Just Another Campaign Stunt: McCain Accuses Obama of Playing The Race Card
John McCain’s camp have accused Barack Obama of playing the race card after his remarks that the republicans would try to scare people by pointing out that he “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”
It can be fair to say however, that Obama was simply referring to an earlier ad where the Mccain camp did in fact put his face on a dollar bill among other places.
I decided to put Obama’s statements from July 29th over McCain’s ad from June 27th to show how intentionally overblown the McCain camp’s accusation is:
Please take a minute to digg this:
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August 5, 2008 at 11:57 am
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August 5, 2008 at 3:41 pm
You are so right. I am so sick of lies. Amazingly, there are some people who still buy the GOPs crap.
August 5, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Brilliant! If you could email this to the millions of Southerners in the Red States who are out of work thanks to Bush economics, or who have lost their health care thanks to the Republican congress … oh wait. They are too busy at the anti-abortion rallies or glued to Fox News being scared about a “Muslim” becoming President.
August 5, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Great video! Glad you posted it on Centab. Loved the background music you used. Will pass the link around as much as possible.
~Susan~
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August 5, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Rob you’re dead on. The more racist scare tactic emails I got forwarded to me from my mom’s hillbilly cousin down in rural Missouri, the more I started to support senator Obama.
October 28, 2008 at 12:08 am
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