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Ben Smith's Blog: Obama explains 'dollar bill' line
Open Left - Front Page: McCain Campaign Itching to Play Race Card
BAGnewsNotes: "Dollar Bill" McCain
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Obama explains 'dollar bill' line
Ben Smith's Blog —
In an interview with Florida outlets, Obama explains his remark about how his opponents would play his appearance which -- while clearly not intended to start a racially charged exchange -- gave McCain a hook for his response:
I was in Union, Missouri which is 98 percent white - a rural, conservative. and what I said was what I think everybody knows, which is that I don't look like I came out of central casting when it comes to presidential candidates. But that I think that what people are really concerned about, what they're looking for is fundamental change on the economy, things that are going to help their families live out the American dream. ...
McCain Campaign Itching to Play Race Card
Open Left - Front Page —
Via dmhlt66. Two months ago, the McCain campaign released a web ad that mockingly put Obama on the one hundred dollar bill and on Mount Rushmore, inviting comparisons between Obama and past national leaders:
NARRATOR: As Barack Obama talks about change let's take a look at what he's changed so far.
He's changed the Presidential Seal.
What will he change next?
The Statue of Liberty?
Mt. Rushmore?
The $100 bill?
In response, Obama said the following (more in the extended entry): Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the ...
"Dollar Bill" McCain
BAGnewsNotes —
But what's really classic is that McCain put Obama's face on a dollar bill over a month ago!
(Plus, turned him pansy yellow, made him all starry-eyed, then blew him up.)
Video here.
(image: McCain for President, as usual)
BuzzFlash Mailbag for August 4, 2008
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BUZZFLASH MAILBAG Want to join the conversation? Share your thoughts with other Mailbag readers by clicking here. You also may comment below; post articles yourself at BuzzFlash.net ; or send urls for BuzzFlash to post to: www.buzzflash.com/contact/newstip . Subject: David Zirin's Commentary On Jonah Goldberg Article David Zirin's commentary on Jonah Goldberg's article was a real delight. I could almost smell the cigar smoke and stale coffee and hear an Underwood upright being pounded under a cheap pressroom desk lamp. Dave Zirin: Why He Fears the Fist: A Response to Jonah Goldberg Jesse Bustos-Nelson Charleston, S.C. Subject: Media Hey ...
Rasmussen gets the presidential "race" story wrong
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A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White The latest Rasmussen Poll really missed its mark. They were trying to get to the bottom of the recent argument between the Republican and Democratic nominees' assertions that each is responsible for injecting race into the presidential debate. ...
The Devil is in the Details: MSM Misses McCain's Pandering to Paranoid Christians with Tall Tales of Obama as Antichrist
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A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Meg White The collective eye-roll over Sen. John McCain's religious campaign ad attacking Obama's supposedly grand ego truly misses the point. While many are able to find a laugh in the idea that Obama was sent to the Earth by the devil, there are frightening numbers of people who may be buying into the idea. McCain's seemingly innocuous ad called "The One" received a fair amount of media coverage. ABC News , The New York Times , and others derided the ad for "mocking" Obama as "Messianic." A McCain spokesperson picked up on this, passing off the ad as a kind of TGIF moment:"Our intention to use a little bit of ...
