McCain: Black, Black, Black!

[jefferson_dem]

McCain: Black, Black, Black!
10.18.08 -- 7:13PM
By Josh Marshall

McCain's latest: claiming that Obama will turn the IRS "into a giant welfare agency." And this even though McCain's rationale for this claim is Obama's support for a refundable tax credit, something McCain himself supports as a centerpiece of his health care plan. Par for the course, really: if you figure in the robocalls and recent ads, McCain's entire campaign is now comprised of innuendo and lies meant to tie Obama to various stereotypes of African-Americans and of course Arab terrorism. His purported foreign policy experience hasn't been part of the campaign's message in weeks. Just black, black, black, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/238167.php

[Top Cat]

1. McCain is a racist bastard

[Curtland1015]

2. McCain should just come out and call Obama a werewolf or something.

It would make as much sense, and many who don't know what a "socialist" is will still be scared of a werewolf.

[donco6]

5. And hey! It's right around Halloween, too.

Think of the visual confirmation!

[ikojo]

3. I wonder when McCain will say Obama supports

slavery reparations (he does not). I'm surprised that hasn't come up yet.

[chookie]

13. OH NO! You delivered tomorrow's talking point! n/t

[ikojo]

4. I wonder when McCain will say Obama supports

slavery reparations (he does not). I'm surprised that hasn't come up yet.

[BlooInBloo]

6. This is what we signed on for in choosing Obama. Now is not the time to run away from the racism...

as some recommend.

[jefferson_dem]

7. Definitely, now is the time to confront the racism and call it what it is.

It's totally disgusting. Frankly, I'm surprised we haven't seen more but it will only get worse more vile over the next two weeks.

It will be a glorious day - on November 4 - when this cabal of thugs and their scumbagish race-baiting are kicked to the curb where they belong. "Time to turn the page..."

[SmileyRose]

8. Meh

so it's official - McCain has no soul.

[Overseas]

9. Slime is as Slime does. But Republican negativity is very very different.

Let us all commit to batting down the ridiculous comment I've heard broadly that well, both sides engage in negative stuff so both are equally to blame--. That is poppycock. Utterly untrue. The quality of the discourse diverges greatly. McShame slams Obama with ugly gossip,
whereas--
Obama ads attack McCain's POLICIES AND PLANS, or lack thereof. Not personal. His plans for the US government and our future. Those are scary enough. No ugly gossip required by the Obama team. They're fighting cleanly, dagnabit.

No character smears allowed. You have not seen McCain the adulterer born in Panama, Gordon Liddy's pal, who was broken by the North Vietnamese has never been the same since, hooked up with Keating and dumped his first wife after her auto accident and married a beer heiress after a year long affair with her... not allowed. No robocalls about -- How comfortable would you feel if the man who got the 3 a.m. call didn't know a Suni from a Shiite? Would you station Joe Liebermann in the White House to help with the calls?

The Obama camp doesn't go there. It sticks with the terrible realities of a nation ruined after seven years of Republican rule. No Drama Obama is running against ineffective, even damaging policies, plans and priorities of McBush and the Republicans and offering a more positive vision.

THAT IS NOT EQUALLY NEGATIVE.
Attacking an idea, not sowing malicious gossip.

[Fleshdancer]

10. Congratulations McCain. You are now more disgusting than Bush was in '00.

How does it feel to out asshole the asshole who went after your own adopted daughter in the '00 primary? Does it feel good John?

[chookie]

14. That's what I've been thinking too

Rove was vicious without any constraint against this man, beyond all decency. And remember how angry McCain was? I remember after Monkeyboy won the primary seeing footage of him jaunting over to McCain like there was nothing wrong in the world, and the cold hatred McCain showed despite his best efforts to "go on with the show" as a professional politician. I also remember hearing the Talking Idiots saying -- very early on after he illegally seized power -- that Monkeyboy could not count on McCain's support -- which was a very big deal back then, when people still had respect for the man.

I forget when it happened, but he eventually, and literally, fell into Bush's arms at one point in the future -- maybe it was one of those "9/11 changed everything" moments.

So -- we have one entitled no-good punk who gets beaten by another entitled no-good punk, and that really stings. But then, just as The Precious" is within his grasp, it is stolen from him by a talented, handsome, cool and articulate man (of an inferior race!) who actually worked his way up all through his own work and merit. Now, THAT has unhinged his mind. I think he will eventually recover from this, but he might not.

Here's another walking Oedipal complex....facing ridicule. He and Monkeyboy have so much in common.

[EffieBlack]

11. Another case in point: the "gold cadillac" healthcare plan McCain keeps referring to.

[chookie]

12. "Socialism" is a code word

I wrote this in another post.

McCain talks about how Obama is going to bring about Socialism.

But he's not raising the spectres of the USSR, the Iron Curtain, Castro, etc.

"Socialism" as McCain is using in this context means, "He's going to take all your money and give it to n*****s!" And it is waving red meat at every violent bastard in the country.

Is his mind so unhinged by losing the Presidency twice that he will say anything because he is desperate, or is it a scorched earth policy? Maybe he's thinking -- "If this is as close to the Red Button as they are going to let me get, I'm going to push it."

These fuckers aren't satisfied with what they have already done to destroy the country -- now they are inciting people, and, yes, it is going to have ramifications that will show up in crime statistics in a year or so.

[political_Dem]

15. Somebody said that McCain had nothing to lose.

I'm not surprised at his behavior. He is fully unleashing his rage against people of color because everything is tanking for him. Finally, I think, he revels in the catch phrases and dog whistles to make Black folk into the monsters that White America feared.

It's sad. But until someone publicly calls him on that racism, he's going to get away with it. And the people who aid and abet his horrible behavior by "looking the other way", will think that this is normal behavior.

[Cali_Democrat]

16. So McCain says Obama wants to turn the IRS into a giant welfare agency

I'm sorry, but this statement is absolutely disgusting and we should be more outraged. Where the hell is the media?

This is Dog-whistle politics at its finest folks. McCain is a scumbag who is trying to appeal to the fears of working-class whites.

This motherfucker will do or say anything to get elected.

[barack the house]

17. There is no more bigger welfare than what they insist on handing to big business and how spending >

got where it is. Folks can't afford more of the same time for change.