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Obama: race card charge 'ridiculous'

 

Published 8/1/2008 by Mark Murray at First Read

From NBC's Mark Murray, Lauren Appelbaum, and NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-TreworgyIn an NPR interview, Obama was asked about the McCain campaign's charge that he played the race card. "This notion that somehow I was playing the race card is ridiculous," he answered. "What I said in front of a 98% conservative rural white audience in Missouri is nothing that I haven't said before." "I don't come out of central casting when it comes to what presidential candidates typically look like," he continued. "It...( read more ) (link)

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