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Obama: McCain Trying to Make Voters 'Scared' of Me
Obama: McCain Trying to Make Voters 'Scared' of Me
ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: While campaigning in a traditionally Republican district, Sen. Barack Obama attempted to beat back rumors about him– telling the Springfield, Missouri crowd that Republicans and Sen. McCain are trying to make voters “scared” of him...
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Remainders: Leave Britney alone!
Ben Smith's Blog —  Obama checks out a Ford Model A in Lebanon, Missouri. (AP) Sam Stein revives classic, relevant YouTube hit. Progressive Accountability draws a line betwen Britney and McCain's support for Bush. Obama says McCain's trying to make him seem "risky." He shrugs off McCain's new ad. McCain's haphazard Jewish outreach organization could hurt his chance to make inroads. Calderone reports that Fournier talked with the McCain campaign about a job in October 2006. The ...

Obama on "risky"
Jonathan Martin's Blog — Turning the mantra around, Obama said today in Springfield, Missouri: “The question you have to ask yourself is - what's more risky? Going ahead and bringing about changes that we know that we have to make, in order to ensure that our children have a better future. Or doing the same things over and over again even though we know they don't work,” Obama asked the crowd, “We are in a time right now where it is too risky not to change.”

Obama Accuses McCain of Race-baiting
Weekly Standard Blog — ABC News has video of Barack Obama telling voters in Missouri today: Nobody really thinks that, that, that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face. So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know he--oh, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all of those other presidents on those dollar bills.

Obama Pre-emptively Pulls Race Card Then Goes Back to Staring at His Reflection in the Stream
RedState: Conservative News and Community — The American Narcissus Can't Take the Heat Well done you effete snob, but race has nothing to do with it.* Barack Obama has finally pulled the race card against John McCain and the Republicans. You know, Mr. "I transcend politics" has finally, tacitly admitted he is just a typical politician by accusing those who don't like him of being racist. “Nobody thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face. So what they are going to try to do is make you scared of me,” Obama warned, ...

“Pulling the Race Card”
Comments from Left Field — Erick Erickson (among many other right-wingers) is apoplectic over Obama’s response, here, to John McCain’s series of invective-filled, substance-free attacks on him. Watch it: ...

Hope and Change: Squelching Free Speech through Boycotts and Arson
Weekly Standard Blog — ... have to be mindful of the sentiments and sensibilities of their market trading area, and Prince George's County is overwhelmingly for Obama," said community activist Arthur Turner of Kettering, who was among those advocating a boycott. "People I have talked to look at the sign as a slap in the face. They feel it was blatant disrespect. . . . I have heard people say they will no longer patronize Colony South because of that disrespect." When Obama says that the McCain campaign is racist and tells tells his supporters "to argue with ...

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