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Axelrod: 'Dollar bill' remark about race
The Swamp —
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by Katie Fretland and updated
Sen. Barack Obama was referring in part to his race when he remarked that the McCain campaign wants voters to fear Obama because he doesn't look other presidents, according to his chief campaign strategist.
"He's not from central casting when it comes to candidates for president of the United States," David Axelrod today told Good Morning America. "He's new to Washington. Yes, he's African-American."
However, on Thursday, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama was referring to the fact ...
Obama Denies Playing Race Card
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
... on the Today show, except for the one addition at the end: Lauer: David, what does the comment mean if it's not a direct reference to race, what does it mean? Axelrod: Matt, what it means, what he was saying - and he does this in a self mocking way - look, I know I'm not from central casting when it comes to presidents of the United States. I'm new, I'm relatively young, I haven't spent my life in Washington. And yes, I'm African-American - and that's going to be some fodder.
Ludicrous Race Card Drama Continues
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
Quote of the Day "The McCain campaign has obviously been watching our primary very closely and recognized how damaging it had been to be tagged with the charge of race baiting." ...
Obama’s chief strategist: “Dollar bill” remark was about race
Sister Toldjah —
After a day of denials, finally the truth comes out:
Sen. Barack Obama’s chief strategist conceded that the Democratic presidential candidate was referring to his race when he said Republicans were trying to scare voters by suggesting Obama “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”
The comment had triggered a charge Thursday from Sen. John McCain’s campaign manager that Obama had “played the race card… from the bottom of the deck.”
Playing the Race Card
Obama’s camp initially denied the remark was a ...
Obama Campaign Chief Strategist David Axelrod Admits Barack Obama Played Race Card
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
Barack Obama: ” ‘Well, you know, he’s got a funny name and he doesn’t look like all the presidents on the dollar bills and the five dollar bills…”
Now, wait a minute.
Barack Obama denied playing the race card today.
“I was in union, Missouri which is 98 percent white - a rural, ...
Obama's campaign admits their candidate played the race card
Doug Ross @ Journal —
ABC News tackles the issue head-on. Sen. Barack Obama's chief strategist conceded that the Democratic presidential candidate was referring to his race when he said Republicans were trying to scare voters by suggesting Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills." ...
The Obama team should get their message straight
Betsy's Page —
... visit troops. They seem to be focused on a negative campaign what I think our campaign wants to do is focus on the issues that matter to American families." What does a president look like who came from central casting? Which presidents, on the currency or not, looked like Hollywood picked them out? LBJ? Nixon? Ugh. Lincoln, on both a coin and a bill, certainly didn't look like someone Hollywood would have picked. That's just malarkey. And Obama's chief strategist proved it with his remarks on Good Morning America. "He was referring to the fact that he didn't come into the ...
ABC: Here's what trying to scare voters actually looks like
Daily Kos —
ABC has a new story on this silly 'controversy': “Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck,’’ Rick Davis, Mr. McCain’s campaign manager, said in a statement. “It’s divisive, negative, shameful and wrong.’’ Mr. Davis was alluding to comments that Mr. Obama made Wednesday in Missouri when he reacted to the increasingly negative tone, and negative ads that have been coming his way from the McCain campaign in recent days. “So nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we ...
Obama Camp Concedes "Dollar Bill" Remark Was About His Race... Duh!
Gateway Pundit —
Either the Obama camp or the media thinks we're all morons, or both. The Obama Camp today conceded that his "dollar bill" remarks were indeed about race. ABC News reported: Sen. Barack Obama's chief strategist conceded that the Democratic presidential candidate was referring to his race when he said Republicans were trying to scare voters by suggesting Obama "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills." The comment had triggered a charge Thursday from Sen. John McCain's campaign manager that Obama had "played the race card... from the bottom of the deck." ...
Lie.
Althouse —
Conceded.
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McCain: We’ll Respond If Democrats Use “Racism” Again
The Page by Mark Halperin —
Speaking to ABC, the Republican makes his strongest comments to date about Obama’s “dollar bill” remarks last week.
“We’re not going to allow racism to come into this campaign in any form. And so I’m going to respond if it comes up ...
Deracialization and Barack Obama
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... While I’ve been busy moving my stuff to Texas, Barack Obama has been inadvertently injecting race into the presidential contest with his statement that he “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.” While the historically-inclined might have criticized his remark for lumping Alexander Hamilton in with the motley crew of ex-presidents represented among the now-circulating bills, ...
The race card timeline and accusations of racism
neo-neocon —
Some people have pointed out that Obama’s remark suggesting that the McCain campaign would attack him by saying “he doesn’t look like all those other Presidents on the dollar bills” was preceded by a John McCain ad entitled “Seal” that placed Obama’s face on a dollar bill, and therefore it wasn’t Obama who dealt the race card, since he was just responding to the McCain ad.
The ad can’t be found among the ads on the McCain website, but until proven otherwise I’ll take You Tube’s word for it that it was an official offering from the McCain campaign. Here it is: ...
Chicago Sun-Times: Obama 'Tries To Avoid Talking About Race'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
The Chicago Sun-Times today includes Mary Mitchell's column, "We can deny it, but race slithers into campaign." The subheadline reads "Obama, his campaign trying to transcend it -- but can't." The article makes a startling assertion about Senator Barack Obama:
Obama tries to avoid talking about race, as do his surrogates, staffers and supporters.
Say what? Obama's recent remarks that he "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills" clearly referred to his race. Even his chief strategist admits that.
And it was hardly the first time he ...
Lipstick & Dollar Bills
The Corner on National Review Online —
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 [image] Lipstick & Dollar Bills [ Andy McCarthy ] Jay's post provided a welcome reminder of Obama's statement earlier this summer that Republicans wanted Americans to be afraid because he doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills." Just as happened today, the first reaction of the Obama campaign was indignation: How could you possibly, conceivably imply, in your wildest dreams, that The One was referring to race. As ABC News reported at the time:"'He was referring to the fact that he didn't come into the race with the history of others,' Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs ...
Yet Another Democrat Race-Baits by Preemptively Complaining About Race-Baiting
The Weekly Standard Blog —
Well, one thing you can say for her. Had she been chosen as VP, Kathleen Sebelius would have been on-message.
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius accused Republicans on Tuesday of injecting race into the presidential campaign, arguing that they are using "code language" to convince Midwesterners that Democrat Barack Obama is different from them.
"Have any of you noticed that Barack Obama is part African-American?" Sebelius asked with sarcasm. "(Republicans) are not going to go lightly into the darkness."
Sebelius was responding to a question from the audience at the Iowa City Public Library about the tenacity ...
Oh, what a tangled web he weaves
Cold Fury —
So, let me see if I have all this straight: Obama is going to cut health care costs — which, according to him, are destroying that small portion of the economy not already totaled by his “stimulus” scam and the nationalization of various enterprises — with a “ revenue-neutral ” program which will actually cost more than a trillion bucks. He’s going to “keep government out of health care decisions” by increasing government’s role in health care to a hitherto unimaginable degree. He says “ this isn’t about me ,” but whines that they’re “ going to destroy my presidency .” He accepts responsibility for the ...
