C from Texas….This is why racist will never die because the Blacks want to keep it alive so they'll have something to cry about…………
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Speak for yourself…..If I’m not mistaken that was a complaint from racially prejudice whites, as you put it was crying about, “what about me if Obama become President“. Race is a problem with all race, it’s just some play the game in the old way, is racist behind doors, but not really racist in public.
Obama is biracial so he can tell us all a lot about living with prejudice from both races.

OK, Obama weighed in. article does not state what Obama said?

Yes, we need to look beyond a persons race, gender, age and look at the person's heart and mind. When you do this we will get the best
people in office. Unfortunately it doesn't work that way in real life, because people are hung up in the past. Get over it and get a life.

DUMP OBAMA - we want Hillary Clinton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Which Confederate general ?
It really does make a difference.
Need more information here, folks.

This PUMA is tired of the Obamamania of his fake platform based on the corrupted school of politics from Chicago

Obama has injected the race card in the election from the very beginning. Look at his record please and you will find the real man behind the fake promisse of change and hope

PUMA action in the Convention to show the DNC that we disagree with his coup to put Obama as the nominee. He was selected not elected remember that. This election will go history as the major mistake of the Democratic Party

correction HYPE.

have to watch my fingers

TO PARIS……………don't believe the hpye. Barack Obama DID NOT play any race card against McCain. You tell us exactly what it was……please.

Ron….

if someone is LYING on you….. and saying that your energy policy amounts to a tire gauge…

THEN CALL THEM LIARS…..

what problem do you have with THAT…

p.s. this thread was about racial politics

This is just sad but expected from Tenn. they have ran ugly stuff before, one place I'll never visit.
2008 and still ignorant! When afraid of loosing run on fear that seems to work .

I'm from Memphis and I just voted for Steve Cohen. Tinker is desperate and does not have a firm grasp on the issues that concern us as a city or a country. Steve Cohen has done a great job as the 9th district Congressional Representative and I hope he continues the good work. Not too many AA believe as Tinker does and use race as a wedge to achieve personal gain. She was really behind in the polls and she needed something to try to give her a boost in the final days. She really doesn't understand you far back she sets us all. How pathetic!

Tammie From Cleveland Ohio August 7th, 2008 3:02 pm ET

Why do the blacks always have to pull the race card in everything they do??
Not only in politics but in every aspect of life. They still think we should
compensate them for slavery over 100 years ago.
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ummm…only a few years since those white boys dragged that Black man behind their truck in Texas. the white boys were called good kids just having a little fun…IN THE MEDIA. Katrina…Blacks were called refugees…according to the FBI if a Black person and a White commit the same crime, the Black person is more likely to get the greater sentence…look i know your brand of stupidity is the minority among whites but GEEEZ try to keep it to yourself sweetie, you make Good white people look BAD

no wonder jesse wants to cut of his obamas, barack is now the new ambulance chaser. doesn't barry have other things to worry about right now other than a primary in tennessee ? is this what a barack presidency would be like : 'race issues' 24/7 ?!

Tom B., enough of the bs already. That church was far for racist. Speaking about the history of black people in america does not mean people are racist. That BS didn't hurt Obama in the primary and it won't hurt him in the general election. If it's God's will for Obama to be president in November of 2008, he will be.

Barack Hussein Obama: What did or didn't you say 2 your pastor for 20 yrs Wright? I think Hussein Obama is a joke,hypocrite,liar,phony and a flip flopper candidate in the america history period.

The name calling and the polics of fear are the refuge of the disperate and the close minded. Most people on these board need to get out of their comfort zones and experiance other races, creeds, and political viewpoints. Use your intelligence, don't just be a minon of the pundits. Think for yourself and understand both sides of the argument.

I also want to ask the Obama supports to follow you candidate and stop using all the variations of "old" to describe Macain.

Why Cohen was clapping in Churches, yet voted against children praying in schools? That's called "separation of Church and State." I agree.

There should be no mention of race, no mention of the KKK (unless he actually has ties to that), they should be issue based campaigning. People sometimes think they get sympathy by race baiting. It doesn't work on the federal level and it won't work anymore on the state level. I don't know enough about these candidates to give a knowledgeable answer. Obama was right, "these incendiary comments have no place in politics."

Did the Jewish guy make bigoted statements?

The black guy calls the jew racist. The jew calls the black atheist?

How are racist and atheist comparable attacks?

Obama could have said quit race baiting. He criticized both.

When are people gonna see that Obama has antiamerican, promuslim sentiments beating in his heart?

His pastor was a life mentor. His step-dad was a muslim. His pastor is friends with the nation of islam. Jews ought to realize he is not sympathetic to them, he is sympathetic to the cause of black america which often runs hand in hand with islam.

Obama's mother was 17 years old when she conceived him, living away from her parents in Kansas as a freshman in college in Hawaii, 2 months into her first year. His dad was 24 or 25 years old, a foreign student from Kenya, and statutory raped her. Mom and dad both atheist. Obama had little to do with either parent after 5th grade, this man has no roots other than Rev. Wright.

Repubs are gonna slaughter him in court of public opinion.

Well, I am glad Obama weighed in on this. He is, indeed, an expert at race baiting and playing the race card for political gain.

Shame on Tinker! He is so sick and twisted! If he didn't live in Tennesse I'd swear he'd just stepped out of Jeremiah Wright's hate-filled church! I hope he loses.

As for Obama "weighing in" on this racially-loaded matter…..he shouldn't even go there. His campaign has been dealing the race card from the bottom of the deck (sneaky!) since South Carolina. Same thing…..just more suave and covert.

Was for Hillary….now McCain all the way!

He has made this a racially charged race. His opinions are becoming less and less important.

wow. obama thrives on negativity and divisivnes, and yet he has the gall to tell these people "do as i say not as i do".

blah blah blah blah blah - good lord aren't you people sick of this fool yet.

Vote Bob Barr - A true believer in individuals rights

I was going to ask McCain regarding promises if he thought "his" promises meant much. But when reviewing McCain's speeches and town hall comments I realized that McCain has not made any promises. McCain has stated plenty about what we need. If you follow his comments they are as follows: "we need this or we need that". But there is never any folllow-up proposals of any kind as to how we are supposed to get what we need. So I guess we can't ask McCain if he thought any of his promises meant much. If people do not like or don't trust Obama's promises that is fine, but at least Obama provides something that a person can study and determine whether they are empty or not. McCain offers nothing.

"August 7th, 2008 2:50 pm ET
Hopefully the disgraceful McCain campaign will get the memo too."

Any actual facts Donkey Party or are you like the "messiah" who makes stupid remarks with no basis of fact and when he is called on it, his campaign LIES just like they LIED about the Dollar Bill remark "that is not what we meant" and then later had to recant by STATING that John McCain will USE RACIST TACTICS WITH NO, NONE, ZERO, ZILCH, NADA basis for saying that about McCain.

The chosen one is DONE as he did this crap against Bill Clinton and guess what, he hasn't forgotten about the smears either and they will happily throw a wrench in his winning this year so Hillary can win in 2012.

Would you McCain haters who are calling him a racist be stunned to know that this RACIST, adopted a beautiful African American child a few years back?

Keep drinking the Obama Kool-aid, but Kool-aid has killed before.

Empty vessel, empty ideas, empty rhetoric.

Jo August 7th, 2008 2:43 pm ET

Rep. Cohen also was quoted as likening Hillary Clinton to the Glenn Close character in Fatal Attraction with a comment something like she should have stayed dead in the bathtub. No wonder Obama thinks Cohen should be reelected.

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I did not know that Cohen likened Hillary to Fatal Attraction.

So, we have racists and misogynists in Tennessee.

I take my previous post back and ask all citizens in Tennessee to NOT vote for Cohen but an Independent.

Many people feel that Obama used race to smear both Clintons. Now he is telling "lessimportant" people to be above it.

White people HATE being called racist when they try to be impartial.

Obama uses race for political gain. This is an opportunity to appear he is above dirty politics. Really Obama is the dirtiest in history, accusing the most highly regarded living democrat, Bill Clinton, of being racist.

Obama used up all his fuel, if he tries to use racism in general election, it will only hurt him.

Obama has placed the race card from day 1. I'm so TIRED of this cat. GO MCCAIN.

Good for Obama, I applaud him for that!

I am amazed at how people bring up Rev. Wright. Yes, he did go there for 20 years. How many of you really know Rev. Wright beyond what you heard in the media? Do you know he operated on President Johnson? Do you know he was invited to the Clinton White House?

To Texas Trail Dog- As an African American- I agree with you. The only thing left for America to do is apologize. It what was done for other groups. We need to move away from comments by Pat Buchanan that coming to America was the best thing to happen to blacks.

As Americans- we need to move beyond our racist past. A country divided will fall. Look around we are falling. Jobs are leaving. The economy is in the tank. We need to come together and work together. That is what America is really about.

At the end of the day, we are one country with liberty and justice for all.

WHAT QUALIFICATIONS DOES MCCAIN HAVE???

I mean educational qualifications.What college did he attend?What degree does he have?What books has he written by himself not by other authors?what exactly qualifies to him be Commander-in-Chief?

I am not asking about POW.That is not a qualification,it is was his job and what happened happened.

Thanks!

Ready some of this stuff makes me ashamed to be white.

TEXAS TRAIL DOG: YOU ARE THE OE WHO NEEDS TO STUDY HISTORY, DUDE. THE EUROPEANS (WHITE ANGLO SAXONS) STARTED THE SLAVE TRADE OUT OF AFRICA. And the FOUNDING FATHERS OF OUR NATION HAD MANY A SLAVE OWNER AMONG THEM, INCLUDING THOMAS JEFFERSON.

Let's not even get into the Jim Crow laws! All the linchings throughout the SOUTH IT WAS LEGAL TO LYNCH A BLACK MAN. SO PLEASE, READ UP ON HISTORY! AND FACE THE FACTS AND THE TRUTH!

Its SO sad that a Jewish candidate and an African-American one, can not rise above prejudice!

And people start to get all bothered when Sen. Obama mentions (and rightly so) that he does not look like the men on our currency! Point made.

kathryn August 7th, 2008 3:16 pm ET

I thought Roland Martin talked yesterday in his editorial that "the Obama campaign is afraid to inject any race in to this process" and yet here Obama is injecting himself into a racially charged issue that has NOTHING to do with him.
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Once you are the presumptive nominee for president then you automatically become the head of that party so this actually DOES have something to do with him because these are two democrats slugging it out.

Kathryn - I guess some people do take pride in being ignorant.

If anyone believes McCain when he accused Obama of playing the race card when Obama referred to his face on US currency, think again. McCain flat out lied, and MSM has not called him on it.

Remember when Obama had displayed that new campaign logo back in June when he was in New Orleans I think it was. Camp McCain hit back with a website video that made a mockery of the logo. It showed Obama's face on the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, and a $100 bill.

Last week McCain denied that ever occurred. I suppose he could. When the video was released, it did not have that "…I endorse this message…" blurb on it. The video was seen as having the potential to be racially charged so it was taken down within hours, and some aide was reportedly dismissed. But, the purpose had already been served.

Matt-NE August 7th, 2008 2:34 pm ET

Following that statement, Obama promptly said, "Why are all the white people picking on my poor black self?"

I am a Obama supporter but thanks for the laugh Matt-NE, anyway Obama is as black as he is white so he could also have said, " Why are all the black people picking on my poor White self?" Lets all do ourselves and America a favor by leaving "RACE" out of this "race".

PUMAs true colors are really starting to come out on this one. As suspected, beyond the fact that many PUMAs are really republicans stirring the pot, it appears that there are quiet a few who also have a bit of a problem with blacks. Please go up and read a couple PUMA comments and judge for yourself.

Would a reasonable person from Texas please post and prove you're not all Neanderthals?

Sad to say… but I was just in Tennessee.. and I'll tell you what… racially charged is the perfect word. I was listening to local radio talk shows out there.. the most racial bunch of crap I ever heard. I hate to think that this is the general mentality of the Tennessee resident.

I heard nothing but Obama bashing… and the infamous "N" word seems to come out of the mouths of the people there just about as naturally as "Hello". I feel sorry for that Tinker lady out there… because I now know what she must go through living there.

I thank god that the rest of the country isn't like that.. and thank god I don't live in Tennessee.

Democrats… these are the people who told you that when whites break for Hillary 55-45% they are being 'racist' (in progressive states like Pennsylvania, New York, and California too) but when blacks go for Obama 90%-10% in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Mississippi (some of the most de-facto segregated states to this day), they are NOT being racist?

Me personally, I don't pretty much care if they go negative or not. Hey, if race and gender is gonna solve our problems, then go right ahead…

Mr. Obama doth protest too much, methinks.

Mr. Obama’s race-based campaign is perhaps the most divisive in history and has caused irreparable damage to the Democratic Party and the United States.

Thank God I'm a Black man that can see through the Obama rock-star image.

More African-American men need to lead their families and neighborhoods away from voting for this man. He isn't here to help you or I, he is here to help himself. Wait for a better man, a more qualified man!

A race-baiter calling out a race-baiter…isn't that special.

Obama's campaign has injected more race, has been more sexist, and has divided this nation more than any campaign in history. The nerve of him to speak about anyone being divisive. Obama should take a good hard look in a mirror. He has alienated Democrats from their party and created a new group of Republicans and Liberals. His divisive ways will come to light in November when once again the democratic party is defeated.

People who try to distract from racism by throwing out the term "race-card" are people who consider an accusation of racism to be more damaging than racism itself.

When you in your heart divide people by race you are leading this country to what we see in Iraq with the Sunni vs. Shia.

If McCain or any politician running for office can't win on their ideas and convincing arguments for our future, they shouldn't win. Leave race out of it!!

Come together America!! Right NOW!!

My God, they're all out in this thread. Yikes.

"he's the only senator who thought our kids shouldn't be allowed to pray in school." then he's the only sane senator you have; kids SHOULDN'T be praying in school!! GO REP. COHEN!!!

obama was asked how he felt about the situation and he answered. what he said is true, enough with the ugly carl rove/newt gingrich ugly, lying way of playing politics. let's hope this country and the world have gotten as ugly as they are going to (i know, i dont believe that either).

Texas Trail Dog ……..We Know Our History …Experience is the Best Teacher

Paris……..Then why did you play the race card against John McCain?
You did the same thing in the primaries. So did Bill

biffington, biff
if you have to play race politics in order to win, then you shouldn't be running.
my 2 cents .here is A Nickel Shut the H_ll Up

Why are Americans so racist? everything there is about racism.. Remember the words of MLK. "One day my four little children, … will not be judge by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character" I am afaid to say that that dream died with Martin. Thank God I live in Canada.

"These incendiary and personal attacks have no place in our politics, and will do nothing to help the good people of Tennessee. It's time to turn the page on a politics driven by negativity and division so that we can come together to lift up our communities and our country," said Obama.

That's some good advice. Too bad the hypocrite (Obama) can't follow it.

So sad the bitterness, close mindedness and pettiness of the few Clinton supporters who can't accept reality. Don't you have a hobby you can take up, some volunteer work you could occupy yourself with or put on a bake sale to help pay off her debt?

TEXAS TRAIL DOG - Well said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I live in Memphis and we DON"T LIKE MS. TINKER!!! She has no substance and no policies. And she has the nerve to put Obama's face on her flyers!!! She needs to put McCain and Rove's face on them because she is following their tactics. All she does is tell people why we shouldn't vote for Cohen instead of telling us why we should vote for her. Cohen voted against the removal of the statue because he didn't want to cause racial tension…If that statue was to been taken down then the white neo-Nazis would fight for the renaming of MLK park and Civil Rights Museum. Our black mayor and black city council agreed with him 100%. He voted to take Christian prayer out of our school and replace it with a "moment of silence" so the children of all religions would be free to pray to their god. Today is election day and I don't think she will get that seat. If so then Memphis will be put back 50yrs.

This is what a leader does: remind all parties of the work to be done, shed the damaging attacks, and get back on track.

Of course McCain would never take this stance. This is his style and by keeping on the low road proves he is unable to lead.

I AM GOING TO TYPE EVERYTHING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE EVERYTHING I SAY NEEDS TO LOOK LIKE I REALLY MEAN IT. MOST OF WHAT I TYPE IS B.S. BUT IF I TYPE IT IN CAPS, EVERYONE WILL THINK IT'S THE TRUTH! THAT'S IT! I'M SHOUTING WITH MY KEYBOARD! THE SIZE OF THE LETTERS IS INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO THE SIZE OF MY BRAIN!

(end rant)
Come on, people. Let's type like grown ups here.

Brian in Trinidad he did not convince anyone that the Clinton's were racist no one her believes that! not even republicans. Bill Clinton opened that can of worms on himself! Try again with more lies and hate about Obama it is funny these people don't even care about issues they only care about there pathetic emotional self. Much like the radical right in the GOP These Puma idiots could be the end of us all.

Obama 08

"CHANGE WE CAN BELEIVE IN!"

Texas Trail Dog-Let the door knob hit you where the dog should have bit cha.

Obama can't win with some of you, can he? I want to hear McOld's response. Why hasn't he been asked about this? Is it so hard to believe that a man who is half black/half white has the right to speak about both races and not be racist? How can he be racist against himself?

This election is starting to get me nervous.
it seems that one mistake can cause a huge riot in 2008

PEOPLE GET OVER IT .ITS ONLY POLITICS!!

NOV 4 IS 3 MONTHS AWAY AND WE HAVE PLENTY OF TIME

LORD HOW MERCY, the CHOSEN ONE has stepped in to help. WHAT ALL CAN HE DO!!!

And after all of this, democrats will still say it is the republicans who are the racists… Even when two of their own fights like this…

Wow…so Senator Obama tries to play the race card for HIS OWN PERSONAL advantage, but he is against others doing the exact same thing? How about that! YUP certainly was all Senator Clinton's fault…wasn't it now.

Obama: Pot, meet kettle.

This is nothing compared to what the repubs are going to do when they really get desparate.

Nikki Ticker thinks she is entitled because she is black. Ford's brother said "no white man is qualified to represent black folks." Ford and Tinker MUST GO! She is playing of the fears of black folks. DONT FALL FOR IT.

It's a given. If we don't hand over the key's to the city to every black person that runs for office, we are going to hear charges of racism. Apparently, the concept of earning your respect and way in life wasn't high on the list of things taught in black households. It's never going to change. Black people will never appreciate that certain things had to happen thru the course of history to make life better for them. My ancestors never owned a slave but as a white person I will always be held accountable for slavery back in the day. Never mind that millions of blacks in Africa are suffering and exsisting in a hellish way of life, the spoiled gang banging drug dealing young blacks in America will never understand that if their own people had not sold their ancestors into slavery hundreds of years ago, they would most likely be living their lives in Africa right now.
No, it wasn't pretty or even humane, but the fact of the matter is that we do not control destiny and fate. The good lord had a plan and life is playing out according to God. The ones that suffered and paid the price for expanding the horizons of the black race were the ones who deserved to be revered and honored. Not some young punk who thinks the world owes him something when he's never done more than sell drugs or lay up at home on welfare. I'm not responsible for the slavery or misdeeds done hundreds of years ago and I'm tired of the whining and crying. I scratch out a living just like everyone else and the race issue is a non issue to me and millions of others. There will always be whites who hate blacks and blacks who hate whites, it's just life. Everyone should be treated equal and receive the same basic rights. The blacks need to stop the race card BS because it just hurts their cause.

It's Teneesee … birthplace of the Klan …. what do you expect.

Nathan Bedford Forrest was probably the "general" in question.

It was the Tenneesee GOP that tried to malign Mrs. Obama. They'd have never done that to a white potential 1st lady.

I really don't want to see the media ( Fox, ABC, CNN, NBC, CBS) always go running to Senator Obama as though he must speak on every topic where an African American is involved. He should take that off the table, if they dont' have the good sense to.

McSame is definitely a racist! No doubt.
He can't stand the fact that Obama will be president.

besides, he is too stupid to realize that too, lol.

In other words.. Obama sez,"Quit it, Tinker…"

Why does Obama have to weigh in on this? It has absolutely NOTHING to do with the Presidential election. His only "tie" to this is that he's black and the woman running the questionable ad is black.

Great ploy media!

A RACE BETWEEN TWO POLITICIANS WHERE RACE HAS BECOME AN ISSUE IS FRAUGHT WITH REPERCUSSIONS IN THE NATIONAL ELECTIONS . IT DOES NOT MATTER IN THIS INSTANCE WHO FIRST RAISED THE ISSUE. THE OPPONENTS IN THIS CASE
INVOLVES A JEWISH MAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN .
OBAMA HAS ENTERED INTO THE FRAY WITH GOOD REASON AND
HOPEFULLY TONE DOWN THE RACIAL RHETORIC IF ANY.
TENNESSEE IS A SOUTHERN STATE BUT HAS A LOT OF AFRICAN-
AMERICAN VOTERS. WE HOPE THE TWO POLITICIANS WILL STOP ATTACKING EACH OTHER PERSONALLY AND REFRAIN
FROM RACIALLY CHARGED REMARKS.

I'm surprised that he didn't defend Tinker and chastise the rest of us for not understanding her "experience" and why it has led her to make these statements.

Didn't Obama himself recently used the race card against the republicans by saying that they will try to scare you because I don't look like these other guys that are printed on our paper bills? We know he used the race card against the Clintons with Clyburn's help. What a hyppocrite!

BO made false charges over and over and over again. just can't vote for him. GO JOHN!!!!!!

Mr. Obama you should reconsider your continuing stoking of and involvement in race issues in which your words and actions run contrary to the public expectation.
No one had brought up the issue until you did a couple of months ago and most recently a couple of weeks ago against Senator McCain..
You are where you are because most Americans are colorblind.

Most Americans don't care where you came from nor who your parents were. You will be judged overwhelmingly on your policies, but a growing number of voters you have insulted with the race issue will turn against you big time in the privacy of the voting booth.

For a candidate who professes "change," you're seen by a growing number of Americans as someone who is bent on using race as an issue to try to benefit you.

If she is already in congress shouldn't she have a record worth running on regardless of how short the resume is there should be something there to demonstrate her ability to represent her voters. If not then its clear why she has gone negative and she needs to loose this election in order to demonstrate that this is no longer the way to win elections. Slim is not constructive.

yo soy panameño pero pienso que el barack Obama puede ser un buen presidente ya es hora que el pueblo americano busque algo nuevo para su pais es lo que va pasar en nuestro pais panama en mayo 2009 nuestra eleciones veremos cara nuevas y eso es que ayudara a tener mentes fresca y creo Obama debe ser esa diferencia ojala pudiera estar en toma de posicion en la casa blanca

mister Obama just doit

from panama
isaias leon

Barack Obama is too unprincipled a human being to be "weighing in" on such important matters, and the DNC should have done so much more help Harold Ford, Jr. in 2006.

Hey, Howard Dean, did you even read my letters to you in 2006 when I asked you to do something to help Harold?

And now "Party Unity, My A$$!" leaders like Darragh Murphy, the treasurer of PUMA PAC are telling members of the coalition that they should not question "Party Unity, My A$$!" leaders as their members donate money and work hard for the "Party Unity, My A$$!" cause.

It's a world gone mad…

Knoxville Puma

Rep. Steve Cohen is a racist as he called a journalist "these Armenians". He is also a Genocide Denier and a shame to the US congress.

I thought Roland Martin talked yesterday in his editorial that "the Obama campaign is afraid to inject any race in to this process" and yet here Obama is injecting himself into a racially charged issue that has NOTHING to do with him. HHHMMMM does'nt sound too afraid to mention race when it helps him get a little attention, HUH? Someone please get a note to Roland so he can accurately state the Obama talking points on his next "objective analysis" of how the race is going.
Kathryn Amherst MA

I JUST CANT BELIEVE HOW HARD IT IS FOR SOME PEOPLE TO LOOK IN THEIR HEARTS AND DO THE RIGHT THING!! INSTEAD, THEY CHOOSE TO LET ALL THE BAD THINGS IN THEIR LIFE DOMINATE THEIR CHOICES. AND THOSE BAD THINGS ARE ALWAYS THE WRONG CHOICES!! IT REALLY IS SO EASY TO LIKE PEOPLE FOR WHO THEY ARE WITHOUT PREJUDICE IF THEY WANTED TO. BUT THEY DONT WANT TO!! THEY GET CONSUMED WITH SO MUCH NEGATIVITY! AND USUALLY THEY ARE MISERABLE!!!!! THATS TOO BAD!! LIFE IS GREAT WHEN WE ARE ACCEPTIVE OF OTHERS!

I feel sorry for the people who live in that district, having to be bombarded with that non-sense………..but all americans feel that pain, having to indure the slime machine of the McCain campaign.

Obama is getting it on both ends from Hillary and from McSame. White people hate to see black people in the role of leadership. I saw it in the navy and I see it on my job. But we are strong and will deal with it but those of you whom happen to be white and support Obama in a way get a chance to walk in our shoes and see for yourself what we go through.
Look how fast and easy it was for the Hillary supporters to jump on to the ship of the enemy. They would rather go down with someone that does not share their point of view in no way than to vote for or see a black man as president. The reason that they give for doing it make you scratch your head and wonder has America changed at all. Bill Clinton could not see it in himself. It's like the old saying I like you as a person but please don't marry my daughter. Hillary and Bill of all people are standing in the way of Obama more than the republican party itself. We have a long way to go people and if Hillary and her people stand in the way of Obama becoming president by doing something stupid and underhanded at the convention she will NEVER get the vote of most Obama supporters if she ever runs for anything.
Obama08 with or without the CLINTONS

EBONY AND IVORY its been this way for thousands of years and will always be !!!

Good for Obama. We have to condemn sleazy, dishonest campaigning regardless of who commits it.

Just because McCain is the new champ in this lowest division of political competition doesn't mean that there are no Democrats down there in the gutter with him. And a few of them are African-American. It lends great credibility to Obama's campaign when he calls them out.

When did the Tennessee primary race draw national attention? I didn't get the memo
I mean…oh never mind. I give up

Is she the black Hillary?

"Another uses an image of the Ku Klux Klan because Cohen did not support the removal of the statue of a Confederate general from a Memphis park"

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Are you joking, this is a part of American history. This shows who the racist are, should we forget our past because Blacks think it's racist? Maybe we should get rid of all the Mexican flags and England flags while were at it. This is why racist will never die because the Blacks want to keep it alive so they'll have something to cry about. Remember the Civil War didn't start over slavery, wish some people would get over it.

Puh-leeez…..

I am sure jewish guys are allll about shared values with the klu klux klan. When will we get a political system that informs voters about the candidates and doesn't just push 'buttons'. It cheapens us all as citizens of this grand experiment.

Oh please! Obama is quick to denounce using the race card in someone else's campaign but it doesn’t bother him to use it if he thinks it will help his own. He makes me ashamed to be a Democrat!!

Why do the blacks always have to pull the race card in everything they do??
Not only in politics but in every aspect of life. They still think we should
compensate them for slavery over 100 years ago.

Mediocrity (Democrat Party) and Poverty for Obama
Excellence, Superiority (Republican Party), Distinction, Quality, Brilliance for McCain.

CNN please tell me how this is not race baiting…
my grand father had a brother Lynched in Florida, my grand dad is 80 years old now, he still tells the story of how he had to cut his big brother down from the tree and how the white men who lynched him laughed as they walked away…what did his brother do…he did not cross the street when a white person walk on the side walk…my grand father also tells stories of how whites would not let his parents sell their crops and how one day a white man kicked my great grandmother in the stomach. so i know a lot of white people may not realize how even today Blacks are affected by the race game, i do not believe all white people are raciest i just feel most do not get our experience as Black people here in this country. they would rather call us victims than to realize the truth of American History dealing with race…other wise those white boys in Texas would NOT have tied that Black man to the back of their truck and dragged him to his death a few years ago. please be more mindful of your responsibility as a news station and your part in perpetuating the ignorance fear and hate that has torn this Nation apart

I'm in Cohen's Distr. He is a long-term popular candidate. He has done much for Tn. in the State Legislature and has done well in Washington. His district is mostly black …..but will support the candidates that supports this district. I Cast my ballot this AM for Steve and have confidence that he will easily win. Tinker has light experience has NO NEW IDEAS that would constitute a candidate change. Unfortunately she is running on race…………..not a very pretty thing to evoke this election year. She needs to stop this …. most of this district has gotten over that decades ago. This is her second time to run against Cohen and she lost the first time. Maybe she can run as a republican next go around ???

I guess that they see that Obama continues to play the race card and figured that if he can do it, so can we..

Obama is SO FULL OF IT—-if he really felt this way then why did he try to play the race card himself?

McCain does not have anything to say even on his add. We know him always crying about media attention and when he has it he talk about Obama. Media putting Obama under microscope and they can not find anything and now all I see McCain TV add for free in all the stations. McCain is follower and Obama is the leader. He had all week to talk about energy and all he said all the above is my plan he never give any $ or brake down on his plan he said “ALL THE ABOVE “he means Obama plans. Please ask him what his plans are about the war he just says we need to win just like a child not just like a leader. Senator Obama is a leader young like Kennedy and Celebrity like Ragan

My question is how did the candidate make this connection? Is this something that is really important to the people of Tennessee? I am not from the state, but how does this really impact other issues that the two candidates will deal with in the House?

Hopefully the disgraceful McCain campaign will get the memo too.

It really must be hard been Obama. Not being white enough or black enough must be a real drag! I hope Tinker loses!

Will blacks ever be held accountable for the racist crap that comes out of their mouths, or is that just a dubious honor white folks get to deal with. Funny how he will get in more trouble for responding to her, then she will for saying crap like a JEW was in the KKK, pathetic.

The you President..uh mean Senator Obama. That's why i love you man. You rise above the pettiness that is consuming politics in American. And shame on both of you in Tenn and your supportors for for acting like children. And you wonder why voter turn hasbeen so low for years, look at the choices we have had. That's why the election booths are going to short circuit on November 4th when it's flooded with Yes for Obama.

Independent who is tired of "my dad is better than yours" politics

I'm an African American woman for Obama. Tinker should be ashamed of herself for despicable ads she has run. I hope she loses!

Well….sounds like the same old song. The problem is George Bush/McCain people, he's the one we should be fighting.

So where's the outrage over this? Where is Jesse and Al and the NAN? SOOOOO typical of the double standards.

This guy support the Confed and no praying in school..image a Black rep telling a jewish majority no praying and by the way I support the Nazi Party. C'mon get this guy out of there.

And Obama you stay out of it..we all know what you think of church and your former pastor who supported you for 20 years while you were struggling to make it onto the Illinois Senate.

No…, Obama's not injecting his race into the presidential elections.

Maybe Obama needs to tend to his own business, but with his Messiac complex, I suppose he thinks its his duty

Once again it is the black candidate trying to play on race and motivate racial fear and tension. That, however, seems to be OK since it is impossible for the black candidate to be racist. This is why racisms can not nor ever will die. Obama and his campaign already told you McCain WILL attack his race at some point in the future, even though it has not happened nor will it. But, somehow McCain is labaeled the racist for what he might do. I think it will turn off the majority of white voters. I think the lesson of Marion Berry and Kwame Kilpatrick will tell you what it will do for black voters.

Racial politics is just divisive. It does not move the country forward. It only promotes ill will on both sides.

if you have to play race politics in order to win, then you shouldn't be running.

my 2 cents.

The white people should learn to be inclusive not divisive!!

a good way for sen. obama to accomplish this coming together would be for him to stop ridiculing other politicians and calling them liars coming to you direct on CNN. this is something he and his supporters have been doing since the primaries first with Hillary and bill Clinton now with McCain and his surrogates.he cannot take criticism, his ego will not allow it but seems to have no problem ridiculing and debasing his opponent.and as far as racism again on CNN during his semi defence and semi denunciation of rev wright he and nobody else said his white grandmother made racial and ethnic slurs that made his skin crawl. he later said his grandmother was a typical white person why as the media not called him on that. again what sen. obama says and what he means do not jive

Rep. Cohen also was quoted as likening Hillary Clinton to the Glenn Close character in Fatal Attraction with a comment something like she should have stayed dead in the bathtub. No wonder Obama thinks Cohen should be reelected.

Way to go for BO! I wish he'd say the exact same thing to McCain.

This should be long and gone burried and forgotten!

One need look no farther than here in San Antonio for signs of racism in this election.

There is bumper sticker making the rounds that shows Barack Obama in a turban, with his name written underneath it (and, of course the largest written name is Hussein, his middle name) and Barack has large "black Sambo" lips.

The RNC elephant is on the left side in red, white and blue.

Fascinating, but not surprising, that Obama should take this opportunity to scramble up to the moral high ground. He, with his Rev. Wright friend of 20+ years, he with his friend Ayres - a proud American-born terrorist, he with his buddy Rezko and the Obama homestead worth a cool million, he with his dreams of having a "different" looking face on the $5 bill, he with the staffers who escorted burkah-wearing Muslims out of camera range.

The cunning Mr. Obama - he could write a book on racist politics - that may be his next book. Books pay big bucks, and no one has ever been more money grabbing than this Greedy Tot.

Mouthing disapproval of the challenger's behavior doesn't cut it, Barry, not with a record like yours!

After using race prominently in the primary campaigns against Hillary, and after attempting to start it up with McCain last week (and getting burned) it now looks like Obama's setting out on an initiative to distance himself from race-based politics. BUT I doubt it will be for long. This has been one of the top plays from his playbook throughout the whole election process. He seems to have a need for this. But he'll try to disguise it for a while and look for every opportunity to speak out against it - as he is doing with this Tennessee case. What a phony!

Following that statement, Obama promptly said, "Why are all the white people picking on my poor black self?"

For a guy who convinced many Ameircans that the Clintons were racist, he sure sounds like the true hypocrite that many see him to be.

LOOK YOU AFRICAN AMERICANS NEED TO STUDY UP ON YOUR HISTORY. YOU CAN'T BLAME WHITES FOR ALL YOUR TROUBLES. WE DIDN'T START SLAVERY IN THE FIRST PLACE. THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES WASN'T ABOUT YOU. YOU WERE JUST A TAG ALONG PART OF IT. THE WAR WAS CAUSED FROM INDUSTRIALIZATION NOT SLAVERY. THE REBEL FLAG AND THE CONFEDERATE STATUES ARE HISTORY. SO GET OVER IT. SLAVERY WAS WRONG NO MATTER HOW IT ORIGINATED. BUT YOU BLACKS WERE NOT THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO HAD, "LONG AGO," FOREFATHERS WHO WERE ENSLAVED. I AM SO TIRED OF YOURS AND OTHER WHITES RACISM. IT IS TIME FOR ALL TO SHUT UP AND MOVE ON. PEOPLE VOTE FOR WHO YOU CHOOSE AND QUIT CALLING YOUR OPPOSITION NAMES. IF OBAMA WINS THEN I WILL GO FOR IT. IF JOHN McCAIN WINS i WILL ALSO GO FOR IT. I JUST PRAY THAT THE MAN WHO GETS THE JOB HAS AMERICA'S INTEREST AT HEART AND NOT SOME SELFISH MOTIVE IN MIND.

Agreed.

I agree. It has no place in politics. If this does not show he is ready to lead than America might not be melting pot anymore.

Is this really what our country has come down to, unwarrented 'race'baiting' accusations? People, make this STOP. The politicians are going to keep using these tactics as long as it affects the vote in their favor. Say "NO" to all politicians who falsely accuse opponents of using race in an election. Say "Yes" to thinking about vote before placing them. Say "Yes" to reading multiple sources, critically considering all points, and avoiding hasty emotionally-based votes. THIS is what will save our country, adding intelligence back into politics.

Wow! So "it—racism" is not just happening in the presidential election, it is happening during state level campaigning. Not shocked at all. This country is NOT ready for the change that it continues to "shout" for.

was the same question asked of mccain

America must realize we are at a crossroad in our history,many people fear those unlike them and we refuse to confront these things head on.America hides true hatred and racism in codessuch as,he does not have the experience,do you really know who he is,he is arrogant to think he can do what other white men or uppity.This is just code for you are black boy and you donot belong here,find your place.

My answer to this racially charged attact against Rep. Steve Cohen is for all the citizens of Tennessee to come out and vote overwhelming for Mr. Cohen to demonstrate that Americans are fed up with this BS of racism.

Racism in America perpetuated by the true Racist!

Vote for Steve Cohen!!!

"These incendiary and personal attacks have no place in our politics…" said Obama.

Did he say, "I'm just messing with you" after that *stinging* rebuke of the lies Tinker is putting out?

president obama is already helping to solve problems with political nasties.he has done more for the country,already ,compared to bush/mccain.he's making nasty politicians a threatened species."a change is a comin' "

Great job Obama throw her under the bus. I am sick of these of the wall race baiters. White and Black lets get rid of them all.

As Irishmen, Sens Obama and McCain can both appreciate the negative affects of racism against a people or race. Thank goodness the Irish have moved past the dark days of the early 20th Century.

These kind of attacks have no place in politics and they never have a place at our dinner table. In our house we chose to teach love and not to embrace ignorance.

Well said Obama. Now just do it your self, stop the negativity in your own campaign. And that goes for McCain also. Both are going negative and both need to stop.

Obama drop the act.

Then why did you play the race card against John McCain?
You did the same thing in the primaries.

Obviously Obama has forgotten his 20+ year affiliation with a church that was very radical/racist.

Looks like Barack found his "Sistah Souljah" moment just like Bill Clinton succesfully did in 1992.

Good job, Barack! I don't care what these pundits are saying- you've been leading all summer and a lead is a lead.

Another very direct response fitting with Obama's message of change.

Good for him I am liking the fact that he takes responsibility for the actions of others in his party. The radical right republicans just deny or push blame elsewhere they never own up to there mistakes even when there is audio or video or even millions of witnesses. This radical right that has taken over the GOP must be stopped they will be the end of this country! No Extremist America not now not ever!

He could kill two birds with one stone. Help them, and himself.

Offer to host a debate or town hall meeting between these candidates.

Obama weighs in on race baiting? Again???

tinker's finished now.