Back in January, when there was a lot of debate about who would be the most formidable Democrat candidate, I said Barack Obama would be because anyone who challenged him would be declared racist. I didn't actually expect the candidate himself to play the race card. Usually, one lets the moonbatosphere and one's minions do the dirty work.
"They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?"
As Carol Platt Liebau of Townhall blog noted, Republicans don't play the race card and, in fact, haven't done so in this campaign. That's not to say Democrats haven't tried to blame conservatives for rumors started by liberals.
The hypocrisy is stunning, as Liebau points out. The Obama campaign has been using code language for McCain's age for weeks now (but kooks will tell you that it's an important issue). Now Obama is arguing that "young and inexperienced" is off limits? That's an odd argument, coming from the party that thought Al Gore's experience as V.P. was more important than George W. Bush's experience as governor of the second largest state.
Let's just be blunt, here. Democrats like to play the race card whenever they think it will put white people on the defensive. In fact, I'm willing to say right now that if Obama loses in November, the meme from the Kool-Aid drinkers will be that everybody who voted for McCain is a racist. It's just that simple. That's why idiots argue that Obama's connections to racists and terrorists don't matter. They don't care where Obama came from or how thin his resume is. And Obama has shown the same willingness to play up his race when he thinks it helps him and castigate others regarding race when he thinks he's been hurt.
So much for that "different kind of campaign" Obama was going to run. It looks like the same ol' racist bullshit Democrats usually play.
Ed Morrissey of Hot Air points out that it was Democrats who have discussed Obama's race, not Republicans.
It was, after all, staffers on the Hillary Clinton campaign that sent the photo of Obama in African garb to the Drudge Report. It was Bill Clinton who suggested that Obama’s victory in South Carolina was no more significant than Jesse Jackson’s in 1988. It was Hillary who explicitly went after the white, working-class vote in the later primaries that bruised Obama so badly.
John McCain, meanwhile, was a lot more outspoken in criticizing his own supporters for relying on crypto-ethnic references. He immediately and publicly disowned, without any prompting, Bill Cunningham in Ohio after the radio host enphasized Obama’s middle name (Hussein) in his introductory remarks. McCain also fired one staffer for e-mailing a Jeremiah Wright video after explicitly saying that his campaign would have no comment on Wright or Trinity United. Meanwhile, Hillary could only offer a tepid “as far as I know” repudiation of the rumor that Obama is/was a Muslim.
Baldilocks explains that it isn't Obama's name or skin color that scares people. It's his politics.
Karl at Protein Wisdom says Obama "sounds like someone struggling to suppress his own prejudice." That's pretty accurate.
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