing the race card" by bringing it up in the first place. Obama does not bring race up until he's backed in a corner to do so. Move on to your next attack on Obama, which is your expertise. Hopefully, at some point, he will talk about what I and the American people want to hear, the issues.

Obama uses race when he needs it and he uses it to manipulate peoples emotion when likes to.

He did the same thing on the primaries and the media was feeding the fuel as well.

This is the lowest form of strategy.

Obama you should be ashamed that you are useing Race for your personal advantage.

Just like he used 200,000 people for his campaign.

I'm scared of Obama because his black! I'm scared of Whoopi Goldberg's gum's because there black! I'm scared of the back of Forest Whitaker's neck because its black!! I'm scared of the black key's on a Piano because it's black. I'm scared of Wesley Snipes because he's black! Your right Obama! I'm scared and this is the only reason that I am not voting for you! :*-)

Obama is no peach, but McCain and team are total scumbags. A complete lack of vision, ideas, and real solutions – they turn towards playing divisive advertisements, and then turn around claiming the other side is "playing the race card". Gaffe after gaffe after gaffe, followed by lie after lie after lie.

I am inclined to vote Obama just to get someone solely to get a leader who is less bitter, angry, divisive than McCain – and less likely to completely abandon their ethics and morals in pursuit of power, and less likely to outright demean their opponent and insult the intelligence of voters.

Not McCain '08

If the racist shoe (or, in your case, jackboot) fits, then wear it!

McCain probably has friends who are black. But that counts for nothing. If you are willing to use race as a divisive political ploy in order to win a campaign – then you are a racist.

McCain is the worst kind of racist, in fact. One who doesn't want to come right out and state his case. At least David Duke had the courage of his disgusting convictions.

We know what you are doing, we know what you mean when you say it!

Maybe in a hundred years or more we will mature as a nation. It is unfortunate that every thing from whining about patriotism to under handed links with blond celebrities in ads with "Foreign Oil" next to Baracks picture on television are all full of subliminal messages and not by accident!

These messages are meant to district the easily distracted! And I admit that it might work. It is unfortunate but sobering to know what America is really about!

We [America] talk a good game but we are in no way the shinning moral beacon of the world. If you want to take Barack on then do it by stressing the issues that effect the average American not by showing "mickey mouse" adds aimed at an 8th grade mentality audience.

I am a real Patriot and I know bull crap when smell it! At least David Duke is honest about what he thinks.

You could tell by the interview that McCain is very uncomfortable with this being the topic…However he is doing under the advise of his campaign and they are telling him it is needed in order to win, sad sad sad this not the same John McCain.

Oh my gosh. People, who cares if Obama is black, or a mix, or whatever you want to call him. The racist people are those who think that everyone who doesn't support Obama doesn't support him because of his color. Well, you guys are all wrong. Who cares what his color is, and who cares what he says in his speeches. His ideas are horrible. All you people who are saying "Yes We Can" probably don't even know what you're saying "Yes We Can" to. Yes We Can_____ What???? If it's all about Obama becoming president, of course he can, because people like you guys don't look at his record and just listen to his mouth. If it's Yes We Can have change, of course we can. Congress changes things every day. But will we have GOOD CHANGE with Obama??????? NOPE

Obama and his henchmen did it to Bill Clinton (with an acquiescing, oh-so-insightful media) so why wouldn't they try it on McCain

John McCain's campaign is becoming George W. Bush 2004 campaign right before my very eyes. John McCain is crying wolf on the "race card" issue and the "elitist" label.

Every campaign, the Republicans say about Al Gore and John Kerry, "he is out of touch with the american people", "he's too risky," "he will raise your taxes," "he supports big government."
Looks like now let's try the same thing on Obama and hope it works.

John McCain has been using the "age card" and no one is complaining?

deepintheheart- That was a fantastic way of putting McCain's claim on the race card in to perspective. You couldn't have explained it better.

Q: So given the reality that it's obsurd to say Obama is playing the race card what are McCain's motives?? A: Every person who has a negative view of Obama or has racial stereotypes or bias will be sympathetic to McCain's complaint. It's another way of bringing race into the election and using it against Obama.

So, those people posting about Obama being a secret Muslim are from the Obama camp?

This is too much like an Instant replay of the Primary. Unfortunately, Senator Obama doesn't know some of us are over the shock, and actually see what he is doing. Although it worked against Clinton, I am not so sure the same nasty politics will work against McCain.

However, CNN will twist any story to make it appear as though Obama is blessed.

RITH ON Senator McCain ! I'm with you on this one. This is the same nonsense that Mr. Obama has learned from Johnny Cochran. Not only should you say that it is right on, point out the disservice it percolates to those who are trying to break into the mainstream. We don't need any more of Obama's yelling "fire" in a crowded theather.

So he is actually going to run with this one….good luck with that McKeatingFive

Thanks McCain! Finally you are showing what this inexperienced freak is about! I admire the Clintons and him and the media destroyed Bill and Hillary! It is time for a change!

NOBAMA
John McCain 2008!

Come on CNN!! It is clear you are in the bag for McCain. This article is an attempt to verify McCain's stupid remarks.

at 72 anything goes for this old fart!

Whether you think that Mccain's ad was low road or not, it didn't make any reference to howw Obama looked. Obama's campaign comment about not looking like the presidents on dollar bills was playing the race card. Obama did the same crap during the Democratic primarys.

Sandra: McCain has never brought race into the equation so how is his campaign doing so. Obama in Germany the first things out of his mouth were I look different from any other candidate standing here in the past. What is that all about then certainly not his big ears!!!!!!! McCain is right Obama uses race when he is a little down and out, he did it with Clinton and now since he isn't soaring in the polls he is using it now. I said in another thread if he has any merits keep preaching those not his skin color.

Just watch McCain when he thinks he’s got a good line in a town hall speech about Obama and you can literally see him glint, raise his eyebrows, give a little foot lift etc. as he is very proud of himself. Today when he was interviewed by John King you could tell he was going along with the campaign about Obama playing the race card BECAUSE HE THINKS IT MIGHT WORK, but not that he really believes it himself. His body language is very telling.

I am white, but I do believe that the McCain camp has been playing a subtle race card when they act like Obama has the audacity to go act presidential overseas (uppity/arrogant for a ….), when they try to make him not like "us", etc. I do think that Obama has to be careful when speaking about race though as it will be used against him when he does and turned around at every turn as though he is the one playing the race card, such as in the primaries.

ANYTHING to avoid discussing the issues. The McCain camp has spent most of it's energy attacking Obama and mostly personally and not on the issues. The main thrust of those attacks is to paint Obama as someone we should not be comfortable with – elitist, reckless, naive, etc.

Other than the surge, which as at least temporarily reduced the level of violence in Iraq and yet remains to be seen if it actually leads to political success there, McCain seems to have little else to say about the issues facing the American people.

Obama's idea to negotiate with Iran and Korea is criticized, then adopted.
Obama's idea to focus more on Afghanistan is ignored, then adopted.
Obama's idea for a 16 month timetable is simultaneously criticized as naive and seriously discussed by Maliki, McCain, and Bush.

Anything to avoid talking about the economy, where McCain is basically clueless and his primary economic advisor thinks Americans are whiners who are only suffering from a 'psychological' downturn.

The McCain camp would clearly rather have this election be about personality and that McCain is a guy you can be more comfortable with because he is more like you, than about judgment, capabilities, and the issues. Does 'more comfortable' include looking like the guys on our currency? Certainly his right-wing media cheerleaders have wandered over that line. The McCain camp itself has at least been very close.

Typical Democratic whining . . . look at the posters on this site . . . you address a true American hero as McShame, McBush, McThisandThat . . . you reference his age, his health and his wife's wealth . . . now you cry because your candidate played the race card and got called on the carpet for it. You are the ones that can't have it both ways . . . you are the ones that are resorting to desperate mean-spirited language. If you truly want to know why I won't vote for Obama, it's because he is all fluff and no substance. Do yourself a favor and list both candidates Senatorial accomplishments side-by-side . . . guess who has the short list or should I say no list?

Obama is best described as a "flash in the pan".

Vote McCain in 2008

When Americans look at the situation they are in after 7 years of Republican rule, it is amazing that the polls are so close. It should be a Blowout! I don't know how Mcbush can look people in the face and act like they had nothing to do with the wars, economy, borders, immigration and housing mess. If ever a party was running on empty,it would be them. From my side of the border, it looks like Americans vote for the party they belong to regardless of the present day situation. So, there is a philosophical divide between liberals and conservatives that shows up at the polls. John Kerry made Bush look like a bumbling idiot in the first debate and Bush still got elected using the fearmonger card. McBush will do the same to Obama.

What a sad little man.

McCain, your politics of fearmongering is working. With each new attempt to discredit Obama instead of talking about real issues, I become more and more fearful. Of YOU! Your constant whining and finger-pointing reminds me more and more of my four-year-old grandson.

All I'm asking you to do, is to tell me what YOU and YOUR administration are going to do for America. What are YOU going to do to fix the economy that Bush took from a 128 billion dollar surplus to an almost 500 billion dollar deficit in 8 short years. What are YOU going to do to fix healthcare? What are YOU going to do to resolve Mideastern problems (without bombing the hell out of them..which Bush has found out doesn't work). What are YOU going to do to repair American's incredibly crappy reputation, world wide? I want you to talk about your programs and plans. I want you to go one single day without uttering Obama's name in a negative way one single time.

You compare Obama's popularity to Hollywood starlets? I compare your popularity to the crotchety old man that lives down the street from me, and yells at kids to get off his lawn.

Presidents don't whine. Presidents don't continually blame others for their own impotence as a leader. Presidents fix things (usually, except for the last 8 years). If you can't do even a few of the things I ask, get lost.

Actually, McCain played the "Race Card" . Anyways, where did this "race card" phrase come from? It sounds like a feeble attempt to downplay any talk of racism as if it doesn't exist. Well racism exists and the majority race has been priveledged in this country since it's founding. Even if Obama said something about race, good for him. he is breaking down barriers for all minorities whether it is race, religion or gender. But you weak and closed minded peopel cover your ears and yell they are playing the race card if someone mentions race.

McCain, OLD GEEZER!

This DEMOCRAT & family our voting for McCain 08, obama played race card with Bill Clinton and with the help of oprah & caroline kennedy played and won. But maybe oprah is going to get what she wanted with a McCain win now. oprah the closet republican

They played the race card against Bill and Hillary and everybody who even dared to criticize Obama and his empty change message. now they just overplayed and people are tired of this.
Why is he in the politics? Does he think that "papa" Dean and momma Dona Brazile with cousins Mattheus and Olberman and Borger and other bias journalists are going to keep his empty words in the media and activly campaign for him.
McCain 2008

Maybe if BO use a commercial of an old gray dog with McCain head attached hopping and trying to rush to that 3:00 am phone. Well you fill in the rest.

But the Right IS trying to make everyone scared to elect the black guy…… why else the insistance on not letting go of Rev. Wright? Why else the pushing the anti-affirmative-action referendum in Arizona? Many other issues…. They are the ones trying to drive a wedge between whites and blacks.

Granted, it isn't central among their outrageous tactics, but it is there.

McCain is the biggest hypocrite there is.

If someone decided to vote for McCain instead of Obama solely because of skin color, name, or any of the ridiculous myths floating around, would McCain or the RNC reject that person's vote? Really, one shouldn't stir up fears and then lambast another for coolly addressing them (and then moving on rather than dwelling).

Oh, and I must thank the McCain campaign for bringing up Paris Hilton. Just when she was out if sight and off the minds of so many of us, you pollute our minds and give lazy news directors a reason to inundate the airwaves with Ms. Hilton. This is almost sure to be followed by some lazy exec in Hollywood who will now decide to attach a project to the celebutante whose 15 minutes seemed to be thankfully in the past.

Ok, Obama is playing the race card because there is one African American out of all eligible African Amercian voters who has yet to make up his mind if he is going to vote for Obama or not. Gee, that makes sense.

American love to be lied to,race is the biggest factory in this race,Thing is know one will admit it,Obama's skill in politics has nothing to do with it.Most White americans,plain and simple just don't want to see a black president.This why hillary supporters switched over to Mc Cain..
"Its very obvious".People can make all the excuses they want,Black Americans/and Black People all over the world know this.

One more point. I noted where, after McCain flip-flopped on his off shore drilling stand, the oil companies donated $1+ million to his campaign. That reenforces a couple of things: where his loyalty will be and who he will be indebted to (more Special Interests focus); and how the money will be there for more public opinion manipulation (2000 & 2004 style). I sincerely hope the voters are up to being objective and see through this stuff this time around.

barack obama needs to run his mouth during the DUEL he challenged mc cain to enter

MCSame is taking the low road completely opposite of what he said his campaign would be * the typical old washington*
Saying today* I hate WAR* We all know he eats lives and breathes war
MCsame is so full of BS its a wonder his eyes arent brown
maybe he would come across as more real if he stuck to the issues

McCain's statement about Obama using the race card is absolutely accurate. Obama is squealing now because someone finally called him on his subtle use of this sad tactic.

Keep up the good work, John!

OBOMA IS THE MAN FOR PRESIDENT

TO BAD MCCAIN CAN NOT FIND THE FIRE HE IS LOOKING FOR. THEY CAN TRY TO BURN OBOMA BUT THEY CAN'T FRY HIM.

AMERICAN PEOPLE YOU WILL BE SO STUPID TO VOTE FOR MCCAIN JUST BECAUSE YOU DO NOT LIKE OBOMA. YOU WILL JUST BE HURTING YOURSELF IN THE LONG RUN.

Notice how the McCain campaign doesn't even cite examples. What we're seeing here is their campaign falling apart before our very eyes. Negative ads with false claims, now race, soon it'll be back to the flag pin and his middle name. Desperation at its finest.

Read this – this is funny!

“Race Card” Wow!!
Have you noticed that all on all Political Ticker pictures, McCain and the Republicans look “mad” check out today’s string. Also when CNN interviews the Democrats and the Republican surrogates on TV, the Republicans all look the same – they all look and sound “mad”!

Now I now you don’t want to hear from foreigners even if I am and older white Canadian

But it looks like the Repub’s are always mad?

They are mad at Obama for being white and black
They are mad at women for asking questions about birth control bills
They are mad at Europeans/World for liking Obama
They are mad at celebrities – so much for Shwarts
They are mad at Americans who simply want a change from the last eight years
They are mad at Hillary and the Bill because they are a threat to the Republicans.
They are mad at Americans who “whine” because they lost their houses and or jobs.
They even pretend to be mad at George Bush, their mentor and leader for the last eight years.

Is possible that they are just “MAD”

And now they are calling Obama a racist? Now that is really “mad” !!!!

Come on Repubs next time you are being interviewed by CNN – put a smile on your face – you guys are good at pretending!!

Watch out CNN! – if they get mad they are going to blame you for not having enough "smiling pictures" of the Repubs.

After this and also comparing Obama to celebrities, it just goes to show that McCain is out of any real, constructive ideas that will get the US out of the hole it is in i.e. with the economy. People have had enough of Bush, McCain politics and this will be proven when they vote for Obama later this year.

Willy – If you think the series Black in America was helpful towards Obama, you must be blind or deaf. The McCain camp was looking for an opportunity to eject the "race card" card so that they can use race more so later in the election process. This is just a cherry on top a horrible McCain campaign.

I amazed to hear from my die hard Republican friends turning away from their party in disgust. Keep it up McCain.

THEN MCCAIN PLAYED THE AGE CARD ON SNL. OBAMA WAS MAKING FUN OF HIMSELF.

WHY SO SERIOUS MCCAIN?

McCain consciously Race-Baited Obama last week, with his sudden and out-of-context statement about affirmative action. Rove's second in command, who runs McCain's campaign, created a situation where race is the issue and Obama cannot say anything at all without the potential for John McCain to claim the Black Liberal is more racist than the White Republican.

The media, of course, is to busy with gossip fluff to dig an inch of top-soil dow into the stpry of the day.

It is a sad indication of how devious the Republicans will be and how bogged down the Obama camp is about responding.

McCain is doing to Obama what Obama did to Clinton last year: He is winning the critical margins of the electorate while Obama is doing nothing of tactical value for himself. Rove's machine owns the witless news cycle, Obama's campaign is to crowded with love and joy and hopefulness to take initiative where it matters.

The low opinion of the voters with America's "direction" should be a no-brainer for any Democrat to use almost every day against the GOP, but Obama has become too afraid of making a mistake to do anything right.

By next month Obama will be the long shot and Rove's tacticians will have stolen one of the most disappointing election in either party's history. Without even using a staged terrorist threat.

The bigger picture is this:

If Barack is not one of us, he must be one of "them". When McCain says "them" it could be anything–foreigner, black, Muslim….you fill in the dots.

We're not buying the slick, under-handed mud-slinging of the past. Americans are moving on to bigger and better things, like a president who will make us proud.

I can see McCain in his rocking chair now saying "What happened?" Yes, he'll be watching Barack on TV being the wonderful president that we know he will be.

O8ama.

it riles me up when media says that most of the people know who McCain is but few people know who Obama is. Are you kidding?
Yes, may be 50% of the people know that McCain was POW in VN. What more do they know? Do they know that he was member of Keating 5 that tried to get the crook Charles Keating of the hook for the last banking debacle, do they know that he has gone back on most of his policy positions just to get the nomination – and he has the gall to have ads and say it personally that Obama was willing to lose a war so that he could get the nomination. We know a lot about Obama and we know that he will take this country into a new direction and make us proud to be Americans again. McCain has nothing to stand on (because everyone knows that his presidency will be the 3rd term of Bush) and everyone knows very well what that will do to us. That is why all the republicans can do is keep on attacking Barack.

I'm looking forward to seeing Roland Martin's head explode on live television tonight.

A vote for McCain is a vote to give your last dime,the lint in your pocket and your childrens piggy bank to Big Oil.

Yes, let's debate the issues!!!!!!!!!! BHO won't face McCain on the issues. remember when he was running against Hillary and he said I look for to debating McCain any where any place? He has dodged debating McCain for 2 months. Why? Because he can't read his answers off a teleprompter. BHO will get his a*s kicked if he did.

McCain,
You don't need to play dirty politics to beat Obama.
All you need to do is keep doing your townhall meetings, keep talking tax cuts and drilling and keep reminding Americans of your independent leanings.
Just let Obama fizzle on his own.
He (Obama) has been fading since the Rev. Wright Videos broke.
McCain, just stand back and let Obama beat himself.
That's all you need to do.
This election will fall right in your lap.

McCain always pulls the POW card for his military experience. They are what they are. Just talk about the issues and Obama will win. We are sick of the Republicans and their negativity and ruining our economy.

If I were Obama I would call a press conference and run ads,nationwide, and ask McBush when are we going to focus on the issues instead of this juvenile namecalling and questioning a person's 'False patriotism'. John Wayne has been dead thirty years. The party is over.

Waving the flag and paraising the lord doesn't help a worker who's home is being foreclosed or union job being shipped offshore thank's to McCain's consistent support of corporate free trade agreements.

If McBush wants to play personal attack hardball then the Obama Campaign ought to investigate McBush's mental health records regarding the advanced PTSD he suffered after being a POW which is why McBush has such a horrific temper. They also need to focus on why McBush abandoned his first wife to chase Cindy's millions.

Politics has become a bloodsport. Even family members are being attacked. Look at Michelle Obama questioned about her patriotism.
I quit being a proud American ever since "Reagun" was elected.

By the way I'm a Vietnam swiftboat veteran.

MY GOODNESS………. WILL WE EVER START TO DEBATE THE REALLY IMPORTANT ISSUES????????????

OBAMA was simply making a joke of McCain's tactics!!! For crying out loud!

THE GOP AND MCCAIN ARE INDEED, TRYING TO SCARE AMERICANS, JUST LIKE THE GOP ALWAYS DOES! DUH.

OBAMA IS RIGHT to call a spade a spade! The REASON McCain & his Bushies are upset is because they got CAUGHT!

FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS EACH OF MCCAIN'S ADS HAVE BEEN NEGATIVE-DEMEANING AND DISGUSTING.

AND THIS FROM A MAN WHO SAID HE WOULD NOT GO NEGATIVE! ANOTHER BUSH-LIKE LIAR!

Coming from one who is as white as a sheet, I'd say it's par for the course.

@ Catty, What rock have you been under? Republicans have been referring to Obama as a muslim… calling his former church racist.

This is just silly…. I used to like McCain; but, he doesn't seem to have anything to say about where he stands… All I ever hear is Barack this Barack that! At this point everything Obama does is seen as a negative. Why can't we just discuss the issues?

If experience is what mcWAR is offering then experience is evil.He must have to borrow a page on experience from the likes of Mrs.Clinton sen.Biden and so on.All these charges will not help him.

john mccain!you just lost my vote!i told you when i donated to your campaign ,that i would not support negative campaign tactics and you have began running them relentlessly.i'm done with this garbage.i'm going straight to obama's website and donating maximum amount.you got $25 because i wasnt sure you'd keep it clean.you went dirty!shame!

VOTE OBAMA BARACK IN NOVEMBER 2008

McCain's campaign NEVER talks about what he wants to do for the country; only negativity.
This is not 2004. YouTube, and the internet will not allow Bush/McSame to use the swiftboat tactics unchecked. All the "wink wink" insinuations by McSame will not protect him from the voter's wrath from the negative campaigning. The American people aren't stupid.

McCain is such a joke. All they do is go negative, and they are trying to pretend Obama is the one who is negative. GIVE US A BREAK!!
You would think with all of McCain's so called experience, that he would be able to do more than just criticize Obama.

You fools that claim you have all this "proof" that is so easy to find on the internet that Obama is a liar and an empty suit can you just for once show me some of that proof.

Also, I am a white male and all of my white, black, hispanic and asian friends are firmly now on Barack Obamas side. The foolish PUMAs and angry republicans can continue to use the lowest stupid and devisive attacks but it won't work this time. So stop trolling the forums everywhere and actually come up with real arguments against Obama. Try something like, "I don't agree with his plan for taxes and the economy" or "I don't think he has a good plan for Iraq". All of this name calling, telling lies and comparing to unfavorables is getting you nowhere. It shows the rest of the world how ignorant you are. Get a real argument or shut up.

The truth hurts McShame! Please, the race card has always been a part of this campaign.

Hello……………………….Obama is black and race is definitely an issue. Obama is right. The GOP does try to make people afraid of Obama because he is black…come on.

As long as Obama stays black, the race card will always be an issue.

Funny how no one ever talkS about his other side..WHITE.

Divisive, negative, shameful and wrong describes the McCain campaign to a T. They are concentrating on personally attacking Obama more than even setting up their own agenda and making a case for McCain to be elected. McCain apparently thinks that this is the way to go, despite even his most ardent supporters who are telling him to knock it off. He is being called out by the media and still continues on his tirade. I hope this guy doesn't bumble his way into the WH.

Why wait until November? Let's vote today and send this idiot old man back to Arizona. McCain is so out of touch.

No, I think that McCain is using the race card.

McCain and his campaign manager are tried and true repukelican's. Specialty of the house is smoke and mirrors. Make racist comments and then blame them on Obama for starting it. Sounds like the snot nose schoolyard bully in elementary school who is real tough until someone takes him on, then he cries louder than anybody you have ever heard. McClueless and his campaign…how absolutely childish and empty!

Gotta tell ya, after reading all the "old man" and other ageist crap, I have lost all respect for Gen Y. I guess I'm over the hill at 39. These kids are the biggest bigots in this country. We should probably put them down and start a new litter.

John McCain sounds desperate and willing to say anything, even when obviously totally ridiculous. The real dirty campaigning is just starting and between Karl Rove strategies, 527 Groups and McCains desperation, I suspect they are going to get a whole lot worse.

This is exactly what BO did to Hillary.

"Sad" is the operative word in McCain's statement. It describes his whole campaign thus far. Making this claim about the "race" card is just his way of reminding people about Obama's "race" and hoping that it will matter to enough people to get him back into the running. I hope we have come further than that as a society and that we will prove McCain wrong. This country needs "smart" in the White House for a change, and it doesn't matter what color it comes in.

Obama warned us about your dirty tactics mccain but i didn't think you would stoop so low.

Daze and confuse the voters…throw in some "race card" accusations to really dig deep into that politics of hate base of voters.

McCain has to resort to pathetic name calling, insults and attack ads because they don't want people to really focus on the issues.

McCain's strategy is plain and simple, as proven by his decision to attack Obama's visiting the troops and if he didn't visit the troops. His strategy is to attack whatever Obama does or says – no matter if it's the truth or not. He is becoming a pathetic excuse of a politician. This is so indicative of what the American will get if he's the next president – more lies, insincerity, double-speak, and callous disregard for the intellect of Americans! It is incredulous that he's so close in the polls. What's sadder is when you factor in those who admittedly are racists. This means that they would rather go through 4 more years of misery rather than vote for a black man. That, my friends, is complete and utter insanity! You're drowing and you'd refuse the life-line based on the rescuer's race! Crazy!

McCain is desperate … what garbage.

When are we going to focus on ISSUES Mr. McCain.
Either you have ideas to present or you don't.
We all KNOW you don't like OBAMA. What we are waiting for is for you to start running for president.
So far it appears the only thing he knows about himself is that he can whine like the there's no tomorrow.
Whinning won't lower gas prices (neither will offshore oil drilling), lower the price of food, increase jobs, help fix the mortgage crisis and it sure won't give us the kind of health insurance McCain has that allows him to go to the mayo clinic every 3 months for check ups.
McCain, zip it on the slamming of Obama, start running for president.

Willy 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. [snip]
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Willy,
Have you been paying attention during this election year? Just checking.

CNN stop censoring me. I agree with Sandra

okay–where are Obama's specifics?
I have heard none. No plan equals a plan to fail.
He doesn't really have a plan.

How many different ways can John McBush prove to us that he is totally unfit to run for dogcatcher let alone president ?
The man is immoral – as close to Hitler as the world has seen since 1945.

The truth is all that matter. Race will be a factor and the GOP will push, tug, drag any comments. What happen to a new type of campaign? I guess McGeezer wants to win at any cost. What a sap of a candidate

I am glad a candidate of color is seeking the highest office of the land….look where past vanilla Presidents have got us.

The USA today, as never been so weak; to insider's as it is today.
If this was a "Much Smaller" Country, Beware…..

Repeat of previous post…. Desperate times require desperate measures and Republicans are getting VERY desperate. I fully expect more and much worse by November 4th.

173 days till the end of the Bush administration.

THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE CAMPAIGN COMPARING YOUR OPPONENT TO PARIS HILTON. MCCAIN IS PLAYING VICTIM. DO YOU WANT YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT TO PLAY THE VICTIM CARD?

Obama and his supporters would love to be able to blaim someone else for using the race card,but the only real racial overtones in this race came from Obama's camp. His 20 year friends,can be thanked for that….the Rev Jeremiah Wright and Father Pfleger. The Obama camp is destroyed over the fact that they have no one to blame but themselves……and it was their ace up the sleeve if things started going wrong! Sorry guys! You've already played that ace!

mccain, in arbitrarily accusing obama of playing the race card is actually falling right into line with what obama said the repubs would do- play into fear, in part based on his race.
mccain knows accusing obama of playing the race card is going to freak out a lot of apprehensive voters, whether or not it's a credible accusation.

I can't believe the nerve of the Obama camp.

First, it accuses McCain of preparing to play the race card against him.

Then, when McCain takes umbrage, Obama camp plays a dance in which it 1) says that Obama's comment had nothing to do about race, but about him from coming outside of Washington (um, how dumb does he think we all are?!), and 2) accuses the McCain camp of trying to avoid talking about the issues. Um, by raising this point in the first place, wasn't it the Obama camp that was trying to avoid talking about the issues?!!

What next. Let's stop being puppets for Cable TV News. Obama's central theme is – we as Americans must work together to change the way Washington works. All of this other B.S. is just that, B.S. for their ratings.

The problem is that nobody is willing to frankly talk about the elephant in the middle of the room – that race is an issue and it matters to many voters.

Mccain wouldn't be attempting scare tactics – nor would Obama feel compelled to address questions about whether he is "black enough" or "too black" (see CNN Unity Conference coverage) is this weren't the case.

There are people who absolutely will not vote for Obama because he is balck and, if McCain had any integrity, rather than whining about Obama playing the race card he should publicly say something like "If you are planning on voting for me because you don't want a black man in the White House – I don't want your vote". On then would he have integrity in my eyes on the obbvious issue of race. Otherwise, he's still the playing race=fear strategy.

You have all heard the news media and read headlines like, "Can a black man be elected president?" "Is Obama black enough?" – for heaven's sake! Of course race is an issue and Obama has every right to bring it up. Since he has joined the race, have you ever seen so many African American commentators on the news channels? Where were these people before? Don't try to claim that race isn't something that is being used both for and against Obama. We've also heard people talk about his middle name disparagingly – and he doesn't have a right to bring that up? Fear has been used over and over in the last 8 years – that's exactly what Obama is warning against.

John McCain’s uses of substitute words for racist attacks against Barack Obama are totally transparent. McCain thinks we are so stupid that we do not recognize that what McCain really means is that Obama is a black man and black men should not be the president of the United States. What could John McCain know about the ‘race card’ anyhow? He is the product of a privilege so far removed from normal ordinary Americans that he could not possibly known what real racial discrimination is. Senator Obama withstood the racial attacks during the primary campaign and he will withstand those slung at him now by John McCain.

Please exclude Tara Wall from the CNN contributors list. CNN
can do better. This woman is an IDIOT!

Obama and his thugs, including all the Black Pundits, pre-emptively brought race into this (as far back as January in the primaries, nope it wasn't the Clintons) so as to blunt any such use.

Get off of it Obama cult. You are behind an extreme liberal agenda and we all know it.

GAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG me

It is acceptable for 90% of black voters to show their bigotry by voting for the black guy, but it is unacceptable for non-blacks to vote for someone they identify and feel comfortable with. Plastic Jesus is not "one of us". His old man was a foreigner, his mother married (or at least had kids by) two foreigners, and lived outside the US for most of her adult life. He spends 20 years in a racist, anti-American church and supports open borders. Sorry, but he isn’t “one of my people”.

Dirty old man!

hes like bush

"And there's no place in this campaign for that. There's no place for it and we shouldn't be doing it."

I completely agree McCain – you shouldn't be doing what you are now doing. Grotesque is the only word.

McCain has yet to disclose what he has to offer the voter. Our economy is in the dumper. Our military is suffering. Our citizens are becoming homeless due primarily to the fact our jobs have been moved to India or Mexico or outsourced. We have no long term plan for the country when it comes to health care, social security, energy and economy. Our government's reputation (not the citizens) around the world is deplorable. Why is your entire focus on your opponent? Please try to offer something of substance and value for the voter to consider.

"Barack Obama: The Paris Hilton of Politics"

I'm very confused by this comparison. Has Paris Hilton been speaking to crowds of 200,000? Earned the respect and admiration of world leaders? Risen from a single parent, low-income childhood to be the president of the Harvard Law Review (and the first African American to do it)? Written two books that have inspired a generation?

Race this race that. I'm sick of it.
Don't you realize that everytime the issue of race arises, Barack Obama wins! Every time he can keep that tennis ball in his court, he will continue to score points. He did it successfully against both of the Clintons, and will do it to you too Mccain.
Frankly, I'm tired about hearing about issues of race. Its crap, and we need to seriously get over it. Yes, perhaps we are all genetically predisposed to be judgemental in one way or another, but we should simply acknowledge it and move on.
Let's start talkign about issues, and not the dead end issue of race.

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.”

It is not an apparent reference to Obama being black. It is a direct refernce to him saying McBush is going to try and scare voters because Obama is black.
Obama has used the race card and it was not McBush who used it or his campaign.
McBush has a black daughter. More than I can say about Obama

Since the 1960s the GOP has played the race card, and this campaign is no different except for one minor issue…Americans seem to be fed up with the them. There are only so many excuses to explain why Obama isn't the man we want as our president when the only reason is the color of his skin. We all bleed red and cry clear tears.

It is not his Race: John. But it is everything else; he believes in..
He is a Socialist/Communist. Most Complacent Guy, the USA as had to put up with… No Security can be found, with this Guy and His Belief..

CNN

Please help me know why you want me to moderate my blog? I'm at a loss>

Thanks

Independent in Iowa: Yeah, and Googling "Hillary Clinton" gets you all roses, right?

I'm sorry, but Obama's been vetted for over 3/4ths of a year now, and while I've seen a lot come out, none of it has been fatally crippling. None of it shows corruption. Every so-called controversial "tie" he's had, he's explained thoroughly and he's been very forthcoming. Now, he's focusing on issues (even though the MSM just reports the few sentences he says to defend himself against McCain's basless attacks), and McCain can't handle it. Frankly, McCain's just been a hate-monger recently and he's trying to spread lies and/or caricatures to make people doubt Obama. I don't really see much negativity coming from Obama's camp, unless it's a mild negative to combat an inaccurate statement.

If someone had to pin a negative adjective on me, I'd rather be a "whiner" than a "blusterer" anyday. I'd rather hold on to a perceived slight and defend myself then grasp at tons of lies. In one of the two cases, your hands are empty.

Race is what makes the difference in life styles in theis country. Remember Willie Horton? There is a word call truth. We all know that race matters when certain people are vieing for power. Mc cain and his people are using everything possible to win because they have an intelligent opponent with a vision for this country. please America,stop listening to the negative ads about Obama and listen to the things he says and make your own decisions. Why did God give us all a brain and ears? F.B Illinois

No one was discussing race until the McCain campaign released their statement this morning. Who is injecting race into the campaign?

MCSAME is a racist ask him why did he support MLK birthday and why is state of Arizona is the only state does not recognize MLK birthday why is CNN is not jumping on MCSAME for not supporting MLK birthday

I wonder when McCain will start talking about the issues.
We can't have another bold faced liar in the White House.

Obama 08.

MCCAIN YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW CAN ANYBODY EVEN VOTE FOR YOU! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE IN THE PAST 25 YEARS??? NOTHING FOR THE ECONOMY!!! NOTHING FOR HEALTHCARE!!!!!! NOTHING FOR ENERGY!! WHAT MAKES EVEN YOU SO QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT??????? I DONT EVEN KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT YOU EITHER!!! EXCEPT THAT YOU ARE A SENATOR!! THAT'S IT!!!!!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WHILE YOU WERE THERE??????? OUR COUNTRY IS GOING TO CRAP AND YOUR SO CALLED EXPERIENCE FOR 25 YEARS HASN'T MADE ANYTHING BETTER AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is ridiculous! mccain needs to focus on the issues at hand here, not waste time making baseless attacks on the opponent. obama knows how to keep it positive.

Cnn why do u guys continually have this liar Tara Walls on your network, she lies on every single subject. Get rid of her.

She forgets quickly what McCain does then lies about Obama.

She sucks, she likes to talk over everyone else when she spreading her lies too…i know whe psss's you guys off by not letting others talk…
Get rid of her…

Dumbama has been using race for years. He is a shameful disgrace.

Divisive, negative, shameful and wrong???? Really??? Seems to me that pretty much sums up McCain's entire campaign strategy!

I watched his speech on the news about 3 weeks ago. McCain did say "Obama did not fit the image on a dollar bill". I must be honest here. I am white and my first thought was "because he is black"… my second thought was… "how low can this man go". I am not saying that is what McCain meant it to be, but that is how I took it. So yes, I believe McCain did play the "silent race card".

McBush, is he so hungry for attention the old man will say anything..

it does not matter who CNN and Fox spinn this, he is TOO old, he has dementia and we need a leader not a whiner..

with all due respect..

When the debates come I will have my popcorn ready to watch Mc Elmer Fudd versus Bugs Bunny!
It won't be pretty!

Obama in 08!

Insulting that McCain thinks Obama dropped the race card. I hate this man more every day. He's made my voting choice go from 50/50 to Obama all the way. Sad for you McCain.

Maybe the words didn't come right out of McCain's mouth, but the things that many of his supporters have said in newspapers (remember the "Baby Mama" headline), on radio shows, in campaigns in the states and on the blogs have been absolutely dreadful. Read the blogs sometime. One good thing that has come out of this is that it shows that Obama is not going to sit back and let the Republicans run their usual attack campaign. He's meeting them head on. Good for him.

No matter how B Spears or P Hilton is, I really think McCain owe then a sorry. Jesse say Obama is talking down to Blacks??? Look at this. They have nothing to do with the election at all, so why bring their lives into it.

It is what it is , a campaign about race. A black man which some white people will never vote for and a white man which some black people will never vote for. Never the less stop making an issue out of nothing. Its not shameful it is what it is.

…angry Old Man shouts at clouds….

…others say that his Tau proteins are all tangled up….

now mr mccain,, you talk about bein dirty,, well take a good look in a mirror and ask yourself" have i told any lies durin this campaign?? have i stretched adnthing durin this campaign,,, am I playin fair?,,, answer to all of these is,, nope not one bit mccain, your are one of the dirtiest players around and we all know who taught you,, and shortly neither of you will be in the president position,,, more and more americans are seeing right through mccain and his dirty anticts,,, he even laughs on how and what hes doin,,,, this is called alzhiemers mccain,, your much too old to remember and why too old to becaom president,,, soo, mccain,, take mine and many others advice,,, if you have failed twice at something, dont een try again because you already look bad,, hang it up buddy,, obama has it tied up 08!!!!!!!!!!and beyond

LOL, McCain's spokeperson said that McCain doesn't speak for the McCain campaign (re: when McCain talked about raising taxes was still on the table). So if Mccain can't speak for the McCain campaign, who can?

Obama 08

Oh please give us a break .this is so like the Mccain to throw rocks and hide their hand. The RNC injected race into this from day one,And John Mccain just sits back with a sly smile on his face. The Mccain camp neeeds to clean their on house first.

I have seen a disturbing comment posted several times on internet blogs and it should be addressed now.

OBAMA HAS ALREADY AGREED TO DEBATE MCCAIN.

Just because he doesn't want to travel the country with McCain does not mean that they won't debate. There is plenty of time for that and after 20 primary debates, he deserves to do the next when he wants and where he wants.

Republicans are great at being divisive. Their plan is too turn everything onto Obama and then hit him with the kitchen sink once everyone is immune to their racist messages. How many times have they said something and then turned it on Obama? It is such ashame that the 42% of Americans are too stupid to understand the real issues and lies being told. What do you expect from the country that elected George Bush twice?

I sure wish I could get a comment out of moderation before comments close on a CNN article. Watch. This one, with absolutely no information will be the only comment they'll release.

Just in case it is, I just briefly say, "John McCain, grow the hell up!"

The sad fact is that McCain is grasping for straws. What does he mean when he says Obama is playing the race card? He means, I don't know what else to say. Or, I don't know how to express my policies so that the voters will want to vote for me so I just keep attacking, attacking in any way I can think of.

This is a candidate for the highest office in the United States of America. My beloved country. I don't care if political campaigns have always done things like attacking the other candidate.

Enough! The United States of America is in a sorry state. Please, both candidates, tell me how you are going to save my beloved country. What do you propose as solutions?

Obama did play the race card, he played it against Hillaryy too. Does he even remember that he is half white? He was raised by the white half not the black half so I'd say that makes him more white. Get over yourself Obama.

Well, let the silly season begin.

why can't Obama bring up the fact that McCain dumped his previous wife for Cindy after he realized she wouldn't walk again after an accident. I think that would be fair too.

McCain offers no new ideas; no new way of campaigning; no sense of honesty; a lack of integrity and all to win an election. No, he won't loose a war to win an election but he will lie, cheat, steal, deceive, misrepresent and condone bigotry.

He has made statements one day and said he never said them the next only to change his words once seeing the video tape. He has said Obama is responsible for the high price of oil as if he were already president; he was against off shore drilling but now that he thinks the idea could win him votes he's for it and, its Obama's fault for the high price of oil. If Obama has this much clout and he isn't president please put him in office so he can change all things with his presents.

McCain now says Obama is using the race card. But, McCain in subtle ways has suggested that Mr. and Mrs. Obama are black militants and has his followers trying to instill fear of the Obamas' in any person that will listen to his baseless statements. This is what he offers us as Presidential character?

WOW ! Hw is spinning everything Obama says. Cheap shot John and henchmen. You all are a laughing stock and you dont know it.

tHE audaciousness of the madman McCain

When is Darth Sidious-McCain going to talk about the issues? How to fix them? Proposals? Moving forward?

Does McCain think he's beyond speaking about the real problems this country is facing? Does he think that it's 'obvious'?

G'O'8

What has OPBAMA GOT TO OFFER ?

From The Very Beginning of becoming a Senator , he found a sneekie way , so he could run unapposed.

Then when he worked the with the groupe of Attorney's. NOT ONE TIME did he ever face a Judge on his own merrits.

And the List goes on , an on.

I say go ahead an vote him in , an you can kiss this Country good bye. An go back to the Horse an Buggie, For if he lets Iran , continue as is. An they sneak an EMP attack on America. None of the your toys,,will work, for no electric, so now your cars will not run. Your water supply is gone.No cold beer, An more . An you still want to put this Muslim in the white House. How Blind are , so many. So go Kiss his Upper Lip ,

So he can say, no missile defense system, again, again.

Now where is the race Card . OBAMA Nothing But a Big Joker, an most toss that Card away. Just as we must do with out him.

McCain is a poor, poor, desperate old man. Retirement will do him well.

Sen McCain was right to address the issue up front instead of letting it smolder under the surface. It may well have been that Sen Obama did not realize how insulting Sen McCain would find having comments about his (Sen Obama) appearance connected to Sen McCains rather tastless ad. These things have to be addressed!!!

Obama is pathetic

Mccain would you please tell me who you are. You wonder why Obama gets the media attention its because you bring him up more than the media does. I am not in the tank for Obama i would just like to see an ad of yours on TV saying what you are going to do for this country not what Obama cant. Please anything………still waiting……

Obama is a joke. Higher taxes, no plan for gas prices, statements being made about having "talks with Al Queda" and yet people still back him? Yes we can? Yes we can…do what? Run this country into the ground with Obama as president. Maybe he wouldn't be compared to celebrities if he didn't act like one and pose for People magazine/OK magazine.

The race card is lame, but it was going to be in the media at some point. By the way, he smokes…cigarettes. Isn't that supposed to be an instant demerit in today's society. If McCain smoked, he would be chastised. Oh wait, its called a DOUBLE STANDARD!

I disagree that the race card was played by Obama, but I can see why McCain feels so, being as sensitive as he is right now.

Too bad though, as Obama has, in the worse case scenario, pulled an "attack on Iraq for preemptive pruposes."

So now, if the Reps try to go down that path, Obama has told us they would.

Moreover, it's a subtle way to tell people who aren't an ethnic minority that's it okay to vote for someone who isn't in the ethnic majority.
How about that for a sanitized explanation?

If Obama is playing the race card its because McCain is making an issue of Obama's race. DUH!

And if you want to claim that he is playing the "race card" then what about McCains campaign playing the "age card" when Obama said that McCain had "lost his bearings."

McCain is an IDIOT!!!

I think McCain is either having a stroke or he has alzheimers. He is incapable of rational thought.

Hillary's playbook being used again by the Restublicans.\

what really is sad is that some idiot out there will believe this crap. GOD Help the USA

re: Independent in Iowa's comment above:
"Not that it matters to bots, but PUMAs can see the real deal."
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Let me tell you something. PUMAs can't see beyond the tears they continue to shed for their fallen candidate, their precious Hillary. I am so sick of the whining and attacks on another candidate who beat her fair and square in the primaries.

I wish to hell you sour grapers would just blog in your own rubber room and leave sane adults to discuss the issues. Your needling little comments like the above make real voters who are actually following the elections cringe.

> PUMA – write in Hillary '08

Please vote for McCain. Once he gets rid of women's suffrage, you can tell all your neighbors in the trailer park how ya' done good.

MCCAIN=ATTACKS OBAMA

MCCAIN=ATTACKS AMERICA (with his Bush Policies)

Why shouldn't McCain say things about Obama geez Obama's star struck groupie sure say alot worse thing about McCain.

It's just that Obama is smart he lets his follower say the bad things and he sits back grinning looking like an angel. Wise up people.

Stick to the issues facing America Old racist Man . We know you are a racist like the rest of the repuplicans, may be you should hire Sean Hannity, Bill O'Relly and Kar Rove to help you spead your racist view, but be aware you will fail miserably.

Obama has been saying these supposed "race card" things throughout his campaign. Now all of a sudden they are the race card?…..It's no different than McCain saying he's qualified to be Pres because he was a prisoner of war. Obama is not racist, and McCain is not qualified to be Pres. on those specs. Get a grip McCain. Fire your idiots that are killing your good name and integrity and be yourself. Show your supporters the maverick in you.

NOBAMA IS RUNNING SCARED HE WILL STOOP TO ANYTHING. I THINK HE IS GOING TO STOOP HIMSELF RIGHT OUT OF THIS RACE.
MCCAIN 08

mccain camp and its steriotypes is the one that is injecting race. it is clear that what obama is talking about when he made the dollar statement is in response to the hilton/ spares ad saying that obama is a celebrity. there is no celebrity on the dollar bill.

The accusation of race card by McCain's manager and McCain himself are not valid watch the entire economy speech in Springfield, MI on youtube. When Sen. Obama talked about " scare" he meant scare to take risk on the election, to take risk to vote for him (OBAMA) Clear and simple. There is no indication of otherwise. McCain blew it again. He has to say something negative about his opponent and it is a disgust.

At three stops in the battleground state of Missouri, 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.”

That's exactly what the mclame camp is doing. What's wrong with a little truth tellin'? too bad mccain has been griping about every word out of obama's mouth for the last month an a half – I think many – including myself, have stopped paying attention to him.

Where is my post CNN?

Can someone remind me what is McCain is running for? becuase for the past couple of days i have not heard anything with any substance from him he needs to say what he is for and not what hes against.

they are afraid of me—oh, by the way did i mention that i am half black??? many many many times, but not half white because that would be playing the race card against blacks. under qualifed.

Have you notice we have not heard from Michelle Obama… have they locked her up at the Chicago Zoo until after the election?

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ORIGINALLY YOU SEEM TO BE RUNNING AGAINST A FORGETFUL OLD MAN.

NOW IT SEEMS YOU'RE RUNNING AGAINST A 10 YEAR OLD.

REPUBLICAN MACHINE IS NOW AT THE HELM, WITH THE BACKING OF BIG OIL COMPANIES THEY ARE IN FULL FORCE.

DON'T GET SUCK IN WITH ALL THE BS GOING AROUND. IT'S TIME TO BE SMART.

STOP THE DECEPTION
STOP THE LIES
STOP THE MANIPULATION

STOP THE MADNESS. VOTE OBAMA.

McCain already played his "Ageist" card

Obama knocked one out of the park with his overseas trip. These sad, played out smear tactics from the GOP will sway the slow minded for a while but keep in mind that Obama will have to come up to bat again, Can we say convention…Give it up Mcfame, you and your party can't compete.

"Obama is Here" Ludacris

If McCain is to reach out to the few intellectual moderates and conservatives remaining who actually have compared the details of Obama's written and publicly stated policy agenda–against his rhetoric, resume, past actions as a public official–then he must do so without mercy in order to roust the truth.

mccain, don't even need to try to play the race card. (Read author J.A, Rogers) But we can play the traitor card. Google: Songbird John McCain.

No wonder they called him McNasty in high school. It is clear he will do anything, say anything to win. What is also obvious is that he realizes that if he talks about the issues he will lose.

Negative campaigning works. When a candidate get smeared, he/she needs to fight back. McCain's nasty and dishonest attacks will work if Obama doesn't respond appropriately or ignores them. Over the past 40 years, the GOP has won election after election by nominating candidates willing to play off peoples fears and insecurities. While the GOP has had its share of noble and well intentioned advocates, i.e. Barry Goldwater, its upper echelons are now filled with hacks, charlatans, ideoilogiacl simpletons and hateful demagogues and cynical opportunists. McCain may not be one of them, but he is certainly embedded with and beholden to them.

Who says Obama does not look like all those presidents on dollar bills? Of course he does.

He is all GREEN.

Here we go!!!
John don't take a page from HRC play book because it didn't work. It kills me every time an African American calls some one on the floor, we are playing the Race Card!!!
Here is the deal folk we don't play the Race Card we play the cards we are dealt!!!
Obama was just stating a fact that he is diffrent!!! John you are trying to scare folks because he is diffrent and it's not only his policies your trying to show the dfferences in either!!!

I haven't heard any race card being played.

I must have missed it when I was out getting my car tuned up and having the tires inflated.

NOBAMA '08

McSame is so out of touch with the American Public, it is unbelievable. He walks around in his $500 shoes, lives in 7 different houses, and can't "watch " the internet, and he thinks he relates to the people that he wants to vote for him. What a joke…..

I can't hardly stand Obama, so much so that I turn my TV off when a commerical comes on. Call it whatever you want, but I will be voting Republican this election, and yes, I was a FULL and STAUNCH Hillary support, yes, I have contributed to her campaign before and after, yes, I think I would rather wretch on a pot of gold than to vote for one said purple man!

Now they will blame the lost on him for not picking Hillary when the whole time we know that he will not win because he is not white. Race is everything in this country. If not why do I hear them talk about the black vote ,the white vote ect. Get out of your dream world and open your eyes and see that we are in America the land of the KKK. MLK had a dream and a dream it will always be because of the hate that is in all of our blood. McSame faught tooth and nail against MLK the Holiday. How can anybody vote for that racist who is of color I don't know.
Hillary showed McSame how to beat Obama and it has been on TV for the past week. It is in full use.
Obama08 A Dream

By even bringing up the term: "Race Card' you YOURSELF (johnny) are calling him black.

When you say "People will tell you I'm old" you YOURSELF (johnny) are playing the 'age card'.

When you say "I'm a veteran' you YOURSELF (johnny) are playing the 'Veteran Card".

johnny, go buy a clue and try to solve the puzzle. When you fail, let Obama take over…because you are the most deceptive, two faced, double standard, trash talking villian I've ever seen run for office. In a nut shell, YOU DISGUST ME!

Obama '08

McCain is a tiring old man. His campaign is doing the same thing Clinton's did. Let's throw everything at him, and BLAME him for the the race card. Well got news for you Grandpa, America is SICK of the Bush Economic and Foriegn policy, we need younger minds, and fresher ideas. Your DAY is over.

I'm a 37 year old Republican who will be voting for Obama in November.

If McWar is elected , I am moving to France. Ok, not really. But I will vomit. Really!

McCain is right. When I heard Obama make those comments yesterday it immediately remined me of the times Obama played the race card during the primary against Hillary and Bill. This is one of the reasons I can't support Obama. He says he's a uniter but his comments say otherwise.

I MEAN MCCAIN IS A RESPECTABLE CANDIDATE WITH SEVERAL THINGS GOING FOR HIM. WHY IS HE LETTING OBAMA SET THE PACE. IF OBAMA DID NOT MAKE THAT STATEMENT DO YOU MEAN MCCAIN WOULD NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY? OBAMA MADE A JOKE ABOUT AN INTRINSIC FEAR. HOW CAN MCCAIN BE KNOCKED OFF MESSAGE SO FAST? POOR TRAIN OF THOUGHT?

Independent in Iowa: Here come the PUMA Pussies again. From what I've seen of most of you, you are as stupid as you look. If Obama does not win, Hillary will get the blame as a devicise witch.
Good bye Hillary and Bill legacy, and PUMAs can go to H E Dougle toothpicks.

BTW, Obama's supporters aren't going to pay Hillary's irresponsible bad debt, so please put your money where your insolent mouths are. And then MOVE TO CUBA!!!!

Having personally been called a racist becase I support McCain – I'd agree – Obama, his campaign, and his supporters are all playing the race card.

And talk about dirty politics – they are saying "they won't be surprised when the republicans say this" or the "republicans are trying to scare you by saying this" or any one of a dozen other ways they've framed it – managing to a) play the race card b) accuse their opponents of playing the race card when they NEVER have and c) accusing everyone else of being a racist.

From what I've heard of him, he's far more racist than any republican I know.

Why should this be a surprise to anyone? Obama used the race card during the primaries and used it to tarnish President Bill Clinton. It worked out very well for him. It may work well against McCain. McCain is too honest to fight a Chicago politician.

Of course Obama has been using the race card , he has done this from the beginning with Hillary. He doesn't like to be asked questions unless he knows the person asking them will give a good record for him. he hates criticisim, it doesn't matter if it is true he will deny it.He has lied about knowing rezko then corned with the truth of his friendship then he flipshis answers. he has never answered question what he did while in the senate in chicago. he gave jobs to people who are being investigated. he was a community activist for the homeless and he never took care of them.he represented these people from his state and they lived in disgustings homes that his friend owned.He has never crossed the ilse in chicago or washington and has always voted on the party line where macain has crossed the isle many times. why did the report come out obama was better at uniting than macain when he clearly mispoke about his record . cnn say the truth and get out of the love in for obama, be a journalist and speak about what is real not a fairy tale.

Obama does this all the time. If you say he hasn't your blinded by your own cult.

The guy has no substance and crys about everything… while doing it himself. He can't push a thought without someone writting it down for him… and plays the race card if you don't like him.

He's slipping in the polls… when it should be over… this guy is a huge mistake… shoud have gone with Hillary!

All McSurges BS aside. A vote for McBush is a vote for four more years of the wasteful Iraq War. More young dead Soldiers sacrificed for Big oil. Another Trillion Dollars in War Debt. A ruined economy. More jobs being sent overseas. In short, four more years of Bush.

The republicans are truly low and shameful. Where are the Conservative Christians? Will you support this type of politics for the third time?

Yep – Camp Obama up to their same old dirty tricks….playing the race card for one. Can't trust a word Obama says – be smart America!

McBitter is running a "clean" campaign. Isn't that what he originally said? I would hate to see what a dirty campaign would be like. Young America vote for Obama are your generation will end up like McBitter.

T-Rex McCain cnnot stand on the issues..he's got NOTHING to offer. So what does he do? Get childlike and silly. Once a man..twice a child. Grow up McCain.

For crying out loud, when the heck is McCain going to start talking about the issues that people care about? Can anyone remember the last time McCain actually talked about himself and his policies instead of talking about Obama?

What? Someone's accusing the republicans of inserting race into politics? Unheard of! Oh wait, they always do that, even to there own. Remember what Rove and Bush did to McCain back in 2000 with his so-called illegitimate child? Or Harold Ford? How about the subliminal imagery of Obama with two white women – were those really the only two vacuous celebs they could insert in the ads? I mean really, wake up. McCain should stop with dirty politics and get on with the real issues – what does he really stand for and how is he going to get us out of the mess George W got us into?

There he goes again. I think we've seen this card played before against Sen. Clinton. Attack Obama, well, you must be racist. Ugh… he's right. This isn't politics as usual. Obama's campaign has sunk to an all-time low. The crazy thing is, though, that I've read some interviews with the guy which makes him sound halfway intelligent. However, I can not reward him with the presidency after these outlandish accusations. Nice try, Obama, but you won't bully me into voting for you.

YES . P-U-M-A- IS MORE THAN JUST AN ACRONYM. IT IS THE RALLYING CRY FOR DISGRUNTLED , IGNORED , OPPONENTS
OF ELITISM . P-U-M-A- 'S WILL NEVER LET HILLARY DOWN.
VOTEBOTH IS ONE BIG BLOC WITH THE WOMEN FOR HILLARY.
WE WILL SURPRISE EVRYBODY IN NOVEMBER.

I wonder if the horses**t spewing out of McCain's mouth leaves a bad taste, or is he just used to it by now?

Unfortunately for McCain fans, his maverick days will be forgotten – telling these hateful lies is what he's going to be remembered for. Oh, and for his love of the Steelers. . . er, the Packers.

CNN is worse than the BUSH administration on its censorship. My comments are no where near as nasty as the mildest of the contributers to these blogs and somehow, my comments are never posted. Wow CNN…I thought you were better than this.

Putting two white blondes known for public display of privates and Obama together has racial bias written all over it… McCain is playing the card by claiming the other side is playing the card…

McCain can't be saved by this desparation… where does McCain stand on the real issues: economy, economy economy…. war??? do any McCain supporters know where McCain stands? of course they don't its just good enough to have attack ads… disgusting.

I have to disagree with Senator McCain on this I don't think Senator Obama is playing the race card. I think he actually believes that if he loses the election it will be because he's black. He is wrong, he will lose because he is an elitist liberal to the extreme. The moderates need to take the Democratic back from these extremist.

McCain is going after the Bubba vote and throwing every person of color to the wind. Is this the strategy you find admirable in your next commaner in chief????

The truth is, The republicans are trying to make OBAMA out as a risky outsider, trying to make him look weird, where the race card comes into play I can't see. this spikes a lot of anger from the "conservatives" b/c it reveals the truth about them, the main reasons why 10-20% are going to vote for McCain will be simply b/c of race. That's a fact, the conservatives don't like to be called racist so accusing OBAMA of playing race card is typical of them.

I am ashamed of this idiot McCain. This idiot cant do anything apart from doing exactly what Bush did.

Obama has started to play the race card just like he did against Hillary. The only CHANGE Obama brings to the table is that he is Black ..period. If we want REAL CHANGE we would have Hillary as President.. a woman president now that is REAL CHANGE. Obama has no experience and will lie his way to win..so watch out America…we may have another George Bush the only CHANGE is this one is black.

Barack is not about white guilt. He is simply stating what a large portion of white america is being subjected to. Listen, white people should not have any guilt. the wrongs committed against people of color where committed in the past. Now that doesn't mean that everything is great here. All societies my protect the rights of minorities because we as people tend to have some 'fear' of the unknown (different). So does Barack have a point? Yes. Just look at the results of the Penn, Ohio, WV primaries. Areas that have large older white populations have a hard time voting for someone of a different race. They all voted for Bush and he had no experience what-so-ever, so don't give me the experience line.

Obamas' arrogance will bring him down. Once people really listen to what he has to say, the less they like him. We already know we must tighen our belts. We already know gas mileage is improved with less driving. DUH.. We don't need this arrogant person in the White House, we just had 7 years of that. He plays the race card everyday. Why does he have to mention the fact he looks different from other candidates. If that isn't racist, what is? The only difference is the color of his skin. He is, as Rev. Wright pointed out, a typical politician. I bet he dreams of his face on Mt. Rushmore. Such arrogance I have never witnessed before. I will write Hillary on my ballot in November and that is one less vote for either of them

Just how does a man that is half white and half black, play the "race" card???

McBush is guilty. His Filthy Rovian Attack Ad's are despicable. I have lost all respect for this man. We truly do need a change.

Racists = Republicans? This is news? I thought that was one of the bedrock planks in the GOP agenda. McCrypt and Crew seem just a bit sensitive after reading the article all Obama states is that 'he does not look like prior candidates" nor the curretn "safe" candidate, in other words, Really Old People! No race card there, unless "different" vs "safe"equals race.

McCrypt just updates the Republican race attack play book by adding a few new words, i.e. 'exotic' or [insert daily euphemism for "different" here]. So, this Southern 57 year old white guy, hopes that Obama keeps ambushing McCrypt on the only road he knows how to travel, the low road. After all the "Straight Talk Express" seems to have a prepaid toll tag for that tollway!

Has John McCain specifically said "Don't vote for Obama….he's black"? No. Has he had mouth pieces say it for him in a variety of ways? Yes. Has McCain thrown the old 'Fear Card' out there….yeah….more than I care to tally up actually.

Its the same old Republican Political Machine. If you can't show your differences in a positive way, then go low.

I'm so sick and tired of hearing all you "African Americans" crying racism. Why aren't you speaking out against the lyrics used by that rapper? You people will never be happy.

McCain, you shame this country.

He told the truth to Mclame and band of thugs. Does McLame think we are blind, with their wink wink nodod nod tricks! He is a true example of a DIRTY POLITICIAN. CNN won't post anything negative about McCain, so much for balanced journalism!

Ofcourse he played it against Clintons. Now playing against Mccain.

McCain is a racist and I have always known it. He was against affirmative action and against MLK day. Look at his sorry record.

He introduced an ad with two young white women who are recovering substance abuse like his wife Cindy. That is the very first thing that came to mind. His campaign is wacky. DOES HE THINK THAT PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT????? WELL, MCSHAME, THE FIRST THING THAT PEOPLE THINK WHEN THEY THINK OF THESE TWO WOMEN ARE NOT OBAMA — BUT PREVILAGE, MONEY, DRUGS, ALCHOHOL, DISFUNCTION AND THEY LOOK LIKE YOUR WIFE!!!!!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH MCCAIN CAMPAIGN!!!!

uh fake PUMA, you are ignorant, McCain went around the World too after he grabbed the nomination, I'm sorry he chose not to bring the press with him, i'm sorry they probably didn't want to go with him. He is just like you, stuck in the past..

Vegas Barbie for Obama:

Those chants are cult like.

The thing that sickens me about Obama and his campaign is how they played this ugly card against the Clintons.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have a long and well documented history of doing the right thing when it comes to civil rights (and Bill Clinton appointed the most racially diverse cabinet in history).

But Obama and his lower than dirt campaign tried to inflame African Americans in the days before the SC primary by twisting/distorting Hillary’s Dr. King / LBJ comment. Tim Russert even called Obama on it during one of the debates.

It was simply reprehensible and Obama promised much better.

Get real, he played the race card and everyone knows it.

At three stops in the battleground state of Missouri, 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

he doesn’t look like past presidents

If that is him trying to show that the McCain campaign was “using the same old low-road politics to distract voters from the real issues" then he needs to learn the English language. and I don't believe that for a moment.
he played the race card, hand down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Repubicans have been playing the race card since "willie horton" hell they even played it on john mccain with the "he has a black child" and now this pathetic man is trying to label Obama with this silly stuff.

Nothing new Obama played the race card throughout the primaries and the media just ignored it and blamed everyone else. I'm glad the McCain campaign is speaking out against it. Obama's campaign quietly played and is now playing the race card again and this time I hope they don't get away with it.

Sometimes I can't whether McCain is running for Student Body President or President of the United States.

First with the Paris/Brittney ad and now crying that Obama is playing the race card.

Johnnie Boy, it didn't work for Bill Clinton when he said Barack Obama was playing the race card and it won't for you. Why does your campaign continue to embrace the failed tactics of the Clinton campaign? Did you sleep through the democratic primaries?

What a laughing stock McRelic is! This is too funny CNN. Obama playing the race card? Obama being compared to Brittney Spears and Paris Hilton? Obama "snubbed" the wounded troops in Berlin? "Obama's not one of us." And on and on it goes. McRelic has run what I believe is probably the worst Presdential campaign in this nation's history. How desparate is this latest allegation. If you can't run on substance and the issues, then run on personal attacks. Sorry but this one is a hoot.

Distractions I tell ya. Gas prices ($4/gal), Economy is hurting and Exxon-Mobil still managed a 14% growth to the tune of $11.68 billion yes billion and McCain is still pandering to me/us about drilling offshore and then talking up some shmack about what Obama said. McCain is full of himself and it’s odd to hear this from him after all the junk coming from his campaign. McCain it’s really simple, if you spit into the wind, it will blow back on your face.

McCain can't have it both ways. As an African American I feel his campaign is playing the race card by saying he is not like us. Instead of pressing Obama on real issues facing America. He wants to talk about Brittany Spears who has no contrast to Barack Obama. She is a pop star and Obama is a politician. Obama is an US Senator, husband, father and I can't forgive McCain for comparing him to a disfunctional pop star singer who is in the tabloids everyday. Give me a break! McCain's campaign is getting to be fully elementary. I can't wait until I get to cast my vote for Barack who has inspired America in hoping for a better future in these times of concern. We need a president who gives America that option instead of the same course of dread and regret we have inherited from this administration. It appears that McBush wants to keep us in a state of feeling distress with this war and instead of giving us an out in these times he wants us to stay in this ever stagnant economy we are in now.

Do McBush really think we, the American people are that stupid that we cannot recognize the racial undertones and slurs HIS campaign has been making.

What's the add about, if not about the difference in Obama? We are not afraid of the RNC fear tatics.

GIVE ME A BREAK.

I really don't think McBush want to president. This man is doing everything in his power to lose the elcetion.

McCain votes:

Pay no attention to our economy and endless wars and debt that will burden future generations. What matters is Obama's middle name.

This message is brought to you by the Osama Bin Laden-PUMA coalition. "Striving towards 4 more years of America deteriorating"

OBAMA NEEDS TO STOP CRYING AND LEAVE AMERICA ASAP.

HE IS MAKING AMERICA LOOK WEAK!!

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. CNN been running a Black in America thing. Why Now CNN, why not last year? so good call John.

I can't say I've heard McCain himself use the race card, but his party, it's members and followers certainly have from day 1. The campaign that should be ashamed of itself is McCain's, for suggesting through ads that are running right now in my state, Michigan, that Obama is nothing more than an empty-headed celebrity like Paris Hilton. Or that, my personal favorite, Obama is personally responsible for the high price of oil in this county. Which is it McCain-is Obama so powerful he can influence the price of gas, or is he nothing but a pretty face? My family and I (4 voters strong!) laugh every time we view one of McCain's attack ads…..is that the response the his campaign was looking for?

http://voices.kansascity.com/node/1515

Code words? Come one Obama. Disgusting.

McCain's tactics are not only going to cost him the White House, they'll end up costing him re-election his Senate seat in Arizona. This is a sad end for someone I once considered a decent and upstanding politician.

McCain is suffering from a bad case of "old timers disease"
And the way he refuses to talk about the issues and instead scoop low playing dirty politics is one of the symptoms….
He needs a good dose of reality to relieve these symptoms and as of late, he's not had any.

This is the new motto:

OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW!!

OBAMA '08

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McBush probably didn't even see the ad himself, It was most likely on after his 6:30 bedtime. Do you think the Repubs air attack ads during reruns of Matlock, or do they think they have that demographic locked up?

I wonder, when Rove and company refer to Obama as "arrogant", they really mean "uppity".

Sad to say that there isn’t even trace of that ‘maverick’ guy left in this remains of a corpse that I see here. He has completely changed from the honorable man to something unrecognizable and much worse than GWB in 8 short years. So very sad.

green people should be outraged!

This guy needs to get a clue! If this doesn't end in a landslide victory for Obama I will be AMAZED!

What they call it? White guilt. There is no such a thing. Got to have a soul to have guilt and McSame and his ilk does not have any. Millions could die in Iraq and many other places in the world but they don't care. You think they care about Obama and playing the race card. That is the only way they know how to play the game. Most of you know how people like McSame talk when no people of color are around. So Mr. Obama just get ready. At least Hillary warmed you up for it. It is about to get nasty now.
Obama08 A Dream

McCain is a weanie acting like a man with no principles or maturity. Another slip there little, old man? "We" shouldn't be doing it. Well said, you worn out, cheap relic of a tool. Your days are numbered, Grandpa Munster.

THANK YOU MCCAIN.

About time someone called him on this. Obama's been pulling this garbage since the beginning of the primaries. Just look at how his campaign called Bill Clinton's comments about Obama's Iraq stance (a fairytale) racist. Courageous move and about time.

CNN,

You always seem to be moderating my comments atleast 1 hour later. Is it something I said that you do not agree with? hmmmmmm

Here goes again……

NOBAMA is a NOVELTY the LEFT is using. How SAD!!!

If you all remember in the primaries Obama was caught addressing his workers telling them the the same thing as to how to use this statement when working the campaign. There was no press in the room but someone got him on their cell phone. He is a race bater
no question about that. Wake up you people. He will do anything to win this election but just as always he slithers away just like the snake that he is.

McCain is going to get 0% votes from any person of color. I honestly think that he is trying to help out the Democrats here – which for a Republican is INSANE.

Obama playing the race card? Is race an issue in this campaign? Is this the idea that African Americans will not vote for Obama because he is half Caucasian? Oops, I forgot: African Americans are not so low minded as that…

He's right. Obama could have said a million other things. And perhaps what he said is true, but you can't say something like that and not expect to be challenged.

McCain is so negative. Do any of you want a grumpy old man with nothing nice to say about even himself let alone anyone else to be president. McCain is the grinch that will steal our christmas.

Someone, please provide truth to where McCain said ANYTHING divisive concerning race, or ANYTHING related to Obamas "funny name." No republican to this point has said ANYTHING concerning his race, name, religion or so forth…mind you that was all done by the democrats themselves in the dibacle you called a primary! so before everyone goes projecting their misguided beliefs, dig into the real origin of these comments…the democratic party!

What A joke! I am not voting for him because I don't like what he stands for and what he is about… it has nothing to do with the fact that he is half white and half black.

Also, read what he said.

"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.”

Sounds pretty obvious to me that he played not only the race card, but another for nationality.

Not that it matters to bots, but PUMAs can see the real deal.

Ok, so let's turn this around…

What if McCain was speaking in front of an audience and he says "the other side will try to make you afraid of me because I'm older than any of the previous presidents, they will try to convince you that I'm feeble or that I'm not physically able to handle being president". Would any sane person, based on what McCain said, charge him with playing the age card? Absolutely not, to imply so would be ridiculous. So is the McCain campaing doing this to Obama?

Really, this is yet another desperate attempt to attack Obama every chance he can get. He can't come up with anything better and it's just getting sad.

at what point does claiming a "race card" was played become a "race card"

Fair? Nobody called you on the AGE CARD, you old coot! You want people to think you have some sort of valuable experience due to the number of rings on your old rickety tree… how is that any different?

The Dalai Bama is playing the race card… it's pretty obvious from the statements…

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

But again… he crys when called out on stuff… like a kid nn the playground… that is not leadership… it's an empty suit with a teleprompter… but enough of that… I have to go check my tire pressure and get a tune up on my EFI car so I can end the oil crisis… what a joke!

"Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck. It's divisive, negative, shameful and wrong," Davis said in a statement sent to reporters.

HMMMMMM, Maybe i missed something, but i havent heard anything or ads from BO that would support this….. WOW, McCain will stop @ nothing with the negative ads or comments. This guy needs to talks talking about some real issues instead of all this 8th grade kiddy mess!!
Get real McCain or get OUT!

If McCain wins because of this…well, I'll just leave it right there.

john mccain has pulled the "race card" card

The McCain campaign is out of control. I hope that my fellow citizens do not fall for this like we did 4 years ago…

The Republicans and McCain will use anything they can to distract from the real issues because McCain wants to continue the same failed policies of Bush. This country is in big trouble because of Bush and I am not the only one who thinks so. What is about 28 or 30% approval.

"using the same old low-road politics to distract voters from the real issues" – how about focusing on how you'll abuse power?

What a crock. Obama's campaign dares to state that they do not play old politics? Anyone that can Google can find all kinds of things about this liar. Obama plays it by saying what wants to be heard and throwing anyone under the bus that busts the real deal out. Even going as far as selecting who from the press could go with him on his rock star tour. What happened to freedom of the press? Is he going to control that now, too?

PUMA – write in Hillary '08

I'm a little confused. Can someone PLEASE tell me what the hell a "Race Card" is?? Hint to McCain: Never play poker. The so-called sincerity look on your face is laughable.

McCain's camp is playing the race card as well. They are saying (not is so many words) that most white americans are racist and Mccain knows that some white americans will not vote for him simply because he is black.

at what point does claiming a "race card" was played become a "race card"

Just another underhanded attempt by the McCain campaign to give racist people a reason not to vote for a biracial candidate.

The world is watching McCain and his campaign and the ugliness is not going unnoticed. What a diplomat this man will NOT make.

McCain just has to do SOMETHING, I guess…he is so pathetic…stay tuned for what new depths the McCain camp will sink to in ANY effort to get some attention for themselves.
OBAMA '08 & '12 YES, say it with me, YES WE CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obviously they are fair. Obama and his fans played the game of "we'll make you feel guilty until you prove yourself innocent" throughout the primaries.

Barack Obama: The Paris Hilton of Politics.

Midgea NFIL

Hey Pot, I would like you to meet kettle. When your campaign does something besides go negative, which is all you do, then you can criticise.

Yeah, just about as fair as CNN censoring every post I've made today.