Accusing someone of playing the race card is what RACISTS do when they are called out. . .

[wndycty]

. . .it was true in the primaries when Obama was accused of it and it is true now.

[madaboutharry]

1. The only people I have ever heard use the phrase

"Playing the Race Card" are people who I have heard make bigoted and racist remarks in the past. I have only heard this from people who I have already decided were racist. Why else would they say it?

[hedgehog]

2. The second time today I've seen McCain use a technique that was pioneered during the primaries

by She we will not name.

[Redstone]

3. Yes, generally. It's a long-standing weasel tactic. Expect more.

Redstone

[Bluerthanblue]

4. blaming the victim-

one of the oldest tricks in the book-

And sleaziest IMO

[polichick]

5. McCain has been playing it in code, and Barack baited them with that...

..."looking different than the presidents on the dollar" comment to get it out into the open.

[wndycty]

6. LOL

:kick:

[kmkleff]

7. I've yet to see

Mention of the fact that they're invoking a quote from Robert Shapiro after the OJ trial about dealing the race card from the bottom of the deck. What better way to play the race card than hearkening back to OJ. This after the Brittney/Paris ad which was eerily similar to the "Playboy Party" ad which was so effective against Harold Ford. Racism has been the Republican's stock in trade for years. Too bad the press is too "polite" to ever call them on it.

[wndycty]

9. I started a thread on code words yesterday

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[blondeatlast]

8. Precisely; they can't defend themselves, so they go all PC on the subject. nt

[ErinBerin84]

10. Anyone watching Race to the White House

David Gregory was being a giant prick as usual and Eugene kind of sheepishly said "Uh, the RNC does not have the best history when it comes to racially related attacks, I don't think that it's THAT out of the ordinary that we could expect some Republicans to eventually use that against Obama..." David Gregory started screeching "But Obama brought it up!" Oh yeah, David. The repukes are pure as the driven snow.

[blondeatlast]

11. Damn, David--did you already forget the 2000 republican campaign where the Republicans

used race against one of their own--the one who is using race to win NOW?

What am I saying--of course he forgot that.

[ErinBerin84]

12. Jill Zuckerman from Chicago Tribune kind of brings this up on Hardball

However, she does NOT mention that these assholes are now working for McCain. She said something like "McCain knows what it is like to be attacked racially" or some shit. As in "The McCain campaign would NEVER do this after what was DONE TO HIM!" Oh yeah, John Mccain...the poor oppressed black man, lol. I would feel sorry for him if he did not employ those douches now. Maverick my ass.

[Virginia Dare]

24. Exactly. He hired the same guy who ran the Bush campaign last time out..

to run his campaign. The guy is on direct dial with Karl Rove, you can be sure of that. McCain knew exactly what he was doing when he hired these people.

[Virginia Dare]

25. And rethug mouthpiece Rush Limbaugh..

hasn't been mocking Obama's name for months. Do these guys even believe their own bullshit?

[treestar]

13. Absolutely. I have never heard it from anyone but

right wing freeper types.

[wndycty]

14. I heard it a few times on here during the primaries

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[Terran]

26. Yes, so did I.

One hopes all those who did that have been ts'd, having richly deserved it.

[wndycty]

27. No one of them has posted in this thread

:kick:

[treestar]

29. I stayed out of here during the primaries!

The whole concept is stupid anyway. The white person trying to be the victim in race issues just doesn't fly.

[AspenRose]

15. Egg zact lee

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[Jeff In Milwaukee]

16. It's like my blaming YOU

because your nose got in the way of my fist.

[wndycty]

18. Yup

:kick:

[musicblind]

17. That was not the case in the primaries.

You can play the race card no matter who you are.

[wndycty]

19. Friday morning kick!

:kick:

[Virginia Dare]

20. Yes and if you saw McCain's interview with John King yesterday..

he knows it. He just couldn't hide it. The whole thing was bizarre. Where is McCain the cocky maverick. They sucked all the life out of him. He's like some kind of zombie.

[wndycty]

21. Yeah he looks like death

:kick:

[Virginia Dare]

22. There's something Edgar Allan Poe'ish about his appearance..n/t

[Evergreen Emerald]

23. The race card was played in the primaries the same way

it is played in the general.

I think it is a mistake to use race to win. By anyone.

[wvbygod]

28. The fact that the Clinton's are not racist disproves your assertion

A better saw would be "it takes one to know one".

[samsingh]

30. very true