– Barack injected race into the campaign to make people more comfortable.

– Showing Obama as Moses sends the message that Obama is “uppity”, per Gergen and Gergen knows because Gergen is from the South.

Gergen obviously isn’t paying attention if he thinks Obama was Moses in the ad and not the Seal of God parting the ocean.

A lot of people thought we’d need a fence straddler to win.

I don’t think so, the Democrats embarrassment of riches is turning out to be just more embarrassment than riches.

We coulda hada real Conservative.

Speakup on August 2, 2008 at 11:10 AM

Q.F.T.

John McCain said, they were having fun, that is another difference in the campaigns. The Obama camp has no sense of humor, this is all deadly serious. Maybe that will be the next McCain Political Add, Obama vs Sanjaya. Sanjaya wasn’t as talented as he was an oddity, he drew attention to himself with his hairdos :) Obama look at me, I’m not white! Who cares? I don’t. Obama needs to fire his 300 advisors and get new ones.

The Superficial are attracted to Obama as a rule, they don’t stand in Voter lines for long periods of time but the folks who went for Hillary in the Primary, have no problem standing in line to Vote.

By making any objection to Obama, his “vision,” or his “policies” one of being racist, the Dem contender put any of his opponents on the defensive …
onlineanalyst on August 2, 2008 at 8:48 PM

That was a gift for McCain. Obama’s racially protected status is not unnoticed by the great unwashed (a.k.a. non black voters)

As Obama and the MSM stoke the flames the public has one forum to express resentment and that is the voting booth.

Obama lived a sheltered life, from radical parent, to ivy league apologist professors, to activist organizer, to bomb throwing buddies, to America hating Farrakhan loving preacher, to self loather press he always had an amiable audience.

He probably thinks he sounds like a moderate and he does to the Saul Alinsky crowd.

Marx understood the best way to stoke a revolution was to build resentment in the masses against the privileged class.

Obama foolisly assumed he was one of the masses but chose to define himself as one of the privileged class. That was the mistake of not making his bid color blind

Arugula anyone?

onlineanalyst on August 2, 2008 at 8:48 PM

Spot on!

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=52f_1217434061&p=1

His pattern of weak credentials began with his being a state legislator through his election to the US Senate. He most certainly is not presidential caliber.

Tom_Shipley on August 2, 2008 at 10:46 AM

For crying out loud, TS. The issue is not about Obama’s looks– although Obama keeps framing his remarks on that point.

The McCain ads were pointing out that the pop tarts to who Obama is likened are simply famous for being famous. They have no commanding credentials. They are flash-in-the-pan lightweights, acceptable for paparazzi and non-critically thinking followers.

Being an entertainment figure satisfies the ego of the insecure. It is not a qualification for a demanding, serious candidate whose decisions affect a nation.

We all see what a bastard Obama is, aligning with the likes of Ludacris to literally attack those who won’t kiss his *ss.

that’s obama’s chip on the shoulder

http://bellalu0.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/obama-compares-massacre-of-30-students-to-verbal-violence-of-imus/

remember McCain had little problem calling those opposed to amnesty, “racists” and “nativists”.

White guilt/Original sin: topic for conversations and discussions, but not on the ballot. Politicians have been frosting everything with white guilt for decades. It has gone stale and deserves to be omitted. It’s only a big deal if you can produce a final candidate that did not pander with PC. Those who didn’t got left by the wayside this year. But the implications wore too thin and are now abrasive. All of that race baiting only hurts the person who keeps it going. McCain isn’t going to use the same plays though his dream sleeps up his sleeve. Whatever bitter lessons he has learned at this point will affect its subsequent emergence.

Energy, low taxes, jobs, Middle East victory and our border security are the red button issues. Right now, we are correct to focus political attention on our energy crisis because the price of gas will determine the voter response.

Border security will keep popping up its ugly head each time an illegal alien murders or mutilates citizens regardless of what La Leche and La Raza say, regardless of what Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says.

To secure the USA, start by defeating the DNC. Make Nancy Pelosi eat crow and relinquish the gavel. It’s going to be one of the coldest winters on record. Drill Now.

Come November, show up and vote!
RULE OF LAW IN THE USA.

Explain to me how he sounds any more intelligent than W?

Cindy Munford on August 2, 2008 at 10:41 AM

He’s a Democrat. As far as the media and half the population is concerned, it’s automatic. Democrat = Smart and Good. Republican = Dumb or Evil.

They’re not even trying to hide their bias anymore.

The Obama team,has been pushing this race card
since the primaries,and Obama was playing it
against HilRod,when the infamous besmirchment
of African Americans,a la “Fairy Tale” remark
by der Slickmiester!

Note to all Liberals,please play your race games,
and besmirchment attempts confined to your own party,
and lets try and have a clean campaign,even tho it’s
innate behavior among Liberals to play dirty!!!

Instead, he made Stuff up, and has already retracted what he said only a few days ago.

Another Rookie Mistake by someone who is turning out to be the Worst Campaigner in quite a while

Tom Shipley–you embarrass yourself with every post. You are the poster boy for facile half-wit talking points, so keep it up: we need a laugh, and you are good for laughing at