Obama to Fundraisers: Republicans Are Fear-Mongering Racists

by Heywood U. Reedmore -- June 20, 2008 at 10:37 pm | In 2008 Election |

Proof that Senator Barack Obama has no interest in running a civil campaign: at a fundraiser Friday in Jacksonville he slimed Republicans (audio) for things they haven’t done, saying he’s sure they’re going to do them, including using his race to scare people.

“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?’”

Obama alluded to a coming wave of dirty attacks when he opted out of public financing, too.  He seems to be saying, “I’d love to run a high-minded, clean campaign but those scumbag Republicans aren’t going to let me.”  He goes on to say that those Republican tactics will just divide us.  And what?  Making crass generalizations about a large segment of the electorate will unite us?  So much for civility.  Either he never intended for these remarks to get out, or he’s no longer interested in winning over Republicans.

And lastly, note that Obama equated critiquing his lack of inexperience with attacking his race.  Apparently he views everything as a dirty attack.  Pretty soon he’ll be demonizing McCain for campaigning at all.

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  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbsihrdn-_s

    This is a link to an ad just produced by the person that gave us the infamous Willie Horton attack ad. A clear example of why Obama needs to be free to use as much money as possible to fight it, not be limited by public financing so that the 527’s can swiftboat him to death while McCain clutches his pearls and mocks outrage about the ads while doing nothing to stop them. These are the people Obama meant when he said “They’re”, not all of the repubs in the country. You have a tendency to take things out of context in order to provide examples of an erroneous point.

    And please do not say that McCain has not called him naive and inexperienced. He has.

    And speaking of civility, does that include constant attacks on Michelle Obama by Cindy McCain on the morning talk shows? Even after Laura Bush herself said that Michelle was taken out of context. Hopefully, the civil McCains will stop this line of attack now that video of McCain saying that he didn’t really love this country until he was deprived of her company. Should that be taken out of context as well?

    And speaking of financing, McCain broke his own campaign financing reform rules when he backpedalled out of being stuck with public funding for the general. Where is your outrage over that, sir?

    Comment by cutthecrap — June 20, 2008 #

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