Time Magazine says this video ad plays the race card. Two black guys stealing from an old white woman.
This is hardly subtle: Sinister images of two black men, followed by one of a vulnerable-looking elderly white woman.
Let me stipulate: Obama’s Fannie Mae connections are completely fair game. But this ad doesn’t even mention a far more significant tie–that of Jim Johnson, the former Fannie Mae chairman who had to resign as head of Obama’s vice presidential search team after it was revealed he got a sweetheart deal on a mortgage from Countrywide Financial. Instead, it relies on a fleeting and tenuous reference in a Washington Post Style section story to suggest that Obama’s principal economic adviser is former Fannie Mae Chairman Frank Raines. Why? One reason might be that Johnson is white; Raines is black.
Well yes. Johnson is fair game. In fact Mr Johnson has been hit hard today in a video showing his connection to Senator Obama.
So I guess what we have today is a white guy and a black guy teaming up to steal from the white woman. We are truly fortunate that Mr. Obama is no racist. Otherwise the number of crooks he could partner with would be severely limited.
Cross Posted at Power and Control
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3 responses to “John McCain Plays Race Card”
McCain’s people should have been more aware of that angle. There are plenty of minority victims out there they could have chosen. Time may be quibbling about a non-issue, but they can’t be accused of ignoring the real one since they go on to state it themselves.
Looking at the polls, the market meltdown is hurting McCain so I assume his people will be all over Obama’s finance connections. As well they should be.
tim,
I’m sure McCain set this up as bait. It got play in Time’s blog re:Obama’s connection to the mortgage meltdown. Time said (for the first time) that those connections were fair game.
Today McCain has two more commercials out re: Obama’s connection to the mortgage meltdown.
They will now get some attention. Brilliant.
The word “racist” now has no meaning other than “I am a leftist and you are disagreeing with me.”
And if you don’t accept that, then you sir are worse than Hitler.