Comments on: The Racist Campaign

By: ac

ac — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:35:51 +0000

Help stop the hate - here are three things you can do to make a difference right now: 1. Sign the petition to end incitement of hatred by McCain/Palin. 2. Write your Congressperson about it. 3. Write a letter to the editor of your local paper. And spread the word!

By: Palin Attacks Obama’s Record on Abortion : The Curvature

Palin Attacks Obama’s Record on Abortion : The Curvature — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:37:50 +0000

[...] line of attack was losing them more points than it was winning them — and you know, inciting hate-based violence — the McCain/Palin campaign has seemingly switched tactics again. On Saturday, Palin started [...]

By: SunlessNick

SunlessNick — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:06:58 +0000

You might think after the racist tactics employed against him by Bush way back when he would have the decency not to turn around and use racism for his own gain

Not just using it, but hiring the very people who used those tactics against him. He knew exactly what he paying for.

By: Isabel

Isabel — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:02:36 +0000

Ha, my reaction to that article was the same as yours–not usually big on Jezebel, but credit where credit’s due.

Also, I am inclined to agree with Renee that this is not something McCain has accidentally fallen into or whatever. You might think after the racist tactics employed against him by Bush way back when he would have the decency not to turn around and use racism for his own gain, but then you’d probably remember that any shred of decency he could have ever claimed to had has been completely demolished over the course of the past five months.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:14:51 +0000

Great article you linked to. I haven’t seen it getting any ink, so in case you haven’t heard, the McCain camp is now, as it turns out, openly racist:

In defense of one of their creepy Obama/Ayers hate America commercials, the McCain Camp has cited two “radical” projects that the education foundation they worked on had funded: “one having to do with a United Nations-themed Peace School and another that focused on African-American studies.”

Of course, the SAME commercial reminds us that Ayers was a terrorist, so the McCain campaign officially considers promoting diversity to be in the same class of radicalism as blowing up the capitol building. And they even had the nerve to spell this out, referring to the schools as
“radical in the eye of this campaign and we imagine in the eyes of most Americans.”

I can’t find a single opinion piece about this anywhere.

http://www.politifact.org/truth-o-meter/statements/790/

By: Pop Feminist

Pop Feminist — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:19:50 +0000

These displays are definitely troubling, but I take solace in the fact that more than anything they bespeak desperation. These death rattles (while racist) are less fear mongering than transparent overcompensation. We’re going to win this one! Woot!

By: jovan byars

jovan byars — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:08:43 +0000

I've already did. I spent most of last week (it is Sunday morning here in the Eastern Time Zone) searing the McCain-Palin camp and the Augusta Chronicle for their cheap attacks on Obama.

By: SunlessNick

SunlessNick — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:40:55 +0000

I believe that McCain always intended to fall back on racism as a political tactic.

I agree. Especially given weeks of not calling out racist comments about Obama – and quips about terrorism or secret Islam – and while using talking points that seem to goad them. Of course, now, a couple of days before the final debate (and right after Obama issued a veiled challenge to bring it up there) he starts distancing himself from that a bit. All that suggests calculation to me.

By: Renee

Renee — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:39:56 +0000

I believe that McCain always intended to fall back on racism as a political tactic. Many see this for what it is but how many will value whiteness enough to internalize his message as good? He could not have been more obvious as to his intentions than when her called Barack “that one” and then that same night refused to shake his hand.
While what McCain is doing is terrible by the same account viewing this election on a referendum on race is equally wrong. Even if Obama is elected racism will not disappear the next day. Voting for Obama because you think that it shows how “liberal you are” vs whether or not you think he is capable of leading is also a racist act. To me this has been nothing more than a great display of privilege with no real change on the horizon.